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Kei Tanaka
Born: 10th Jul 1984 Tokyo, Japan
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 164
Film: 74 (45%)
Television: 90 (55%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Adventure, Action & Adventure, War, Reality, Horror, Animation, Documentary
Filmography
Original title: おい、太宰
2025
Set by the seaside, this is a time-slip comedy about a man who adores Osamu Dazai and struggles to transcend time. ... view
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Jan 2025 (first aired)
Lawyer Sena Koyama, a realist disillusioned by love, teams up with idealistic newcomer Yu Matohara, who believes in love and sincerity. Despite their ... view
Character:
Ui Shuya (10 ep.)
Jan 2025 (first aired)
Heng's dull love life turns chaotic as his boss Kongdech, roommate Mo, and childhood friend Chicha confess their love, leaving him in a whirlwind of e ... view
Character:
Haruta (1 ep.)
Original title: 私にふさわしいホテル
2024
In 1984, an up-and-coming writer named Aida Taiju has her career crushed by off-hand criticism from an established author, Higashijujo-sensei. They en ... view
Character:
Endō Michio
Original title: 劇場版 ドクターX FINAL
2024
The star-studded casts of the drama series come together for the highly anticipated movie adaptation of "Doctor X"! The secret of Michiko Daimon is fi ... view
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Original title: スマホを落としただけなのに ～最終章～ ファイナル ハッキング ゲーム
2024
Genius hacker and murderer Urano escaped from prison and fled to South Korea. Urano was hired by a South Korean anti-government organization to set a ... view
Character:
Makoto Tomita
Original title: あの人が消えた
2024
Set in an apartment building where many people are rumored to disappear one after another, the story begins when Maruko, a young delivery worker, acci ... view
Character:
Arakawa
Apr 2024 (first aired)
Kankuro Haruhara is a research officer at the Meteorological Research Institute. With his handsome appearance and fresh smile, he appears on the weath ... view
Character:
Shiki Fujimura (1 ep.)
Jan 2024 (first aired)
Marital bliss gets complicated for two newlyweds when their new housekeeper turns out to be their former boss! Will their old love triangle resurface? ... view
Character:
Haruta Soichi (9 ep.)
Nov 2023 (first aired)
Commemorating the 120th anniversary of Ozu Yasujiro's birth, six up-and-coming filmmakers remade six of his early silent films as a contemporary mini- ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Gメン
2023
Shota Kadomatsu, a first-year high school student who transferred to a private Takehana Boys' High School surrounded by four girls' high schools just ... view
Character:
Yagami Koichi
Apr 2023 (first aired)
Yamihara Kokoro and Asada Toramatsu live in a town that is quite peaceful, until a serial murder case happened where the bodies all had their blood dr ... view
Character:
Toramatsu Asada (9 ep.)
Character:
常葉朝陽 (13 ep.)
Feb 2023 (first aired)
Natsumi is a literary editor married to a man who works at a rival publishing company. The childless couple spends their days working hard until he co ... view
Character:
Morishita Kazuhiro (10 ep.)
Jan 2023 (first aired)
10 years ago, Tanioka Hatsune was a famous young violinist. She won many international music competitions and performed with prestigious orchestras. F ... view
Character:
Tokiwa Asahi (10 ep.)
Original title: 月の満ち欠け
2022
Osanai Kei enjoys a peaceful and happy life with his wife Osanai Kozue and daughter Osanai Ruri, but his wife and daughter die in an accident. Osanai ... view
Character:
Ryunosuke Masaki
Original title: 耳をすませば
2022
Shizuku Tsukishima is a 3rd grade middle school student. She likes reading books. Shizuku meets Seiji Amasawa who is in the same grade and school that ... view
Character:
Sonomura
Original title: ハウ
2022
Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his fiancée. One d ... view
Character:
Tamio Akanishi
Apr 2022 (first aired)
After her mother dies, Kyoka moves in with her father, Rintaro, who begins to obsess over finding spouses for himself and his daughter. ... view
Character:
Higashimura Seita (10 ep.)
