Nagumo is a social studies teacher at Mie Prefectural Etsuzan High School. A former baseball player in college who had to retire due to injury, he worked as a sports trainer before turning to his “other dream” of becoming a teacher at 32. When he is made advisor for the high school’s weak and disbanding baseball team, his life begins to come full circle, and strives to produce a miraculous turnaround for the team in this uplifting tale of love and baseball.

Ryotaro is a cheerful professional soccer player devoted to the game he loves. He has risen to national team member, and come through with decisive goals when it counts… until injury begins to plague him. Facing retirement at 37, he realizes it is a little late for him to enter normal working society. Enter a sports management company called “Victory” which offers him a new lease on life. Yet somewhere in his heart, Ryotaro has not quite accepted his retirement, and he will need to reconcile with new challenges as an old rookie.

Ninja Warrior Austria challenges the toughest contestants from all over the country to face the hardest competition of their life. Over 200 Austrian athletes will try their best – but only the best 25 will make it to the big finale.

Thousands of people have come forward to prove that they are able to overcome the　monumental obstacle course that only a few could achieve in the world so far. Amazing excitement, a stunning track and super-power is promised by the world-famous show. After Japan, America and many other countries in Europe, Ninja Warrior arrived in Hungary. Do not miss anything, pleasing to the greatest fighters!

A spin-off program from SASUKE. KUNOICHI (a word for a female ninja) puts professional and amateur athletes, celebrities and general participants on a challenging obstacle course. Who among these women has the skills and stamina to clear all areas and be crowned champion?

Dramatization based on the novel “RIKUOH” by Jun Ikeido. Koichi Miyazawa is the CEO of the longstanding company which manufacture tabi(traditional Japanese socks). Due to a decrease of demand for tabi thesedays, the Company, Kohazeya, has fallen upon hard times. For the company's survival, Miyazawa strikes upon the idea of creating a new type of running shoe that utilizes “tabi” making techniques to make the user feel as if running in bare feet. But the road ahead for a cash-strapped local company with a small staff is steep, and Miyazawa runs into continuous roadblocks only to be saved time and time again by those around him. Will he succeed in launching his running shoe and saving his company? Follow Miyazawa in this uplifting tale of economic revitalization.

American competitors try to do what few others have, conquer Mount Midoriyama.
Seasons 1, 2 and 3 each begin with hundreds of hopefuls who compete for a chance to travel to Japan to prove themselves on the world's most difficult obstacle course. The latest season takes place entirely in America, beginning with competitions in six different regions and culminating in Las Vegas where an exact duplicate of the four stage Mount Midoriyama has been constructed.

★ Nominated Outstanding Reality-Competition in 2016 Emmys
★ Aired on G4 and NBC in primetime in the same season
★ #1 rating in adults 18-49 steadily increased in its timeslot throughout the season

When the manager of a pathetic city high school baseball team becomes sick, her best friend Minami takes over the position. Not knowing anything about how to run a team, she goes to the bookstore and mistakenly buys business guru Peter Drucker’s famed book “Management”. Inspired, she applies Drucker’s theories and words of wisdom into the practical running of the club. It’s time for the team to play the final qualifying game in their last summer at Hodokubo High. They’ll need to utilize all of their ability and everything they’ve learned from Drucker to win. However, the night before the fateful game the unthinkable happens…Will Hodokubo High make it to the national championships?

The late 1960s. Alone, young man who spends his days brawling and stealing drifts into a Tokyo flophouse district. His name is Joe Yabuki. There, he meets alcoholic former boxer Danpei Tange, who senses a natural born fighting talent in Joe. However, soon after Joe is sent to a reformatory for assault.
Danpei sends Joe a letter while he's incarcerated. Entitled "For Tomorrow," it explains the basic boxing technique of the jab. Even inside, Joe stirs up trouble and gets into fights during which he encounters a powerful, champion-level pro boxer named Rikiishi. After their release from incarceration, Joe and Rikiishi both progress as professional boxers in their respective weight classes. Joe vs. Rikiishi – the ring of the bell sounds their destiny!

Timid honor student Yuki joins Ebisu High School's boxing club, aspiring to the raw power of his childhood friend Kabu, who's a bad boy boxing prodigy. Despite Kabu's laziness, he racks up a string of winning bouts through his natural talent for the sport. He may not listen to what anyone says, but he's willing to give it his all for the people close to him, including his coach. Bullied as a child, Yuki applies his no-nonsense character to training day in and day out through a sheer desire to become stronger, also gaining support from best friend Kabu. Under the coach's guidance, Yuki gradually builds strength, moving one step closer to undefeated high school rookie Kabu. Fate leads the two friends to become rivals... Fighting until the end, for a friend. What lies ahead for Kabu and Yuki?...

