High-School Outcasts

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

A biographical series about Tokuzō Akiyama, who served as the imperial cook, from his youth until he became the chief cook of the Ministry of the Imperial Household.

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting.

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.

Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability to remember license plate numbers.

Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Hijikata Toshizo is a samurai eager to test his skills and sword and make his first kill. The dojo he belongs to practices the Tennen Rishin style and teaches this to farmers. Not considered real samurai by other dojo's, they receive a request for a duel by a rival dojo practicing the Kogen Itto style. Sohaku Rokusha, a teacher there, challenges them and fights with Hijikata Toshizo. The outcome of the fight creates a deadly animosity between them that lasts through the ages.

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.