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Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sunaga Hiroshi

Den-noh Coil, Coil — A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Fumiko Orikasa

The chronicles of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan. In order to study swordsmanship, Ryoma heads for Edo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Taira no Masakado and Umi to Kaze to Niji to. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toyoshi Fukuda

The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toru Tezuka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûji Tanaka

Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Kobayashi

Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI

Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable life in an age of turmoil and civil war....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asami Mizukawa

The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kasumi Arimura

The story chronicles the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sakae Takita

The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kantarô Nakamura

Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a promising son and successor to a powerful family in Bungo. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yamamoto

Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruka Ayase

It is said that "the style of work reflects a person's way of life." This documentary program closely follows top-notch professionals and thoroughly...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

This is the story about the a very powerful Lady Kasuga who established Ooku the inner palace.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūsuke Kawazu

In the year 2029, chemical elements such as oxygen, carbon, gold, molybdenum, and cobalt were continually disappearing from Earth. These disappearing...

Genre: Animation

Cast:

On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, Italy. The drama begins 45 years earlier - in 1540...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mayumi Wakabayashi