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30min × 2eps

Featuring new, original episodes, not shown in the anime series, delving into the unspoken emotions of each sister.
Futaro, a part-time tutor, has taken on the task of guiding the Nakano sisters—quintessential beauties who are on the brink of flunking out of school and despise studying—until their graduation. With only six months left of their high school lives and the final summer vacation about to commence, he decides to take a break from his tutoring job during the summer break to focus on exam preparation.
While the quintuplets are disheartened by their inability to see Futaro, an unexpected phone call from him turns everything around! A 500% adorable romantic comedy, the summer vacation edition!

Trillion Game

トリリオンゲーム   트릴리온 게임   一兆$遊戲

Haru is a young man with unquenchably high ambitions and communication skills who rejects a job offer from the largest IT company in Japan to instead hatch a plan to “swallow” the company and make a trillion dollars. With no capital or business plan; armed only with the programming genius of an introverted friend from middle school, Haru is determined to amass a trillion dollars in the most unconventional ways and conquer the world in this non-stop entertainment, rags to riches saga.

The Last Man: The Blind Profiler

ラストマン―全盲の捜査官―   라스트 맨 - 전맹의 수사관   Last Man ー全盲搜查官ー

85min × 2eps / 75min × 2eps / 60min × 6eps

Hiromi Minami is a US FBI agent on temporary loan to Japan. He’s blind but dubbed “the last man" for his ability to crack tough cases with keen analysis and honed senses. Shintaro Godo is a field cop with a top arrest record who shuns his pedigree as police commissioner’s son. The two make for a highly mismatched pair, but there’s more to their partnership than meets the eye. A police conspiracy? A link to a mysterious past? Strap in for a suspenseful adventure by this odd pair of detectives.

TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room - THE MOVIE

劇場版『TOKYO MER~走る緊急救命室~』

128min

The 70th floor of a Yokohama skyscraper is ablaze with 193 lives trapped inside. MER rolls into action determined to save everyone.

Winning “Best Asian Drama for a Regional/Int’l Market at ContentAsia Awards 2022” and “Best Actor for 4th Asia Contents Awards”, TV series “TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room" first aired in 2021 on TBS.
The protagonist is MER ("Mobile Emergency Room"), a team of emergency professionals on wheels formed by the Tokyo governor with one mission only: to prevent a single death. Tasked with rushing to the scene of major accidents, disasters, and crimes, MER is armed with state-of-the-art medical equipment, a mobile operating room, and an elite staff ready to risk all to save lives.


★Best Asian Drama for a Regional/Int’l Market at ContentAsia Awards 2022 (“TOKYO MER” TV series)

★Ryohei Suzuki / Best Actor for 4th Asia Contents Awards (“TOKYO MER” TV series)

TOKYO MER~The Sumida River Mission〜

TOKYO MER~隅田川ミッション〜

With the successful Mobile Emergency Room (MER) slated for nationwide roll out. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare sends medical technician Aoto to replace MER lead doctor Otowa as “second doctor.” But Aoto has his own agenda on behalf of the ministry. Then when a runaway houseboat collides with a passenger shuttle on the Sumida River, team leader Kitami lays politics aside and boards the boat alone knowing an explosion is imminent but dedicated to defending MER’s "zero fatalities" mission.

THE MUSCLE DOOR

マッスルドア   머슬 도어   肌肉門

THE MUSCLE DOOR is a social experiment reality show about ordinary young men desperate to acquire a strong, muscular physique. The show follows their two-month journey of physical transformation, culminating in a heroic attempt to heave open the three-ton MUSCLE DOOR.

Genre: Reality / Social Experiment

The Black Swindler (2022)

クロサギ   검은 사기 (2022)   詐欺獵人 (2022)

80min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

The stage is set in Japan in the year 2022.
In a time where fraud is an imminent threat, societal issues give rise to a slew of elaborate scams. Kurosaki is a man who lost his family to a “white swindler,” which is a professional swindler who scams people out of their money. In order to exact revenge, Kurosaki becomes a “black swindler,” a swindler who tricks other swindlers. He swears to scam every white swindler in the world and takes on foe after foe, but can he find his ultimate enemy who robbed him of his family? This riveting revenge drama exposes the very emotions that scams exploit.

