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Wakana Matsumoto (松本若菜)

Ms. Saionji doesn't do Housework

西園寺さんは家事をしない   사이온지 씨는 집안일을 하지 않아   西園寺小姐不做家事

Saionji is a hard-working single woman (38) greatly admired by everyone at her IT company. But one thing she won’t do is housework! Just as she enjoys the freedom of a recently bought dream home and “life without housework,” a handsome young engineer and single father named Kusumi enters her life. When unique circumstances lead to them sharing her home together, an eccentric, fake family dynamic develops, which forces them to confront questions of what constitutes true happiness and family.

18/40: Unbreakable Bond of Dreams

18/40 ~ふたりなら夢も恋も~   18/40 ~꿈 사랑 두여자~   18/40 ー兩個人的夢想與戀愛-

75min × 1 ep / 60min × 9 eps

18-year-old Arisu dreams of becoming a museum curator overseas.
But just as she earns a recommendation to study art at a university, she finds out she is pregnant. Enter co-protagonist Toko, a business-savvy contemporary art dealer on the cusp of 40 who has shelved the idea of romance for the past decade. A passion for art and their bad luck or indifference to romance help the two women forge a bond despite their age difference. But then they both find themselves falling for “troubled” men in this empowering girl-bonding tale.

Hold my hand at Twilight

夕暮れに、手をつなぐ   해질녘에, 손을 잡는다   黄昏時分, 牽起手

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

Soramame leaves the countryside for Tokyo in pursuit of a childhood friend and fiancé, but instead meets a scrappy young musician, Oto. By some odd circumstance, the two end up living under the same roof. Influenced by Oto, Soramame awakens to the world of fashion while Soramame becomes Oto’s muse, reviving his forsaken dream of becoming a musician. As they chase their dreams, love is sure to germinate, but struggles to take off for these two dreamers unwittingly caught in the world’s most beautiful love story.

Café Funiculi Funicula

コーヒーが冷めないうちに   푸니쿨리 푸니쿨라   咖啡未冷前

117 min.

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.

We Are Rockets!

チア☆ダン   치어댄스   青春后空翻

75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps|10 episodes

Wakaba Fujitani is a high school sophomore in Fukui Prefecture. Ever since she was little, she has been an ardent fan of the JETS, a top high school cheer dance team from her hometown that won the U.S. national championship for the first time. Her dream is to one day join the team and win the coveted U.S. national championship again. But when Wakaba fails to pass the school’s entrance examination, her aspiration of even becoming a cheer dancer are crushed, and she settles for attending a high school in a neighboring town where she spends most of her time merely cheering at sporting events as part of her school’s weak cheerleading club. Then one day, Yuri, a transfer student from Tokyo with a forceful personality arrives and befriends Wakaba, suddenly suggesting that the two of them try out for the cheer dance team. Startled by this turn of events, Wakaba slowly begins to feel a rekindling of her long-cherished childhood dream.

Dr.STOЯKS (SEASON 2)

コウノドリ   고우노도리   產科醫鴻鳥

75 min × 2 eps / 60 min × 9 eps|11 episodes

Dr.STOЯKS returns after its immensely popular first season ended in October, 2015. Treating new thematic questions of “What is birth?” “What is life?”. Two years have elapsed since the previous series with Dr. Sakura Konotori and the staffs around him having helped families bring a lot of newborn life into the world. Episode 1 sees Dr. Sakura, returning to the Persona General Medical Center from a remote Japanese island, diagnose an expectant mother named Mana who is deaf. Prior to her giving birth, however, she reveals a major concern that she has, and so resumes another round of miraculous medical, human drama.

Cosmetic Wars

コスメティックウォーズ   코스메틱 워즈   化妝品戰爭

88 min.

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 job as a rookie is to go undercover as a new employee at a venerable cosmetics company and be an industrial spy. She succeeds in earning the trust and esteem of her beauty department colleagues, and is quickly promoted to product development at headquarters, supported by Yurie Minegishi in human resources. And then one day, she gets a directive from Sakamoto to steal the secret to a long-selling, medicated skin conditioner that is slated for a model change. Fortunately, Akane is assigned to the R&D lab in charge of new skin conditioner development where she is given a cool reception by her new boss, Chika Nakanowatari. Determined to get the information she needs, Akane follows Nakanowatari to a research facility in Shirakami, but ends up getting lost in the snowy mountains. When she is at last found by Nakanowatari, Akane is surprised by the first-time display of emotion she receives from Nakanowatari, who slaps her and then embraces her. Akane begins to see the passion with which the people at this company make their cosmetic products and gradually begins to harbor doubts about her real mission. Then when she learns of Nakanowatari’s sad past, Akane feels her own life beginning to change.