Riisa Naka

Riisa Naka (born on October 18, 1989 in Nagasaki prefecture) is a Japanese actress. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival. Naka became famous for appearing in Hachi One Diver.

Works

9.0

Cells at Work!

The smallest protagonist in film history - a human cell! There are a staggering 37 trillion cells in the human body. Red blood cells that carry oxygen, white blood cells that fight bacteria, and countless other cells work tirelessly day and night to protect your health and life. The film will also focus on daughter and father, Niko and Shigeru as they both live different lifestyles, and as their lively days go on, pathogens start to sneak up on their bodies. The most epic battle in the history of human cells, with the future of Niko and Shigeru at stake, is about to begin!

Release Date:2024-12-13

Character:NK Cell

Vote Count:1

Omusubi

Omusubi

A Heisei youth graffiti drama, in which the heroine Yoneda Yui (Hashimoto Kanna), born in the first year of the Heisei era, connects people's hearts to the future as a nutritionist. Always cherishing her individuality, she sometimes struggles, but powerfully and joyfully pushes through the turbulent Heisei and Reiwa eras.

Release Date:2024-09-30

Character:Yoneda Ayumi

Episode Count:125

Kaburagi

Kaburaki, a photographer for a weekly magazine, exposes a scandal that drives an actress to her death. He falls into a slump but vows to return to taking photographs to his boss and colleagues. One day he receives a message from an unknown source tipping him off about an idol he has been chasing.

Release Date:2024-06-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

7.0

Eiga Oshiri Tantei Saraba Itoshiki Aibō (Oshiri) yo

Release Date:2024-03-20

Character:(voice)

Vote Count:1

千葉雄大×仲里依紗×福士蒼汰×森崎ウィン 密着映像初公開!本格短編映画を監督 「アクターズ・ショート・フィルム4」人気俳優たちが映画で世界を目指す!

千葉雄大×仲里依紗×福士蒼汰×森崎ウィン 密着映像初公開!本格短編映画を監督 「アクターズ・ショート・フィルム4」人気俳優たちが映画で世界を目指す!

Release Date:2024-02-24

Episode Count:1

Extremely Inappropriate!
7.8

Extremely Inappropriate!

Ichiro is a PE teacher in 1986 feared by his students for a "tough love" approach, harsh tongue and frequently “inappropriate” behavior. He’s also a dad trying to raise a rebellious daughter after having lost his wife to illness. When he gets transported in time to 2024, he encounters modern sensibilities that teach him about empathy but also gives people of today a reason to rethink their own political correctness in this time traversing comedy about change.

Release Date:2024-01-26

Character:Inushima Nagisa / "Wan-chan"

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:13

7.9

The Imaginary

Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger go on thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger finds himself alone, he faces a mysterious threat.

Release Date:2023-12-15

Character:Emily (voice)

Vote Count:57

8.8

Between the White Key and the Black Key

In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playful story about chasing dreams, disillusionment and the inner lives of professional artists. Closer to playing two sides of the same coin than tackling a dual role, Ikematsu Sosuke embodies two versions of Minami – the naïve upstart and the jaded pro – who magically cross paths as they become entangled with a cast of colourful characters in the seedy alleyways and jazz clubs of Ginza over a single night.

Release Date:2023-10-06

Character:Chikako

Vote Count:2

Let's Get Divorced
7.9

Let's Get Divorced

A mediatised married couple who no longer love each other is highly optimistic about getting a divorce. However, external circumstances will get in their way and they will have no other choice but to work hand in hand to reach their ultimate goal: getting a divorce.

Release Date:2023-06-22

Character:Yui Kurosawa

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:17

7.7

Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie

The individuals that comprise the Tokyo MER team rush to on-site disasters and accidents, performing life-saving treatment thanks to the OR equipped within their vehicle. Their one mission is simple: leave no one dead. But conflicts arise when an unprecedented event rocks Yokohama after a bomb explodes in Landmark Tower, leaving thousands fighting to escape. Although the chief doctor Kitami believes they should not wait and presses for a quick dispatch, the more level-headed Chief Kamoi of the elite Yokohama MER thinks otherwise — they need to wait until the area is safe to enter, or they won’t be able to save anyone.

Release Date:2023-04-28

Character:Chiaki Takanawa

Vote Count:4

7.0

Tokyo MER: The Sumida River Mission

Half a year has passed since the official approval of TOKYO MER. Kitami is racking his brains over the issue of a second doctor to replace Otowa, who has left the team in order to expand MER to ordinance-designated cities nationwide. Some members of the team want Hina to be promoted, but Otowa asserts that Hina should pursue her path of cardiovascular surgery. She felt the pressure that Hina could take Otowa's place, and she was troubled.

