Hazama is a brilliant surgeon who runs a patisserie by day, creating cakes with the same ingenuity and dexterity he applies to surgery. But in his other life, he leads a secretive and powerful medical team willing to apply daring and unrivaled skills to any surgical challenge for an exorbitant fee. With his international legal partner Shimoyamada handling the client negotiations, Hazama takes scalpel into his own genius hands in this unprecedented type of medical human drama.

A father with only a middle school education teams up with his daughter to get her into a top-tier middle school despite her attending a very low-rated grade school and without spending on cram school tuition. Based on a true story, this drama gives a full account of the 18-month-long effort of one family, beginning with the daughter’s 5th grade summer, to reverse fortunes and take advantage of equal opportunity.

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 practicing law alone find possibility as a pair with the assistance of a legal apprentice, Taisuke Takiguchi who works under a crackpot human-rights lawyer.
The two women embark on a host of legal cases as professional partners in this exhilarating life-size human drama about the struggles of work and friendship.

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 acknowledge the pressure to dress appropriately for her age. Seiko has been promoted to a managerial position but finds herself having to constantly do battle with her elder male subordinates. Yoko fantasizes about marrying a gorgeously handsome company freshman 12 years her junior. Takako is a devoted single mother whose hard daily effort more than compensates for a father role.

Due to his parent’s work obligations, Makoto goes to live with his Aunt Meme in the city, and imagines he will finally get to live a long wished for life in the big city chasing girls in high school! But upon arriving at his Aunt’s home, he finds a self-proclaimed alien named Erio who has a futon mattress tied around her upper body?!? Erio has been missing for half a year and was found floating at sea. She doesn’t remember anything that happened during that time, so she began to think it was the act of aliens. Makoto’s point system to a successful high school life (points are gained or lost for romantic successes and failures) may suffer as he gets pushed around by Erio. Despite her wild behavior, but it might mean a far less ideal high school life than he imagined!

Teru Mahigashi is a young surgical doctor who has just completed his internship training. But when he takes up a post at the Yasuda Memorial Hospital, nicknamed “Valhalla”, he is branded a “screw-up.” Until the day Teru finds himself the only surgeon available as a young critically-injured girl is brought in. Feeling the weight of a life in his hands, Teru vows to never let anyone die on him again, and undergoes a life-altering transformation.

Life in the row houses of yesteryear is nostalgic today, but the “Common House,” a new type of apartment building, brings together the merits of a row house and the privacy of individual homes. Each family has its own privacy, but all the members of a “House” live as one big family. More women continue to work today, after marriage or giving birth, so more people are turning to Common Houses for the safety provided for child rearing. What sort of joys and problems await them in these Common Houses? This story focuses on the search for happiness by one family who moves in to one.

Meet the Yamato kids! Gokiburi-chan is full of courage and daring, but it tends to get him into trouble. Gururu, is the gourmet and never leaves home without his fork and knife. Tororo is a little slow, but always tries his best to keep up with the others. Gao is the biggest and can't but be a bit bossy. Kiriri, the only girl of the group, has the most energy and tackles any problem with speed and gusto. They're just like any other kids, except they live behind a refrigerator... their roaches! They really want to make friends with the humans of the house, but the mother of the household always seems to be out to get them. So the kids put their heads together to figure out a way to communicate their good intentions by trying to do nice things for their human hosts with varying degrees of success! Can't we all just get along?

Having achieved his life-long dream of being a pilot, Hajime is first officer on an international jetliner and is now working to become a captain. But he can’t seem to please Captain Kouda, who has become an exacting taskmaster since an air incident many years ago. To complicate matters, he begins a relationship with stubborn and straight-talking mechanic, Ayumi, whose parents died many years ago in the plane crash for which Captain Kouda feels he is responsible. What follows is a story of 21st century love, dreams and passion.

Leaping from the virtual dimension of video games and into the world of humans comes Goemon, an energetic ninja with special abilities that draw their power from his sweet bean cakes. Goemon and his comical band of friends cross over into reality to chase the evil overlord Maguamuge who has entered our world to exploit it for his evil purposes. But with the help of their 10-year-old pal Tsukasa, in whose home they live, Goemon and his faithful companions work to rid the human world of this video game menace.

Rock ’n’ roll superstar Eikichi Yazawa plays a substitute high school biology teacher whose clumsy social skills steadily mature as he helps his students struggle to balance work, school and extracurricular activities. The result is a heartwarming drama of the mentoring role of teachers during the difficult transition to adulthood.

A high-stakes variety program that makes the world its stage as it makes wagers on the answers to unique and compelling questions. “What Japanese sake would top French sommeliers select as number 1?” “What country’s people would pick up the most oranges if rolled in massive numbers down a hill?” All manners of “experiments”, “verifications” and “contests” are conducted around the world while studio guest “gamblers” place bets on the outcomes.

A quiz show whose answers are numbers between 1 and 99. Contestants accumulate points with correct answers and try to finish with as close to 100 as possible. The unique scoring system creates fierce rivalries as points won can be used to sabotage opponents attempt to get 100 points.

So much of Japan’s natural and traditional beauty remains largely unknown. Picturesque townscapes, rows of merchant homes. Noble mansions of the samurai. Deep bamboo forests and cobblestone roads. Tasty delicacies and handicrafts known only to locals. This program sets out along the old highways to rediscover ageless “Japanese beauty”.
On long traversed-roads that multiply, there is history and romance.
There is the breath of life. Embark on a journey down numerous highways and byways in search of beautiful Japan.

This documentary features stunning 4K close-up footage of insects. It was filmed with a microscope camera specially designed by Satoshi Kuribayashi, that we call the Ant’s Eye View Camera - the first and only one in the world. The director of photography is Satoshi Kuribayashi, a Japanese nature photographer who was awarded the Lennart Nilsson Award for his outstanding photography in 2006.