Satoru Saito

Acting

Satoru Saito

Born

1953-10-28 (72)

Place of birth

Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Known for

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo poster
7.5

Detective 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

Solitary Gourmet poster
8.9

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Solitary Gourmet

2012

The Woman of S.R.I. poster
7.3

Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her belief in science and continues to pursue the truth.

The Woman of S.R.I.

1999

Gokusen poster
8.0

Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.

Gokusen

2002

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger poster
7.6

It is the year 1999. The Machine Empire of Baranoia, led by Emperor Bacchus Wrath, has invaded Earth with the intention of wiping out all human life and bringing about machine rule. Chief Counselor Miura of the UAOH (United Airforce Overtech Hardware), in a desperate attempt to quell this invasion, has revived super energies born of the lost civilization of Pangaea. Enlisting an elite squad of the finest officers the UAOH has to offer, Miura has harnessed Tetrahedron Power, granting the team the power to transform into the Ohrangers… and save humanity from its darkest crisis yet!

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger

1995

Denji Sentai Megaranger poster
8.5

When his video game prowess is discovered by the International Network of Excel-Science and Technology — or I.N.E.T. — high school student Kenta Date is brought in to lend his expertise to their mysterious research. Meanwhile, four classmates show up, wanting to know more about the I.N.E.T. facility. Their experience will change their lives forever, as I.N.E.T. survives an attack by the nefarious Dr. Hinelar and an army from another dimension determined to conquer our reality! Now, it's up to Kenta and his four classmates to "install Megaranger" and become the team of heroes their video games prepared them to be!

Denji Sentai Megaranger

1997

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Goodbye My Car poster
NR

A veteran movie star faces a career crisis after a misinterpreted remark sparks public backlash and scrutiny over his driving and reputation.

Goodbye My Car

2026

Bayside Shakedown N.E.W. poster
NR

In 2026, Tokyo is rocked by a series of increasingly dangerous crimes, including a kidnapping in which the perpetrators threaten to bomb the city unless a ransom is delivered—and inexplicably choose veteran detective Shunsaku Aoshima as the courier. At the same time, a string of murders involving 3D-printed guns leads to the theft of a deadly virus from one of the victims, followed by a threat to release it across Tokyo. Newly assigned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division, Aoshima and his colleagues race across the city to unravel the connected cases and prevent catastrophe.

Bayside Shakedown N.E.W.

2026

"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira poster
7.3

Kosuge, the president of a factory, is killed by someone while returning home. A bag charm is found at the scene. When Akira Higuchi and his colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division investigate his home, they find a bankbook with the letters A, Y, M, and S written in English. It turns out that the charms left behind were custom-made by Seiji Iwai. However, Seiji had committed suicide five years ago in a robbery-suicide case. Seiji's mother, Mizuki, is an old acquaintance of Superintendent Tendo. Higuchi heads for Mizuki's place...

"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira

2022

Pointy-Headed Gonta: The Story of the Two-Named Dog in the Fukushima Disaster poster
NR

After Gonta is left behind reluctantly by its family in Namie, Fukushima during the evacuation due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster, Gonta's family rallies a rescue team to save all the pets left behind.

Pointy-Headed Gonta: The Story of the Two-Named Dog in the Fukushima Disaster

2022

Breaking and Living poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Breaking and Living

2023

疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕

2023

The Woman of S.R.I.: The Movie poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Woman of S.R.I.: The Movie

2021

2010s · 9 titles

Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose poster
5.0

After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his juniors.

Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose

2010

Section Chief Aoshima Shunsuke THE MOBILE: Cases happening in the Interrogation Room! poster
NR

Special drama consisting of 12 episodes about events that happen before the 3rd Oduru movie. Available via mobile network only.

Section Chief Aoshima Shunsuke THE MOBILE: Cases happening in the Interrogation Room!

2010

Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL: The New Hope poster
5.8

Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case...

Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL: The New Hope

2012

係長 青島俊作2 事件はまたまた取調室で起きている! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

係長 青島俊作2 事件はまたまた取調室で起きている!

2012

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi ~ 2010 Summer Special: AKB48 Marugoto Jourei Special poster
NR

The one where they perform an exorcism on Minami Takahashi and stuff. Also the first segment here is Tsuruta remaking the earring story from the original trilogy, so that's pretty cool.

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi ~ 2010 Summer Special: AKB48 Marugoto Jourei Special

2010

Typhoon Family poster
6.5

Ittetsu and Maitsuko are married, but they are not just any normal couple. They robbed a bank and took a cool million or two from the capitalists. Then they duly vanished. Years have passed and their children have congregated to divide their parents' money, but first there is the matter of arrangements and a funeral.

