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Sky High
Sky High is a live-action, supernatural Japanese television drama series, starring actress and model, Yumiko Shaku. It aired in Japan, first run, from 2003 to 2004, and was popular enough to spawn the 2003 feature film of the same name. Both are based on the Japanese manga, Skyhigh. Shaku stars as Izuko, the Guardian of the Gate to the afterlife. The basic premise of the television series is somewhat similar in concept to the American series, Ghost Whisperer, in which the protagonist must use her powers to guide the dead on their journey to the afterlife by helping them determine the meaning or circumstance of their death. However, in Izuko's case, no matter how hard she tries, her guidance does not always result in a happy ending.
Mission To Kill
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
Me, Him and You
Takumi Amase, an aspiring chef, becomes homeless after his restaurant closes. While job hunting, he reunites with Ryoji Sakiyama, a photographer he once liked, at a coffee shop. Ryoji doesn’t remember him, but Takumi moves in with Ryoji and his friend Daiya, who are seeking a third roommate. As they live together, Takumi grapples with his feelings for Ryoji, who is hesitant about love, while Daiya keeps his own secrets.
HATU: Vampire Syndrome
The protagonist, high school student Akira Sakaguchi (played by Atsushi Harada), desires a normal human life, yet he is a vampire who cannot survive without consuming human blood. The series depicts the various human relationships surrounding Akira. It faced accusations of plagiarism for bearing striking similarities to Kazumasa Hirai's novel “The Wolf's Crest,” leading Hirai to publicly criticize Naoyuki Tomomatsu, who served as both screenwriter and director for this work.
Those incorrigible blokes behind bars!
Shinji Hanada, a member of the Yoshioka-gumi who idolises the yakuza, is ordered to act as a hitman to assassinate the boss of the rival Kawada-gumi. However, he fails miserably and is arrested, landing him in prison. Whilst there, in a shared cell block, he comes face to face with Kurokawa, a member of the Kawada-gumi with whom he has long sought to settle the score...
Me, Him and You
Takumi Amase, an aspiring chef, becomes homeless after his restaurant closes. While job hunting, he reunites with Ryoji Sakiyama, a photographer he once liked, at a coffee shop. Ryoji doesn’t remember him, but Takumi moves in with Ryoji and his friend Daiya, who are seeking a third roommate. As they live together, Takumi grapples with his feelings for Ryoji, who is hesitant about love, while Daiya keeps his own secrets.
Yesterday in Hibetsu
Ryuichi Nakagomi (Ryo Amagiya), 20 years old. He moved to Tokyo last fall from the small coal mining town of Hibetsu in Hokkaido and is training to become a dancer while working as a waiter at a tap show venue in Akasaka. His father died in a mine accident, and he lives in his hometown with his mother Haruko (Midori Satsuki) and sister Yuko (Keiko Saito), who work in the mine during the day and run a bar at night. One day, Ryuichi decides to audition for a musical. At the venue, he spots his high school crush Yukari Onuma (Eri Ishida), who had gone missing.
Komarasenaide!
This is a detective drama featuring Shinichi, the physically "fit" older brother with a lax and unreliable personality, and his younger sister Kyoko, a kindergarten teacher who specializes in karate.
The Rocking Horsemen
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
Graveyard of Honor
A barkeeper saves a yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Beijing Watermelon
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.
Picaresque
On June 19, 1948, the bodies of Japanese novelist and short-story writer Osamu Dazai and his lover Tomie Yamazaki are found drowned in the Tamagawa Canal in Tokyo. Osamu Dazai previously attempted to take his own life at least three other times. During the post war period, Osamu Dazai's reached the reached the height of his popularity and he became the literary voice for a "lost generation." After their bodies are found people wondered if Tomie Yamazaki was the cause of Osamu Dazai's death.
Diary of Early Winter Shower
Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that they would build a retreat in Shiguretei, but Ushio was hospitalized after a stroke a few days later, and when his wife, Takako, rushed to the hospital, she discovered their love affair, which in reality had not gone beyond kissing. Now, 20 years later, against the advice of her ikebana mentor, Tae rushes to meet Ushio at Shiguretei, only to see him clutching his chest in pain. Eventually, the design and plans for the dream retreat are seen by Tae, but she has to visit Kyoto alone... or maybe she's heading for somewhere else.
One Summer's Day
Absent-minded fifth-grader Yuta is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta's companionship. At first, Yuta thinks Gramps is a bit addled, too, but as he gets to know the old man better, he finds that his grandfather sees things quite differently from others.