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SAVE OUR TOWN! ナポレオンの村   나폴레옹의 마을   拿破崙之村

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"The word 'impossible' is not French."
The hero who immortalized those words? Napoleon Bonaparte. Fast forward far into the future. The setting is Tokyo five years prior to it hosting the Summer Olympics games. A curious man arrives at a mountain village of Kagura on the western edge of the city. He is Eiji Asai, a seasoned civil servant possessing the vitality to do the impossible - to save a dying town. Affected by his unconventional methods and remarkable achievements, a town of once listless city workers and estranged residents undergoes a transformation in this uplifting tale of revival and rebirth.
「내 사전에 불가능이란 없다!」
일찍이 프랑스에 이런 명언을 남긴 한명의 위대한 영웅이 있었다. 남자의 이름은 나폴레옹 보나파르트. 세월은 흘러 5년후 개최될 올림픽에 들떠 있는 도쿄. 그런 도쿄의 서쪽끝 산자락의 가구라 마을에 조금은 색다른 남자가 나타났다. 그의 이름은 아사이 에이지. 소멸만을 기다리는 마을에 돌연이 나타난 백전연마의 공무원은 “불가능”을 “가능”으로 바꾸는 지칠줄 모르는 활동력의 소유자였다. 아사이의 틀을 벗어난 도전과 쾌거에 영향을 받아 형식뿐인 일만을 해오던 공무원들과 제각각이던 마을 사람들에게 조금씩 변화가 일어난다. 더이상 손을 쓸 수 없었던 마을이 다시 태어나는 모습을 그린 상쾌한 성공스토리!
在石川縣的邊緣村落裡出現了一個創造奇蹟的男人!他的名字是高野誠鮮。一直在東京工作的他,出生是石川縣裡延續四十代的名門寺廟的僧侶後代。他決定回老家擔任當地縣政府的公務員。回到懷念已久的故鄉後映在高野眼裏的竟然是連居民都已快放棄希望的邊緣部落。再這樣下去,這個村落真的會消失・・・。
這是一部描寫已經到了谷底的人們如何堅強地團結起來重拾希望去奮鬥,真實故事改編的物語。讓我們一同看村民們為了他們的故鄉跟著超出您想像的超級公務員如何創造感人肺腑的奇蹟,跟著他們一起吶喊“這世界上絕對沒有我們做不到的事!”

After School is Mystery Time!

放課後はミステリーとともに   방과후 미스테리와 함께   放學後再推理

30 min. x 9 eps.|9 episodes

A huge fan of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team, you the viewer become the story protagonist, Ryo Kirigamine, vice-president of the Young Detectives Club at Tokyo’s Koigakubo Academy. In the search for truth, each week the school club gets tangled in perplexing local crimes and mysteries, including murder!
Ryo is a self-avowed super detective, but tends to get lost in the maze of clues at critical junctures of a case. But never fear; there are plenty of people to come to get her back on track, including the biology teacher, Hiromi Ishizaki. Take part in an intricately-constructed, hardcore mystery every week.

Captain Cook’s Banquet

コック警部の晩餐会   콕경부의 만찬회   料理警探的晚宴

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

Hoshimitsu Kokku is a Criminal 1st Division cop with professional level culinary skills. Nicknamed “Captain Cook”, he brings his own eccentricities and philosophy toward crime-fighting with the conviction that “Food doesn’t lie.” If there is one thing Captain Cook can’t stomach, it is the thought of people getting away with murder and then being able to eat freely and sumptuously. So he recreates the meals of victims in an effort to understand them better in the course of his investigation, and invites suspects to a grand feast where he can smoke out the true criminal. His compassion and unwavering pursuit of criminals in the name of justice make him a new hero in the gourmet world. Meanwhile, constantly stressed to the max is his new partner, Azumi Nanase, who despite having fulfilled her dream of becoming a cop is diametrically different in personality and disposition from her partner. As a consequence, she is constantly stressed out being at the mercy of Captain Cook’s freestyle sleuthing style and having to salvage the peace between her partner and his rival detective, Nekota. Nevertheless, Nanase and Hoshimitsu together make a crack crime solving team.

Coloring Himura

イロドリヒムラ   이로도리히무라   華麗搞笑日村秀

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

Starring Japan's currently most popular comedian, Yuki "Bananaman" Himura finds himself the central character in an eccentric drama that unfolds in ominibus style with each episode penned by a different writer and featuring an ever-changing support cast. Only Himura appears each time without fail, showcased and accentuated by resplendent actresses. Giving color to all who appear are the prominent globally-acclaimed film directors. Himura versus 10 movie directors and 10 stunning actresses. Witness a wholly new kind of TV drama that can only be seen here!