All hell breaks loose at a local high school when a very effete men’s tumbling and rhythmic gymnastics club is suddenly joined by a gang of the school’s “baddest” boys, and proceed to make believers out of everybody around them. Casting a spotlight on the Japanese-born sport of men’s rhythmic gymnastics, Tumbling is an uplifting and inspirational passion-of-youth drama about true friendship, dreams and the wonders of hard work. In fact, all the actors underwent rigorous gymnastics training so they could perform their stunts. But will they all be tumbling like pros by the end of their dramatic run?

During Japan’s Taisho Era, high school student Koume is suddenly asked by her best friend Akiko to help her start a women’s baseball team. This comes as a surprise to Koume, since in this conservative period in history, women’s education is considered secondary to their traditional role in the home, as Akiko is told by her fiancé on the school’s baseball team. Akiko decides to make him eat his words by starting a team of her own. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know the rules, what equipment is necessary, or really anything about baseball at all! Will they really be able to gather seven other women to play and hold their own? In an era where women are expected to be reserved, these women are taking it to the field to change people’s attitudes and have some fun along the way!

Hiro was an ace pitcher in junior high school, until he was diagnosed with a “glass elbow.” After giving up on the sport for a time, his passion for the game draws him back to it in high school and he joins a baseball team only to find himself in a match against his old rival Hideo who plays for the highest ranked high school. The meeting of the two is observed by Hideo’s girlfriend, Hikari, and she finds herself increasingly drawn towards Hiro, despite his only being interested in baseball. These two young men battle for the dream of winning the famous Koushien Baseball Tournament and for the heart of the young woman who doesn’t know for whom she should cheer.

Dirty jokes, girl trouble, and other dumb things – these are the trials and tribulations of the boys’ Ping Pong Club. Only one passion truly fires their souls: the glorious sport of ping pong! Unfortunately, tragedy strikes when the girls’ team conquers the gym, leaving our heroes humiliated and homeless. Foul play may be the only way for the boys to get back on top. Luckily it’s the only way they know how to play!

A man’s passionate lifestyle and boundless energy have a miraculous effect on his students. Where the school previously had been known only for its fights, it is suddenly celebrating a national rugby championship in its first year of serious competition. Here is education the way it should be.

Nominated for an Emmy four years in a row the worldwide phenomenon “American Ninja Warrior” has a broad fan base but the biggest among them is the KIDS. And now for the first time, the kids can actually be a part of “American Ninja Warrior” in the new program “American Ninja Warrior Junior”. “American Ninja Warrior Junior” features up to 200 boys and girls from 9 to 14 years old from across the country. Two players at a time from each of three age groups (9 & 10, 11 & 12, and 13 & 14 year s old) compete head- to-head on identical parallel obstacle courses, with the player who completes the course in the shortest amount of time advancing to the next round.

The world's greatest female athletes challenge Japan's top comedians in sports battles designed to amaze and entertain. World record holders, international stars and the nations best women from swimming, volleyball, soccer, golf and martial arts have their hands full as they battle funny men in real competitions.

Real athletic competition is on display in this sports game show. A field of competitors that ranges from unknown amateurs to world class professional athletes provides remarkable stories of human spirit and achievement. The competition features incredibly challenging games that have been specially designed for this show and include Super Rider, Handwalking, Kick Target and Service Ace.

Divided into four extreme stages, 100 competitors face the ultimate test of strength and will in their quest to become champion. Many are called. Few are chosen. Who’s tough enough to become the next Ninja Warrior! Produced by Monster 9 and airing on Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), Ninja Warrior has become an international sensation.

★ Both on-air & clean video versions available to suit a licensee’s need
★ Sold in 157 countries and territories
★ Now available for all digital media

Ninja Warrior makes its debut in Europe with this exciting version that gathers the best athletes from all over Sweden.

The toughest obstacle course on television has come to the UK. Competitors from all walks of life have prepared for this grueling challenge in many different ways, but they share one dream, to be crowned UK's Ninja Warrior.

“SASUKE” is challenges of Olympic proportions that are designed to test the limits of human ability. Each program features 100 competitors who take on the enormous four stage course.
The drama and tension are high as world class athletes struggle a long side top amateur competitors at tempt ing to pass the world’s ultimate test of physical ability.