Also known as 南くんの恋人 / Minami’s Lover / Minami-kun no Koibito 2004 / Minami’s Girlfriend

Genre: Romance

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2004

Episodes: 11

hat would you do if you were suddenly only 16 cm tall? What would you do if your loved one was suddenly only 16 cm tall? A best selling sentimental love story is dramatized for the second time! Everything started when a high school couple, Chiyomi (Fukada Kyoko) and Minami (Ninomiya Kazunari) had a mysterious and ominous fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant… “If you stay close to him, he will become great and the two of you will be together for a long time. However, when the two of you drift apart, horrible thing will happen”. Just as the prophesy, on the very day when Minami decided to leave Chiyomi, a magical curse struck Chiyomi. Believe it or not, it shrunk her into a size of merely 16 cm tall! What would happen when a tender boyfriend and a miniaturized girlfriend secretly starts living together? .

Genre: Romance, Work

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: October, 2007

Episodes: 11

Hiroko Matsukata(Miho Kanno) is a super busy magazine editor. Just like any other 28-yearold woman, she enjoys going on dates with her boyfriend, fashion and her private life. But once she turns her switch into working mode, she sacrifices all that and dedicates her life to work. That’s when her colleagues refer to her as the Hataraki Man (working man). Her success at work however doesn’t give her total satisfaction. She constantly questions: “Why do I chose work over my boyfriend?” “What am I working for?” These are the questions all working people have asked themselves once, and the viewers can’t help relating themselves to Hiroko’s experiences. “Why do people work?” The viewers and the characters of this uplifting drama search for the answer through different types of working people, who all imply different answers to the question: a sense of accomplishment, fulfillment, mission, obligation, happiness, or…?

Also known as 20世紀少年 / Twentieth Century Boys / 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End / 20-seiki shonen

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Category: Japanese Movie

Film Date: August, 2008

The trilogy of 20th Century Boys live-action films (directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi) is set to be one of the biggest undertakings ever in the Japanese movie industry. The project not only has a budget of 6 billion yen, but it was revealed that it will feature a cast of 300 people. As a side note it must be said that the movie follows the story portrayed in manga almost to the letter.

Genre: Human Drama

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

Yuri Saotome is a charismatic beautician who runs a major sports gym and aesthetic salon. Her older brother died in an accident just before his opportunity to achieve a gold medal at the Olympics, so she chose to marry a wrestling gold medalist. After giving birth to four children, she and her husband broke off their marriage, leaving Yuri to raise the kids by herself. With their excellent genes, three of them have been raised as possible candidates for the next Olympic games.

Also known as 崖っぷちのエリー / Kono Yo de Ichiban Daiji na ‘Kane’ no Hanashi / この世でいちばん大事な“カネ”の話

Genre: Comedy

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

“Gakeppuchi no Eri” describes the turbulent life of Eriko (Yamada), who has been extremely poor since childhood, due to the debt left by her parents. Despite constant misfortune, she aims to achieve happiness and money by moving to Tokyo to pursue life as a manga artist.

Also known as 国税査察官 / Kokuzei Sasatsukan

Genre: Drama

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: April, 2010

Episodes: 6

Also known as 帰ってきた時効警察 / Kaette Kita Jikou Keisatsu / 時効警察 2 / Time Limit Detective 2

Genre: Comedy, Mystery

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: April, 2007

Episodes: 9

One year has past, Kiriyama works at the same police station and he is still interested in unsolved cases which belong to the statute of limitations. Together with his asistance Mizazuki, (who is actually in love with Kiriyama), Kiriyama solves those cases as his hobby. He still gives the “I won’t tell anyone” card to the culprits.

Genre: Crime

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

The story begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still unsolved three years later, the case gets revived when one of the girls reappears. Odagiri plays a sharp national investigator searching for the truth behind the incident, which leads back to a seemingly peaceful town.

Genre: Mystery

Category: Japanese Movie

Film Date: June, 2007

One year after the suicide of C-list model Miki, five of her fans come together for a commemorative meeting: fan club leader Iemoto (Oguri Shun), Oda Yuji (Yusuke Santamaria), Snake (Koide Keisuke), Yasuo (Muga Tsukaji), and Ichigo Musume (Kagawa Teruyuki). Sitting down together for the first time, they reminisce about their idol, wondering how someone so bright and beautiful could have possibly taken her own life. It just doesn’t make sense. That’s when they reach a revelation - she must have been murdered! The five heatedly discuss her death, expressing their suspicions and weighing the many clues and possibilities. The more they talk, the more the case takes shape in their minds, and the closer they come to the truth..

Also known as ジョゼと虎と魚たち / Joze to tora to sakana tachi

Genre: Romance

Category: Japanese Movie

Film Date: December, 2003

Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage… Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josée. Her real name is Kumiko, and she is unable to walk, so her grandmother takes her out early every morning in the old baby carriage. To thank Tsuneo for his help, they offer him breakfast, and he begins to fall under the spell of the young woman’s unusual charm. Kumiko has named herself after the heroine of a novel by Françoise Sagan, and Tsuneo comes to call this strange girl by that name. He grows more and more attracted to her.