The Van Gogh Downstairs

階段下のゴッホ   계단 아래의 고흐   樓梯下的梵谷

30min × 8eps

Miyako is a beautiful salesperson on the fast track at a major cosmetics company earning more than 100 grand a year. But when she begins to question her life, she drops everything to pursue a past dream to become a painter. At a cram school for getting into an art institute, she meets a cute yet younger painter with prodigious artistic talent, but he’s also a penniless jerk. Can Miyako capture both her dream and romance in this newfangled rich-woman-poor-man love story?

Takeru and Nobu's Puzzle Game Challenge!

佐藤健&千鳥ノブよ! この謎を解いてみろ!   佐藤健&千鳥nobu!解開這個謎!~來自天才解謎集團的挑戰書~

Show business’ biggest mystery fanatic, Takeru Sato, ventures overseas to solve the world’s greatest mysteries, recruiting his best friend, Nobu (from the comedy duo, Chidori). Takeru and Nobu challenge a team of five mystery creators alongside some big-name guests in the most extravagant competition ever for a Japanese mystery-themed program! Don’t miss it!

The Old Dog, New Tricks?

オールドルーキー   올드 루키   老菜鳥

85min × 1ep / 75min × 1ep / 60min × 8eps

Ryotaro is a cheerful professional soccer player devoted to the game he loves. He has risen to national team member, and come through with decisive goals when it counts… until injury begins to plague him. Facing retirement at 37, he realizes it is a little late for him to enter normal working society. Enter a sports management company called “Victory” which offers him a new lease on life. Yet somewhere in his heart, Ryotaro has not quite accepted his retirement, and he will need to reconcile with new challenges as an old rookie.

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie

映画「五等分の花嫁」

136min

Five lovely young girls who “hate studies” and find themselves on the “verge of failing” hire a part-time tutor, Futaro, to guide them to successful graduation. Having successfully completed their third year of high school and safely returned from their senior trip, the five girls turn their sights to graduation and their respective future paths. But all five become aware that so much time spent with Futaro has planted seeds of love, and gradually so with Futaro, too. So where does that lead them next? Is there a future bride among them? Find out in the conclusion to this romantic comedy of 100% cuteness times five!

The Demon Girl Next Door 2

まちカドまぞく 2丁目

30 min x 12 eps

Since waking up one day with powers of the “dark clan”, protagonist Shamiko continues her fight to break free of this evil spell. Shamiko forms an alliance with her rival, the magical girl Momo, to resolve the mystery of another magical girl who has disappeared from the town. New members of the “dark clan” appear, putting Shamiko and Momo at risk…

TOTALLY OUTNUMBERED

天才VS大群

Can one expert outduel an army of amateurs?

“TOTALLY OUTNUMBERED” is a game show format where experts and professionals in various fields face off against a large group of people in never-before-seen competitions.


Genre: Game Show / Challenge-based

The Double Down

クイズ!倍買

The Double Down is a quiz show format which fuses simple rules with the element of betting and specially created unexampled questions which adds up to unprecedented excitement. The show starts with the contestant betting their own money, and then facing multiple choices starting with a 2-choice question, and if they correctly answer, their money is doubled. If not, the challenge is over and they lose all the money. A choice is added to each new question which increase the difficulty, but if they win out all the way through to the10-choice question in the end, they may win 500 times of what they bet. The questions are specially created and do not require any knowledge, but a good eye for the details of everyday life.

TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room

TOKYO MER~走る緊急救命室~   TOKYO MER~ 달리는 긴급 구명실~   TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room

85 min × 1 ep / 75 min × 2 eps / 60 min × 8 eps|Eps 11

Kota Kitami, a brilliant young ER doctor, has been handpicked by Mayor Azusa Akatsuka to head a new emergency response team dubbed TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room, or MER, outfitted with leading-edge medical technology and a large mobile operating theatre to respond to major accidents, natural disasters, and other emergencies. Their mission is simple: Save every life. Team member Nao Otowa, sent by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare on a secret mission, ends up forming a close professional bond with Kota, and together the two men put their lives on the line every day to rescue others. But perhaps there’s more to Kota’s superhuman bravery and self-sacrifice than meets the eye...

