Shinsho Nakamaru

Acting

Shinsho Nakamaru

Born

1949-04-25 (77)

Place of birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

94 titles

Known for

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon poster
7.5

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

2012

Absolute Zero poster
7.8

Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

Absolute Zero

2010

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

1983

Emergency Room 24 Hours poster
7.4

Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.

Emergency Room 24 Hours

1999

Dai Sentai Goggle-V poster
8.7

Warriors were chosen to battle the Dark Science Empire Death Dark. They fight using Future Science and their weapons are inspired by gymnastics apparatus.

Dai Sentai Goggle-V

1982

99.9 Criminal Lawyer poster
6.9

Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit of the truth even if offers only a 0.1% chance of being discovered. Japan’s 99.9% criminal case conviction rate leads the world, attesting to a “highly reliable” judicial system. In other words, once a crime suspect is indicted, prosecutor arguments tend to be accepted hook, line and sinker. In the face of those 99.9% odds, there’s no money in being a defense lawyer specializing in criminal cases, but for Miyama, that’s where the interest and kernels of truth lie. From unexpected places, the mold-breaking Miyama stakes his reputation on a prayer of a chance as he clashes with hotshot lawyers who’ll go to any lengths to win in this gloriously fun, legal mystery.

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

2016

Film credits

2010s · 10 titles

Ushijima the Loan Shark poster
6.8

Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kaoru Ushijima (Takayuki Yamada). To begin paying off her mother's debt, Mirai begins working at a dating cafe. Meanwhile, Jun (Kento Hayashi) is the ambitious and greedy company president for an event group. To borrow money, Jun visits Kaukau Finance owned by Kaoru Ushijima.

Ushijima the Loan Shark

2012

Silhouette of Your Voice poster
6.9

Kohei, a deaf university student, meets lively Taichi and finds rare connection. But as their bond deepens, Kohei must confront his fear of growing too close.

Silhouette of Your Voice

2017

Specialist 2 poster
7.0

A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho Minami) begin to investigate. They discover that something happened at the place where the code was found on stickers and they also discover a dead body. A man known as "Writer" is suspected of being the culprit. To find the man known as "Writer," Yoshito Takuma infiltrates into Shiga central prison. --asianwiki

Specialist 2

2014

Specialist poster
6.0

Kusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend the last 10 years in prison. However, he regains his job as a police officer and makes use of his specialized knowledge on criminal psychology to solve difficult cases.

Specialist

2013

Civil Violence poster
NR

The first 'Civil Violence' film.

Civil Violence

2016

It All Started with Taking It All Off poster
5.3

Morishita, who came to Tokyo from Akita, made her debut as an AV actress at the age of 18, and quickly became so popular that she was called an AV queen. After retiring from AV after 10 years of activity and publishing an autobiographical book, she made a movie based on it. Morishita looked back at the time in the process of making the script, but due to prejudice against the profession of an AV actress, the content of the script goes in an unexpected direction. Meanwhile, Morishita reunites with her hated father for the first time since moving to Tokyo.

It All Started with Taking It All Off

2012

Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata poster
NR

Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.

Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata

2017

Rock: Wanko no Shima poster
7.0

A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.

Rock: Wanko no Shima

2011

必殺仕事人2015 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

必殺仕事人2015

2015

Civil Violence 2 poster
NR

The second 'Civil Violence' film.

Civil Violence 2

2016

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 8 titles

The Eel poster
6.9

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

The Eel

1997

The Beauty in Mourning poster
NR

A beautiful widow named Ruriko Omuta visits the Akechi residence and asks Kogoro Akechi to provide her with personal security. Just then, art dealer Yamano is shot dead right before Ruriko’s eyes. Sensing that there is more to the incident than meets the eye, Akechi sets out to investigate on his own. Meanwhile, back in her hometown of Nagasaki, a man named Shigeyuki Satomi—claiming to be a distant relative of Ruriko’s late husband—appears before her. Though Ruriko finds herself drawn to Satomi, she already has a lover named Yoshio Kawamura. What’s more, Kawamura has been involved in a terrible crime alongside Ruriko. Will Akechi be able to uncover their secret? And who is Satomi really?