Original title: 女子高生に殺されたい
2022
Higashiyama Haruto is a 34-year-old Japanese history teacher who combines good looks with an honest and friendly personality. When he has been assign ... view
Character:
Haruto Higashiyama
Original title: 津田梅子～お札になった留学生～
2022
Tsuda Umeko was born in December 31, 1864 and became a pioneer in women's eductation. In 1871, Tsuda Umeko, with her father's recommendation, went to ... view
Character:
Hirobumi Ito
Original title: あなたの番です 劇場版
2021
Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's me ... view
Character:
Shota Tezuka
Original title: そして、バトンは渡された
2021
The happy home life of a high school student who lives with her loving stepfather is put in jeopardy by a painful family secret. ... view
Character:
Morimiya
Oct 2021 (first aired)
In Tokyo, a murderer leaves his signature, an `X`on the dead body. When found, the mark appears eerily similar to that of the one seen on the body of ... view
Character:
Jin Jinbo (7 ep.)
Oct 2021 (first aired)
Ryōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a good-natured person. His family consists of his wife Ma ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 総理の夫
2021
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is the leader the minority opposition party. One mor ... view
Character:
Hiyori Soma
Jun 2021 (first aired)
Doctors from various fields and with various personalities come together and formed the "Night Doctor", specialized in night-time emergencies. This dr ... view
Character:
Akito Naruse（成瀨 曉人） (11 ep.)
Jun 2021 (first aired)
Detective Gido Kennin (Tanaka Kei) specialises in reinvestigations, and is the most shunned and loathed person at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depart ... view
Character:
Kennin Gido (12 ep.)
Original title: ヒノマルソウル～舞台裏の英雄たち～
2021
Story about 1998 Nagano Olympic ski jump team competition, where Japan won a gold medal. ... view
Character:
Jinya Nishitaka
Original title: 映画 賭󠄀ケグルイ 絶体絶命ロシアンルーレット
2021
A school appears peaceful from a distance, but a fierce gambling battle takes place once again. Yumeko Jabami is involved in the battle. ... view
Character:
Toba Jiro
Original title: 哀愁しんでれら
2021
Fukuura Koharu works at a child welfare office and plunges into despair overnight. Then she meets Daigo, a private-practice doctor raising his 8-year- ... view
Character:
Daigo Izumisawa
Oct 2020 (first aired)
At a prestigious high school in Tokyo, the third grade D class consists of high scoring students. Their previous homeroom teacher went crazy in a shor ... view
Character:
Tsuneo Yoshizawa (8 ep.)
Oct 2020 (first aired)
Depicts Rinko, who is 33 years old, heading for marriage. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 2020 (first aired)
Conscientious and hardworking Ryūichi Kanzaki teams up with maverick detective Kenji Kurogi to solve violent crimes on the streets of Ikebukuro. Pola ... view
Character:
Kenji Kuroki (6 ep.)
Jul 2020 (first aired)
Aoi Midori is a pharmacist and in the 8-year span of her career, she has worked according to her strong belief that "One must know the patient well in ... view
Character:
Shōgo Seno (11 ep.)
Original title: 不協和音 炎の刑事 VS 氷の検事
2020
Based on the novel by Daimon Takeaki about brothers who were separated after the death of their father and reunited as police detective and prosecutor ... view
Character:
Yusuke Kawakami
Original title: スマホを落としただけなのに 囚われの殺人鬼
2020
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the trut ... view
Character:
Makoto Tomita
Original title: mellow
2020
Seiichi is the owner of a flower shop. He enjoys his peaceful single life. Kiho runs the ramen restaurant left to her by her father, but she's think ... view
Character:
Seiichi Natsume
Nov 2019 (first aired)
Sōichi Haruta is 35 years old and single. He gets fired from his job. He begins to work as a cabin attendant for Tenkū Peach Airline. On the first d ... view
Character:
Sōichi Haruta (8 ep.)
Original title: 劇場版 おっさんずラブ 〜LOVE or DEAD〜
2019
The story takes place after the TV drama series Ossan's Love (2018). It's been a year since Haruta and Maki pledged their undying love. Haruta has now ... view
Character:
春田 创一
Jul 2019 (first aired)
45-year-old Mitsuo Komae works for an advertising company. He gets demoted from the head office in Tokyo to a branch office in the province. He has to ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (12 ep.)
Apr 2019 (first aired)
Nana and Shota are a newlywed couple and Nana is 15 years older than Shota. Nana works as a designer and Shota works as a gym trainer. They both enjoy ... view
Character:
Shota Tezuka (20 ep.)
Original title: 美人が婚活してみたら
2019
Takako (Mei Kurokawa) is a beautiful woman in her 30's and she works as a designer. Takako has only had relationships with married men. She decides to ... view
Character:
Yatabe
Original title: スマホを落としただけなのに
2018
After a man accidentally leaves his smartphone in a taxi, he and his girlfriend are plagued by stalkers and cybercrimes. ... view
Character:
Makoto Tomita
Oct 2018 (first aired)
Seemingly perfect from the outside, Shinkai Akira was exhausted from worrying too much about how to be perfect. Nemoto Kousei is amicable and popular ... view
Character:
Kyoya Hanai (10 ep.)
