Based on a true story This story is about a girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The original story is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. The book that later followed entitled “One Liter of Tears" has sold over 1.1 million copies. Aya's only wish was “to live." By carefully depicting Aya's earnest desire to...

The story features a team of four sleuthing sisters. Title: ４姉妹探偵団 Title (romaji): 4 Shimai Tantei Dan Format: Renzoku Genre: Mystery Episodes: 9 Viewership ratings: 7.0 (Kanto) Broadcast networks: TV Asahi Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-18 to 2008-Mar-14 Air time: Friday 21:00 Theme song: Namidairo by YUI Related TV Show: San Shimai Tantei Dan (NTV, 1998)

During fourth period, high schooler Da-jeong finds his classmate Tae-gyu dead in a classroom and Jeong-hun standing in front of him with blood on his clothes. In order to stop Jeong-hun from becoming the prime suspect, Da-jeong must help him find the real murderer, who is still inside the school building, under 40 minutes before period four ends.

Movie: 700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police Romaji: Boku tachi to chuzai san no 700 nichi senso Japanese: ぼくたちと駐在さんの７００日戦争 Director: Renpei Tsukamoto Writer: Yuichi Fukuda Producer: Cinematography: Ryu Segawa Release Date: April 5, 2008 Runtime: 108 Min. Distributor: Gaga Communications Language: Japanese Country: Japan Set on the backdrop of 1979 a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari (Hayato Ichihara) decide to prank Chuzai-san...

Movie: A Man who was Superman / If I Were Superman Hangul: 슈퍼맨이었던 사나이 Revised romanization: Superman ieotdeon sanai Director: Yoon-Chul Jeong Assistant Director: Lee Jeong-Ho Writer: Yoon-Chul Jeong Producer: Joo-sung Kim Cinematographer: Young-hwan Choi Release Date: Janaury 31, 2008 Production Budget: US$ 4.1M Runtime: 102 min. Movie Studio: CJ Entertainment Distributor: CJ Entertainment Language: Korean Country: South Korea Producer SONG Soo-jung has...

"Ace", an all time favorite comic book that sold 15 million copies is finally dramatized! A positive success story of an ordinary high school girl who gradually discovers her hidden talent of tennis through severe trainings designed by her strict coach. Can she every become an "Ace" tennis player? StoryHiromi Oka (Aya Ueto) decides to join the high school tennis club from the moment she saw the star player Reika's(Rio Matsumoto) excellent and smashing play. However, once the tennis lesson began,...

Aftershock or Aftershocks (Chinese: 唐山大地震; pinyin: Tángshān Dàdìzhèn) is a 2010 Chinese drama film depicting the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake directed by Feng Xiaogang. The film stars Xu Fan and Zhang Jingchu, with a supporting cast including Li Chen. PlotIn 1976 Tangshan, Yuan Ni lives in a small apartment with her husband and their twins Fang Deng and Fang Da. Yuan Ni expresses to her husband her desire to have one more child, and they get into the...

The story was one of the best-selling novels of 2007, it revolves around the "red thread of fate" connecting the young pair Mei and Atsushi and the trials they face.

My Tutor Friend co-stars Kwon Sang-Woo and Kim Ha-Neul go at it again in the romantic comedy Almost Love. The two play childhood friends whose connection as youth blossoms into something resembling love as adults. However, there are bumps and bruises along the way, namely other romantic partners, parallel quests to realize personal dreams, and a hideous hairdo sported by the usually dashing Kwon Sang-Woo. But there's a narrative reason for the crappy 'do, and it's one of the very...

A G-8 summit is set for Rome the day after Christmas; the Italian and Japanese governments will announce an aid package for the Balkans. Kondura arrives from Tokyo to improve security at the embassy, making waves with his direct manner. A Japanese tourist who's a single mother reports that her young daughter has been kidnapped. Posing as the woman's husband, Kondura takes the lead with the kidnappers, who want money and no cops. However, the law requires that Kondura notify...

Naoko Noda, who works in a trading company, is called “anego” by her younger co-workers. What is “anego”? It means “older sister”, but in this case it is given as a nickname to Naoko because she is like a big sister to the other workers, who depend on her to give them advice about everything. This drama, based on a popular novel, depicts realistically how Naoko lives her everyday life, including her love life, the problems she faces,...

Adolescence is one long, drawn-out nightmare for Byeong-tae. Quiet and introverted, he makes a perfect target for his school’s vicious bullies, all the more so when they catch on that his father is a policeman. Badly beaten up on a regular basis, Byeong-tae seeks a capable teacher in matters of physical combat. His quest remains a dead end until the day the mysterious Oh drifts into town.Little is known about Oh other than that he has a shady past and...

