Maiko is an ordinary office worker with a deep hang up about being a virgin at over 30. She obsesses over what she feels is an inability to experience life as other “normal” people do, which haunts her in her work and private life. Then things begin to change when she meets Kagiya, an employee at a copy machine maintenance company. New circumstances propel them both on personal quests for answers as they struggle to overcome life’s many challenges in a poignant love story that explores the human condition.

Sana is a 23-year-old is an entrepreneur whose educational app “Dream Pony” catapulted her to CEO of a unicorn firm less than ten years old. Determined to create a brand used by people all over the world, she is disinterested in romance and unaware that her partner, Ko, is secretly in love with her. That is until Sana’s world is thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a midcareer corporate transfer named Satoshi lacking in basic startup instincts but setting into motion a love and romance triangle. Can Sana achieve both love and career dreams?

It has quietly guarded the histories and livelihoods of local people for centuries as living proof of past ages. Inside these warehouses lie village histories and the thoughts and feelings of its ancestors often unbeknownst to current owners. They’re treasure troves of Japan’s memorial heritage.
This program sends veteran actress, Reiko Takashima, across Japan in search of heirlooms buried in family warehouses. Including grand treasure hunts into long-unopened warehouses.Join Reiko Takashima as she makes many surprising discoveries in an emotionally moving journey into the nation’s past.

Dramatization based on the novel “RIKUOH” by Jun Ikeido. Koichi Miyazawa is the CEO of the longstanding company which manufacture tabi(traditional Japanese socks). Due to a decrease of demand for tabi thesedays, the Company, Kohazeya, has fallen upon hard times. For the company's survival, Miyazawa strikes upon the idea of creating a new type of running shoe that utilizes “tabi” making techniques to make the user feel as if running in bare feet. But the road ahead for a cash-strapped local company with a small staff is steep, and Miyazawa runs into continuous roadblocks only to be saved time and time again by those around him. Will he succeed in launching his running shoe and saving his company? Follow Miyazawa in this uplifting tale of economic revitalization.

Unremarkable office worker, Kazuhisa Fukase, leads a boring life. The only place he can relax is the Clover Coffee Shop. Here he meets Mihoko Ochi and they begin to date. Just as he begins to grow accustomed to a more enjoyable life, something occurs that drives a wedge between the lovers. Mihoko receives a letter that accuses Fukase of being a murderer. Fukase realizes that he must now disclose the only darkness that happened in his life. He begins to tell Mihoko of a “secret” that he has not spoken of for ten years…
Everyone sins. But how can you forgive and be forgiven?

Remi Takasugi is the most popular “item” at the “Rental Lovers” company where no customer request is deemed too impossible, outlandish or difficult to fulfill as long as certain rules and time constraints are observed. The company motto is “The ultimate rental girlfriend” and they guarantee complete satisfaction and perfectly-met requests. Remi is the ideal girlfriend in every way. But she also exhibits a few distractingly different traits. She absolutely refuses to smile once a date “gig” is over, and she wears an odd-looking bandage on her neck. So who or what is Remi? And what’s with the bandage? Cyborg? Alien? Cat? The suspense-filled love story starts here.

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” of the rakugo world. He soon realized however how hard the training was, and embarked upon a rigorous existence in which he had to deliver newspapers to earn a living. Living with hardship and joys, Danshun and his fellow apprentices would eventually rise in the rakugo world. A resplendent cast comes together to depict the rough and tumble world of a man who loved rakugo above all else and was destined to fulfill a dream.

Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all firefighters can attain. But to do so, he and his fellow trainees must suffer through the most rigorous training. As Yamakura and his fellow trainees grit their teeth and complain, their superior officer, Sakurai, impresses upon them the lessons of the Great Hanshin Earthquake (Kobe Earthquake) 20 years ago as “the only time we ever lost.” What hap-pened on the front lines of rescue that day and in the aftermath? What raced through the hearts and minds of rescuers as they tried to get a handle on unimaginable disaster? The shocking facts pour from Sakurai’s mouth in hopes of preparing the recruits for the unforgettable event that awaits them.