The Beauty in Mourning

1994

Amagi Pass poster
1.0

A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes place, the police searchs for the culprit.

Amagi Pass

1998

Noctiluca poster
6.0

Surgeon Asami Hanaoka is in financial difficulty. A gang soon plot to takeover the hospital.

Noctiluca

1997

Leave it to MOKO poster
7.0

Laugh, cry, and on top of that, sex!!! A must-see soapland story packed with secret techniques! Starring newcomer Megumi Morisaki, and featuring other popular AV girls! A very erotic comedy depicting the behind-the-scenes of a soapland!

Leave it to MOKO

1994

No artwork available
9.0

Former Formula 2 driver Morita, known as 'Kamikaze Run', is asked by Onodera, an old friend and current representative of a large trade company, to function as intermediary for an auction of vintage cars owned by Morita's former rival Gianpiero, until an accident ended both careers. Onodera invites Morita to stay in his house until the auction, but his wife seems to have a past connection with the guest, while his son takes a huge liking to him, to Onodera’s raising frustration on both fronts. Meanwhile, his wife’s younger sister has a relationship with a young driver, while Onodera cooperates with billionaire Kurosawa and Morita’s ex-lover, Kyoko, in order to rig the auction.

Last Run: 100 Million Yen's Worth of Love and Betrayal

1991

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 6 - Trap of Fear poster
NR

The Japanese political and business world where Chimimoryō is in control. Ginji (Kiyoshi Nakajo), a man who won the fierce competition and built a huge fortune. A new enemy appeared in front of him. Former President of the Liberal Democratic Party, Kawai. He has requested the Japan Horse Racing Promotion Association for 30 billion election funds for the next presidential election. Ginji first brought in a young man named Ryohei, who has an outstanding memory, who remembers all the results of the 10-year race. In order to defeat Kawai, he uses his memory to make a trick.

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 6 - Trap of Fear

1997

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 7 - Underworld Horse Racing Hell poster
NR

Ginji (Kiyoshi Nakajo), a man who made a huge fortune by taking advantage of the fierce competition for survival in the Japanese political and business world. Under him, the president of the Japan Horse Racing Promotion Association came to ask for help. Kawai, the former president of the Liberal Democratic Party, who is aiming for a comeback in the presidential election, has demanded 30 billion election funds. So Ginji offers Kawai a horse race for Sashi, who bets 30 billion. What is the whereabouts of a one-shot game in which Ryohei, who has outstanding memory, and Keisuke, who has excellent programming ability, are brought in and bet on Ginji's dark gold life?

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 7 - Underworld Horse Racing Hell

1997

1980s · 28 titles

Antarctica poster
7.2

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

Antarctica

1983

Hoteru hime poster
5.6

A fledgling reporter for a swinging magazine investigates various couples who are looking for pleasure with other people and becomes involved with his subjects.

Hoteru hime

1983

Madam Scandal: Let Me Die for 10 Seconds poster
4.6

In the exotic location of Los Angeles, California a business woman enjoys all the men in her life whether it’s her older husband, a younger relative or a former fiancé.

Madam Scandal: Let Me Die for 10 Seconds

1982

Koichiro Uno's Wet and Riding poster
4.9

Yoko is a housewife who's frustrated by her husband's lack of virility. She finds solace in erotic daydreams, the ministrations of a condom salesman and, eventually, the partner-swapping lifestyle.

Koichiro Uno's Wet and Riding

1982

Female Beautician Rope Discipline poster
4.7

Hairstylist Misa meets S&M enthusiast Ippei and is convinced to give it a try. Then later, Ippei's ex-wife, who happens to be one of Misa's beauty shop clients, begins a sexual relationship with her. The lesbian affair is also accentuated by some more S&M.