Caseworker's Diary: Constitutional Rights, The Minimum Standard of Wholesome and Cultured Living
Family, Drama
Jul 2018 (first aired)
Emiru Yoshitsune is a 22-years-old who has just started working as a case worker to poor people needing public assistance. She has no knowledge about ... view
Character:
Daiki Kyogoku (10 ep.)
Jun 2018 (first aired)
Natsu Takato is a 35-year-old popular screenwriter. She lives with her husband Shogo in the outskirts of Saitama. Shogo used to work as a TV station d ... view
Character:
Iwai Ryosuke (5 ep.)
Apr 2018 (first aired)
First his boss shocks him with a confession of love, then his roommate. Maybe one of them is Soichi's Mr. Right after all. ... view
Character:
Haruta Soichi (7 ep.)
Mar 2018 (first aired)
A man has a wife in different parts of Japan and takes each out to a restaurant when a business trip from the others. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (4 ep.)
Original title: 伊藤くん A to E
2018
Seijiro Ito possesses good looks, but also has an overinflated ego. He gets involved with five different women. Rio Yazaki is one of the women involve ... view
Character:
Shinya Tamura
Original title: 追捕
2017
Accused of a murder he didn't commit, a prosecutor sets out on a mission to clear his name. ... view
Character:
Masaki Kitagawa
Oct 2017 (first aired)
Sato Tomoko leads an ordinary life with her husband and young child. One day, she defies the rules at the company where she works part-time to supplem ... view
Character:
Kohei Sato (10 ep.)
2017
Aku Yu was a songwriter who put out more than 500 songs in his lifetime. His songs spanned a wide genre from idol songs, enka, folk songs to songs for ... view
Character:
Kamimura Kazuo
Aug 2017 (first aired)
A jaded rom-com screenwriter in her 30s mines four love-sick women for their stories under the guise of providing them with romantic advice. ... view
Character:
Shinya Tamura (8 ep.)
Apr 2017 (first aired)
The story centers on Misa, a career-minded woman who works in the sales department of her company. She works hard, and often puts in an effort to make ... view
Character:
Keisuke Ojima (12 ep.)
Jan 2017 (first aired)
30-year-old Kamata Rinko is single and a struggling scriptwriter. She has no boyfriend and keeps having night outs at drinking spots with her girlfrie ... view
Character:
丸井良男 (10 ep.)
Jan 2017 (first aired)
The emotional stories of the six women living along the 8th line of the Tokyo Loop. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (6 ep.)
2016
Soichi Haruta is unpopular among women due to his poor social skills. However, he accidentally finds out his middle-aged boss and his room-mate have a ... view
Character:
春田創一
Oct 2016 (first aired)
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: バースデーカード
2016
Although her mother died when she was ten, Noriko still receives yearly birthday cards from her. Her life gets complicated as she grows older but she ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: 望郷
2016
Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana"
Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a ci ... view
Character:
(segment "Mikan no hana")
Original title: ガードセンター24 広域警備指令室
2016
The Security Guard Center sets the stage for this drama that stars Mamoru Shinomiya, a newly-hired emergency responder. Together with his brilliant co ... view
Character:
Apr 2016 (first aired)
The First Investigative Division is the star unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Jun'ichi Ōiwa, the head of the division, leads around ... view
Character:
Kohei Gyoubu (10 ep.)
Feb 2016 (first aired)
The human world is attacked by the space outlaw group the Dethgaliens who have chosen the Earth to be the site of their 100th Blood Game. One human an ... view
Character:
Boyfriend (1 ep.)
Feb 2016 (first aired)
A high school girl finally gets her own apartment, but she has to share it with the most popular boy in school. No one can know they're living togethe ... view
Character:
Takuya Uehara (17 ep.)
Jan 2016 (first aired)
39-year-old Nagasato Daisuke is a bachelor who works for a stationery manufacturer. Although he is attuned to trends and interacts with other people f ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Original title: 劇場版 びったれ!!!
