Fukushima 50 (2020)
Drama
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake an tsunami in 2011.
Starring: Kôichi Satô, Ken Watanabe, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Narumi Yasuda
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
Home: The House Imp / Home: Itoshi no Zashiki Warashi (2012)
Drama | Family | Fantasy
A middle-aged father cannot find his place at work or home. He is transferred to Iwate from Tokyo. The father takes his wife, two kids and mother with him. They settle down in a 100-year-old house. There in the countryside they meet Zasikiwarasi and begin to unite together as a family.
Starring: Yutaka Mizutani, Narumi Yasuda, Ai Hashimoto, Tatsuomi Hamada, Mitsuko Kusabue
Director: Seiji Izumi
The Last Chushingura / The Last Ronin / Saigo no Chûshingura (2010)
Drama
An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Kôichi Satô, Nanami Sakuraba, Kôji Yamamoto, Jun Fubuki, Kunie Tanaka, Masatô Ibu, Yoshi Oida, Narumi Yasuda, Nizaemon Kataoka
Director: Shigemichi Sugita
Ninkyô Helper / Beautiful World (2012)
Drama
Hikoichi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) decides to live an honest life and leaves the gang world. He begins work at a convenience store, but, one day, Hikoichi allows an old man named Yuzo Tsutai (Masaaki Sakai) to rob the store. Hikoichi is then arrested. A year later, Hikoichi meets Yuzo again in prison and Yuzo tells him that when he is in trouble go see Asahina. After Hikoichi is released from prison, he travels to Taikai city where Asahina lives. Meanwhile, in Takai city, the "Tour Welfare City Project" is championed by local government official Teruo Yashiro (Teruyuki Kagawa).
Starring: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Narumi Yasuda, Tsuruko Hishinuma, Kaho, Shunsuke Kazama, Meisa Kuroki, Masaaki Sakai
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Shinya shokudô (TV Series 2009- )
Drama
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi, Yutaka Matsushige, Yûko Genkaku, Ken Mitsuishi, Narumi Yasuda
Creator: Yarô Abe
Shinya shokudô (TV Series 2009- )
Drama
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi, Yutaka Matsushige, Yûko Genkaku, Ken Mitsuishi, Narumi Yasuda
Creator: Yarô Abe
