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Set in Aomori at the end of the 1960s, this youth drama depicts the thrilling and hectic day of young people just before they graduate high school and enter society. A film adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Kenichi Kawakami.
Kei keeps her truck rolling day after day, always thinking of her young daughter, Iku, who lives apart from her. Kei’s protégé, Maako, also drives a truck to pay her little sister Mio’s school fees. One day, Kei spots Mio taking money from a middle-aged man. Not long after, word comes that Maako has quit her job…
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Genshichi, a child of poor farmers, enrolls in an army flight school. There, he meets an instructor named Sekine. As the war situation worsens day by day, Sekine begins to teach kamikaze attacks. Having lost his family, Sekine volunteers for a kamikaze attack and heads to the base where he finds Genshichi. The two board a two-seater plane and depart for Okinawa on a kamikaze mission.
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Shomuni, that's the common name given to General Affairs Section 2 of a trading company. Here are six women who have ended up in this department known as "the dump" for office ladies. But Chinatsu Tsuboi (Makiko Esumi) declares that the value of woman is equal to the number of men. With her as the central focus they create a totally new type of office lady drama that does away with those heartless men still caught up in worn-out social ideas and the class system within the company.
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.
This story is about four men who work in a confectionary. Tachibana Keiichiro (Shiina Kippei) is the owner; Ono Yusuke (Fujiki Naohito) is the superb baker that has a mysterious and mesmerizing aura; Kobayakawa Chikage (Abe Hiroshi) is the waiter and close bodyguard of Tachibana; and last but not least is Kanda Eiji (Takizawa Hideaki), the ex-boxer who loves cake so much that he becomes a waiter at 'Antique'. This is a refreshing, yet heartfelt comedy about the 4 very unique personalities that work until the wee hours of the night at the small confectionary. The series follows the romance, family life, and most importantly friendship that these 4 men from different generations experience. This is a confectionary with a "flavor" not like most. Located in the middle of an ordinary residential area, "Antique" stays open until 2 a.m. Every single thing in the shop is antique, in fact even the sherry glasses that water comes in look like they would cost 50,000 yen. On top of this, all the sweets that are sold are unbelievably delicious. The thing that is most peculiar about "Antique" though is that all 4 of the men that work here are very handsome, and each has an interesting past. Those that frequent the store also have a story to tell. Edited Excerpt from JDorama.com
Aya Kuramoto, a deaf and mute girl from Hokkaido, falls in in love with a doctor named Shūichi Nagai. After Shūichi leaves for Tokyo, he has an accident and loses his memory. Aya travels to Tokyo and encounters Takumi Nagai, Shūichi's brother.
A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only daughter of old traditional family. For generations, they were making soybean paste for living. Now she needs to take over this business and rebuild it. She lives through the hardships of postwar Japan.