These days, the term "homeless" has taken on new meaning. There are youths referred to as "net cafe refugees," who have neither a job nor a place to live, but who find themselves hopping around internet cafes. One such refugee is a 20-year-old girl named Chisato, who lost her mother at a young age due to sickness. She spent her youth trying to escape from the huge debt her father left her, and her battle with the repossessors unfolded every...

A smash hit manga spikes its way onto the TV screen for the first time! Kozue, a positive and cheerful high school girl devotes her entire energy toward her school volleyball team. Extremely severe practices designed by the strict head coach Inokuma, highly competitive matches against the toughest top players, friendships and rivalry among teammates with strong characters…. Can Kozue’s genuine love toward volleyball make the impossible come true? TV Asahi

Losing her mother at a young age, Misaki Yoko (Ueto Aya) was raised amongst three brothers. Yoko is a slightly boyish girl who is bullheaded and hates dishonesty. Ever since she was young, she enjoyed the company of boys over girls. She starts a band with four of her boy friends and becomes the lead singer. Then one day, one of the members of the band, Tsukasa, gets a job at a bank in Tokyo. Due to Tsukasa leaving town,...

A drama adaptation of a popular comic written by Sekiya Tetsuji. After a year of working at a neighborhood Italian restaurant, Ban Shogo (Matsumoto Jun), an enthusiastic, cocky young college student from Fukuoka, comes to Tokyo to perfect his cooking skills as a chef in Italian cuisine. He discovers he has much to learn and has to continually prove himself to the very competitive, quick and efficient staff at the upscale Italian restaurant. Episodes: 11 Theme song: We can make...

Movie: Bandage Romaji: Bandeiji Japanese: バンテイジ Director: Takeshi Kobayashi Writer: Shunji Iwai (Screenplay), Chika Kan (Novel) Producer: Shunji Iwai Cinematographer Release Date: January 16, 2010 Runtime: 119 Min. Distributor: Toho Language: Japanese Country: Japan Set in Japan in the 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school...

Shiomi Eiji is forced to become a single father when his girlfriend passes away while giving birth to their daughter, Shizuku. Desolate after the loss of the woman he loved, Eiji has little time or desire to even consider remarrying, working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The one thing that gives meaning and joy to his life is Shizuku, but even that begins to trouble him when Shizuku begins acting strange, hiding her face by putting a cloth...

The prologue title card reads:"At the dawn of the millennium, the nation collapsed. At fifteen percent unemployment, ten million were out of work. 800,000 students boycotted school. The adults lost confidence and, fearing the youth, eventually passed the Millennium Educational Reform Act, AKA the BR Act...." The film concentrates on Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a charismatic young boy living in Kanagawa Prefecture. After his mother abandons him and his father commits suicide, he becomes disillusioned with life. The rest of...

Kyoko, a young woman with an unhindered spirit despite being physically bound to a wheelchair due to illness, and Shuji, a stylish and popular fashion magazine hairstylist, are brought together in a fateful traffic incident. Despite their confrontational meeting, they soon find themselves falling in love, with Shuji drawn to her courage and enthusiasm and Kyoko attracted to his ability to look beyond her physical limitations and into her heart. However, Kyoko's protective older brother and her worsening condition begin...

Yukio, known by his friends as "Koyuki", is a regular 14-year-old Japanese boy who enters junior high school with two childhood acquaintances. One is a pervert, and ironically the other is a highly sought after female student. Koyuki's boring life is changed when he saves an odd-looking dog, named Beck, from some kids. Beck's owner turns out to be an emerging rock musician, Ryūsuke Minami, who soon influences Koyuki to start playing the guitar, and even gives one to...

After graduating from the Tokyo University School of Law, Makoto Tamiya goes on to Harvard University where she earns an MBA. She later works at one of the "big three" networks in the United States as a news reporter. While covering a story on an international symposium in Paris, Makoto is scouted to work for JBC Television in Japan. The news producer at JBC wants to use Makoto to help raise low viewer ratings. He persuades her to work for...

Koyama Kazumi is a poor but optimistic college student who firmly believes that there are more important things than money. Despite his own poverty he ends up taking on other people’s debts and faces various challenges to pay them off. Additional Information: Country: Japan Language: Japanese Subtitle: English Harsubbed Genre: Comedy Episodes: 9 Viewership ratings: 11.6(Kanto) Broadcast network: NTV Theme song: Monochrome by BENNIE K Insert song: Ue wo Muite Arukou by Suzuki Masayuki Cast: Oguri Shun, Miura Haruma, Yamada...