Female Beautician Rope Discipline

1981

White Uniform in Rope Hell poster
5.8

A nurse working at a hospital is looking forward to her marriage with a handsome doctor. But she is open minded as she also is having an affair with a pretty student nurse. One day a former patient invites her to her house. But when she enters it appears that a robbery is taking place. Two masked men grab her, bind her with rope and proceed to violate her repeatedly while photographing the whole ordeal. She is released but is soon blackmailed into returning for intensive B&D training. Can she keep up the premise of a happy marriage without succumbing to depravity of the rope and the lash?

White Uniform in Rope Hell

1980

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso poster
9.0

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

1989

Debauchery poster
5.0

Ryoko Watanabe is a bored housewife named Ami who throws herself into the “Madame Machiko Society Club” to spice up her marriage by making love to random men. This world of lust turns out to be kinkier than Ami thought it would be and may end up having a reverse effect on her precious marriage.

Debauchery

1983

Rinbu poster
NR

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.

Rinbu

1988

People of Twilight poster
NR

A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone is following and watching them.

People of Twilight

1984

I Love It from Behind! poster
4.6

A soon-to-be-married woman goes to Tokyo to beat multiple sexual world records before her freedom expires.

I Love It from Behind!

1981

Shufu to Sei-seikatsu poster
3.2

A woman marries the fiancé of her late sister but begins to have doubts when he starts to get overly friendly with a former classmate.

Shufu to Sei-seikatsu

1984

Tattoo poster
4.3

A gang of men target a manager’s daughter but kidnap the wrong woman. Her life becomes an even greater hell when they tattoo her and find they can’t even sell her off to the yakuza.

Tattoo

1984

Umi e, See You poster
10.0

Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the event, DANKAI leader Mizuki is ordered by their sponsor to add popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii to the roster for publicity. This exacerbates DANKAI's resentments and baggage. Needing a steady hand to mediate dispute and navigate their support vehicle, Mizuki recruits legendary retired mechanic/driver Eiji Honma to the team. Soon Honma discovers his ex-wife Kei is also participating in the rally, alongside her current husband, the bullfighter Antonio Vázquez. Honma's truck also comes to include stowaway passenger Yuko Takei, Yoshii's pop star girlfriend who is trying to salvage their relationship.

Umi e, See You

1988

Jealousy Game poster
5.8

Set in the wilderness of Hokkaido, the story of a couple in their 30s and a couple in their 20s is drawn, and the subtle emotions of the two men and women are depicted with intense Eros and delicate images under the theme of marriage exchange.

Jealousy Game

1982

Rorikon hausu: Oshimeri Junko poster
4.0

A high school girl lives by herself in her parent’s apartment. They deserted her and each other they both took lovers. Feeling lonely she signs up as a mistress at a “Lolicon House” to service middle-aged men.

Rorikon hausu: Oshimeri Junko

1983

Reipuhantā: Tōrima poster
2.0

A single woman who works in a car dealership suffers from a past trauma and has a fear of men. But she gets deviant satisfaction at a women’s clinic where the doctor secretly films his examinations of her. One night at a laundromat she assaulted by a man from behind. This triggers a strange desire within her and she returns to the laundromat in search of more dangerous pleasures.

Reipuhantā: Tōrima

1986

Female Gym Coach: Jump and Straddle poster
7.0

It’s coming up to competition time for the pretty office girls of the Kara Cosmetics Company. Kei (Junko Asahina) and her co-workers are preparing their amateur rhythmic gymnastics team for an upcoming competition. In order to assist the sexy ladies, Aoki (Funasaku Sasairi) is brought in as their new coach. As the team wonders about the coach’s ability to perform both on and off the court, Kei’s relationship with him is revealed. Long ago, Aoki slept with Kei before a competition and she lost. Now, he’s worried it will happen again! Can the coach overcome his sexual issues and help Kei win this time?

