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April Bride 余命1ヶ月の花嫁   여명 1 개월의 신부   生命中最後一個月的花嫁

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On April 5, 2007, a couple was married in a church.
At first glance, it was a typical wedding, with the happy couple, their families and their friends. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer, and had been given only a month to live. : “April Bride” is the true story of Chie Nagashima who died at the age of 24. The film is a last message from Chie, who loved and was loved, who supported and was supported right up to the very end. This record of love, of life, and of tears, comes to the screen.
‘It is a miracle that tomorrow comes to everyone. Just knowing that fills each day with happiness.’ by Chie Nagashima

Crying out Love, in the Center of the World

世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ   세상의 중심에서 사랑을 외치다   在世界中心呼喚愛

75 min x 1 ep / 60min x 10 eps|11 episodes

“I thought I might be using a lifetime’s happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful.” A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It’s 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks “I have been in a world without her for 17 years.” Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then. Based on the bestselling novel that sold over 3 million copies, the past and present come together in this love story that is both pure and sad.

Letter to Mom in Heaven

命〜天国のママへ〜   생명~천국의 엄마에게~   在天國的母親

120 min. x 1 ep.|1 episode

Haruki Mizunuma is a workaholic who runs a design office in Tokyo and has left the rearing of his grade school son, Ren, completely to his wife, Kyoko. But she becomes hospitalized for de-terioration health. Treatment fails to work and suddenly, she has departed from this world. Ha-ruki is not ready to be suddenly raising a son by himself, and Ren himself is devastated by his mother’s death and loses the desire to live. And then on the first anniversary of Kyoko’s death, Haruki and Ren pay a visit to her native home in the mountains where the family business of forestry has been maintained for 500 years. Haruki begins to seek the meaning of the “Tree of Happiness”, which Kyoko had written in her day planner. But first he must confront the cold treatment by his father-in-law, Shigeya, who had never approved of their marriage.

SPEC~heaven~

SPEC ~天~   SPEC ~천 ( 天)   SPEC ~天

119 min.

A cruiser yacht, with all aboard mummified, is discovered drifting out at sea. Toma and Sebumi suddenly face a series of spec-holders controlled by a mysterious ‘Ninomae’, who turns out to be Toma’s younger brother...except that he’s supposed to be dead. Ninomae tries to enlist Toma among the specs using whom he plans world domination, but she refuses, saying she wants to live a normal life. Cursing Toma for getting him into this, Sebumi nonetheless does his utmost to protect her. Toma’s left arm is in a cast: what is she hiding there?

Stolen Identity 2

스마트폰을 떨어뜨렸을 뿐인데:붙잡힌 살인귀   雖然只是弄丟了手機2   スマホを落としただけなのに 囚われの殺人鬼

118 min

In the first movie, Stolen Identity, the loss of a smartphone by a lover leads to the horror of a heroine’s life being targeted, followed by the exposure of a hidden past for a double mystery that resonated deeply with the smartphone generation. Depicting an ever-present danger that could befall anyone in contemporary society, the movie depicts the potential horrors of our social media age where a small detail in our networked society can potentially wreak havoc with people’s daily lives. This sequel ups the ante over its predecessor in scale as it sets the police on a massive cybercriminal hunt.StoryIt’s been several months since the police closed the case on a serial killer who preyed on women with long jet black hair. But then a new unidentified body is discovered at the same crime scene. Police detective Manabu Kagaya hurries to interrogate Yoshiharu Urano, a serial murderer whom he had caught. “Did you do it?” he queries. But the imprisoned Urano will only reveal the existence of a “M”, a dark web mystery man whom he refers to as his master. Meanwhile, Kagaya’s lover, Minori, is being targeted by a mystery man, and Kagaya must make a tough decision to recruit Urano’s assistance.

Sweet Season

スウィートシーズン   달콤한 계절   甜蜜季節

60 min. x 11 eps.|11 episodes

The affair that Mahiro has been having with the married Yutaka has been the only escape from her troubled family life caused by her father’s own extra-marital affair. Mahiro despises her father for his past infidelity but cannot bring herself to stop Yutaka from being unfaithful to his wife. However, an unplanned pregnancy triggers a series of events that promises to shatter the small bubble of happiness Mahiro has made for herself and bring the brewing dissonance in her family to a head.

The Partner: To My Dear Friend of 100 Years

The Partner〜愛しき百年の友へ〜   The Partner~사랑스런 백년의 친구에게~   日越之間 - The Parrtner

129 min x 1 ep|1 episode

Trading company employee, Tetsuya, lives alone with his only daughter, but is busy preparing to remarry a Vietnamese woman named Lien. One day, the president of a Vietnamese trading company promises Tetsuya a contract if he will help solve a mystery. But there is a time limit that, if not met, will cause the dissolution of a big project in Vietnam his company has been working on for years. Tetsuya pours his energy into cracking the mystery, but the key to solving it lies in Japan. A hundred years ago, under harsh colonial rule by the French, a Vietnamese hero fighting for independence took an incredible risk to find passage to Japan, where he forged a strong bond with a nameless Japanese doctor. Now, a century later, a long-hidden truth is re-vealed in this epic story about love and friendship between Vietnam and Japan.

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!

The Stork Nest

こうのとりのゆりかご   황새의 요람   小鳥的搖籃

120 min x 1 ep|1 episode

May, 2007. The Jikei Hospital is a small clinic in Kumamoto Prefecture operating out of a pri-vate dwelling that begins accepting anonymous “deposits” (“Baby Post”) of unwanted infants abandoned by their parents for various reasons under the operational name, “Stork Nest.” Based on a true story, this moving human drama, fictionalized to protect privacy, depicts the passion and dedication of hospital staff as they rescue 92 abandoned infants over a period six years, all the while overcoming public criticism.

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)