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Komaki Kurihara
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Ōgon no Hibi
Luzon Sukezaemon is a merchant who imports vases from the Philippines. The vases are highly valued as tea utensils and he makes a huge profit. This was the first taiga drama to concentrate on the lives of commoners and the reviled merchant class of the Tokugawa period. It documents the rise and fall of the merchant city of Sakai, as seen by its most famous resident, the semilegendary Luzon.
Mominoki wa Nokotta
Depicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the 4th Tokugawa shogun.
Three Sisters
The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.
Family of Three
The drama features two families, the all-male Shibata family and the all-female Inaba family, and depicts the interactions between the two families with many amusing and heartwarming episodes.
World of Two
One night, Jiro and Reiko fell in love at first sight, and on the seventh day he proposed to her, and three months later they were married. However, the difference in upbringing between Jiro, who was born and raised in a farmhouse in Shinshu, and Reiko, who is a city girl by nature, sometimes causes small ripples in their sweet newlywed life.
Fossil
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to imagine her as the personification of his impending fate. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he meets the living woman, the template for his fantasy, and together, they tour rural churches. Gradually, he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges that profoundly test the lessons he has learned.
Unknown Comrade
Tamiya Jiro's first starring role in a TV drama. The story is set in a fictional supermarket called "Planet" in Tokyo.
The Long Darkness
The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress supporting her impoverished relatives. The couple decides to marry despite the significant emotional and social hardships each faces, viewing their love as a means to overcome the shame and despair inherited from their pasts.
Kotoshi no Koi
This cheerful romantic comedy hints at conflicts in a changing society through the friendship between two underachieving teenage boys and the accidental bringing together of their respective siblings.
Live Again Tomorrow
Yamada Maki, who has a strained relationship with her father and a protective older brother, Katsuyoshi, faces a series of emotional challenges, including a failed marriage proposal and a complicated romance with her boyfriend, Ishiyama. After a series of events, including a fight with Ishiyama and a revelation about her parentage, Maki chooses to dedicate herself to Katsuyoshi. Their happiness is in danger.
Waga seishun no toki
黒の回廊
Kadota, a veteran tour escort working for the travel agency that organised a ‘25-day all-female tour of Europe’, sets off from Japan alongside Hijikata, who has been handpicked as the tour guide following a forceful recommendation from Egi, a travel journalist popular with wealthy ladies. Amidst a tangled web of rivalry and jealousy amongst the participants, and with the future of the tour looking uncertain, the group encounters a series of strange incidents—including a theft—at their refuelling stop in Anchorage and their first sightseeing destination, Copenhagen.
The Magoichi Saga
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
Sekigahara
Blockbuster drama based on the novel Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba, a program dedicated to the 30th anniversary of TBS. A total of 120 actors, 3,500 extras and about 500 horses recreated the largest battle in history, the Battle of Sekigahara, in which 200,000 warriors clashed from east and west. The battle, which can be called a turning point in the history of Japan, depicts the conflict, love and hate between people on a grand scale and with a great cast.