Female Gym Coach: Jump and Straddle

1981

Koichiro Uno's Dirty Sisters' Barber Shop poster
5.3

A younger sister helps out in her older sister’s barber shop where the customers get a little too frisky. As the younger sister fends off advances from her brother-in-law the older sister has a rather strange and kinky encounter with the cooking show host she idolizes.

Koichiro Uno's Dirty Sisters' Barber Shop

1983

Pink Tush Girls: Slinking Classmates poster
3.7

Miki, Saori, and Keiko are three girls who are invited to join a prostitution group run by Miki's sister, Chibi, and are working as prostitutes. One day, they meet Hideo, a man who wants to be a singer. They learn that Hideo is impotent so they agree to treat him...

Pink Tush Girls: Slinking Classmates

1982

Monster Woman '88 poster
7.0

Satomi is young woman that works in computer communication. One day she receives a strange message. And the person that sent it to her has committed suicide. As days go by, Satomi keeps receiving the messages from the spirit world....

Monster Woman '88

1988

Akai Tôri-ame poster
4.0

An angry young man, who had been sentenced for rape, is freed from juvenile detention. He spots a lone woman who is taking a rest from driving and drags her into the woods to rape her. This experience destroys the woman’s marriage plans. Later she meets a sympathetic deliveryman and they become lovers. As she describes her past ordeal to him he begins to suspect that the assailant might be his younger brother. When the younger brother shows up the woman’s world is turned upside down again.

Akai Tôri-ame

1980

The King and His Vassal poster
NR

This is a story of "Takechiyo," the previous name of Iemitsu Tokunaga, the third Shogun (General). Takechiyo got sick of daily run-of-the-mill tasks, and it put him off being the Shogun, saying "there is no truth". Then, Hikozaemon Ookubo took him to Tasuke Isshin to bring him up into a full-fledged and admirable man.

The King and His Vassal

1981

Mitsuryōzuma: oku no uzuki poster
5.0

In the sweltering heat a wife searches for men to satisfy her insatiable lust. But someone is watching… and learning.

Mitsuryōzuma: oku no uzuki

1981

奥飛騨二重心中 poster
4.0

A man who lost his wife and a woman whose husband died have a fateful meeting in connection with a double suicide and fall madly in love.

奥飛騨二重心中

1985

Ran Mitsuo: Niku shiiku poster
4.3

A female TV announcer goes to a therapist for help with her sexual phobias and SM fantasies. Unfortunately the therapist has his own inner demons which causes him to affect a rather unethical and kinky “cure”.

Ran Mitsuo: Niku shiiku

1987

Zeccho shimai ochiru poster
3.7

Mika, who used to be a call girl, is being pursued by a man that brokers prostitution. Her mother Yoshimi and older sister Mayumi also sold their bodies. But now, Mayumi will marry Soejima, a trading company man. Mika is happy to have a respectable relative and starts a part-time job at a pachinko parlor...

Zeccho shimai ochiru

1982

Benriya K-ko poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Benriya K-ko

1984

1970s · 8 titles

Lady Moonflower poster
4.8

Kizaki kidnaps Yuriko and engages in a rape and torture session with her, which he photographs. With the photos, he blackmails flower arrangement teacher Yumeji, Yuriko's older sister. Rather than allow him to shame her clan by sending the photos to the media, Yumeji goes to Kizaki. Kizaki then proceeds to rape and torture Yumeji, who was his true desire all along.

Lady Moonflower

1976

Tattooed Flower Vase poster
6.0

After losing her husband, a traditional puppet artisan has lived a life without love. However, her relationship with her daughter and the arrival of some dangerous acquaintances inevitably spark new curiosities in her mind and body.

Tattooed Flower Vase

1976

Five Pink Girls poster
4.8

A movie based on Saikaku Ihara’s “Five Women Who Loved Love”, which depicts women such as strippers and married women becoming hostesses in a pink salon.