After a biological terrorist attack kills off the population of a Russian town; Japan's Public Safety Special Third unit, code name THIRD-i, believes that the terrorist organization responsible plans to unleash the same virus known as Bloody X into Tokyo. Subsequently, THIRD-i recruits the help of genius hacker Takagi Fujimaru to find out what happened in the Russia. However, as Fujimaru becomes involved, he soon finds out that he is in over his head and that the terrorist groups influence...

Whereas the first series dealt with a deadly Russian weapons-grade virus, the new season is set two years later when an aircraft bearing a new kind of nuclear weapon threatens Tokyo.

Kyoichi Suzuki is an average college student in his junior year. Although he's not in one of the top universities, he's satisfied with his college life studying architecture. Kyoichi left home and is finally on his own, living in a beat-up apartment in Tokyo. However, this apartment building is home to some out-of-the-ordinary residents, who are always bugging Kyoichi. His next-door neighbor hits Kyoichi up for a loan when he finds out that Kyoichi just got paid. His other next-...

Synopsis: Jan Di is an average girl whose family owns a dry cleaning store located near the luxurious and well known Shin Hwa College. Jan Di meets the four richest and most spoiled boys known as the F4. After saving a boy from jumping off the roof of Shinhwa High School, she is admitted into the school on a swimming scholarship. Jan Di tries to avoid confrontation with the F4 at all cost because she knows what happens to those...

Meet the Sakurai family, where nobody holds their feelings back and life never holds a dull moment. Returning to serial drama for the first time in five years, Misako Tanaka and three hyperactive actors provide a story with a heart. Sakurai Harue (Tanaka), who has brought up her sons alone after her husband died, is absolutely hopeless at running a household. Her eldest, Tatsuya (Tamayama), does the job in her place while keeping younger brothers Riku (Hayami), and Junpei (Nakao)...

Kamiya Naoki is a young player from a professional basketball team. But due to his relatively smaller size and his tendency to crack under pressure, he is unable to show his true skills on the court. Meanwhile, Shirakawa Riko is a cheerful, strong-spirited music college graduate aiming to become a professional violinist. One day, Riko finds Naoki's lost cell phone on a bus, and their meeting begins a friendship that eventually turns into love. However, Naoki was already considering marriage...

What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath the sun once more, Ryouji and Yukiho find themselves in a twisted web from which neither can escape without abandoning the other. Having no one but each other, this drama follows the events the follow that fateful day... 14 years ago. Wynter  

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankinds hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on...

The cellist and teacher Mi-Ju Hong is invited by her colleague and friend Sun-Ae to assume the position of professor in her renowned institution, and gives an invitation to the concert of Hae-Young Kim, the little sister of her former school best friend Tae-Yeon Kim who died in a car accident. Before leaving the building, she is threatened by a former student that failed in her test. While driving home, she escapes from an accident on the road and once...

The movie centers on Toru Isaka (Hayato Ichihara), a student at the crossroads of teenage life, who together with his good friends Tetsuo Tamashiro (Yuta Hiraoka, who was in Be With You and Swing Girls) and Akira Motobe (Tasuku Emoto) are trying to figure out what next to do with their lives. Their mutual female friend Yui Haebaru the tomboy (Mao Inoue) and wrestling freak, offers them a ticket each to the gig of the hottest indie rap band in...

Based on a popular RPG of the same name. The story takes place in a fantasy medieval China that's full of kung fu action, CG special effects, and wacky humor. Li Xiao Yao, a "Stinky Punk", journeys to Dream Island to find a cure for his sick aunt. There he meets and marries the love of his life, Ling'er. On his way back home with the cure, he discovers that he's been tricked by the Lunar Sect Cult so that...

Chō Ninja Tai Inazuma! In the far future (2076), aspiring TV producer Terada Jun with the TV Station, "Magical TV" proposes to create the ultimate kid's televison reality program. She conspires with her AP (Assistant Producer) Kurata and Bureau Chief Mishima to travel to the past to create a real "superhero" for children to idolize. Using the "Time Teleport" machine the threesome travel into the past and arrive in Edo Japan circia 1603. There they meet three local villagers -...

Chuno follows the story of Lee Dae Gil, a man of high birth whose family was ruined when Tae Ha, who became a slave after being falsely accused of a crime he did not commit, burns down his house and escapes. Driven by his desire for revenge, he survives his harsh years on the street and makes his name as a slave hunter, dedicated in his pursuit of Tae Ha. Both men become entangled in a love triangle with Un...

City Hunter (城市獵人; Sing si lip yan) is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film based on the Japanese manga, City Hunter. Ryo Saeba (aka the City Hunter), is a private detective and a big womanizer. Ryo's hired to find Shizuko, the beautiful daughter of a publishing tycoon, much to the dismay of his sidekick Kaori. After tracking the young woman down on a cruise ship, Ryo seems more concerned with romancing Shizuko then getting her home to...