The Full-time Wife Escapist SPECIAL

逃げるは恥だが役に立つ ガンバレ人類!新春スペシャル!!   도망치는건 부끄럽지만 도움이 된다 스페셜   逃避虽可耻但有用 特別篇

150 min x 1 ep|Ep 1

Husband as employer, wife as employee, marriage as a job... That’s how it all began for Mikuri Moriyama and Hiramasa Tsuzaki, working as managing partners in a work place called home, sharing household chores in efficiency maximizing manner, and otherwise leading a peaceful and happy life. Until Mikuri gets pregnant. The two decide to formally marry, but their plans snag when trying to register. More problems ensue from childbirth to parenting as Hiramasa tries to take paternity leave right before an important project. And then, one “incident” arises that threatens to tear the couple apart for good. Will they ever find their way back to “hug day”?

The Quintessential Quintuplets 2

五等分の花嫁∬   5등분의 신부∬   五等分的新娘∬

30 min.|12 episodes

They are teenage female quintuplets who hate studying and are at risk of failing their classes. That is until a private tutor, Futaro, appears to help them make it to graduation. Various adventures ensue as the five sisters and Futaro attend a study camp in the woods that ends up deepening their trust of Futaro. Amid a last push to improve their grades, Futaro encounters a series of troubles. Meanwhile, his first crush, “the girl in the photo,” reappears? And the curtain rises on a host of new challenges for Futaro and the five sisters.

The Dangerous Venus

危険なビーナス   위험한 비너스   危险的维纳斯   危險維納斯

85min × 1ep / 75min × 1ep / 60min × 8eps|Eps 10

Based on a masterpiece Keigo Higashino mystery novel, Hakuro Teshima is a bachelor veterinarian with a strong sense of justice and incapable of telling a lie. One day a mysterious woman, Kaede Yagami, appears at his door, claiming to be his younger brother’s wife and informing him of her husband’s sudden disappearance. The two then go in search of the missing brother and husband, but get embroiled in a wealthy family inheritance battle of some 3 billion yen. Expect the unexpected and a jaw-dropping finish as the curtain rises on an epic mystery swirling in human desire.

The Voice of Sin

罪の声   죄의 목소리   罪之聲

142 min

35 years have elapsed since the greatest unsolved crime in the postwar era, an incident that involved a threatening phone call captured on tape that featured the “voice of a child.” So where is that child today?
The story follows one man who accidentally stumbles upon an old tape recording and discovers that the child’s voice belonged to him. But how? Both he and a newspaper reporter separately go in search of answers, gradually uncovering a human drama that plunges them inescapably into a deep, dark mystery.
Fate can’t be ignored. People can only face it, seek to overcome its challenges and then cling to that which they hold most dear. This film depicts how tragedy and destiny can waylay one’s best laid plans for life, until salvation is found.

Threads - Our Tapestry of Love

糸   실   線

130 min

This is a love story inspired by the song “Threads” by Miyuki Nakajima.
Nakajima’s song is about the miracle of meeting a loved one and the ties of love that bind them. The song, which imagines these ties as threads woven through life, was released in 1998 as a dedication at her friends’ wedding. Ever since, this song has been loved by millions and been covered by over 120 artists in Japan.

In 2019, the Heisei period has come to a close after 31 years. A boy and a girl, who were born in the 1st year of Heisei, meet each other in childhood, eventually fall in love, but become separated along life’s path. They live in totally different circumstances, but continue to keep each other in their thoughts.

Though life brings them together from time to time, it is difficult for them to re-establish their ties. Even so, they don’t forget to live their lives to the fullest and love those around them with everything they can. This film tells the story of thirty years in the lives of two people connected by a thread of destiny, and is sure to awaken in those who view it a new appreciation for meeting people.