Typhoon Family

2019

Murder Credit - Final Destination Series poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Murder Credit - Final Destination Series

2016

Maestro! poster
6.4

Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.

Maestro!

2015

The Crow In Broad Daylight poster
NR

One day, Tomonaga Takashi, a medical representative of pharmaceutical company Tenei Seiyaku, is suddenly suspected of molesting inside a train by male and female strangers. He has an important appointment and tries to get away. However, Nitta Masato, who rushed over from the police box in front of the train station where he had been on duty, arrests Tomonaga as he fights back. This is Nitta’s first achievement as a new police officer.

The Crow In Broad Daylight

2018

2000s · 10 titles

Bayside Shakedown 2 poster
6.1

The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.

Bayside Shakedown 2

2003

Ghiblies: Episode 2 poster
7.0

Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli. It's about a fictional animation studio named "Ghibli" and the people who work there. This rare Ghibli Comedy is a look into who the people making the films are. Plotlines run from office jokes to Nonaka's first love, bringing together a short feature of random events.

Ghiblies: Episode 2

2002

A Gentle Breeze in the Village poster
7.0

Soyo, a student in a school with only six students, develops feelings for the new student, Hiromi, who has moved from Tokyo.

A Gentle Breeze in the Village

2007

Johnen: Love of Sada poster
5.6

When photographer Ishida first sees Sada, the wife of a new acquaintance, his photo shoot with Sada turns quickly into a steamy affair of mind-blowing proportions

Johnen: Love of Sada

2008

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji poster
6.0

One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

2005

Kichiku poster
NR

Made-for-TV film adaptation of the 1957 novel by Seicho Matsumoto starring Takeshi Kitano and directed by Noboru Tanaka. The novel was previously adapted in 1978 film entitled “The Demon” starring Ken Ogata and directed by Yoshitaro Nomura. After a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife. Consumed by the jealousy and power struggles of their own relationships, they involve the children in their own games - with tragic results.

Kichiku

2002

Child by Children poster
7.0

Haruna is a lively tomboy in the 5th year at elementary school. One day, while playing with Hiroyuki, a boy whom she has known for a long time, they play a game of putting their private parts together. A sex education lesson given by a new teacher, Yagi, makes Haruna suspect that she might be pregnant.

Child by Children

2008

As the River Flows poster
9.0

2000 live-action Japanese film.

As the River Flows

2000

Cinderella ni Naritai poster
NR

Kuramochi Bon works at a fast food burger joint, taking out the garbage. All his life he has been told he is ugly, and has never even held hands with a girl. A chance encounter with a mysterious doctor leaves him with 3 bottles of a potion which will make him look like someone else for 24 hours. When Bon gets transfered to another shop temporarily, he decides to use his potion to transform into the most handsome employee. With his new-found looks and confidence he reworks the shop, and asks the girl of his dreams out on a date.

Cinderella ni Naritai

2006

Heart of Love poster
NR

Through practing Akido, four high school students try to find truth of love. The cast includes some of Japan's most beautiful talent. All the scenes are taken in Fukui prefecture with Adatara mountain and Abukuma river, showcasing beautiful and magnificent nature scenes. A pure and innocent film.

Heart of Love

2008

1990s · 18 titles

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah poster
7.8

A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

1995

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris poster
7.4

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

1999

Denji Sentai Megaranger vs Carranger poster
7.4

The team-up of Denji Sentai Megaranger and Gekisou Sentai Carranger. This V-Cinema special takes place between episodes 39 and 40 of Denji Sentai Megaranger.

Denji Sentai Megaranger vs Carranger

1998

Bayside Shakedown poster
6.5

Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.

Bayside Shakedown

1998

Secret poster
6.9

A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into their daughter's body.

Secret

1999

Angel of Darkness poster
4.5

At a high school in Tokyo, several of the female students have been moon-lighting as prostitutes. A teacher catches onto this fact and goes about putting an end to it. Things go awry when he discovers he turns into a sex demon with tentacles whenever he gets aroused or angry.

Angel of Darkness

1995

Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication

1998

Le Secret poster
NR

Making-of movie Himitsu (Secret, 1999).

Le Secret

1999

Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds poster
5.2

Based on the infamous "Concrete-encased high school girl murder case" that took place from November 1988 to January 1989 in Japan. Junko Furuta, a female 17 year old high school student, was kidnapped and confined in a house by four other male high school students (all juvenile) in the Ayase district of Adachi-ku, Tokyo, where she was repeatedly raped, sexually humiliated and tortured in an extremely brutish manner for 41 days before she finally died after a particularly severe beating. The boys hid her body in a drum and filled it with concrete, but the body was nonetheless discovered a few months later.

Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds

1995

Bayside Shakedown SP: Year-End Special Alert poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Bayside Shakedown SP: Year-End Special Alert

1997

Last Friends poster
5.5

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials and sacrifices, they grow closer as friends, and hope to return together to better days. This movie was released in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.

Last Friends

1995

Weather Woman poster
3.4

Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so during her forecast she lifts her skirt, thereby capturing the attention and the hearts of viewers. Keiko's stunt creates such a stir of excitement over the weather report that viewers begin religiously turning in to see what she'll do next. However, this showboating routine earns the ire of Kaori, the beautiful and ambitious daughter of JTV's chairman. Jealous of her success and aching to take over the weather report, Kaori is willing to do just about anything to get what she wants.

Weather Woman

1996

Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special

1998

No artwork available
6.7

The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.

The Outer Way

1998

Heavenly Sin poster
4.0

Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.

Heavenly Sin

1992

Shinjuku Boy Detectives poster
NR

In the streets of ultra-modern Shinjuku, Sosuke, a young would-be detective, all of a sudden attacked by a monster robot and falls unconscious. Determined to unravel the mystery, Sosuke joins forces with four members to fight against the robot. Will they be successful?

Shinjuku Boy Detectives

1998

Female Teacher 6 poster
6.0

Satsuki Yamamoto, a teacher at Kairei High School. Satsuki had been secretly living with her student, Tsutomu, in a semi-cohabiting arrangement. When Tsutomu's junior female student, Riho, discovered their relationship, she was shocked. This was because Riho had admired Satsuki as a teacher. As Tsutomu's graduation approached, the three individuals' intentions began to shift...

Female Teacher 6

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman

1998

1980s · 2 titles

Series credits

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo poster
7.5

Detective 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

Solitary Gourmet poster
8.9

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Solitary Gourmet

2012

The Woman of S.R.I. poster
7.3

Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her belief in science and continues to pursue the truth.

The Woman of S.R.I.

1999

The Woman of S.R.I. poster
7.3

Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her belief in science and continues to pursue the truth.

The Woman of S.R.I.

1999

Gokusen poster
8.0

Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.

Gokusen

2002

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger poster
7.6

It is the year 1999. The Machine Empire of Baranoia, led by Emperor Bacchus Wrath, has invaded Earth with the intention of wiping out all human life and bringing about machine rule. Chief Counselor Miura of the UAOH (United Airforce Overtech Hardware), in a desperate attempt to quell this invasion, has revived super energies born of the lost civilization of Pangaea. Enlisting an elite squad of the finest officers the UAOH has to offer, Miura has harnessed Tetrahedron Power, granting the team the power to transform into the Ohrangers… and save humanity from its darkest crisis yet!

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger

1995

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger poster
7.6

It is the year 1999. The Machine Empire of Baranoia, led by Emperor Bacchus Wrath, has invaded Earth with the intention of wiping out all human life and bringing about machine rule. Chief Counselor Miura of the UAOH (United Airforce Overtech Hardware), in a desperate attempt to quell this invasion, has revived super energies born of the lost civilization of Pangaea. Enlisting an elite squad of the finest officers the UAOH has to offer, Miura has harnessed Tetrahedron Power, granting the team the power to transform into the Ohrangers… and save humanity from its darkest crisis yet!

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger

1995

Denji Sentai Megaranger poster
8.5

When his video game prowess is discovered by the International Network of Excel-Science and Technology — or I.N.E.T. — high school student Kenta Date is brought in to lend his expertise to their mysterious research. Meanwhile, four classmates show up, wanting to know more about the I.N.E.T. facility. Their experience will change their lives forever, as I.N.E.T. survives an attack by the nefarious Dr. Hinelar and an army from another dimension determined to conquer our reality! Now, it's up to Kenta and his four classmates to "install Megaranger" and become the team of heroes their video games prepared them to be!

Denji Sentai Megaranger

1997

Gosei Sentai Dairanger poster
7.4

The three Tribes of the Daos Empire - Shura, Dai and Gorma - were peaceful until the Gorma set out to conquer the planet, launching a magical war between the Gorma and Dai Tribes that lasted for centuries. In the end, both civilizations were lost... until now. The evil Gorma have returned. Now, it's up to Master Kaku to assemble a team of kids with high levels of Ch'i to become the protectors of the Earth known as the Dairangers!