2015
A single father and judicial clerk named Tsutomu's violent past in organized crime threatens to catch up to him when his daughter is taken hostage. ... view
Character:
Oct 2015 (first aired)
Giant breast control frivolous male Liang Jie divorced to live in the stock of the home of the Friends of the family, to help the lucky people chasing ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Oct 2015 (first aired)
Junko Sakuraba dreams of working in New York, but she currently works as an English conversation teacher. She's about to have her 29th birthday. Junko ... view
Character:
Makoto Kiyomiya (10 ep.)
Original title: 図書館戦争 -THE LAST MISSION-
2015
Set 18 months after movie "Library Wars." After the government's enactment of the Media Betterment Act, battles wage between the Betterment Squads and ... view
Character:
Mikihisa Komaki
Original title: 図書館戦争 BOOK OF MEMORIES
2015
Iku (Nana Eikura) joined the Library Defense Force after a member from that team retrieved an important book that was targeted for censorship. She is ... view
Character:
Mikihisa Komaki
Original title: 所轄魂
2015
A young woman is discovered strangled to death at the boat pier in Tokyo. There are no signs of disturbed clothing and assault, and because the body w ... view
Character:
Toshifumi Katsuragi
Original title: なぜ家族は消されたのか？ 心を操る恐怖のサイコパス～成海朔の挑戦II～
2015
One day, Hikari Seno questions her professor about her classmate who suddenly disappeared 3 weeks ago. ... view
Character:
Original title: 予告犯
2015
The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by ... view
Character:
Kitamura
Apr 2015 (first aired)
Ieji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent five years because of an accident at his job posting. H ... view
Character:
Tsuyoshi Honjo (10 ep.)
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語 25周年スペシャル・春 ～人気マンガ家競演編～
2015
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular manga artists such as Go Nagai, Junji Ito, Eiichiro O ... view
Character:
Jan 2015 (first aired)
32-year-old Kurosaki Yoriko has no man, no friends and no job. She starts to live alone for the first time and comes in touch with a new world. This i ... view
Character:
田中靖夫 (8 ep.)
Apr 2014 (first aired)
Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would a ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Apr 2014 (first aired)
Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice about pointing out her boss' mistakes. Her job is to ... view
Character:
Yuichi Sugita (1 ep.)
Feb 2014 (first aired)
Kensaku Kamimura is an archeologist. He makes a discovery that overturns history. Kensaku's discovery proves humans existed in Japan at a time where i ... view
Character:
Yoshiaki Baba (4 ep.)
Original title: 事件救命医〜IMATの奇跡〜
2013
IMAT (Incident Medical Assistance Team) is an emergency medical team formed to treat patients who are injured on crime scenes. The doctors on this tea ... view
Character:
Takuma Kageura
Oct 2013 (first aired)
45-year-old Reiji Watanabe visits his parents' home. His parents used to run an arcade. While there, Reiji fondly yearns for his friends Kido and Taka ... view
Character:
Reiji Watanabe (12 ep.)
Original title: 神様のベレー帽 ～手塚治虫のブラック・ジャック創作秘話～
2013
A beginning editor, Odamachi, slips back in time to the year 1973 and meets Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka, then, is out of luck. He has failed in animation bus ... view
Character:
Original title: サンゴレンジャー
2013
On Ishigaki Island, conflict brews over a large-scale bridge construction project. One day, Yajima (Sho Aoyagi), a public official from the Ministry ... view
Character:
Hiroto Kishitani
Original title: 図書館戦争
2013
Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed forc ... view
Character:
Mikihisa Komaki
Original title: 相棒シリーズ X DAY
2013
Detective Kenichi Itami from the The National Police Agency and Akira Iwatsuki from the cyber investigation team investigate a complex murder case. Th ... view
Character:
Original title: みなさん、さようなら
2013
After Satoru Watarai graduated from elementary school, he dropped out of school and decided to live within his apartment complex, never to venture out ... view
Character:
Hotta
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Biblia Second-hand Bookstore has been quietly open for business in some corner of Kamakura. Its owner is Shinokawa Shioriko, a young, pretty but intro ... view
Character:
Kikuya Kasai (11 ep.)
Oct 2012 (first aired)
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 ho ... view
Character:
Hikaru Morimoto（森本 光） (19 ep.)
Original title: レンタネコ
2012
A young woman who rents out cats to lonely old folks finds her life turned upside down when a young man from her past shows back up in her life. ... view
Character:
Shigaru Yoshizawa
Original title: アフロ田中
2012
Hiroshi Tanaka sports an intense perm which looks like the afro hairstyle favored by some African-Americans back in the 1970's. He doesn't get his hai ... view
Character:
Hajime Okamoto
Original title: ドットハック セカイの向こうに
2012
In 2024, the computer network prevails throughout the daily life. Arishiro Sora is a 14 year old girl. One day, she is invited to an online game "The ... view
Character:
Tomohiko Okano (voice)
Jan 2012 (first aired)
Deka Kurokawa Suzuki is a Japanese television drama series. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (13 ep.)
