Shion Machida

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

GATE24: The Border

Brilliant at reading objects but hopeless with people, a quirky new customs officer joins a ragtag border unit protecting Japan's peace and security.

Logically Impossible! Detective Ryoko Kamizuru Is on the Case

Convenience Store Kyodai

At a lively Mojiko convenience store, a charming manager and his mysterious brother turn everyday chaos into comedy, while a sharp-witted employee turns their antics into a viral webcomic.

Ryakudatsu Datsukon

Chiharu has supported her husband Tsukasa for years, working multiple jobs while he trained to become a psychiatrist. Now over 30 and struggling with infertility, she discovers Tsukasa has impregnated another woman—and despite a divorce settlement, Chiharu is determined to win him back.

Forbidden Fruit

Mayako, a married woman, finds her life of comfort and casual affairs thrown into disarray when she unexpectedly falls in love with a younger man. Here is a modern fable of the moral dilemmas facing today's women, in a time where the expectations of love, marriage, and divorce from earlier generations no longer seem true.

Shadow Work

A battered wife who's lost her sense of self after years of domestic abuse finds hope when she escapes to a seaside house where women in similar situations help her rediscover her identity, but the home's hidden rules force her to confront painful truths in a heart-wrenching journey toward healing.

Natural Love for the Future

Experiencing a car crash that made a demise towards her best friend, Shiho visits the beautiful Hokkaido countryside and meets her friend's family. The physical and mental scar that affected her so deeply fades away as she finds warmth and kindness in the three brothers that she meets.

Inu-kei Danshi

Loyal dog-like guys heal strong-willed girls! A heartfelt original short drama series featuring dog-like men. (Source: Japanese = asahi.co.jp || Translation = MyDramaList)

The Whole Body and the Little Finger

Jun, a young pimp in Tokyo, is so emotionally estranged from himself and the world around him that he has forgotten much of his past. With the help of an oddball psychotherapist, "Dr. T", Jun begins to uncover the shameful memories at the root of his confusion: As a teenager, he seduced and slept with his younger sister, Kumi. This discovery returns Jun to his childhood home, and to Kumi, who he has not seen or communicated with in many years. What follows is an unexpected and explosive chain of events confronting Jun with his misdeeds, and also revealing to him the true cause of his isolation. This haunting and often funny film is a unique exploration of love, regret, and the essentially bizarre in human relationships.

Dragonfly

Ginza, a fiercely competitive district of the nightlife scene. Aiko, an office worker who was on the verge of marriage, is unilaterally dumped by her fiancé. Some time later, upon discovering that her ex-boyfriend Ryu was bisexual, her heartbreak turns into a desire to ‘show him what he’s missing’. Then, through an introduction from a hostess she met by chance, Aiko enters the world of nightlife. Taking the stage name ‘Ryu’, she resolves to survive amidst the turbulent waves of life as a woman of the night…

Inugami

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.

Phone Call to the Bar

In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.

Big Man Japan

Daisato, a second-rate, third-generation superhero, annoys his neighbors with the noise and destruction he causes on the job. But a heroic public image is the least of his concerns. Besides defending Japan from bizarre monsters, he must deal with an agent seeking to brand him with ads, a superhero grandfather with Alzheimer's and a family embarrassed by his incompetence.

Love Kill Kill

A porn fanatic, a drifter, a jobless man and a magic-mushroom farmer are drawn together at an orgy.