Release Date:2023-04-16

Character:Chiaki Takanawa

Vote Count:2

Ooku: The Inner Chambers
8.2

Ooku: The Inner Chambers

In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant jobs, therefore changing the social structure. Now, 80 years after the initial outbreak with a 1:4 male:female ratio, Japan is a completely matriarchal society. Females hold all important political positions, and males are their consorts. Only the most powerful female—head of Tokugawa shogunate—may keep a harem of handsome and unproductive males, known as "Ōoku".

Release Date:2023-01-10

Character:Tokugawa Tsunayoshi

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:5

6.8

The Mole Song: Final

Reiji's final mission is to prevent the smuggling of 600 billion yen of drugs. For his mission, he gets on luxury passenger ship and he faces his strongest enemy to date.

Release Date:2021-11-19

Character:Junna Wakaki

Vote Count:7

TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room
7.7

TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room

TOKYO MER is formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo. The name of the group stands for TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals and they are to go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters by ER car. Their ER car is a large vehicle equipped with the latest medical devices and an operating area. There, TOKYO MER saves lives of the injured. Kōta Kitami is a doctor for TOKYO MER and its leader. He holds a strong conviction that, regardless of the dangers, he will go to accident sites to save lives.

Release Date:2021-07-04

Character:Chiaki Takanawa

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:9

7.8

Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy

When the five visit a private academy, Kazama is attacked, and left with reduced intelligence and strange bite marks.

Release Date:2021-04-23

Vote Count:28

Tower of Justice
7.0

Tower of Justice

Ren Kamijō is the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Liaison Division. His father is a former police officer. An incident in Ren's childhood triggered his thirst for power, and he has his sights set on heading the police force by becoming its Superintendent General someday. Ren believes topping the faction that he belongs to is the shortcut to fulfilling his aspiration. He is driven by ambition and has no qualms carrying out work, no matter how dirty it is. His childhood friend Sawa Mizuki, a senior detective in the First Investigation Division, often opposes his stance and mindset as a detective but is the only one who knows about his past.

Release Date:2021-04-15

Character:Yua Sendo(千堂 優愛)

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

Alice in Borderland
8.2

Alice in Borderland

With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.

Release Date:2020-12-10

Character:Mira Kano

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:2147

Mothers in Love
6.0

Mothers in Love

Follows the lives of three mothers, who have sons that attend the same school.

Release Date:2020-10-30

Character:Mari Kanbara

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:2

Living
7.0

Living

Release Date:2020-05-30

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:1

Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi
7.0

Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi

Detective Goro Akechi has a passion for fine dining. Good-looking but incredibly quirky, he solves food-related crimes by using, well, food. He treats Ichigo Kobayashi like his assistant and drags her into all sorts of cases, even though she's perfectly happy just running her food truck.

Release Date:2020-04-12

Character:Midori Kiritani / Reizōko

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:6

Yell
7.5

Yell

NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hardships together. Yuichi composes songs that became "Yells" for people all over Japan in the Showa Era (1926-1989) in which radical changes were going on. 

Release Date:2020-03-30

Episode Count:120

Vote Count:2

3.0

Brothers in Brothel

During some era, on an island that exists somewhere in Japan, there are people who exist there who feel confined. Idle days pass for men and women unable to connect, and women who can not grasp the importance of such connections.

Release Date:2019-10-16

Character:Mashiba Ibuki

Vote Count:3

パーティーは終わった

パーティーは終わった

Release Date:2019-10-05

Episode Count:2

Tokyo Bachelors
6.2

Tokyo Bachelors

Three Japanese men in their thirties and forties are professionals working in law, dentistry and banking. These three men are close friends and they enjoy their lives as single men, but they begin to wonder about the merits or necessity for marriage.

Release Date:2019-04-13

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:4

Two Homelands
5.0

Two Homelands

Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America, but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Charlie Tamiya also studied at UCLA with Kenji Amo. Charlie Tamiya has feeling for Nagiko who works with Kenji Amo at the same newspaper company. Knowing that, Kenji Amo holds complicated feelings. At this time, Nagiko's friend Emi Hatanaka asks Kenji Amo to marry her. He accepts her proposal, but the Pacific War begins. Circumstances surrounding Kenji Amo changes.

Release Date:2019-03-23

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

それを愛とまちがえるから

それを愛とまちがえるから

Release Date:2019-02-09

Episode Count:5

Fruits Delivery Service
6.0

Fruits Delivery Service

After the company SAKITA had been working at has gone out of business, he returns to his hometown in a regional city for a second start as the head of a call-girl business, "Fruits Delivery Service." This drama tells the tale of a group of women who, being poor and faced with a variety of life situations, have no alternative but to work at that service. It is a work that calls into question how to deal with distortions in society.

