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- Kang Ma-Ru is a promising medical student, until he takes the blame for a crime he didn't commit. When he finds an opportunity for revenge, he takes it, using Seo Eun-Gi. Ma-Ru soon discovers that are things more important than revenge, though.
- A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
- A samurai goes to extraordinary lengths to provide for his family.
- A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.
- Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is treated by a hypnotist and left under the spell. Thereafter she cannot but sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever. No matter the source, length or quality she is composed to dance along. Shizuka heads back to the hypnotist for relief, but he is nowhere to be found when he is needed the most.
- Sequel to Rental joshidaisei: Nikuyoku entai-chû (2017) that delves into the family relationships and hometown of protagonist Teruo Ikeda (Takuya Sakurai).
- Sugawara Meguka (Tatsumi Yui) revisits Tanezaki Beach, Aomori Prefecture, which she visited two years ago on a company retreat. Walking along the empty beach, Meguka recalls what happened two years ago.
- After a sleepless night waiting for his father to come home, a drowsy schoolboy strays off the path and wanders into the snow.
- A man travels with his pill-popping girlfriend to the headquarters of her Yakuza boss husband, in order to claim her for himself.
- In their hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) open an apple orchard. Because of Meiko's allergic reaction to pesticides, without the help of chemicals, Akinori Kimura must grow his apples. His family endures hardships due to this challenge and suffers severe financial difficulties. Akinori Kimura is even considering suicide.
- A middle-aged divorcee (Toshiyuki Nishida) embarks on a journey across Japan with his dog Happy. Along the way, they have to overcome health issues and financial difficulties.
- Oshima Ayako, a young woman in her teens, lives in a small, impoverished fishing village. Her father is too ill to work. As a result, her mother sells her to a nearby brothel. There she quickly is stripped of her innocence and illusions.
- Traveling through Hokkaido with a disgruntled salaryman seeking a lost love (Eiji Funakoshi), Tora-san runs into Lily, who has gotten divorced since they last saw each other in Tora-san's Forget Me Not (1973) and is working as an itinerant singer. After a spat in the scenic town of Otaru, they split and meet again in Tora-san's hometown of Shibamata, where they reconcile. With sparks reignited between the pair, will the perpetual bachelor Tora-san finally find a chance at love?
- Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a geisha, like her now-deceased mother. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.
- Shinobugawa depicts the emerging love of a student, identified only as "I", for a young waitress named Shino.
- A Japanese Warrior leaves the secretive battalion he is apart of. As a skilled soldier, he confronts evil and serves his people.
- A telephone booth known as the "Phone of the Wind" stands on a hill in northern Japan. It is not connected, but many people come here to "call" their loved ones lost in the 2011 tsunami.
- Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story.
- In 1902, 210 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Imperial Army set out on a 12 mile winter march around Mount Hakkoda to Tashiro Hot Spring. It should have been an easy approach to the hot spring at Tashiro. However, at a mere altitude of around 2,000 feet, the 5th Regiment met with a disaster that claimed the lives of 199 men. A number of factors combined to bring about the Hakkoda disaster.Typhoon-like low pressure systems, a local-climate zone prey to low temperatures and fierce blizzards: all of these elements combined as cogs in the wheels of fate. But can we simply say they were unlucky? Featured interviews with survivors tell the true story about what happened in the Mount Hakkoda.
- The newcomers to a fishing village are a man who is escaping the gangsters after him and his girlfriend who is returning to her hometown. This may be as safe a place as any to lie low. Bored and fretting at first the couple find preoccupation in opposite ways. One settles in and becomes part of the community. The other picks up corruption and becomes a betrayer.
- Aaron Wilder, a man living a sheltered life, is challenged by his deceased mother to do a scavenger hunt in Asia. Can he do it? What will he find? And, what the heck is shariko?
- The Jomon period three thousand years ago produced clay figurines and other artifacts which interest Goro. That is why it is fascinating for him when he meets Momoko who has a mysterious connection to the era. Their relationship escalates, but the mystery lingers in tandem to love and companionship.
- A group of high school girls learn to play the game of curling.
- In Rokkasho there is a reprocessing plant for nuclear fuel. Villagers and supporters engaging in a grassroots campaign around nuclear facilities.
- Newlyweds May, a feisty New Yorker, and Toshi, a sensitive, volatile Tokyo-ite, must find out how their practice of the ancient martial art of Kendo, can save their marriage and help to live out their dreams.
- From hotel living and subjects from laundry to communicating to packing and even throwing parties in hotels. Is living in a hotel all it's cracked up to be?
- Story concerns teen amateurs trying to make their musical marks, set in Mutsu, Aomori, Japan.
- Organic farmers of northern Japan contend with the threat that nuclear fallout from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant poses to their land and their livelihood.
- After simmering in one of the Tohoku region's famous hot springs, Adam Liaw attempts a world gluttony record: devouring 500 bowls of Soba noodles.
- 2012–7.5 (18)TV EpisodeChris journeys a thousand miles across Japan to find out if Japanese railways really are the best in the world. Along the way he meets one of the great architects of the bullet trains, a celebrity Station Master cat, a singing conductress and atomic bomb survivors who kept wartime trams running.