The ship of Theseus

テセウスの船   테세우스의 배   提修斯之船

85 min × 2eps / 75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 7 eps|10 eps

A serial murder by fatal poisoning ushers in the first year of the new Japanese Reiwa era. Arrested as the prime suspect is a police officer. His son, Kokoro Tamura, along with his mother, elder sister and brother are forced into a life of social ostracism and prejudice as the alleged family of a killer. Kokoro’s devoted wife, Yuki, tells him to have faith in his father. Kokoro pays a visit the village and crime scene, he suddenly gets caught in a time warp that sends him back to 1989, the first year of the Heisei era. There, he encounters his father, who is adored by family and villagers alike. Under this new light, Kokoro begins to believe in his father’s innocence and vows to clear his name and restore happiness to the family. But can the bonds of a father and son spark a miracle across time and space? Shocking truths reveal themselves over the 31-year span in a meticulous, hard-boiled mystery delivered on a spectacular, tear-inducing scale.

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun

地縛少年花子くん   지박 소년 하나코군   地縛少年花子君

30 min. × 12 episodes

Story: There’s a strange rumor going around school. In the third-floor women’s room of the old school building, there exists a “Hanako-san” in the third stall, and those who summon her will have any wish granted. The heroine, Nene Yashiro, is a girl who loves superstition and the occult. She wishes to be with an upperclassman she has a crush on, so she tries her hand at one of the school’s seven great mysteries and summons Hanako-kun but is cursed and turned into a fish. In order to undo her curse, Nene strikes a deal with the toilet-bound Hanako-kun. She becomes his assistant and solves mysterious incidents around school.

TIME IS MONEY

THE CELEBRITY LIFE HACK SHOW

Time is Money is the hilarious celebrity Life Hack show where your favourite stars share the time saving secrets of their success – and where viewers with the best life-hacks go home with a fat cash prize, proving once and for all that: Time is Money.

We live in increasingly pressurised times where much of our time is spent trying to save time! Take a quick look at your phone – just how many ‘time-saving’ apps have you got on it right now? Now ask yourself how many of them actually work? Right… then delete them then… I guess… how long would that take?

Time is Money is the show that really saves you time in your day to day life to free you up to do the things that you should be doing, like horse-riding, skiing, or something else you might see other people doing on the TV. Playing polo, maybe.

Time is Money is fiendishly simple. Our hosts introduce a panel of funny and crazy celebrities that show us their favourite life hacks. Little tips and tricks from the stars that have helped them get along and can now improve our lives by making things so, so much simpler. Some are fun, some are silly, some are extremely messy or dangerous, but most of them have the ultimate in ‘take-home TV’ – they can improve your life!

The Demon Girl Next Door

まちカドまぞく   길모퉁이 마족   小恶魔女在街角   小惡魔女在街角

30 min.|12 episodes

One morning, a sealed demonic power awakens in 15-year-old Yuko Yoshida. Her mission? To defeat the “Magic Girl” who lives in her town. Yuko has grown a tail and horns, but her powers fall short of a normal girl’s, and she struggles to lift the curse of having to live off 40,000 yen per month.
To fulfill her destiny of defeating the shrine maiden of the Light Clan, she challenges Momo. However, she hasn’t become any stronger despite being in the Demon Clan, and her lack of experience results in her losing. After the duel, she becomes friends with Momo for some reason and ends up receiving her help on many occasions. Though she’s strict when it comes to money, Yuko is so nice that she could never hurt anyone—quite ironic for a member of the Demon Clan. Her kind heart wins the trust of people around her, and she works hard to repay Momo for her help and to become a respectable Demon Clan member.

The New King

新しい王様   新的国王

Season 1: 30 min × 8 episodes Season 2: 30 min × 9 episodes

Nao Kitazawa, 34, leads a busy but fulfilling life as a doctor at a women’s clinic and as fiancee to an elite psychiatric physician, Yuchi Ihara. With their wedding day a month off, Nao is preparing to move into a new home when she meets Shinji Mamiya, a struggling writer who works part-time as a mover and falls inexorably in love with him. The fateful encounter compels Nao to follow her heart and experience true love. Overwhelmed by Nao’s passion, Shinji soon falls for her as well, but their budding romance is threatened by the tragic discovery that Nao has early onset Alzheimer’s. What unfolds is a story of pure love. As Nao’s symptoms worsen, Shinji spends the next ten years giving Nao mental and health support even as she begins to lose the precious memories they both shared.

