Owing to a certain incident in her past, Reiko Kuki knows the value of money better than anyone. Thrifty with her spending, this poor, “around-thirty company woman meets Keita Saruwatari, the moronic president’s son and profligate spendthrift with no memory at all of how he spends his dough. When th...
In an office, she can perform better than anyone, but when it comes household chores, she’s totally useless. She’s a single woman pushing 30 named Mei Aihara, and her room is a mess. Appearing one day at her doorstep is Nagisa Shigino, a much-in-demand “super domestic helper” who can do the cooking,...
For Women
Romance
Comedy
AN INCURABLE CASE OF LOVE
75min × 2episodes, 60min × 8episodes
A 23-year-old rookie nurse falls hard for a doctor she’s long admired while experiencing the triumphs and tragedy of working on the front line of emergency medical care in a story offering hope for tomorrow. As a high school student, Nanase Sakura witnessed the miracle of Doctor Tendo saving a life,...
Time is Money is the hilarious celebrity Life Hack show where your favourite stars share the time saving secrets of their success – and where viewers with the best life-hacks go home with a fat cash prize, proving once and for all that: Time is Money.
We live in increasingly pressurised times wh...
For Women
Romance
Comedy
Nagi's Long Vacation
75min × 1episode, 60min × 9 episodes
Nagi Oshima is a 28-year-old employee of consumer appliance maker, with silky straight hair and a peculiar personality, feeling she must try her hardest to “read the room” so as to interact well with others. But her striving to adapt to others leads her one day to hyperventilate and collapse. “I nee...
For Women
Human
Comedy
I will Not Work Overtime, Period!
67min × 2episodes, 60min × 7episodes, 75min × 1episode
A satisfyingly heart-warming comedy in support of all people struggling to make their way in an age of revolutionary changes to the workplace. First tackling the issue of overtime work, the drama spotlights not only systemic reforms taking place, but the change in mindset occurring among working peo...
For Women
Romance
Comedy
A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love
67 min.｜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 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 embroil...
Café Funiculi Funicula is a coffee shop where Kazu Tokita works. There is a mysterious urban legend about this shope. When you sit at a certain table here, you can go back in time to any point you choose in the past, but there are also some uncompromising rules.
Original Novel ：Toshikazu Kawaguc...
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 i...
Hibiki is an awkward, 17-year-old high school sophomore who hasn't known romance.
But she's about to fall in love for the very first time. With whom?
A man who isn't great with words, but compassionate about his students.
It's her history teacher, Mr. Ito.
"Is it okay if I fall for you?" Hibik...
Her mission was to steal the formula to a top secret, best-selling cosmetics product! But then she experienced the love of people dedicated to beauty’s pursuit.
Akane Mitsusawa dreams of becoming a top-flight business consultant. But under orders of her lover and boss, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, her first ...
College junior, Haruka, is invited by her best friend, Maki, to attend Works Applications (WAP) internship orientation. On her way home, Haruka is nearly hit by a car only to be saved at the last moment by WAP’s CEO Makino, who sacrifices his own life. Makino wakes up in a hospital emergency room to...
For Women
Romance
Comedy
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
75 min. × 3 ep. / 60 min. × 8 eps.｜11 episodes
逃げるは恥だが役に立つ
도망치는건 부끄럽지만 도움이 된다
免堅持! 逃跑上上策 - 我的工作是結婚 -
75 min. × 3 ep. / 60 min. × 8 eps.｜11 episodes
Protagonist Mikuri Moriyama is an unattached young woman with a graduate degree. Her prospects should be rosy. But when no offers of employment come her way, she’s forced into taking on temp work and confronting “the painful realization that nobody needs her.” That’s when Mikuri with the help of a f...
Reality
For Women
Food/Cooking
Travel
Entertainment
Adventure
Family
Comedy
Miyagi Japan’s 3/11 Reconstruction Event: The Tour de Tohoku 2016
日本宮城３１１復興イベント ツール・ ド・東北２０１６
일본 미야기 ３１１ 부흥이벤트 투어 더 토호쿠 ２０１６
日本東北單車之旅
The Tour de Tohoku bicycle race was established to continually honor those who lost their lives in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami while paying great tribute to the support and reconstruction efforts that followed in its wake. By covering the Tour de Tohoku 2016, this program seeks to re...