Five Pink Girls

1978

Competition: Married Couples Secret Technique poster
9.0

Inspired by a street interview about married sex life a TV food show host accidentally finds a way to help his little problem in bed.

Competition: Married Couples Secret Technique

1976

Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession poster
4.0

Sisterhood is powerful. Before leaving for a mission in Africa, Runa, a nun, visits her sister three years after entering the convent when her sister stole Runa's boyfriend. Runa comes to forgive and to help her sister make enough money buying and selling some convent property so she can marry. The old boyfriend has new women in his life, but he and the sister tell Runa they're a couple in order to keep the property deal. To make even more money, Runa's sister wheedles large gifts from various men she's stringing along. There are flashbacks to Runa's sexual awakening at the convent. But what are her real reasons to close this deal?

Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession

1976

Wet Vase poster
4.7

Naomi Tani plays bar-owner Aki, whose entire world appears to be crumbing whenever she discovers her husband is having an affair along with her own mama. Truly the only individual she can trust is Iwasaki, the woman club supervisor. One time, she asks Iwasaki to accompay her to a company meeting with a trader Hanamatsu, the owner of a mannequin factory. At the warehouse, Miss Aki is abnormally aroused when she sees Hanamatsu toching the mannequins. She allows by herself to be seduced by the businessman…

Wet Vase

1976

Runa's Confession: 'Men Crawling All Over Me' poster
4.5

A semi-autobiographical semi-documentary about the career of real life J-pop singer Runa Takamura and the men in her life.

Runa's Confession: 'Men Crawling All Over Me'

1976

Hell's Revenge poster
3.3

Kenzo, Azusa's husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was a virile young man. Azusa does not refuse her husband for he is very wealthy and if he should happen to die of excess sex she would inherit a vast fortune. If only Azusa could kill him without staining her own hands. Unable to do it alone, she asks the aid of Naoya who is only too glad to help.

Hell's Revenge

1979

Series credits

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon poster
7.5

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

2012

Absolute Zero poster
7.8

Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

Absolute Zero

2010

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

1983

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

1983

Emergency Room 24 Hours poster
7.4

Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.

Emergency Room 24 Hours

1999

Dai Sentai Goggle-V poster
8.7

Warriors were chosen to battle the Dark Science Empire Death Dark. They fight using Future Science and their weapons are inspired by gymnastics apparatus.

Dai Sentai Goggle-V

1982

99.9 Criminal Lawyer poster
6.9

Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit of the truth even if offers only a 0.1% chance of being discovered. Japan’s 99.9% criminal case conviction rate leads the world, attesting to a “highly reliable” judicial system. In other words, once a crime suspect is indicted, prosecutor arguments tend to be accepted hook, line and sinker. In the face of those 99.9% odds, there’s no money in being a defense lawyer specializing in criminal cases, but for Miyama, that’s where the interest and kernels of truth lie. From unexpected places, the mold-breaking Miyama stakes his reputation on a prayer of a chance as he clashes with hotshot lawyers who’ll go to any lengths to win in this gloriously fun, legal mystery.

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

2016

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

DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon poster
7.5

Donoue General Hospital runs into a budget deficit, even though the doctors drive expensive imported cars and live an outlandish lifestyle. Office manager Momoi finds surgeon Kosuke Sagara through a medical website. Kosuke Sagara arrives at the hospital and tells the director of the general hospital to decide on his pay after watching his work. Kosuke Sagara informs the hospital that he had previously quit his job at a university hospital and taken a year sabbatical.

DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon

2011

Divorce Lawyer poster
6.0

Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business, but soon her former firm is putting up obstacles and interfering, causing Takako's employees and clients to drift away. She finally puts together a new staff consisting of a college student who knows little about the law, a girl who applied for the job in hopes of meeting a rich guy, a hard-nosed lawyer, and a paralegal who hasn't passed the bar exam yet. Takako reluctantly handles divorce cases with her incompetent crew. For an elite lawyer like her, divorce cases are the most boring and unrewarding cases that exist. Through clashing with her employees and clients, Takako soon becomes a very mature and tough lawyer. "Divorce Lawyer" also tells the story of how difficult it is to judge love and relationships in legal terms.