The Quintessential Quintuplets

五等分の花嫁

30 min.|12 episodes

Uesugi Futaro, a high school second-year from a poor family, receives a highly appealing offer to work part-time as a tutor... but his students turn out to be girls from his own class! What's more, they're quintuplets... and all five are beautiful, but happen to be problem students who have borderline grades and hate studying! Looks like his first assignment will be to win all the sisters' trust?! Every day is a wild party in this rom-com centering around the quintuplet sisters of the Nakano household!

Takeshi’s Castle Indonesia

風雲!たけし城 インドネシア版   타케시성 인도네시아   風雲!Takeshi's Castle 印度尼西亞最新版

Season 1: 90 min × 20 eps Season 2: 90 min × 20 eps Season 3: 90 min × 20 eps|Eps 60

The adventure revived! Takeshi’s Castle is back in a new Indonesia version! The hugely-popular and legendary game show returns as a brand new reboot with contestants taking on ever more rigorously chosen challenges sure to generate plenty of laughs and seat-of-your-pants excitement.

Timeless Shops & Restaurants

坂上&指原のつぶれない店   사카가미&사시하라의 망하지 않는 가게   坂上&指原的不會倒閉的店

60 min. series

Have you ever pondered questions like, “What keeps that shop in business?” or “How does that shop or that person ever make a profit?“ Well here is a variety program that seeks to answer those riddles and uncover unknown money mysteries. The truth will astound you!

TOMICA Hyper Rescue Police DRIVE HEAD The Movie

映画ドライブヘッド~トミカハイパーレスキュー 機動救急警察~   드라이브 헤드 ~ 토미카 하이퍼 레스큐 기동구급경찰 ~   多美卡超救援 DRIVEHEAD 機動救急警察

57 min.

The Hyper Rescue Police team are under attack by an enigmatic youth named Tera, who, as it turns out, has been possessed by an evil artificial intelligence. It is an android wielding a powerful energy force capable of rendering Drivehead inoperable by Go and his team members. Tera grows to enormous size, threatening the world by swallowing up all in its path. An emergency response team springs to action at an unprecedented level to reactivate Drivehead. Can Go and his fellow heroes save the world and loved ones from an existential threat?

Takunomi

たくのみ。   타쿠노미   酒鬼妹子

15 min. × 12 eps.|12 episodes

Michiru is a 20-year-old woman who just moved to Tokyo for a new job and lives in Stella House Haruno, an all-female share house. Her roommates are different ages, have distinct jobs and unique personalities but share a very important interest: their love for great food and delicious drinks!
Sometimes all you need are good friends, funny stories and a nice drink to unwind from the adult world.

The Crimes That Bind

祈りの幕が下りる時   기도의 막이 내릴때   當祈禱落幕時

119 min.

A woman is found strangled to death in an apartment in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
The victim is Michiko Oshitani, a resident of Shiga Prefecture who worked for a home cleaning company.
What’s more, the occupant of the apartment where the murder took place, Mutsuo Koshikawa, has gone missing.
Matsumiya (Junpei Mizobata) and his fellow detectives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Investigation Section 1 begin investigating, but hit a brick wall when they fail to find any links between Oshitani and Koshikawa.
Why was Oshitani, who lived in Shiga, killed in Tokyo?
Eventually, the detectives’ inquiries lead them to a theater director named Hiromi Asai (Nanako Matsushima).
They learn that Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit her former classmate Asai, but again come up with nothing when searching for connections between Asai and Koshikawa, and their investigation grinds to a halt.
Matsumiya has a hunch that a charred corpse found nearby the murder scene may have some relevance to the case, and subsequently discovers an item among the victim’s belongings with the names of Nihonbashi’s 12 bridges written on it.
When Kyoichiro Kaga (Hiroshi Abe) learns of this, he is deeply shaken.
It is somehow connected to his mother, who died alone...