Reality
For Women
Food/Cooking
Travel
Entertainment
Adventure
Family
Comedy
Thank you Taiwan! A special program commemorating 5 years of post-disaster reconstruction support
5 years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011. Miyagi Prefecture received donations and support from Taiwan as well as inspiring words of encouragement to become a place bustling with activity once again attracting travelers.
This program introduces Miyagi...
Tearjerker
For Women
Human
Family
100 days ~Love, Marriage, Sickness and Mom~
75 min. × 1 ep. / 60 min. × 9 eps.｜10 episodes
Hitomi Serizawa leads a fulfilling professional and private life. What’s more, she will be getting married in 100 days. Plans are progressing smoothly until the unexpected appearance of her mother after an absence of 25 years. A free-spirited woman who lives impulsively and abandoned Hitomi to her s...
For Women
Family
Science/Medical
Dr.STOЯKS
75 min. × 2 eps. / 60 min. × 8 eps.｜10 episodes
Giving birth is not an illness. So naturally, it is not covered by standard medical insurance. People who work in maternity wards don’t treat injuries or cure disease. In fact, a professional doctor, an obstetrician, need not be present at a childbirth. But when complications arise, giving birth can...
Human
For Women
THE MOTHER CLASS
75 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.｜10 episodes
The setting is a nursery school. But it’s far from being an ordinary place where mothers simply drop off and pick up their children every day. Instead, it is a small and tightly-knit society governed by a “mother caste” social order where mother harassment and matriculation exam troubles occur daily...
For Women
Second Chance Chauffeur
114 min. ×1 ep. / 70 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. × 8 eps.｜10 episodes
114 min. ×1 ep. / 70 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. × 8 eps.｜10 episodes
The long-awaited dramatization of Kiyoshi Shigematsu’s million bestseller and winner of the Naoki Literature prize, Second Chance Chauffeur begins with a man taking a ride in a car as he seeks to embark on a life do-over. But the drive sends him toggling supernaturally between past and future where ...
For Women
Girls in the Bar
75min×1 ep. / 60min×9 eps.｜10 episodes
Rei Iwasaki is in her 30s and holds a lawyer’s license but is too shy and nervous to stand in court.
Rinka Ebisawa, by contrast, is a glamorous,
haughty 40-something woman with superlative legal talent but lost her license after resorting to “gray” legal methods.
Now, two women incapable of pr...
Following up on the hit mini-series, “Ryusei no Kizuna” (Meteor Shower Bonds”),
pop singing star and actor Ryo Nishikido joins forces with popular hit-making,
director-writer Kankuro Kudo for an explosive new series that delves into eternal themes of “teen youth” and “passion” without all the an...
Thriller
For Women
Mystery
MOZU Season 1 〜Night Cry of the MOZU〜 ｜ MOZU Season 2 〜Phantom Wings〜
Season1 : 114 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.
Season2 : 60 min. x 5 eps.｜15 episodes
Season1 : 114 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.
Season2 : 60 min. x 5 eps.｜15 episodes
The crowning work of Go Osaka, one of Japan’s leading hard-boiled mystery writers, his series “Mozu” (Bull-headed shrike) has sold almost 700,000 copies to date.
【MOZU Season1: Night Cry of the Mozu】
Ace police officer of the public safety department plice, Kuraki (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who lost ...
Thriller
Mystery
For Women
Science/Medical
The Thorns of Alice
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...
Tearjerker
Romance
Family
For Women
Ando ♡ Roid
75 min. x 1 ep. / 70 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 8 eps.｜10 episodes
75 min. x 1 ep. / 70 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 8 eps.｜10 episodes
2013. A brilliant physicist, Reizi Matsushima, has been murdered, but nobody knows why. His beloved fiancé, Mayo Ando, soon finds her life in danger as well as she is pursued by the unknown killer. Seemingly out of nowhere - from her desk drawer! - a mysterious "man" appears who calls himself Roid ...
