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TARO's CANDY HOUSE おかしの家   과자의 집   下町的糖果屋

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The setting is the Tsukishima district of Tokyo where the Summer Olympic Games will be held in five years. A small old-fashioned confectionary shop, “Sakuraya” stands as a remnant of the past amid the rapidly changing cityscape. Akiko Sakurai has been running the shop on a shoestring for over 50 years, along with her grandson, Taro (33) whom she raised form childhood after he lost his parents in a traffic accident. With them also is Reiko, a single mother who has returned to Tsukishima with her child. Seemingly left behind by a fast-moving world, Taro appears as something of a “loser” who finds himself reexamining his lost childhood in an effort to move forward. Life takes a strange turn when his grandmother, Akiko, receives a letter that she is being sued for damages because her cat, Mi-chan, allegedly scratched up a neighbor’s luxury car. What should be an easy case to win turns into a fumbling mess at the hands of Taro who can’t seem to win for losing in this wacky yet endearing and slightly heartwarming late-night drama.
올림픽 개최를 5년 앞둔 도쿄 쓰키시마.
재개발이 진행되고 급속하게 변해가는 마을모습과는 반대로 홀로 남겨진 작고 오래된 과자가게 「사쿠라야」. 50년이상 가게를 꾸려온 사쿠라이 아키코와 어릴적 부모를 여의고 할머니의 손에 자란 손자 타로. 타로의 소꼽친구로 싱글맘이 되어 돌아온 레이코. 세상의 눈으로 보면 사회에 뒤쳐진 흔히 말하는 별볼일 없는 남자인 타로는 자신의 소년시절을 되짚으며 열심히 인생을 살아보고자 다짐한다. 어느날, 할머니가 귀여워하는 고양이 미짱이 손해배상청구를 당하게 되고 언뜻보면 여유만만하게 이길 재판이 별볼일 없는 타로로 인해 다른 방향으로 틀어지는데…, 바보스럽지만 사랑스럽고, 작지만 가슴 따뜻한 휴먼드라마.
連續劇的舞台在東京的月島。距離東京奧運還有五年。在都市更新的計劃急速開發的同時唯一殘留下來的是一間又小又舊的粗果子店 - 櫻屋 在這間櫻屋裏住著三個人。 50年來一直用心經營粗果子店的老闆娘一櫻井明子,和她獨自撫養自小父母雙亡的孫子一太郎。 再來是太郎的青梅竹馬,禮子,一個離婚的單親媽媽。
太郎是個典型的社會邊緣人。他回首過往,努力地邁向人生前進。
就在某天,祖母明子飼養的貓-小咪引起了損害賠償的事件。從旁觀來看是個能夠輕鬆勝訴的事件卻因為這個太郎無法順利進行。這是一部歡喜溫暖,讓觀眾會心一笑的連續劇。

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!

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.

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.

Over-the-Shoulder Lover

肩ごしの恋人

65 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 8 eps.|9 episodes

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.

SPEC: life

SPEC ~翔   SPEC: 翔   SPEC: 상(翔)

114 min x 1 ep|1 episode

A year after his last big fight, Takeru Sebumi, returns to the Metropolitan Police following some time off recovering from medical treatment on his eyes. But he is immediately confronted with a very strange murder case involving a machine gun shootout that took place in the middle of a street in broad daylight where only one high school female survived. But the girl's testimonial is that the shooter was dressed all in black and could move by instant teleportation. Photos taken by a combatant in the firefight revealed the presence of Satori, who had been badly knifed and held The Empress tarot card in her hand. Saya Toma views the incident as a blatant showdown between "spec holders" of specialized powers. Thus, a new challenge is thrown down for former special forces cop, Sebumi, and the quirky Toma with her 201 IQ.

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!

What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?

老後の資金がありません!

115 min

The 2015 best-seller novel by Miu Kakiya has been adapted to film by director Tetsu Maeda (“A Banana? At This Time of Night?”). As of April, 2020, the book has sold over 260,000 copies.
In Japan, it is said you need 20 million yen saved up for retirement. Though everyone has their worries about the future, not many openly talk about it. This film comically depicts this problem through the eyes of a respectable-looking family that’s actually a bit dysfunctional.

The main character, Atsuko, is your average housewife who believes in frugality. She has a husband, Akira, who’s quite clueless about the family budget, a daughter who works part-time, and a son in college. Though Atsuko had been saving up for retirement, she gets in an argument with her sister-in-law and her husband one day, and she ends up having to pay 4 million yen for her father-in-law’s funeral. As if that’s not enough, her husband’s company goes bankrupt, she gets fired from her part-time job, her daughter wishes for a lavish wedding with her fiancé who’s in a heavy metal band, and her big-spending mother-in-law moves in. The family’s savings dwindle by the day.
Problems between husband and wife, parent and child, wife and mother-in-law, a child’s marriage, a child moving out, caring for a parent, and funerals… These are all problems that everyone faces. As the family is hit by one dilemma after another, they struggle and torment themselves in order to overcome adversity.