Dark System: Battle for Love’s Throne

ダークシステム 恋の王座決定戦   다크시스템 사랑의 왕좌결정전   不擇手段追女生

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

How to win the greatest love by the worst means! The world of romance is not for the timid. For Jiro Kagami, who has never been popular with the girls, the only way to win the heart of his beloved Yuri is by beating out four rivals with the use of a so-called “dark machine” that he hopes will make up for his lack of a way with women.

HEAVEN and HELL: Soul Exchange

天国と地獄~サイコな2人~   천국과 지옥 ~ 두명의 사이코~   天國與地獄

85 min × 1 ep / 75 min × 3 eps / 60 min × 6 eps|Eps 10

This drama about what happens when fate and love collide is non-stop entertainment!
Ayako is a young detective in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s violent crimes unit who’s eager to make her name. One day she gets a chance to arrest a murder suspect single-handed. But before she can slap on the cuffs their souls are switched! She finds herself in the body of Haruto, a brilliant and successful young entrepreneur with his own startup who’s secretly a psychopathic serial killer—and he in hers. This bizarre exchange of souls sets the stage for a thrilling story that turns everything you thought you knew about men and women and good and evil on its head. As Ayako and Haruto are drawn closer together, these two natural enemies stumble onto an unexpected truth.

In This Corner Of The World

この世界の片隅に   이 세상의 한 구석에   這個世界的角落

85 min × 1 ep / 75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 7 ep|9 episodes

Suzu Urano is an innocent young woman who loves to draw pictures and lives in the seaside town called Eba district of Hiroshima. At the height of World War II in the Pacific with all the men off at the front, she finds herself as eldest daughter assisting with the family business of seaweed to make ends meet when an offer of marriage arises. The suitor is Shusaku Hojo, a young stenographer at the military court-martial who had fallen in love with her at first sight, but Suzu doesn’t remember ever having met him. Though uncomfortable with the idea of betrothing a man she doesn’t know, she gets swept along by the people and circumstances around her until marriage becomes a foregone conclusion. She finds the task of winning acceptance by Shusaku’s family hard going despite all of her pure and earnest efforts in this touching story of family love and survival amid the crucible of war.

JIN

JIN -仁-   仁醫

114 min x 1 ep / 85min x 1 ep / 65min x 1 ep / 60min x 8 eps|11 episodes

A brain surgeon, Jin Minakata, is hurtled back in time to the Edo period at the time of the fall of the Tokugawa government. He finds himself having to save lives without the luxury of modern medical equipment or medicine, and unwittingly thrown into the middle of the tumultuous political times. Taking to heart the words, “God only presents you with challenges that you can overcome,” Jin endeavors to make the most of his new lot in life, as if convinced that he will rediscover something in the past which he has lost in the present. Awash in a different time and a different world of epic scale and grandeur, Jin finds that history now turns on him.

K-ON! The MOVIE

映画 けいおん!   영화 케이온 !   電影 K-ON !輕音部

110 min.

Four high school girls join the Light Music Club to save it from being abolished when all of its members graduate. Although most of them don’t have much experience playing a musical instrument, they all decide to give it a shot. Yui, takes up the electric guitar. Ritsu plays the drums. Mio, the smart but shy one, is the base guitarist and the Gentle child of affluence, Tsumugi, plays the keyboards. In their sophomore year, the wide-eyed freshman Azusa lends her considerable guitar skills to finally form the five member band, HO-KAGO Tea Time.
Now they just need to stop having tea parties and get busy practicing!

Last Train Bye-Bye!

終電バイバイ   막차 바이바이   末班車bye-bye!

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

If you missed the last train, and had no money to get home by other means of transport, and had to spend the night in and around a particular train station, what would you do? This is how our story begins, with the protagonist missing the last trine. He has no money with him and must figure out how to pass the time until the first train in the morning. Little does he knows of the encounters and "late night adult adventure" that await him and which will cause him to grow. A one-night romance with a mysterious and attractive woman? The suspense and perils of becoming embroiled in a criminal incident? Or an incident of interpersonal connectivity sure to make one smile broadly? Enjoy a brand new type of drama that will leave you thinking about missing your last train tomorrow.

Rental Lovers

レンタルの恋   렌탈 사랑   出租小妹 紫陽花

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

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.