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SAWAKO DECIDES 川の底からこんにちは   사와코의 결심   蜆貝小小姐

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SAWAKO DECIDES 川の底からこんにちは 사와코의 결심 蜆貝小小姐
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Sawako has lived in Tokyo for five years, is working her fifth office job, and is dating her fifth boyfriend, who is also her boss at the office. Her life with Kenichi, her boyfriend, and his daughter from a previous marriage, Kayoko, feels like a "compromise," and she endures each day feeling distressed about her career and love life. One day, she receives word that her father, Tadao, who runs a freshwater clam processing business in her hometown, has fallen ill. There is a reason why Sawako would rather not go back home so easily, but she reluctantly decides to return at Kenichi's insistence. But Kenichi, who had actually quit his job shortly before Sawako, uses this opportunity to come along with Sawako to her hometown with his daughter in tow. Thus Sawako's ordeals continue. Still, she takes over her father's clam processing company and begins to work there.

A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love

初めて恋をした日に読む話   처음 사랑을 한 날에 읽는 이야기   第一次的戀愛童話

67 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

After being a star student in high school, Junko Harumi finds herself in her early thirties having failed at love, college entrance exams and good employment. Working at a cram school as a tutor bereft of hope and motivation, she spends her days believing she’ll be fired at any moment. Then one day, a knuckle-headed, delinquent teen named Kyohei Yuri appears before her. “I want you to get me into the University of Tokyo,” he says. Having herself failed to get into the country’s most prestigious university, Junko refuses thinking it beyond her abilities, but then is overpowered by Kyohei’s strong will and desire, and finally relents. In the process, she is surprised when her handsome cousin, Masashi Yakumo, an elite trade company man, returns from working overseas and suddenly proposes marriage to her. With her life suddenly taking a turn for the better, can Junko get Kyohei into the University of Tokyo from a bottom-feeder high school? And is she destined to find the love to set her life on a new path?

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?

Ao-Natsu

青夏 きみに恋した30日   푸른 여름   青夏 愛上你的30天

113 min.

Rio, a modern city schoolgirl dreams of making a fateful encounter and falling in love. She goes to a rural town to spend the summer and meets Ginzo, a local schoolboy. He is aloof and slightly surly but actually has a kind heart, and Rio immediately falls for him. Rio wonders if Ginzo is “the one” but he rejects her without hesitation, saying “We're from two different worlds.” The summer is coming to an end. Their feelings intensify. What will become of their “summer only” romance?

Call me The Shadow : Adventures of a Housewife Detective

専業主婦探偵 〜私はシャドウ   전업주부 탐정~나는 그림자   家庭主婦偵探~我是影子

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 8 eps|9 episodes

Full-time homemaker, Serina, is madly in love with her elite securities manager husband, Takefumi. But ever since they got married two years ago as two incurably infatuated lovers, her husband has changed. He has begun to find her unmitigated affection towards him to be “over the top” and “irksome.” As a result, he has begun to avoid her. Then one evening returning from a dinner party, Serina finds herself caught up in a little incident where she encounters a private detective named Haruki. She ends up taking a job working at his office. Though somewhat clumsy and wielding no particular talent to speak of, Serina gradually realizes that she was made for detective work. And in the process of striving for the affection of the husband she loves, she too finds herself changing and growing into a beautifully strong and independent woman.

Detective Lovesick

うぬぼれ刑事   나르시스트 형사   花痴刑警

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

He was the pride of his police department as the number one armed robbery buster... until he had his heart broken by the sudden flight of a fiancee from his life. Now "Detective Lovesick" finds his crime-fighting mojo and his chance at rising through the police hierarchy slipping away. Spending his days in a desperate search for the love of his life, Detective Lovesick is a man in love with himself and idolizes his drinking buddy, who is a romance psychologist. He loses himself to love easily, even at work, falling for every femme fatale he investigates and after a lot of hair pulling, ending each case with a marriage proposal. "Marry me or be under arrest." But will any woman accept such a proposal? Suspense, comedy and romance all converge in a libido-rich police drama unlike any you've ever seen.

Dream Animals THE MOVIE

たべっ子どうぶつ THE MOVIE

90min

Dream Animals biscuits, a long-selling snack beloved by Japanese since its launch in 1978 has been sold in more than 20 countries around the world and features the animal names written in English on the biscuits. The product has enjoyed an explosion in popularity in recent years as merchandise, especially among young people. Now for the first time, the product is given treatment as an animated movie called Dream Animals: The Movie. How will these animal biscuit characters behave and sound as they embark upon a thrilling adventure while tugging at your heartstrings with endearingly rich personalities.

HANAMIZUKI ~May your love bloom for a hundred years~

ハナミズキ   하나미즈키   花水木

128 min.

High school student Sae Hirasawa lives a simple life with her mother in a peaceful northern fishing town but dreams of a life overseas. She has grown up in the shade of a dogwood tree planted for her as a young child by her itinerant and chronically-ill father, who knew he’d never see his daughter to adulthood. Sae is determined to make it into a top university and increase her chances of landing a job overseas when she meets Kohei Kinouchi, a boy from another high school. The two fall in love and together encourage each other to pursue their dreams, even as it pulls them apart: Sae to a prestigious university in Tokyo and Kohei to the open seas as a fisherman. Inevitably, the physical separation and the widening gap between their ambitions begin to strain their long-distance relationship. As Kohei misses, and increasingly regrets, not seeing Sae grow into a beautiful woman, Sae finds herself inching ever closer to her goal when she meets Kitami, an upperclassman who shares her same dream.

Heaven? My Restaurant, My Life

Heaven?~ご苦楽レストラン~   Heaven? 헤븐   Heaven? 天國餐館

70 min × 3 eps. / 60min × 7 eps.|10 episodes

“Loin d'ici”is a French restaurant oddly situated inside a cemetery, and run by a very eccentric owner who exhibits not a whit of desire to see it succeed except to fulfill her own hedonistic craving of “enjoying the pleasures of food and drink to her heart’s content”. She is surrounded by a colorful, like-minded staff of unique misfits, none of whom possess the refinement, flattery or tact needed. Yet through a string of mishaps and failures, they gradually find in the restaurant a sense of belonging and purpose, growing with the owner into an indispensable team and top-shelf restaurant. Savor this quintessential comical farce packed with laughs plus valuable hints for succeeding in life.

Kabukibu!

カブキブ!   가부키부   青春歌舞伎故事(青春歌舞伎物語)

30 min. x 12 eps.|12 episodes

Kurogo has loved Kabuki ever since he was a kid, and the fact that his high school has a drama club but no kabuki club drives him crazy. So, naturally, he’s decided that the solution is to make his own club. Even if it means drafting other students, getting a faculty sponsor who knows nothing about the art, and “bending” some of the stricter rules about things like allowing girls to participate in what may become a classwide culture shock!

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.