Kaoru Kobayashi

AKA: 小林薫, 小林薰, こばやし かおる
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1951-09-04

Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Kaoru Kobayashi is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. A multi-award winning thespian, he won best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and best-supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Sorobanzuku.

Crew Roles

Creator
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {123}

Jikobo (voice)

1997-07-12 8.3

Princess Mononoke

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to p ...
Genre :Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

2010-06-12 4.9

A Crowd of Three

A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as part of a demolition crew but become fed up with the ...
Genre :Drama

Oton

2007-04-14 7.1

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father ...
Genre :Drama

Inose

1984-11-17 7.2

The Funeral

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

The King (voice)

2006-07-29 6.526

Tales from Earthsea

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't ent ...
Genre :Animation, Fantasy, Adventure

Hanbei

2009-09-19 6

Kamui

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Tokugawa Ieyasu

2023-11-23 7.1

Kubi

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears. ...
Genre :History, Action, Drama, Comedy, Thriller

Toru Hirai

2008-06-07 7

Vacation

The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death. ...
Genre :Drama

Mitsuru Watanabe

2004-03-13 6.7

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is paired with a blind man who is initially reluctant to rely on his new partner. ...
Genre :Drama

Suzuki san

2010-01-30 5.2

Boys on the Run

A socially awkward salesman for a toy-capsule company tries to change his nerdy ways when a slick rival moves in on the beautiful co-worker he loves. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Heisuke Sugita

1999-09-15 6.8

Secret

A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into their daughter's body. ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Kinoshita

2010-05-22 6.5

Haru's Journey

Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make. ...
Genre :Drama

Noble Pelican (voice)

2023-07-14 7.426

The Boy and the Heron

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking ...
Genre :Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Drama

Professor Kamoshita

2022-06-10 6.3

Yes, I Can't Swim

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment ...
Genre :Drama

Tsunejiro Hiraoka

1985-11-09 7

And Then

Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support hi ...
Genre :Drama

Tatsuya Urayama

1999-03-27 7.8

Coquille

Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories of her first love are revived. Her love for him has ne ...
Genre :Drama

Kohei Araki

2013-04-13 7.2

The Great Passage

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great Passage. In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the ...
Genre :Drama

Yasutada Kamiya

2006-08-11 7.6

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his frien ...
Genre :Drama

Torazo

1977-11-19 7.1

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her. ...
Genre :Drama

Shingo Kosugi

2013-08-31 6.5

The End of Summer

The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married older writer Shitto and the new stud who comes into h ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Toshiharu Nakazato

2013-04-25 6.6

Leaving on the 15th Spring

Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna is worried about her father's life after she leaves. ...
Genre :Drama

2023-04-07 8.2

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist who saves lives, and the other as a criminal who buries evil that cannot be kept alive for the sake ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Miyabi Sakuramiya

1986-08-22 0

For Business

Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Shigeru Kosaka (Episode 4)

1988-09-15 7

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that Shizuka tries her best to restrict her diet and please ...
Genre :Comedy

Giichi Wataguchi

2022-06-03 5

Winter Rose

Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His parents, who run a shipping business transporting ...
Genre :Drama

Tatsumi - Fregattenkapitän

1993-01-02 5.4

The Last U-Boat

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Ger ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, War

Giru

1989-04-01 4.7

Untamagiru

A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was returned to Japan in 1972. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Fantasy

Taiji Ogami

1999-04-24 0

The Washing Machine

Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works part-time as a store keeper and repairman. One day, ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Shigezo Kojima

2023-01-06 0

Trapped Balloon

A woman who has not seen her father for several years and does not have a good relationship with him. An unsociable man who lives near her father's house. Slowly the relationship between the woman, he ...
Genre :Drama

Fujiwara Yosuke

2024-04-19 5.4

The Yin Yang Master Zero

During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Minamoto no Hiromasa arises to solve a strange phenomenon. ...
Genre :Fantasy, History, Mystery

Shoichi Hoshino

2022-12-16 7.3

Dr. Coto's Clinic

In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the young physician Kensuke Goto arrives at the island a ...
Genre :Drama

Kazuyuki Ninomiya

2011-06-04 4.7

The Egoists

Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Isao Nagamine

2014-06-14 8.3

Climbing to Spring

Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru ...
Genre :Drama

Old man

2005-05-14 5.6

Female

'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki, Miwa Nishikawa, and Suzuki Matsuo. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Master

2014-11-01 7.6

Midnight Diner

A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruck ...
Genre :Drama

1996-02-16 6

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by Yuji Aoki. The script was written by Ryoichi Kimizu ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Ryuzo Higa