TOMICA Hyper Rescue Police DRIVE HEAD

トミカハイパーレスキュー ドライブヘッド 機動救急警察   드라이브 헤드   機動警察救援隊(機動救急警察)

30 min. × 37 eps.|37 episodes

A little bit in the future, the government has established a brand new organization with the purpose of rescuing lives to respond to the increasingly complicated and varied types of disasters, accidents and crimes that go beyond human comprehension. It is called the “Mobile Emergency Police DRIVE HEAD” force combining specialized police, firefighting and rescue skills. “DRIVE HEAD” is an advanced mobile device that transforms in form factor from car to humanoid walker vehicle. The drivers are high-aptitude, grade school students such as Go Kurumada who collaborate with mobile emergency police adults and rush to crisis situations to secure public safety and preserve the peace for all!

Three Dads

3人のパパ   3인의 아빠   3個爸爸大戰小寶

30 min x 10 eps|10 episodes

Takuto, our protagonist, shares a house with his friends from high school – Kyohei and Hajime. He comes home to find a baby sleeping peacefully in the room. When the other two residents also return, they read a letter that has been left on the desk. “This is your baby.” Although they’re not quite sure what to do, the young men begin to feel responsible and they appear to make a decision to raise it together. However…

The three young men – afraid of learning the truth - take on the task of raising a baby in this slapstick comedy drama.

How would react if you suddenly became a father?

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

逃げるは恥だが役に立つ   도망치는건 부끄럽지만 도움이 된다   逃避虽可耻但有用

75 min × 3 eps / 60 min × 8 eps|11 episodes

Mikuri is a young woman with a graduate degree. But when no offers of employment come her way, she’s forced into taking on temp work and confronting “the painful realization that nobody needs her.” That’s when Mikuri lands a job as a professional homemaker for a strait-laced bachelor named Hiramasa. Mikuri’s perfectionist work ethic wins over Hiramasa’s complete trust, but unfortunate circumstances result in the loss of this job, too. Feeling anxious about the future, Mikuri makes Hiramasa a strange offer. “Would you consider employing me through marriage?” He agrees, and a nuptial agreement is signed, making the two legally betrothed in a somewhat falsified life as husband/employer and wife/employee.
Can the couple function in a strictly professional relationship like this without the truth becoming known? Is there any chance of a chemical reaction between a pure company man and a dreamer woman thrown together for mere convenience?

Tower of Sand

砂の塔~知りすぎた隣人   모래의 탑 ~ 너무 잘 아는 이웃   砂之塔

75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps|10 episodes

Aki Takano is a homemaker who has built an ordinary yet amply content family life. When she and her family move into a luxurious, high-rise condo with all the latest security advancements, Aki anticipates the start of the kind of family life of which dreams are made. Until, that is, she meets her creepy and scary neighbors. Behind the walls of this ivory tower, life is a social ecosystem dictated by strict rules and decorum of vainglorious housewife residents. There are “compulsory Halloween parties”, “hellishly exorbitant lunches”, “floor discrimination”, and even “strictly enforced proper attire for putting out the trash.” Though farcical and comical at first glance, the housewives’ behavior easily becomes sinister, as Aki begins to discover in unexpected ways. Someone is trying to tear her life and family apart.
Will she have be able to stand up and defend her beloved family? Is there another reason why the neighbors are targeting the Takano family?

The Man with the God Tongue

神の舌を持つ男   擁有神之舌的男人   신의 혀를 가진 남자

75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps|10 episodes

Ranmaru Tomonaga may be a bit naive and dorky, but he’s got something of an endearing quality that is hard to dislike. Above all, he has a tongue like a gas-chromatography device, capable of analyzing whatever it comes in contact with. Sure enough, that tongue leads him into all kinds of trouble as he gets embroiled in solving one puzzling mystery after another. Along the way, he picks up a sidekick; an “uzakawa” (cute, but annoying) suspense drama fan girl named Hikaru Kamekanbo. They meet up with Kanji Miyazawa, a straight-laced man who is the only person capable of reining in the quirky pair and keeping them out of trouble. The three of them become traveling companions, traversing the countryside in a beat-up automobile, sleeping and eating in some of the nation’s best-kept secret hot springs, and searching for the mysterious “onsen” geisha “Miyabi” in a comical mystery adventure.