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7.5Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
7.7The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
GARO
2005
7.7The heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues Prince Chagum who has fallen into a river. The prince is carrying a mysterious spirit egg in his body, and is in danger of being assassinated by his father, the Mikado, who fears this will damage his imperial prestige. Balsa embarks upon a perilous journey when she accepts the queen’s plead to protect her son from her husband.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016
8.51 Rittoru no Namida is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.
1 Litre of Tears
2005
NRPopular radio personality Goro Yamatani lives recklessly off his growing fame until an encounter with the mysterious Momoyo leaves him suffering from a bizarre illness. A specialist tells him that the rare condition will gradually drain his life unless he can locate a woman matching an extraordinarily specific set of clues. With time running out, Goro launches an increasingly absurd search for the one person who may be able to save him.
HOKURO: Legend of the Hundred-Shot Disease
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
キネマと恋人
2019
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRThree years after “Julius Caesar,” director Shintaro Mori and actress Yoko Yoshida reunite for a production of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet Q1,” the original version, with a new translation by Kazuko Matsuo. This condensed version, about half the length of the F1 version, focuses on a more streamlined narrative. Mori, praised for his 2021 “Julius Caesar,” directs this tale of justice and revenge within the Danish royal family. Yoshida, who won the 56th Kinokuniya Theatre Award for her role in “Julius Caesar,” portrays Hamlet with depth. The cast includes Ito Mari, Makishima Teru, Otsuru Saku, Hirooka Yuriko, and Yoshida Eiji, offering a fresh take on “Hamlet Q1.”
Hamlet Q1
2024
7.0No synopsis available yet.
海王星
2021
2010s · 4 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 31
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Half End
2018
5.5When good-for-nothing employee Daichi is attending to a backlog of work, a frightening game of tag targeting people with blood type B begins.
The Chasing World 5
2012
28-year-old Towa Hongo works as a research worker at a painting company. 10 years ago, she came to Tokyo from Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture. At an early age, her father Yukio died and her mother remarried, but her relationship with her mother worsened. They have not talked for a long time.
Yodaka's Star
2012
2000s · 5 titles
NRPopular radio personality Goro Yamatani lives recklessly off his growing fame until an encounter with the mysterious Momoyo leaves him suffering from a bizarre illness. A specialist tells him that the rare condition will gradually drain his life unless he can locate a woman matching an extraordinarily specific set of clues. With time running out, Goro launches an increasingly absurd search for the one person who may be able to save him.
HOKURO: Legend of the Hundred-Shot Disease
2003
5.5A private detective takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.
Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name
2003
5.7When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.
UNFAIR: the movie
2007
5.5After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
2003
6.5Five old friends meet again at a school reunion and discuss their painful memories. The friends then run into an old acquaintance who was an exchange student. The exchange student tells the friends about a new drug able to erase memories, but they have to steal it from his factory ...
River
2003
1990s · 2 titles
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
7.5Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
2002
7.7The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
GARO
2005
7.7The heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues Prince Chagum who has fallen into a river. The prince is carrying a mysterious spirit egg in his body, and is in danger of being assassinated by his father, the Mikado, who fears this will damage his imperial prestige. Balsa embarks upon a perilous journey when she accepts the queen’s plead to protect her son from her husband.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2016
8.51 Rittoru no Namida is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.
1 Litre of Tears
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
キネマと恋人
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
憶えのない殺人
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
ひこうき雲
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
生きる
2020