If it can be treated one second earlier, the heart might start beating again.If there is one extra helicopter, another life in danger may be saved.If one more life can be saved, the Japanese medical community may regain trust.There are more lives in this country that can be saved. The "Doctor Helicopter" system was legalized in Japan in June 2007. A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon...

It has been one and a half years since Aizawa Kosaku, Shiraishi Megumi, Hiyama Mihoko and Fujikawa Kazuo were assigned to Shoyo University’s North Hospital. They have only three months left of their fellowship programme (specialised training programme) to be flight doctors and each of them have come to the crossroads where they have to think of their lives after graduation. Aizawa, who has only one relative – a grandmother currently in a nursing home, starts having doubts about his...

"Coffee House" covers the life of young & successful Seo Eun-Young Park Si-Yeon. Eun-Young is the owner of a successful franchise cafe "Coffee Page One", as well as the CEO of a publishing company. In the romantic-comedy, Seo Eun-Young encounters Lee Jin-Soo (Kang Ji-Hwan), a successful writer. Jin-Soo has published consecutive best sellers. The pair enters into a strange relationship ....   * TV Show: Coffee House * Revised romanization: Keopi Hawooseu * Hangul: 커피하우스 * Director: Pyo Min-Soo *...

The life of Go Eun Chan (Yoon Eun Hye) is not easy; she works many jobs to pay off debts and even gave up her feminine image. Choi Han Kyul (Gong Yoo) is the heir of a big food company, but his grandmother wants him to settle down, so she arranged many dates for him. After Eun Chan bumped into Han Kyul and was mistaken for a boy, Han Kyul decided to hire Eun Chan to be his gay lover...

What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was actually a ghost all along? But none of this compares to the feeling of arriving home alone and suddenly being stuck by a feeling of deja-vu that you are reenacting the very same scenes in the...

Takashi Kamiyama, a completely normal high school student, makes the abnormal decision of enrolling in Cromartie High. It's known for having more violent thugs, prehensile mohawks, alien landings, and enrolled gorillas than any other Japanese high school.

Several months after "Crows: Episode 0" trouble brews again when thugs known as "The Army of Killers" from rival high school Hosen Academy threaten Suzuran High aka the School of Crows. The ruthless Hosen gang go after Suzuran alumni Sho Kawanishi (Shinnosuke Abe) after his released from reformatory for killing a Hosen member two years back. Kawanishi turns to his younger Suzuran gang members for protection. The Housen gang then seeks out right revenge on the entire Suzuran school, while...

The story starts with Takiya Genji (Shun Ogori), the son of a Yakuza boss, entering Suzuran All-Boys High School as a transferred senior with the goal of conquering it. During the freshman orientation lecture, Yakuza arrive at the school seeking Tamao Serizawa to avenge an injury. To show his worth, Genji fights and defeats the Yakuza, who mistake him for Tamao. One of the Yakuza, Ken Katagiri is impressed by Genji's skills. Meanwhile, Tamao greets his best friend Tokio, who...

"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I...

# Title: クピドの悪戯 # Title (romaji): Cupid no Itazura # Format: Renzoku # Episodes: 11 # Broadcast network: TV Tokyo # Broadcast period: 2006-Oct-13 to 2006-Dec-22 # Air time: Friday 24:12 Synopsis: A man who's still a virgin, has a very very rare disease which allows him to only have sex seven times in his life. After he has used up all the seven chances, he will never ever be able to have sex again for the rest of...

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation (fueled by love) to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her...

The life about King Dae Jo Yeong and other heroes of the Balhae Kingdom. Yi Hae Go is Dae Jo Yeong's enemy and they both fight for the love of Cho rin. Cho rin is from the Georan tribe and she loves Dae Jo Yeong. But Dae Jo Young ends up marrying King Bojang's niece, Suk young. Source (Drama Wiki) Genre: Historical drama, Period Episodes: 134 Broadcast network: KBS1 Broadcast period: 2006-Sep-16 to 2007-Dec-23 Director: Kim Jong Sun Screenwriter: Jang...

Movie: Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp Revised romanization: Gosa Du Beonjjae Yiyagi: Gyosaengsilseop Hangul: 고사 두 번째 이야기: 교생실습 Director: Yu Seun-Dong Writer: Producer: Cinematographer: World Premiere: July 23, 2010 (Puchon International Film Festival) Release Date: July 28, 2010 Runtime: 90 min. Production Company: iHQ, Toilet Pictures, Core Content Media Language: Korean Country: South...