Divorce Lawyer

2004

Wasted Land poster
7.6

Iki Tadashi is a military leader named who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of labor in a harsh Siberian detention camp. After 11 years of imprisonment, he is released. He returns to Japan and begins readjusting to life as a civilian, rejecting an offer from his former colleague to work on a defense project. Tadashi has decided to never involve himself in war again, much to the joy of his family. Instead, he attempts to set off on a new path working at a major trading company. --Tokyograph

Wasted Land

2009

Special Crime Investigation Front poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Special Crime Investigation Front

1977

Lucky Seven poster
8.3

Lucky Seven Rakkīsebun is a 2012 Japanese television drama broadcast by Fuji Television from January 16 to March 19, 2012. It stars Jun Matsumoto and Eita.

Lucky Seven

2012

Shinigami-kun poster
6.7

Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase “Congratulations! I’m here to call on you” although it is hard to say how this can be a happy occasion, and watch over the dying. To a grim reaper, persuading people attempting to commit suicide and preventing unforeseen deaths is also an important task. But because #413 is new to this grim reaper work, he has a tendency to lean towards humans in his judgments, break the rules of the nether world and get reprimanded by his superior.

Shinigami-kun

2014

The Locked Room Murders poster
7.2

Enomoto Kei is a security "otaku" working for a security firm, devoted to improving the securities system on a daily basis. He is not an easy person to familiarize oneself with, always collected and calm, unapproachable, a maniac in Physics, Science, Architecture and profound in other basic theoretical foundation. He is certain and proud of the fact that there is no key which he cannot unlock. One day, Kei is asked to help reveal a mystery behind a locked room murderer. While he lacks any interest in solving the mystery, he is inevitably intrigued by the term, "Closed Doors" and decides to take on the position. He works side by side with Aoto Junko and Serizawa Gou, who are lawyers working at a major law firm. Junko is pure and forward, acting upon her instincts while Serizawa is a prideful elitist who sees time as money, and therefore, will not take on any job that is unprofitable. Possessing a vast amount of knowledge and acute insightfulness, Kei is able to unlock the closed doors and unravel the secrets leading to the solution. Never before has there been a drama focused solely on closed doors.

The Locked Room Murders

2012

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

Avalanche poster
6.5

Seiichi Habu is a member of the mysterious outlaw group Avalanche. The group exists at a time when moral hazards run rampant among politicians, bureaucrats, businesses, and even among ordinary people.

Avalanche

2021

Alibi Breaker poster
6.6

In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side business, a service to break alibis for a fee of 5000 yen per case with a guarantee that the fee is billed only when the alibi is broken. . One day, Tokino meets Yoshiyuki Saji, a detective who is newly assigned to the prefectural police department. Saji cannot break a very solid alibi at a case he is working on and secretly asks Tokino to break it. The case is very challenging, but will Tokino lead him to solve the case!?

Alibi Breaker

2020

Shining Brightly poster
5.0

The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru (Fukatsu Eri) is a graduate of a medical university, also focused her discipline on neurology. One night during a student reunion, a dead body was found in the kitchen. Hikaru, who is a little regretting that she choose her focus in neurology was moved by another doctor's words, Dead bodies will not tell us what happened, that is why we have to piece together its last words.(Dramawiki)

Shining Brightly

1998

The New King poster
NR

Koshiro runs a temp agency experiencing financial distress. Koshiro dreams of becoming a successful businessman. Akiba who was once a successful businessman, is now working on developing apps in Koshiro’s office. Isao runs a successful investment company and dominates people with his wealth. Akiba and Isao team up to buy a Tokyo broadcasting station.