”The most exciting baseball game score is 8 to 7!”
That’s what former U.S. President Roosevelt once said.
Aoshima Works is a medium-size precision instruments maker. Forced to navigate the rough waves of an unforeseen recession and fierce competition among rival companies scratching for advantage, company men on the brink of bankruptcy strive to survive by orchestrating a miracle reversal called the “Roosevelt Game”. Written by Jun Ikeido, author of a novel by the same name, and following his best-selling “Naoki Hanzawa”. A comeback story for the never-say-die working man.

Three years ago, obstetrician Rin Izumi had a miscarriage, losing the child she and her husband, Keita, had finally conceived after 10 years of trying. It resulted in the removal of Rin’s uterus and estrangement with her husband who as a chocolatier left to work in Paris. They hadn’t seen each other since. “We need to talk about the future,” he says one day informing her of his plans to return home. With confusion in her own life mounting, Rin encounters challenges at work including a pregnant woman formerly treated elsewhere whose baby is born premature. When DNA tests reveal the child to be neither hers nor her husband’s, something is terribly amiss.

What if Jun chose NOT to turn the key in the back of the lifelike doll that mysteriously arrived at his house? Just as certain opportunities exist for only a moment, there are also threads of fate so strong that the very fabric of the universe can warp in order to make them happen. The events of the original ROZEN MAIDEN are rewritten, and the destiny of the characters rewound.

Shizuku Miyama aims to become a doctor and follow in the footsteps of her father, Katsumi. “I want to make him proud,” she thinks. But when Katsumi expresses his disapproval toward his daughter becoming a doctor, Shizuku rebels and attends med school anyway on a scholarship. She makes it to her first year of residency where together with 4 other same-year interns she is assigned to the front lines of emergency medicine at the hospital’s critical care center. With only 6 months of medical practice behind them, these five interns lack sufficient life-saving skills, but through daily contact with experienced colleagues and contact with patients, find themselves maturing into full-fledged doctors and adults under the unforgiving life or death pressures of the emergency room.

Ataru is serving out a prison sentence in Kyushu for having killed a police officer. Though innocent, circumstance forced him to accept the conviction. As the time on his sentence ticks down to its last year, he is informed that his daughter - born between him and his girlfriend, Yuki - has come down with a serious heart disease. Rather than serve out the rest of his sentence, Ataru determines to escape together with three other wrongly-convicted inmates and a young girl, Sakura, who has run away from her abusive parents. Fueled by love and a yearning for justice, the escapees head toward Tokyo in a 1,000 kilometer journey up the Japanese archipelago; a “breakout” in search of hope.

It was a life-altering encounter. High school sophomore, Mei Tsukamoto, on visiting her mother in the hospital meets two teens her same age, one a wheelchair-confined Kirara Miyamoto and another interesting young man. The very next day, he shows up in her class as a new transfer student by the name of Beat Mizorogi, and nothing will ever be the same. Beat, hailing from a tailor’s family with an abiding love for fashion design, sets about transforming the school from the outside in. The excitement and creativity of Beat’s designs brings the class together and prompts them to launch a fashion show as a new tradition at their annual school festival. But the runway ahead is fraught with snags. Can they pull together to save their show and school? And what will Beat’s ultimate legacy and impact be on everyone’s lives?

Nodoka Kuribayashi, is a struggling cartoonist. Excusing herself for being busy with her work, she lets her husband, Tetsuya, be responsible for everything from housekeeping to child care. Tetsuya, who reaches the point where he can no longer take it, presents Nodoka with divorce papers. She then goes through homemaking training to get married again! Will she be able to improve herself as a woman and remarry?

Japan and Korea’s biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Yutaka Takenouchi portrays Sho Nishijima, a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father’s death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Ji Woo portrays Choi Yuna, a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and fall in love. But what waits ahead of them…
A “rondo” of fate, love, and history is about to begin.

Tetsuo Nagai is a probation officer. His job is to rehabilitate young offenders and get them on the straight and narrow. Married with one son, he lives a happy life. All that changes one day when his wife is murdered and his son is gravely injured in an attack. Nagai wrestles with the assailant, but he escapes. Nagai takes his son to the hospital run by his father-in-law, but his son is again attacked and left in a coma. Nagai is interrogated by police detectives and finds himself the chief suspect due to the emergence of a number of pieces of unfavorable evidence. Is someone setting him up? At the verge of giving up, he is struck by another option - he becomes a fugitive, striving to prove his innocence and find the real killer while his son hovers at deaths’ door.