2010-12-18 5.4

Sketches of Kaitan City

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year ...
Genre :Drama

Reishu Goya

1985-04-13 5.3

Paradise View

Go Takamine's first theatrical feature is a pioneering work of Okinawan cinema, filmed almost entirely in Okinawan dialect. Taking place shortly before the resumption of Japanese sovereignty over Okin ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2023-10-18 6

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned Japanese domestic drama. Traditional lacquerwork kitchen ...
Genre :Drama

2024-06-14 6

Promised Land

Matagi is a group of hunters who lives in the mountains and targets wild animals including bears, but now more and more bear hunting is forbidden by the government. This is a story of two young matagi ...
Genre :Drama

Madonna’s father

2016-01-03 8

Botchan

Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position ...
Genre :Drama

Seiichi Morita

2017-01-28 7.9

Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

Based on the true story of 4 member Japanese pop group "GreeeeN.” Jin is the producer of “GreeeeN” and his younger brother Hide is the lead member for the group. Their song "Kiseki" is released as the ...
Genre :Drama

Tatsuo Tamura

1981-09-26 5.7

Call from Darkness

Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved an ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Me

1981-12-19 6

Hear the Wind Sing

A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a mysterious twin girl. ...
Genre :Drama

Master

2016-11-05 7.4

Midnight Diner 2

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

1999-11-13 6.2

The Black House

A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened. ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery

1988-12-10 5.7

Love and Action in Osaka

Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubari Family, becomes disrupted by trouble brought on by his father. When his father’s battle against hi ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

Jisaku Koka

2016-12-11 7.8

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"

In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji, Kitakyushu, rides out into the oil business, but is faced ...
Genre :Drama, History

Sakakiyama

2016-06-11 6.2

Natsumi's Firefly

Natsumi wants to become a photographer. She takes a bike which her late father left behind and goes to a forest to find a firefly she saw with her father. In the forest, Natsumi meets old mother Yasu ...
Genre :Drama

Nakagawa Akiko

2017-01-03 3

An Emblem Dedicated To You

Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with his fiancé Miki Nakagawa. One day, Kazuya Takajo gets ...
Genre :Drama

2010-10-09 10

Abraxas

Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems to be the only solution for him to exorcise his dem ...
Genre :Drama

2017-06-03 6

Lear on the Shore

Chokichi Kuwahata was once a leading actor, but he is ravaged by dementia and old age now. His daughter and the men in her life go against his wishes and place him in a retirement home. He slips away ...
Genre :Drama

Shozo Yatabe

2017-06-03 6.2

Mukoku

Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a security guard and spends his days drinking. One day, he encounters a high school student Toru, who ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

1982-10-02 7

The Dropout

Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case fo ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Takeo Matsuoka

2017-09-23 6.9

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. T ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Family

Yoshinori Ishino

1993-07-31 0

The Tomb & the Divorce

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a ...
Genre :Comedy

1993-10-09 0

Chibusa

Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993). ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Eisuke Morimoto

1979-08-18 6.5

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite - but opposites attract. After school, the two head to the beach, where they find another ...
Genre :Drama

Saitô (voice)

1987-11-21 5.8

Twilight of the Cockroaches

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Science Fiction, Romance, Family, Animation

Tetsuro

2019-01-18 5.6

His Lost Name

Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small seaside town. Offering him room in his home, Tetsuro and the man who calls himself Shinichi develop a ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Nakamura

1984-09-29 0

The Wangan Highway

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Iwao

2019-02-22 6.9

The Island of Cats

Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the small island and enjoys relaxing days with his chil ...
Genre :Drama

Masashi Sera

2013-03-19 0

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

Set in Kyokuhoku Citizen Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. "Kyokuhoku Rhapsody" follows the life of a young doctor for a one year period. Yoshio Imanaka works at the Kyokuhoku Hospital that is losing staff ...
Genre :

Tetsushi Kamiya

1985-10-05 7.9

Love Letter

A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and the friendship that develops between his wife and ...
Genre :Drama

Hachirou Ooishi

1990-04-28 5

Hong Kong Paradise

Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events. A young tour guide, 23-year-old Mamiko who's had her heart set on Pari ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime

Hideo Hyuga

1983-04-08 5.5

The Second Love

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo ...
Genre :Drama

2008-07-19 4

Then Summer Came

A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-chil ...
Genre :Drama

1994-04-23 0

Uneasy Encounters

A five-part comedy and horror anthology ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

1976-05-29 5

The Sea of Genkai

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1991-12-07 6

Shimanto River

A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The ...
Genre :Drama

Toshi-chan (Voice)

2002-07-19 7.2

Ghiblies: Episode 2

Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli. It's about a fictional animation studio named "Ghibli" and the people who work there. This ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy

Hirotaro Yamane

2021-01-29 7.6

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Rihito

2021-06-25 6.4

Arc

Set in the near future, Rina lives a wandering life and she meets Ema. Ema becomes a mentor for Rina and Rina begins to work for Ema. Her job is called body works, which is to plasticize dead bodies f ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama

2008-02-02 8

Double Trouble

Chief Iizuka, who works at the Cultural Center, misunderstands two chorus groups with similar names and double-books the concert hall on New Year's Eve. Although they talk to each other, neither of th ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Music

Takao Satomi

2003-11-08 6.9

Like Asura

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2018-09-07 7

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tournament. At the age of 26, his dream of becoming a ...
Genre :Drama

2025-02-22 0

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

An ex-cop suffering from dementia is marked by detectives pursuing a murder case. It is a case that he does not remember at all, but he has a strong motive for committing the crime... Is he really the ...
Genre :TV Movie, Mystery, Drama

2025-06-27 9

Sham

When a young student shows signs of trauma, his parents act swiftly against his middle school teacher. But all may not be as it seems, leading the scales of justice to tip in fascinating, heartbreakin ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

2020-12-18 0

Independence of Japan

A group image drama set at the end of the war depicting the unknown struggle of Japanese people who faced the difficult issues. ...
Genre :History

Akutsu (1986) (voice)

2025-10-10 0

The Last Blossom

Autumn 2023. Akutsu, an elderly inmate serving life in prison, is on the verge of a lonely death in his single cell. A talking Housenka flower says to him, "What a rotten life you had." Akutsu starts ...
Genre :Animation, Drama, Crime

2002-09-21 0

Ten Dark Women

A TV movie by Kon Ichikawa, remaking of Ten Dark Women (1961) ...
Genre :TV Movie

1984-01-07 0

Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

Genre :Drama

1982-01-10 0

Toge no Gunzo

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Kotaki Reiji

2020-01-11 8.8

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

A slice of life comedy where Furutachi Kanji and Takito Kenichi play poor brothers Ichiro and Jiro respectively. Older one (Ichiro) is very serious while the younger one (Jiro) is trying to start rent ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2019-10-05 0

Top League

While political journalist Naoki Matsuoka is working his way up to the "top league," a small circle of privileged journalists with special access to top politicians, his old colleague turned newsweekl ...
Genre :Drama

2011-09-10 7

The Castle of Sand

On December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective that has only one clue to go on - the name "Kameda. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

2014-06-14 8

Hello life from 55

Genre :Drama

2013-03-19 0

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

Genre :Drama

Ichiro Suzaki

2023-04-24 8.5

Fixer

Who will run Japan? The prime minister or a mastermind? A political thriller about the "fixer" pulling strings behind the scenes controlling the political, business, and legal worlds as the greed of m ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Master

2009-10-09 8.1

Midnight Diner

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 com ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2002-07-01 8.4

The Private Detective Mike

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he ...
Genre :Crime

津崎 正男

2021-10-03 7.2

Solomon's Perjury

On Christmas morning, Fujino Ryoko finds her classmate Kashiwagi Takuya’s dead body at their snow covered school. The police and the school conclude that Kashiwagi Takuya died by suicide. At that time ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Gen Koshimizu

2014-04-14 7.3

Villiany Ganbo

When Kanzaki Kaoru was young, her mother operated an Okonomiyaki restaurant. However, in just a day, her entire life as she knew it turned upside down. Her mother was declared a bankrupt, and they wer ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime, Action & Adventure

2009-11-18 0

News Sokuho wa Nagareta

A TV station news room receives information that a bomb has landed in a Japanese town. The drama follows what happens in the news room in "real-time," showing how the media can edit things to seem dif ...
Genre :

Syogo Yanagisawa

2011-04-18 8.5

The Marriage Counselor

Genre :Drama

Kunpei Takiyama

2009-03-21 0

The Sun in Kurobe

Shingo Katori stars as Kuramatsu, a manager- foreman for Kumagaya Construction. In order to solve an acute energy shortage in the Kansai region, Kansai Electric Power decided to built a massive hydroe ...
Genre :Drama

Zensaku Ohara

2011-10-03 8.2

Carnation

Carnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October 2011 to 31 March 2012. It is the 85th Asadora. It is based on the life of the fashion designer Ayako Koshi ...
Genre :Drama

2017-01-13 0

Grade A Reversal

Shin'ichi Sakurai is married to Kanako and they have a daughter named Kaori. Both, Shinichi and Kanako received only a middle-school-level education. Even though they don't have much money, they are a ...
Genre :Family, Comedy