The New King

2019

Say Hello to Black Jack poster
NR

Eijiro Saito is a graduate of the prestigious Eidai Medical School and is sent to Eidai Hospital as a trainee doctor. There, under the supervision of Dr. Shiratori at the surgery department, Eijiro trains hard with Dekune and Munekata. But all they seem to do is take care of menial work for low hours and low pay. So low in fact bad that they have to do part-time work at other hospitals just to make ends meet. Eijiro picks Seido Hospital, run by Dr. Hattori, for his part-time job. The surgery is like a battleground. Eijiro is very impressed by his senior Dr. Ushida and the nurse Kaori. But one night, when he is on duty, Eijiro runs from the surgery leaving a badly injured patient behind! It is the story of an intern doctor and the various problems and contradictions of the medical industry. -- TBS

Say Hello to Black Jack

2003

One-Pound Gospel poster
7.0

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an even bigger problem. He can't put himself in the right weight class, he runs out of energy because of hunger, and he gets knocked out while his eyes are set on food at the ringside. However, Kosaku's life changed when he met Sister Angela, a novice nun in the convent near his boxing gym. She became the source of his power, and Kosaku fights only to win her heart.

One-Pound Gospel

2008

Zorge poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Zorge

2019

Perfect Report poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perfect Report

2010

Fragile poster
7.8

The story of Kishi Keiichitaro, a dashingly handsome pathologist who is intensely eccentric and brutally honest, but also holds one of the most brilliant minds. A pathologist is a physician whose job is to determine a diagnosis of disease or cause of death based on an assortment of data, including a patient's tissue, bodily fluids, organ samples, blood, etc.

Fragile

2016

News Sokuho wa Nagareta poster
NR

A TV station news room receives information that a bomb has landed in a Japanese town. The drama follows what happens in the news room in "real-time," showing how the media can edit things to seem different from reality.

News Sokuho wa Nagareta

2009

Princess Hiro poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Princess Hiro

2003

Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File poster
8.0

Modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen / Operation Mystery tv show. A special unit called SRI (Science Research Institute) is investigating mysterious cases.

Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File

2007

A Wednesday Love Affair poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Wednesday Love Affair

2001

臨床心理士 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

臨床心理士

2000

Sakura Wars: Ecole de Paris poster
7.5

An unseen evil lurks in the streets of Paris. Unless something is done, the darkness will unleash its destruction and consume all that is good. The City of Love will be lost to her people forever. All hope rests within the hearts of five young ladies. The only problem is, they don't even know it yet. But will an apprenticed nun, a reserved aristocrat, a hardened criminal, a traveling circus emcee and a Japanese girl experiencing loss set aside their unique differences and come together as one for the defense of many. The Paris Fighting Troup is born.

Sakura Wars: Ecole de Paris

2003

I Won't Love Anyone Anymore poster
NR

Miyuki works in a bank with Sayuri and Takuya. Sayuri and Takuya plot to get the money each of them needs. Miyuki is violently hurt by their scheme and her relationship with her fiance is affected. When Miyuki discovers the people responsible for all that has happened to her, she plans her revenge.

I Won't Love Anyone Anymore

1991

A Family Goes Job Hunting poster
NR

Yosuke is a middle aged businessman who has a wife and two kids; wife is a teacher, his son a job-hunting student, and his daughter has a good job. His family is looking forward to buying a new house as Yosuke is about to be promoted soon. But one day, he is forced to leave the company because of a gossip con set up by his colleague! He loses his job but he cannot tell that to his family. At the same time his wife and daughter are also facing problems at their work, both thinking to quit because dad’s job is secured. When they find out dad left the company, can they support him or...?

A Family Goes Job Hunting

2017

A Song to the Sun poster
NR

A collaboration between VTV and TBS, an adaptation from the 2006 TV series Taiyou no Uta - A Song to the Sun.

A Song to the Sun

2015