When Ayumu Tanaka falls in love with the only other member of the school’s shogi chess club, Urushi Yaotome, he vows to confess his love for her as soon as he can beat her in a match. But this proves difficult. Urushi is nevertheless thrown off by Ayumu’s aggressive style as the two begin a cat-and-...
Film adaptation of Award-winning TV documentary
Storyline:
A tiny life takes on a life or death challenge amid the majestic grandeur of the Tateyama mountain range. Can a swan muster the courage to survive if it is unable to fly? A story sure to deepen your appreciation of life’s power and wonde...
A stickler for the facts, criminal case specialist lawyer Miyama has piled up an impressive case record winning those deemed 99.9% impossible working at the Madarame Law Office with rookie lawyer Honoka under newly promoted office chief Sada.
His biggest challenge comes with a new case involving a...
Leading female industrialist, Rio, has been named a key person of interest in a serial murder case investigated by Detective Daiki. The two were once in love with each other in their youth. Rio’s legal advisor, Kenichiro, will do anything for her. Caught in a love triangle and a criminal investigati...
Tokyo 2023. Japan’s prime minister announces a plan to store contaminated material in deep-sea strata while entrusting a team of young technocrats to protect Japan’s future. Meanwhile, the public is alarmed by sensational magazine articles predicting the sinking of the Kanto plain owing to the disap...
Akiha extols the virtues of the single life and has no desire for marriage. But then she encounters a sudden proposal from Shu, a handsome company man whom she just met. Shu has an urgent need to be officially designated as “married” when he floats the fake marriage proposal. For her part, Akiha is ...
The story of life and death from the creators’ duo of "DEATH NOTE" and "Bakuman."
“I’ll give you the hope to live’”
Mirai Kakehashi lost his family in an accident and had a painful time with his relatives. The boy, desperate for everything, throws himself from the roof of a building on the day...
Love is war… especially when victory goes to the one who gets the other to confess their love first through a psychological battle of attrition. At the elite Shuchiin academy, as students vie for top positions in the school pecking order, another much more heated battle is being waged between its le...
Shunpei is a single father struggling to care for his five-year-old son. One day, he runs into childhood buddy Sosuke, who decides to help his old friend out. Sosuke’s plan involves renting out the apartment above his rundown okonomiyaki restaurant as a share house and using the money to rebuild. Wh...
Hayame’s peaceful existence is suddenly shattered one day when her husband announces he wants a divorce, and she runs away from home. Then all her money is stolen, and she finds herself with no place to live. That’s when she encounters high school student Issei, a rich, handsome rogue who offers to ...
Science/Medical
TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room
85min × 1ep / 75min × 2eps / 60min × 8eps
Kota Kitami, a brilliant young ER doctor, has been handpicked by Mayor Azusa Akatsuka to head a new emergency response team dubbed TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room, or MER, outfitted with leading-edge medical technology and a large mobile operating theatre to respond to major accidents, natural disasters...
Revue Starlight is a new form of entertainment that fuses musicals with anime. Ever since the project was announced, there have been a wide variety of installments from a musical, anime, comic, smartphone game, to a music group by the nine main cast members: Starlight Kukugumi. And now, a long-await...
The 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. Carrying the hopes of a nation, Japan’s was seeking its first ever gold medal in the Men’s Large Hill Team event. On the sidelines stood one man who harbored particularly strong emotions toward team ace, Masahiko Harada. That man was former Japan ski jumper, Jinya Ni...
Our favorite gung-ho teacher is back! A few years ago, a group of struggling students at a low-ranked high school made it into Japan’s top college, Tokyo University – thanks to Kenji Sakuragi, a down-on-his-luck lawyer-turned-teacher. But soon afterward, he left the school and disappeared. Now anoth...
Magic
Fantasy
Comedy
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord Ω
30 min.｜10 episodes
Diablo (real name: Takuma Sakamoto) is summoned to a different world as the character he controls inside a game he played. Shera and Rem both claim to be the one who summoned him, and they start to spend their days in this world that looks exactly like the game. He fights an elite force from the kin...
Romance
Family
Comedy
How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!
75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps
Newlyweds Saki and husband Koichi have decided that getting married was a huge mistake. They met by chance and had a whirlwind romance, but their lifestyles and values couldn’t be more different. She’s a fashion editor raised in a modern, liberal home. He’s an ace air-rescue pilot from a strict, con...
For Women
Romance
Why I Dress Up for Love
75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps
Fashionista Kurumi Mashiba works as a publicist for a popular online home décor company. When she launches a social media account to promote the company, she ends up amassing 100,000 followers and becomes a fashion influencer in her own right. But she’s so wrapped up in work that she forgets to rene...