Doizaki Gen

2017-01-08 6.3

Heaven

An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their house for 16 years. One day, housewife Toshiko Hag ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Yamagami Tatsuo

2023-10-18 7.5

Worry Not, She's the Boss

Fukabori Marie is a charismatic wedding planner and company president who is relied on by everyone, regardless of whether she is her boss or subordinate. Her husband Yusaku, an unsuccessful manga arti ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Ryosuke Iijima

2018-07-19 0

Hagetaka

During turbulent economic times in Japan, Masahiko Washizu leads a foreign investment fund and is criticized for being a vulture. He tries to buy a bank and another company that are experiencing finan ...
Genre :Drama

仲手川 耕一

1983-05-27 6

ふぞろいの林檎たち

Genre :

1987-01-07 0

Iki no Iiyatsu

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash apprentice growing up among the warm-hearted people ...
Genre :Drama

穗高重亲

2024-04-01 8

The Tiger and Her Wings

In the early Showa era, Japan’s first women’s law school opens, and the protagonist, Inotsume Tomoko (Ito Sairi), gains nationwide attention as one of the first female lawyers in the country. However, ...
Genre :Drama

Shun Samejima

2018-10-09 6.3

Miracles

A comical and heartwarming drama about a university lecturer on animal behavior who just loves all living creatures. Once he starts thinking about them, he becomes too absorbed to care about anything ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

松尾良治

1998-04-06 0

Ten urara

This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong ambition of becoming a carpenter and building homes. The story takes place from the late ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Hirotoshi Serizawa

2015-07-20 6.6

Best Friends in Love

Aoi Miura was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but he now works as an assista ...
Genre :Drama

Uesugi Kentaro

2013-07-03 7.4

Woman

After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

桑田 澄男

1996-02-16 6

ナニワ金融道

Genre :

星野正一

2003-07-03 8.6

Dr. Coto's Clinic

Dr. Goto Kensuke transfers to a remote island clinic after an incident at his Tokyo hospital. His first task: winning over the wary locals. ...
Genre :Drama

Master

2016-10-21 7.8

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about different a different customer, as they find simple ...
Genre :Drama

Noto Toru

2020-01-08 8

Off the Record

Keito is a reporter for a weekly magazine. The magazine covers everything from corruption by politicians to entertainers' scandals. She watches out for the next big scoop. Keito is also rich and enjoy ...
Genre :Drama

Furuya

2023-06-01 7.8

THE DAYS

Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

2016-06-02 8.2

Hibana: Spark

Tokunaga, a comedian who is down on his luck, has a shock encounter with Kamiya, an older comedian when he visits a fireworks event in Atami on a job. Tokunaga is deeply touched by Kamiya and asks if ...
Genre :Drama

2015-11-22 5

Godan

Makita Takahiro works in the Public Relations Department of Nagawara Seiyaku, a major pharmaceutical company in Japan. One day, on his way to work, he witness someone committing suicide by jumping ont ...
Genre :Drama

2013-06-16 0

Trembling Cow

Genre :Mystery, Crime

仙川鶴一

2024-08-31 7.7

Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

Dr. Ko Yowai is a happy-go-lucky but an absolutely brilliant psychiatrist. Yuri Amamiya is his slightly outspoken assistant nurse with a heart of gold. Together, they're waiting for the day when every ...
Genre :Drama

Yuzuhara Kohei

1993-04-11 0

Sunflower on the Hill

Film company engineer Kohei is on his way home one night when he sees a woman taken ill at a train station. He ensures that she gets home safely, at which point the woman, Fumi, tells him, she has con ...
Genre :Drama

Shibusawa Ichiroemon [Eiichi's father]

2021-02-14 7.3

Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, which was to manufacture and sell indigo production and also silk farming. He left his hometown at the ...
Genre :Drama

Mataichi Zaizen

2019-05-22 6.5

The Great White Tower

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Self - Narrator (voice)

2012-08-06 9.3

Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

Prominent Japanese wildlife photographer and filmmaker Mitsuaki Iwago loves cats of all shapes and sizes. So he's set out on a journey to film cats all over the world as they live their lives. Join hi ...
Genre :Documentary

2015-04-26 7.4

The Emperor's Cook

The drama series depicts the life of Tokuzo Akiyama, head chef of the Imperial Household Ministry’s Imperial Cuisine Division during the Taisho (1912-1926) and early Showa (1926-1989) eras. Based on a ...
Genre :Drama

Taiei Tamashiro

2025-10-19 0

1972 Fireflies on the Shore

In 1972 Okinawa, a $1 million heist risks a US-Japan crisis. A covert police team has 18 days to recover the cash, uncovering ties to gangs, elites, and US forces. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama