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Pet Shop of Horrors ペットショップ・オブ・ホラーズ   공포의 애완 동물 가게   寵物店驚魂

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Pet Shop of Horrors,ペットショップ・オブ・ホラーズ,공포의 애완 동물 가게,寵物店驚魂
(c) MATSURI AKINO / UNIVERSAL J・TBS・MAD HOUSE

Broadcast Date

1999.3.1 - 1999.3.25

Episode / Duration

16 episodes 6 min. 30 sec. x 16 eps.

A shady Los Angeles Chinatown pet shop, owned by the mysterious Count D, sells a variety of precious and unique pets that serve a select clientele with special needs. Parents who have lost their child, or a young man having separated from the love of his life, are given a chance to recover some of what was once theirs, but with very specific rules. Should the rules be ignored, the consequences can be quite severe. Leon, a young Los Angeles police detective, visits Count D in the course of investigating a series of "accidents" involving animals. His initial suspicions of a mafia connection are gradually replaced with the fear that something much more sinister is behind this purveyor of pets.

Action Heroine Cheer Fruits

アクションヒロイン チアフルーツ   액션 히로인 치어후르츠   動作女英雄 水果啦啦隊

30 min. × 12 eps.|12 episodes

What starts as a project for a small-town festival gains traction when local heroines begin getting scouted for popular TV programs. At the urging of her aunt, a prefectural governor in Hinano City, high school senior Misaki Shirogane signs up to become a "heroine fighter" for her area - but everything changes when she realizes that a local superhero show might be the way to rescue their town from serious financial jeopardy! But can they recruit all the girls and resources needed in the short time before the bills come due?

Big Windup!

おおきく振りかぶって   크게 휘두르며   王牌投手- 振臂高揮

Series.1: 30 min. x 26 eps. (SD only) Series.2: 30 min. x 14 eps. (HD only)|40 episodes

Having been the “ace” pitcher for his junior high school baseball team just because he was the principal’s grandson, only brought him and his team three years of straight losses. Now that he is a freshman on the high school team, Mihashi’s lacking confidence, but the team’s tough-as-nails coach, Momoe, and Mihashi’s new best friend and team catcher, Abe, see something special in him. They’ll have to help him conquer his fears if they want to win the championship!

Family Hunter

家族狩り   가족사냥   涉獵家族

80 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 9 eps|10 episodes

Yuko Hizaki is a child psychologist working for the city’s child counseling service. She’s saddled by a senile father and a mother grown weary of nursing.
Shunsuke Sudo is a high school teacher resistant to the idea of marrying and building a family with his girlfriend. Ai Yoshizawa, who is highly antisocial, is one of his students. Koki Mamihara is a cop who suspects foul play in a family suicide. The case begins to rouse each character to life amid a rush of events in this foray into the pettiness, pathos and nobility of human nature, based on a representative work by novelist Arata Tendo.

GAKUEN BASARA

学園BASARA   학원 BASARA   學園BASARA

30 min.|12 episodes

A heated battle is once again revving up at Basara Academy between baseball star, Masamune Date, and soccer ace, Yukimura Sanada. What’s more, ever since student council chairman, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, received a suspension, leaving the seat up for grabs, a host of class “warlords” have become embroiled in a quest for supreme power. Amid Ieyasu Tokugawa’s appeals to bonds of kinship and Mitsunari Ishida’s fervor to defeat him, who will wrest ultimate control of the domain in “troubled” times?

Revue Starlight

少女歌劇 レヴュースタァライト   소녀극장 레뷔 스타라이트   少女☆歌劇 REVUE STARLIGHT

30 min.|12 episodes

Childhood friends Karen and Hikari made a promise that, together, they would one day become the next theatrical stars. Real life got in the way of their childhood dream when Hikari moved away, but Karen never forgot her promise. Years later, the two friends finally have their chance when they’re invited to a mysterious audition. However, the two are not the only ones who have trained for this moment, and they must now compete with others whom all share the same dream of performing on stage.

Testimony of N

Nのために   N을 위하여   為了N

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

Television dramatization of bestselling author Kanae Minato’s heart-wrenching, romance-thriller of the same name, a novel which earned her a best new mystery writer award in 2007. Nozomi is a female college student who together with friends, Naruse, Ando and Nishizaki, came up with a certain “scheme” that put them on the scene of a horrific family murder. Nishizaki was arrested on the spot as a suspect in the murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison by virtue of a voluntary confession. A decade later, an ex-cop named Takano begins to reinvestigate what he believes was an unsolved murder that somehow entwined 6 young adults all with the initial “N” in their names. Clues from the past and present cross as Takano tries to puzzle together the truth and find out what really happened.

The Thorns of Alice

アリスの棘   앨리스의 가시   愛麗絲的復仇

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

The story is set at a university hospital where the strong ambitions and sharp minds of unscrupulous doctors clash in a never-before-seen medical suspense drama. A cute but strong heroine who lost her father to a mistake in O.R. that got covered up. She joins the hospital staff as a rookie physician, and then one by one takes revenge on those responsible. Anger and sadness cloaked beneath a white smock, a lifelong vendetta is about to be paid!
“An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.” To fight demons… you need to be a demon yourself.

The Wings of the Kirin

麒麟の翼   기린의 날개   麒麟之翼

129 min.

The book author Keigo Higashino describes as the masterpiece of his best-selling ‘Detective Kyoichiro Kaga’ series now comes to the screen! His novel “SHINZANMONO”, a brilliant achievement that in 2009 placed number 1 in the ‘This is a Great Mystery!’ and the Shukan Bunshun Mystery Awards, in 2010 became a wildly popular TV drama starring Hiroshi Abe. Its sequel, “The Wings of the Kirin” published in 2011, is a jewel of a mystery Higashino describes as the masterpiece of the Kaga series. “The Wings of the Kirin”, a ‘moving human drama’ starring Hiroshi Abe, Yui Aragaki, Kiichi Nakai, Junpei Mizobata, Tori Matsuzaka, Meisa Kuroki, Rena Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and other great names in Japanese film.

Ties of Shooting Stars

流星の絆

75min. x 2 eps. / 60min. x 8 eps.|10 episodes

“When we grow up… We’ll kill him together”. Koichi, Taisuke, and Shizuna are three siblings whose parents had been brutally murdered when they were just elementary school children, and they vowed to avenge the death of their parents. Fourteen years later, their vengeful plan unravels countless new facts. A shocking revelation leads to an overwhelmingly emotional ending. What will become of the siblings who have lived their lives solely in reliance of their bond alone?

Urara Meirocho

うらら迷路帖   우라라 메이로쵸   烏菈菈迷路帖

30 min. × 12 eps.|12 episodes

Chiya was raised in the woods and most of her friends were animals. But now she needs to find her missing mother, and since it may take the skills of an Urara, or fortune teller, to find her, she’s come to
the town of Meiro-cho to learn to become an Urara herself. It won’t be easy adjusting… and not just
because Chiya still tends to check to see if people have tails or want their tummies rubbed! The other girls studying at the Natsumeya teahouse are all unusual in their own ways…