Oct 2011 (first aired)
More than half of women in their 20's to 30's admit to "currently lacking a boyfriend." Men, love, sex, work, marriage... All the issues women face to ... view
Character:
Yu Hasegawa (10 ep.)
Jul 2011 (first aired)
Fukami Hiroki's younger sister was killed by a friend. Hiroki then meets the killer's sister, Toyama Futaba, 15 years after the incident. Both of thei ... view
Character:
Kohei Hiragi (11 ep.)
Original title: 回廊亭殺人事件
2011
A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover. ... view
Character:
Jiro Satonaka
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot.
Set in Nagano prefecture, "Ohisama" covers the life of Yok ... view
Character:
Haruki Sudo (156 ep.)
Original title: ランウェイ☆ビート
2011
Transfer student Biito “Beat” Mizorogi, talented in fashion design, bring classmates together to stage a fashion show for the school's annual fest ... view
Character:
Satoru Inuda
Jan 2011 (first aired)
Japanese Ministry of Foreign affairs diplomat Kosaku Kuroda (Yuji Oda) is dispatched all over the world to protect Japanese interests and citizens.Aft ... view
Character:
Mamoru Saienji（西園寺 守） (10 ep.)
Jan 2011 (first aired)
One day, all of a sudden, Misaki, the number one hostess of a club in Roppongi becomes a high school teacher! Of all classes, she is appointed as the ... view
Character:
Takeshi Mikuni (10 ep.)
Original title: さよならロビンソンクルーソー
2010
Keisuke is a poor member of the trash every day with his meager income to support he's carrying debt girlfriend. At the hospital keisuke girlfriend ha ... view
Character:
Oct 2010 (first aired)
Naoko and Monami, mother and daughter, are in a bus accident. Naoko dies, but her spirit ends up inhabiting Monami's body. She then returns home to He ... view
Character:
Fumiya (9 ep.)
Original title: 七瀬ふたたび
2010
A gifted psychic named Nanase teams up with other psychics in order to fight against a mysterious organization determined to hunt them down. ... view
Character:
Oct 2010 (first aired)
Raised by a single mother, Kanzaki Sena is a gentle-hearted, hard-working OL at an advertising agency. She lives with her fiance and co-worker, Shindo ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Apr 2010 (first aired)
Following the death of his wife from a plane crash, tax inspector Haruma is convinced that the tragedy was a premeditated crime. A number of clues con ... view
Character:
Tetsuo Kubota (6 ep.)
Original title: 神戸新聞の7日間
2010
Also known as the "Kobe earthquake," the massive earthquake struck the southern Hyogo prefecture on January 17, 1995 and resulted in more than 6,400 c ... view
Character:
Chin Yuiko
Jan 2010 (first aired)
Matsushima Kenichiro is basically a straight guy because he hates dishonesty. He is an employee at a medium-sized building firm and works in design. H ... view
Character:
Shiro Kumazawa (10 ep.)
Original title: ブラック会社に勤めてるんだが、もう俺は限界かもしれない
2009
After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He la ... view
Character:
Shota Kimura
Original title: TAJOMARU
2009
TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his ki ... view
Character:
Sakuramaru
Apr 2009 (first aired)
Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite h ... view
Character:
Masao Kogure (1 ep.)
Character:
Shinichi Tamura
Oct 2008 (first aired)
A woman searching for "phantom soup" and a quiet chef who lost her family. The mystery surrounding them is slowly unraveled ...Based on an original st ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 天国のスープ
2008
Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to ... view
Character:
Original title: しあわせのかおり
2008
Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in ... view
Character:
Takahashi Akira
Aug 2008 (first aired)
A story about a talented child actress who wins back her dream after retiring from acting. Keito was once a popular child actress, but she had shut he ... view
Character:
Ozawa Masanobu (6 ep.)
Jul 2008 (first aired)
Ryō Naruse, who is an able attorney that can turn any case in his clients' favor, takes cases for the disadvantaged and defends them free of charge; ... view
Character:
Kasai Hitoshi (11 ep.)
