In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
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, after facing wartime Japan’s harsh realities and losing everything, she becomes a judge with her legal knowledge and dedicates herself to establishing the family court. She stands passionately for the hardships that politics and economics cannot solve.
Journeys in Japan provides an eye-opening look at the many unique places to visit in Japan. English-speaking visitors travel the length of the country, exploring the culture, meeting the local people, visiting historic sites and offering travel hints rarely found in guidebooks.
Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
Psycho-Pass is set in a futuristic era in Japan where the Sibyl System, a powerful network of psychometric scanners, actively measures the biometrics of its citizens' minds. The resulting assessment is called a Psycho-Pass. When the calculated likelihood of an individual committing a crime, measured by the Crime Coefficient index, exceeds an accepted threshold, he or she is pursued, apprehended, and either arrested or decomposed by the field officers of the Crime Investigation Department of the Public Safety Bureau.
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
En Shinichi Kudo és un detectiu adolescent que tot sovint ajuda la policia a resoldre casos. Durant una trobada amb la Ran Mouri, la seva amiga de la infància, en un parc d'atraccions, en Shinichi veu dos homes vestits de negre fent un intercanvi sospitós. El descobreixen i li fan prendre un verí experimental amb la intenció de matar-lo. Tanmateix, un efecte secundari fa que en Shinichi s'encongeixi i es converteixi en un nen petit. Amb l'ajuda del doctor Agasa, el seu veí inventor, adopta la identitat d'en Conan Edogawa, nom format a partir dels d'Arthur Conan Doyle i Edogawa Ranpo. Així vol evitar que els que l'han encongit, l'Organització dels Homes de Negre, el trobin i el matin a ell i als del seu voltant. Precisament per aquesta raó decideix no revelar la seva identitat a ningú més. Se'n va a viure a casa de la Ran i el seu pare, el mediocre detectiu privat Kogoro Mouri, on espera investigar sobre els que l'han encongit.[3]
En Shinichi es matricula a l'escola primària, on fa amistat amb un grup de nens que formaran la Lliga de Detectius Júnior, i resol els casos en nom d'en Kogoro Mouri fent ús d'un llaç transformador de veu i un rellotge amb dards anestèsics creats pel doctor Agasa.
Durant la investigació per desemmascarar l'Organització i trobar un antídot del verí que l'ha empetitit, en Shinichi coneixerà antics membres d'aquest grup criminal, com l'Ai Haibara —qui s'ha pres el verí per fugir-ne—, i ajudarà l'FBI a infiltrar-hi una agent com a espia.
Nao Kanzaki, a student, was blackmailed into joining a "Liar Game" and ended up losing 100 million yen. In order to repay the debt, she enlists the help of Shin'ichi Akiyama, a genius swindler who was only recently released from jail for bankrupting one of Japan's largest scam companies.
The adventures of Sazae Fuguta and her family and friends in their Tokyo suburb.
Arsène Lupin III, el net del lladre de ficció Arsène Lupin, és considerat el lladre més important del món i és conegut per avisar amb antelació els propietaris dels objectes valuosos que vol robar. La seva mà dreta és en Daisuke Jigen, un franctirador expert que pot disparar a un objectiu en qüestió de 0,3 segons. Tot i que en Lupin i en Jigen normalment treballen només en parella, sovint se'ls afegeix en Goemon Ishikawa XIII, un mestre espadatxí amb una espasa molt esmolada, i la Fujiko Mine, una femme fatale de qui en Lupin n'està molt. Malgrat que la Fujiko sovint treballa amb els altres, a vegades es queda ella els tresors. El grup d'en Lupin és perseguit constantment per l'inspector Koichi Zenigata de la Interpol.
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
Middle schooler Valt Aoi, with his Beyblade Valkyrie (Valtryek), faces off against friends, classmates, and rivals to become the world's number one Blader.
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
Six strangers share a fabulous house in Tokyo, looking for love while living under the same roof. With no script, what happens next is all up to them.
Doraemon és una sèrie iniciada el 1979 de manga i anime de Fujiko F. Fujio sobre un gat robòtic que ve del futur per ajudar el desventurat Nobita Nobi. És la segona sèrie sobre aquests personatges, essent la primera iniciada el 1973 i la tercera el 2005.
At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn't that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her feelings to him, but finally has a chance to tell him how she feels. Unfortunately, Naoki turns Kotoko down, saying "I don't like dumb women." One day, Kotoko Aihara's house is severely damaged by an earthquake. Until the house is rebuilt, Kotoko Aihara and her father decide to live with her father's friend. When Kotoko Aihara moves to her new temporary house, she is surprised to learn that Naoki Irie lives there as well.
Host Peter Barakan delves into various aspects of Japanese culture; exploring practices, history, and modern innovations in such areas as ramen, rice, sushi, geisha, bonsai, and so much more. Local experts discuss their passions at fascinating length, and American Japanophile Matt Alt experiences the food, practices, and cultures in each episode in depth. Viewers will finish each half hour episode with a new understanding of an area of Japanese life through demonstrative videos and explanations, all delivered respectfully and true to the Japanese way of life.
Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. Adapted from a biography of the man, this series depicts the character, his art, vision and his interactions with the approving and disapproving folk around him.
Young Kengo Manaka lives on Mars. As he lives out his peaceful, day-to-day life, the monster Golba suddenly appears, throwing the town into chaos! Meanwhile, Kengo has a fateful meeting with a giant stone statue sleeping deep beneath the ground on Mars. When Kengo becomes one with an Ultra-Ancient light, his destiny is forcefully thrown into motion!