Gosei Sentai Dairanger

1993

Bayside Shakedown poster
8.1

A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.

Bayside Shakedown

1997

Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective poster
7.0

Yu Takanashi, a former surgeon, joins the Comprehensive Diagnosis Department at Tenikai General Hospital, where he works alongside the brilliant yet eccentric Takao Ameku to solve mysterious medical cases.

Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective

2025

The Phantom Thief YAMANEKO poster
7.8

Yamaneko is notoriously elusive, but wherever he shows up, enormous amounts of money gets stolen. Evidence of the audacious crime is left scattered all over the place. In every episode, Yamaneko the hero thief throws a splash of “rotten justice” in your face. Pretentiously calling himself a “genius thief,” Yamaneko is arrogant and acts like he's the king of the world. Everything he does is bold and daring, but he remains elusive. There is indeed no match for Yamaneko. He goes by one creed alone—“I will steal but I won’t deprive.” Why does he steal? Just what is he all about?

The Phantom Thief YAMANEKO

2016

Hanamura Daisuke poster
9.0

A comical look at the Japanese legal system. Big corporate law firm seeking to increase their profit margin notices that a lot of the partners spend a lot of their time on cases which don't bring in a lot of revenue. They decide they need to hire an average lawyer, at a minimal salary, that will take care of these small cases and not complain. That's why the law firm hires Hanamura Daisuke (Yusuke Santamaria)...to handle these minor cases. Daisuke's approach to the law is very unique and the way he handles each case is very entertaining

Hanamura Daisuke

2000

Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira

2021

Shinsengumi Keppūroku poster
NR

There were men who were passionate about being samurai. The men became samurai warriors at the forefront of the fierce battle that affected the future of Japan as part of the Shinsengumi...

Shinsengumi Keppūroku

2011

Muyoan Retirement Training poster
7.0

The main character, Hanbei Hinata, who plays Mizutani, is a direct hatamoto guardian who guards Edo Castle. While working honestly on that mission, he became disgusted by a colleague who only thought about his career advancement, and soon he abandoned all his desires and began to think about a retired life

Muyoan Retirement Training

2017

The Ginger Tree poster
5.7

In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.

The Ginger Tree

1989

San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku poster
8.0

A program that uses a script written by Koki Mitani and is produced by a different cast and crew each time. As the narration at the beginning of the show says: "If you think you can create the same work with the same script, you don't know drama". This is a drama that clearly shows how the atmosphere of a work changes depending on the direction, making it ideal for those who aspire to become directors.

San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku

1996

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語 poster
NR

NHK's 50th-anniversary memorial drama serial. This drama consisting of several short stories starring some of the well-known actors and actress of Japan today. A ball floats from the river's source to the sea, unlocking the portrayal of six love stories across the four seasons of the year.

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

警視庁・樋口警部補

2003

Dear Woman poster
NR

Tamon is a young white-collar worker who has spent his entire young career as an athlete, and is accustomed to an all male environment. After retiring from sports, he enters a firm, only to be assigned to the personnel department. Upon arriving, he finds that he is to be trained by the strong-willed Kyoko, and that he is to work on a project to help raise the status of women and awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, putting him in completely new territory. While gradually coming to terms with his job, he finds himself slowly falling for Kyoko, and being the only one aware of her well guarded secret.

Dear Woman

1996

永久少年 Eternal Boys poster
NR

A 35-year-old man who loses his job unexpectedly becomes part of an idol group made up of men in their thirties and forties, all striving for a second chance at their dreams.

永久少年 Eternal Boys

2026

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ラーメン発見伝

2004

Dear All, The Shopping District and I Are Doing Fine Today poster
NR

In the fading Poka Poka Jizo Street Shopping District, university student Nakano Sakura is dedicated to revitalizing her family’s bakery and the surrounding community following her grandmother's death. The once-lively area has gone quiet, but Sakura is determined to bring it back to life. Her breakthrough comes when TV personality Hamano Kenta visits for a filming segment. Thinking on her feet, Sakura snaps a photo with him and uses the design platform Canva to create an eye-catching poster boasting his "seal of approval." Her initiative sparks a chain reaction; inspired neighbors begin designing their own promotional materials, from posters to social media graphics. Through Sakura's creativity and modern tools, the shopkeepers unite to restore the energy and bustle of their beloved shopping street.

Dear All, The Shopping District and I Are Doing Fine Today

2025

Nihonjin no 3-wari shika shiranai koto poster
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Nihonjin no 3-wari shika shiranai koto

2015