For Women
Mystery
Thriller
Kurokochi
85min. x 1 ep. / 60min. x 9 eps.｜10 episodes
It happened in December 45 years ago. Amid pouring rain, a man pretending to be a motorcycle cop robbed an armored car making off with 300 million yen and pulling off one of the most notorious heists in Japanese history. The case has never been solved. Fast forward to present time and to the 2nd Cri...
For Women
Family
Romance
PINTOKONA
130 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.｜10 episodes
For the first time ever, a serial drama about the exotic, 4-century old world of kabuki theater comes to television from an original comic series that sold over a million copies in Japan. Pintokona, a kabuki term, refers to a handsome and manly nature but with a solid core. Despite being born into ...
Yukiko, Seiko, Yoko and Takako are the most improbable group of friends given the fact that they work in very different industries and live in different worlds. Yukiko is a fashion maven devoted to expressing her individuality through clothes. But she’s pushing 30 now, and is beginning to acknowledg...
Romance
Comedy
For Women
A “NEET” Romance: How to Restart Love
75 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.｜10 episodes
恋愛ニート 〜忘れた恋のはじめ方
연애 니트～잊어버린 사랑을 시작하는 방법
戀愛尼特族～被遺忘的戀愛法則
75 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.｜10 episodes
Following the death of her parents, 32-year-old Rin takes a job in the sales promotion section of a publishing house in order to earn enough to support her younger sister and brother. But she’s earned a reputation from colleagues both above and below as the “hard to handle type” due to a strong-will...
Human
Tearjerker
For Women
Family
Comedy
The Hanawa Sisters
80 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 10 eps.｜11 episodes
Four grown sisters return to life under one roof in the Hanawa home, headed by their “hunk” of a father and perennially girlish mother (who adores her husband and never doubts for a moment that his feelings are mutual). Although raised under the example of a seemingly model marriage, the “four Hana...
Romance
For Women
Comedy
Shima-shima (Striped Sheep)
30 min. x 10 eps.｜10 episodes
By day, Shio manages an aromatherapy salon. But by night, she is the owner of “Striped Sheep”, a business that dispatches men to the homes of women who suffer from insomnia to lie next to them. These “Striped Sheep” in fact represent a brand new profession of so-called “co-sleepers,” whose sole miss...
Human
Tearjerker
For Women
Umareru (Being Born)
75 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.｜10 episodes
The Hayashidas were a typical happy family of father, mother, two boys and two girls. Until it all changed suddenly with the untimely death of the father, Shinpei. While still mourning his passing, the children are hit by another bit of shocking news from their mother “Truth is… I’m pregnant.” The n...
For Women
Romance
Fuyu no Sakura
129 min. x 1 ep. / 80 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 7 eps.｜9 episodes
129 min. x 1 ep. / 80 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 7 eps.｜9 episodes
Glass blower, Tasuku, has never been in love… until he encounters Monami, a woman with no memory. En route to Yamagata Prefecture in northern Japan in hopes of seeing winter blooming cherry blossoms, called keio-zakura, Monami had met with an accident. She can’t recall why she has come, nor that she...
Tearjerker
School
For Women
A Little Princess
120 min. x 1ep. / 60 min x 9 eps.｜10 episodes
A modern retelling of the classic 1887 Francis Burnett story, The Little Princess, about a precocious young girl of wealthy upbringing who one day finds her life turned upside down and all her privileges taken away when the family goes bankrupt. Cast into the role of a penniless servant, Seira fight...
Romance
For Women
Comedy
Party of One
75 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.｜10 episodes
Satomi is 33 years old and a teacher of Japanese history at a prestigious private high school. By anyone’s standards, she has both talent and beauty, but has been dubbed Ms. “Party of One” for wanting to do everything completely on her own. Work has been pretty hectic for her of late, and she has no...
On April 5, 2007, a couple was married in a church.
At first glance, it was a typical wedding, with the happy couple, their families and their friends. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer, and had been given only a month to live. : “April Bride” is the true story of Ch...
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