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 ...
For Women
Romance
Oh My Boss! Love not included
75min × 2eps / 60min × 8eps
オー！マイ・ボス！恋は別冊で
오ー！마이・보스！사랑은 별책으로
Oh My Boss! 戀愛放別冊
75min × 2eps / 60min × 8eps
Don’t miss this heartwarming, madcap romantic comedy!
Nami is an ordinary small-town girl with no special dreams or ambitions, someone who goes along to get along and wants nothing from life but a modicum of happiness. Then she moves to the big city to pursue her childhood crush. In Tokyo she by ch...
Now sidelined due to injury and age, former pro-wrestling star Juichi Miyama was once groomed by his father, Jusaburo, an acclaimed Noh actor and “Living National Treasure,” to be his successor. But the young Juichi rebelled, left home, and cut off ties with his family. Now he’s just learned that hi...
Romance
Family
Comedy
The Full-time Wife Escapist SPECIAL
150 min x 1 ep
逃げるは恥だが役に立つ ガンバレ人類！新春スペシャル！！
도망치는건 부끄럽지만 도움이 된다 스페셜
逃避虽可耻但有用 特別篇
150 min x 1 ep
Husband as employer, wife as employee, marriage as a job... That’s how it all began for Mikuri Moriyama and Hiramasa Tsuzaki, working as managing partners in a work place called home, sharing household chores in efficiency maximizing manner, and otherwise leading a peaceful and happy life. Until Mik...
School
Romance
Comedy
The Quintessential Quintuplets 2
30 min.｜12 episodes
They are teenage female quintuplets who hate studying and are at risk of failing their classes. That is until a private tutor, Futaro, appears to help them make it to graduation. Various adventures ensue as the five sisters and Futaro attend a study camp in the woods that ends up deepening their tru...
Missing the last train of the day on Tokyo’s Keio Line at Meidaimae Station, college student Mugi Yamane (Masaki Suda) encounters Kinu Hachiya (Kasumi Arimura). Finding they have near identical tastes in music and movies, the couple quickly hit it off and embark on a romance that has them move in to...
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 th...
Many of Oita's tourist attractions are hot springs, like the reddish "Lake of Blood Hell" and a "mud springs" called "Bouzu Hell" where mud bubbles up.
The “Onsen Prefecture” slogan is everywhere in Oita.
Keyword: Beppu,onsen,Oita,Japan,hot spring
In the net drawn up from the sea floor, there are so many kind of fish such as eelpout, shiny red sweet shrimp, and ray. The fishermen spread out the fish on a fish boat.
Keyword: fish, fishery, boat, eelpout, shrimp, ray
You can find rare fish at this conveyor belt sushi restaurant, such as scalpel sawtail, scarbreast tuskfin, and Kamagari.
Kamagari is also called black croaker.
When you open its big "croaker," or mouth, you can see that its mouth is black inside.
Keyword: Conveyor Belt, sushi, fish, rare
This is the campus of Hokkaido University, which first opened its doors in 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College. Its historic agricultural science department is a flagship institution in Japan with a long history.
Keyword: Hokkaido, University, Sapporo, campus, student
Here in Otofuke Town in Hokkaido, people take advantage of the wide-open area to conduct large-scale agriculture. His tractor and combine have certain modifications to manage a sprawling 99 hectares of farmland.
Keyword: Hokkaido, sugar cane, tractor, farmer, farmland, agriculture
With the equipment incorporating a GPS guidance system into the workflow, a tractor is spraying pesticide in the vast field.
Keyword: tractor, farmer, farmland, agriculture, equipment, technology
These are the croquettes that sell almost 3,000 on a busy day.
Bread crumbs known as Panko cover the batter-dipped patty.
The inside consists of ground meat, mashed potatoes, and minced onions. It looks like the common croquette that you would find anywhere.
Keyword: croquette, cooking, frying,...
They continue to make a limited 200 "Exquisite Croquettes" every day. Changing locations to Mishima City in Shizuoka Prefecture, you would notice that numerous stores have put up a sign that reads "Mishima Croquette" on their storefront as you take a walk in the city. More than a dozen shops sell cr...
Kamaboko is processed fish paste molded into a variety of patties.
At this shop they also sell "oden," a dish where various ingredients are simmered in a broth. It seems unlikely that such a shop would sell croquettes, but here are The Oden Croquette sold for 60 cents each.
This croquette is diffe...
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