Original title: 僕の彼女はサイボーグ
2008
A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future. ... view
Character:
Apr 2008 (first aired)
Shogo is a divorced man with one daughter. In his younger days, he was briefly in a band but it quickly broke up, and he took on a job at a record com ... view
Character:
青木さやか (8 ep.)
Original title: 凍える鏡
2008
Shun is a young man, who sells his paintings on a city corner. Kasumi is a children's story writer, living alone in a mountain in Shinsyuu. One day, t ... view
Character:
Shun Okano
Original title: 包帯クラブ
2007
An adolescent human drama of high school students who are troubled with their own concerns but gradually find a method of survival through Hotai Club. ... view
Character:
Shinichi 'Gimo' Yanagimoto
Jul 2007 (first aired)
Six agriculture students travel north to Hokkaido for first-hand training and experience in a farm setting. The story focuses not only on their daily ... view
Character:
Ashizaki Katsuya (11 ep.)
Apr 2007 (first aired)
A forty-year-old man has married a pretty woman 20 years younger than he is. However, with their marriage as a turning point, his fate dramatically ch ... view
Character:
Satoshi Tomoda (11 ep.)
Original title: 虹の女神 Rainbow Song
2006
Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollectio ... view
Character:
Gakuto Ogata
Original title: バックダンサーズ!
2006
A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which ... view
Character:
Akira
Aug 2006 (first aired)
Stories about how sweet and bitter love can be. ... view
Character:
Takuma (4 ep.)
Jul 2006 (first aired)
Amane Kaoru lives a night life, not because she wishes so, but because she is infected with the xeroderma pigmentosum virus. This virus defects the ab ... view
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Onishi Yuta (10 ep.)
Original title: バードコール
2006
A timid girl high school student, Sonoko Ishii (Emi Suzuki), has two important friends at her high school. They are Sonoko's boyfriend Satonaka (Kei T ... view
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Satonaka
Feb 2006 (first aired)
A miniseries starring famous actresses, based on the short story collection "Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi" by the author Yoshi. This dark drama has a ... view
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Onodera Riku (1 ep.)
Original title: 東京大学物語
2006
Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her ou ... view
Character:
Naoki Murakami
Original title: シムソンズ
2006
Four Japanese girls, 3 totally inept at the sport, come together to form a curling team in Northern Japan. The town is famous for scallops and curling ... view
Character:
Masato Kaga
Jan 2006 (first aired)
What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath the ... view
Character:
Kikuchi Michihiro (11 ep.)
Original title: 容疑者 室井慎次
2005
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched mur ... view
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黒木 孝夫
Aug 2005 (first aired)
Water Boys 2005 Natsu is a two-part Japanese drama series that aired in Japan on Fuji Television on August 19 and 20 2005. This is the third and final ... view
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Takashi Yasuda (2 ep.)
Jul 2005 (first aired)
A man who constantly applies the brake in his life, a woman who could do with a brake in her life. They have their careers but they are both failures ... view
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Kohei Hasebe (11 ep.)
Jun 2005 (first aired)
Tokyo Friends is a Japanese television drama released on June 3, 2005. Unlike many other dramas, it was never aired on TV but released as a set of 3 D ... view
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Wataru Iwatsuki（岩槻 航） (5 ep.)
Jan 2005 (first aired)
This is the story about one small coffee shop located in the northern island of Hokkaido.
Yukichi Wakui used to work as a successful businessman at a ... view
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Anzai Mitsuo (11 ep.)
Original title: 恋文日和
2004
A live-action adaptation of George Asakura’s manga, consisting of interwoven romantic vignettes centered around heartfelt letters exchanged between ... view
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(segment "Yuki ni saku hana")
Original title: いま、会いにゆきます
2004
Takumi and his six-year-old son, Yuji, haven't come to terms with their wife and mother's death. One day, they meet a woman with an uncanny resemblanc ... view
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Mio's College Friend
Jul 2004 (first aired)
"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of A ... view
Character:
Yasura Tadashi (11 ep.)
Jul 2003 (first aired)
Water Boys is a Japanese television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2003. There is a fairly large cast due to the amount of members ... view
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Yasuda (11 ep.)
Oct 2002 (first aired)
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 fi ... view
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Akira Iwatsuki (2 ep.)
Apr 2002 (first aired)
Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world tu ... view
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Ono (1 ep.)
Feb 1992 (first aired)
To protect innocents from ever-evolving crime, three souls burn brightly! This is the story of the Special Emergency Investigation Unit, striving for ... view
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Hiroyuki Okuda (child0 (1 ep.)