Inspired by the Japanese voice actress for Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, Aka becomes a popular voice actress. But when her apartment burns down, she finds herself rooming with Fumihiko, an average salaryman working for an advertising agency. Their life together soon grows into something more than just roommates, but much of Aka's popularity is based on her remaining single in the public eye! Aka and Fumihiko will have to work hard to keep their relationship a secret in this hilarious love comedy.

Fifty years ago, a force of darkness called the DarkBring battled against the Raves, a force of light with the only hope for defeating the DarkBring. Shiba and Plue nearly defeated the DarkBring, but underestimated its resilience. Consequently, the DarkBring escaped and triggered an explosion that scattered the Raves all over the world. Now, Shiba's successor, Haru, sets out to find the missing Raves and defeat the DarkBring. Plue and his new friend Elie, who has lost her memory and is looking for her past, join him on this humorous and action-packed adventure through a land filled with many interesting characters and creatures.

A hilarious series that makes light of all the odd couples this modern society creates through a string of wacky vignettes. Every episode introduces us to an unusual meeting or existing relationship of a man and woman, making light of the wackiness of life and relationships, but always ending on a warm and funny note.

In 356 BC, Alexander the Great arrives in Greece with the ominous destiny that he will become the "destroyer of the world." Inheriting the crown, he becomes king of the Macedonians and starts down a road of conquest with terrific speed. Alexander ultimately confronts his fated nemesis, Darius the Third, in a war with Persia which changes Alexander into the devil he was fated to become, assuring the destruction of all in his path, and possibly himself.

This classic is one of Japan’s all-time favorite family series. Known for its overarching theme of family, this iconic drama never fails to move audiences , conveying in identifiable terms the warm bonds of family and the mysteries of the relationships between people through the
daily life of Daikichi Okakura and his five daughters. Depicting everything from troubles inside the home to social issues and romantic escapades, viewers get a glimpse of the disparate world views of parents, children and grandchildren; fears of parents verses their children’s wishes; and the everyday run-ins between husbands, wives and mothers-in-law―as well as the happiness they have together. Japan’s favorite family is at it again!

Each of the four stories follows the journey of a young girl entering the unsettling yet promising age of adolescence, when love, friendship, trust, courage and the pursuit of one's own dreams becomes the main pursuit in life. Children will especially enjoy the music, which is drawn from classical sources such as Schubert and Chopin, as well as popular folk songs from Scotland and Ireland. In sight and sound, each story is an enthralling experience that children will treasure.

Kazuyoshi Miyoshi has published photo collections on Tahiti, Maldives, Seychelles, Hawaii and other paradises. In this
series, accompanied by beautiful models, Miyoshi revisits those paradise beaches, forest s and World Heritages, discovering the Secrets of Paradise as he roams about freely.
Captured in 4K UHD.

For many, the Incan Empire conjures up images of exquisitely-masoned buildings, the terraced Andenes fields, and Incan gold. But how did this remarkable civilization grow to such incredible heights of power and influence in just over one century without the technologies of iron, the wheel or a written language? Travel along with the world’s leading experts from various scientific fields as they bring their own disciplinary approaches and expertise to solving some of the world’s greatest mysteries. When did the Incan Empire originate?
What compelled them toward such precision masonry and obsession with geometric patterns? What is the significance to the pairing of its kero cups, the rule of mummy emperors, and the horrific child sacrifices atop the Andean peaks? Learn how cutting edge, scientific research is bringing us closer to real answers.

One of Japan’s longest - running television series, this special traces a year in the lives of a couple and their five daughters as they deal with the usual generational conflicts. The family has decided to renovate their Chinese restaurant, Koraku. Daughter Ai and her husband Makoto, who will take over the restaurant one day, want to convert part of the family home into more customer seating. Isamu agrees, but the move comes as a surprise to his wife, Satsuki, especially because everybody’s already planning for her and Isamu to move to a new apartment . Satsuki goes to see her son, also named Makoto, and finds his wife, Takako, is pregnant. Satsuki happily announces― without being asked!―that she will “help out every day!”.