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  • 1982
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    Toge no Gunzo

    Toge no Gunzo

    1 1982 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Auditor

    The Auditor

    1 2008 HD

    The setting is Japan. After the bursting of its asset-inflated "bubble economy" in 1990, the country is suffering an economic hangover. Foreign...

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  • 2010
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    Steel Frame

    Steel Frame

    1 2010 HD

    Sharply revealing the issue of Japanese construction industry where bid-rigging was a common practice among the giants. After working diligently for...

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  • 2023
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    Boogie Woogie

    Boogie Woogie

    1 2023 HD

    Sets in the 1910s, this is the story of Hanada Suzuko, a young girl who grew up in a family that owned a bathhouse in downtown Osaka. From a young...

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  • 1974
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    Katsu Kaishu

    Katsu Kaishu

    1 1974 HD

    Katsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū "

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  • 2015
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    Mare

    Mare

    7.70 2015 HD

    Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle...

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  • 2007
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    Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth

    Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth

    8.70 2007 HD

    A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the...

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  • 1996
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    Hideyoshi

    Hideyoshi

    9.50 1996 HD

    A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga....

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  • 2018
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    Manpuku

    Manpuku

    9.00 2018 HD

    Based on true story of the wife of Ando Momofuku, the businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co. Ltd. and the inventor of instant ramen, the...

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  • 1971
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    Haru no Sakamichi

    Haru no Sakamichi

    1 1971 HD

    The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

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  • 2019
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    Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru

    Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru

    7.20 2019 HD

    Jun is an 18-year-old high school student. He hides the fact that he is gay from his mother and other people. Miura-san is a classmate of Jun. She...

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  • 2006
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    Love and Glory

    Love and Glory

    7.00 2006 HD

    Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served...

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  • 2021
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    SDGs Mini Drama

    SDGs Mini Drama

    10.00 2021 HD

    An irregularly broadcast omnibus series of two-minute mini-dramas based on the 17 goals of the SDGs (UN's "Sustainable Development Goals"). In these...

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  • 1996
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    Himawari

    Himawari

    8.00 1996 HD

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  • 2019
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    Mistress

    Mistress

    3.30 2019 HD

    Shibasaki Kaori is a doctor. Her patient that she was having an affair with dies. Kaori is suspicious of the patient's son Kido Takashi about the...

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  • 2014
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    Strategist KANBE

    Strategist KANBE

    9.50 2014 HD

    July 1590, Odawara. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had surrounded the Odawara Castle for over 3 months, hoping to conquer this last obstacle to his dream...

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  • 2022
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    She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat

    She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat

    8.70 2022 HD

    Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor...

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  • 2009
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    Element Hunters

    Element Hunters

    1.00 2009 HD

    In the year 2029, chemical elements such as oxygen, carbon, gold, molybdenum, and cobalt were continually disappearing from Earth. These disappearing...

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  • 1963
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    Life of a Flower

    Life of a Flower

    7.00 1963 HD

    The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.

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  • 2015
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    Keisei Saimin no Otoko

    Keisei Saimin no Otoko

    1 2015 HD

    A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK.

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