Azusa Nakamura

SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games.  These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking.  Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.

A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.

Rinko Ozaki is an ordinary high school senior who lives a peaceful life with her father and younger sister and loves her childhood friend, Shinya Mizushima. However, she has had a mysterious birthmark on her left arm since birth. One day, as she grows closer to Shinya, the birthmark begins to heat up, and strange changes start taking place in her body. When her anger reaches its limit, the mark on Rinko’s left arm reacts, revealing that she possesses the extraordinary ability to transform into a wild, uncontrollable beast—a leopard.

When a four-man terrorist group known as Team Phantom begins raising havoc in downtown Tokyo, the city is in desperate need of a hero. An unexpected champion appears in the form of Lady Battle Cop, a former female tennis champion who has been transformed into a seemingly unstoppable cyborg.

Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but rising Yakuza clan, while Asami is a politician aiming to become the youngest member of the Japanese parliament. But while they both live in different ways, Hojo and Asami share the same past; both of them were survivors of the Killing Fields of Cambodia. With the aggression and survival instincts they learned in the Cambodian jungles, Hojo and Asami strive in both the Yakuza and political world to reform Japan into their own sanctuary.

A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast.

SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games.  These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking.  Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.

A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.

Rinko Ozaki is an ordinary high school senior who lives a peaceful life with her father and younger sister and loves her childhood friend, Shinya Mizushima. However, she has had a mysterious birthmark on her left arm since birth. One day, as she grows closer to Shinya, the birthmark begins to heat up, and strange changes start taking place in her body. When her anger reaches its limit, the mark on Rinko’s left arm reacts, revealing that she possesses the extraordinary ability to transform into a wild, uncontrollable beast—a leopard.

Anthology film featuring three stories, each written and directed by a different actress and based on a comic by Hitomi Saki.

Anthology film featuring three stories, each written and directed by a different actress and based on a comic by Hitomi Saki.