Release Date:2019-01-11

Character:Motohashi Emi

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:1

遠藤憲一と宮藤官九郎の勉強させていただきます

遠藤憲一と宮藤官九郎の勉強させていただきます

An unprecedented program in which Kenichi Endo, an actor who is active on the front lines as a famous by-player, and Kankuro Miyato, a scriptwriter who has worked on numerous movies, dramas, and stages, study "making the roles of famous actors". Broadcast. A one-situation drama written by Miyato and starring Endo. I thought that the shooting of the drama was completed safely, but due to a trouble, I decided to retake it. Instead of the co-star who has returned, a famous actor who was present at the scene will appear in a hurry. What kind of change will be made by different actors playing the same role in the same story? ??

Release Date:2018-11-12

Episode Count:1

6.9

Love At Least

For Yasuko every day is a challenge. Due to her mental illness and hypersomnia, simple things like household chores and holding a job seem impossible. Added to the mix is an indifferent, almost distant boyfriend and an ex-girlfriend with plans to win him back.

Release Date:2018-11-09

Character:Ando

Vote Count:9

7.3

My Dad Is a Heel Wrestler

Takashi Omura (Hiroshi Tanahashi) was once a popular professional wrestler, but he isn't popular anymore. He now wears a cockroach mask and wrestles as a villain. He is married to Shiori (Yoshino Kimura) and they have an elementary school aged son named Shota (Kokoro Terada). Takashi and Shiori have not yet told their son what Takashi does for a living. One day, Shota finds out that Takashi is a professional wrestler and a villain with a cockroach mask. Shota is shocked and tells a lie to his classmate that his dad is a popular professional wrestler.

Release Date:2018-09-21

Character:Michiko Oba

Vote Count:10

Eerie: Invisible Face
8.4

Eerie: Invisible Face

Seiji Hirokawa works as a university professor. One day, his sick wife dies. Several days later, the intercom bell rings at his home and he sees a strange woman's face on the intercom screen. The woman asks "Is your wife at home?" Seiji Hirokawa opens the front door, but nobody is there. The president of the university where Seiji Hirokawa works suddenly dies. An election to select his replacement takes place. The election even involves the students and Seiji Hirokawa also participates. The professors are cautious with each other and a mysterious document spreads across the university. Meanwhile, Seiji Hirokawa carries guilt over his past behavior. Before his wife passed away, he had an affair with his sister-in-law Rei Mizushima. She works as an instructor at the same university. An unidentified body is found nearby at a garbage dump

Release Date:2018-08-04

Character:Rei Mizushima

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:8

6.3

The Forest of Wool and Steel

High school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner Soichiro Itadori in school and eventually decides to work at Itadori’s musical instrument store. Tomura gradually grows as a piano tuner through his interactions with the other tuners and musician clients

Release Date:2018-06-08

Character:Eri Hamano

Vote Count:3

Holiday Love

Holiday Love

Azu Takamori is 30-years-old and married to Junpei. They have a 5-year-old daughter. She runs a nail shop out of her house. Azu Takamori has a happy life, but she is not satisfied with her marriage. Her husband is more like a family lover than a lover. One day, Junpei comes home with bruises on his face. He had an affair with a female co-worker and the woman's husband found out about their affair. Junpei's bruises are from the other woman's husband. Azu Takamori happy life collapses. She is filled with anguish, but tries to restart life with her husband. They face a difficult situation.

Release Date:2018-01-26

Character:Azu Takamori

Episode Count:8

Plage -Share House for Losers-
8.0

Plage -Share House for Losers-

A humorous suspense drama starring Gen Hoshino, currently Japan's most popular actor. The story is set in a shared house for people with various complicated pasts who have no place to go. Once rejected by society, the residents help each other as they try to get back on their feet.

Release Date:2017-08-12

Character:Koike Miwa

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:1

Flat Broke Mom

Flat Broke Mom

Yuzuko Nanakusa was betrayed by her husband. She now raises her son and daughter as a single mom, in addition to working at a company. One day, the company she works for goes bankrupt suddenly. She loses her salary and savings. While not knowing what to do next, Yuzuko Nanakusa is contacted by attorney Shinichi Kakihara. They went to the same high school together.

Release Date:2017-08-01

Character:Risa Nomura

Episode Count:10

Black Leather Notebook
6.7

Black Leather Notebook

Haraguchi Motoko works as a temp at a bank. To pay off debt that she inherited from her parents, she also works as a hostess at a club in Ginza.

Release Date:2017-07-20

Character:Namiko Yamada

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:8

I Love You Just a Little Bit
6.0

I Love You Just a Little Bit

Mitsu is a 29-year-old woman who married “the number 2 man in her life,” but has been unable to forget her first love, Arishima. When she accidentally encounters him after several years, she feels that it is destiny, and the two spend one night together in secret without their spouses knowing. Arishima himself has just begun a family of his own, with a newborn child, but he and Mitsu find themselves continuing their affair. While at first they enjoy what seems to be a no-strings-attached affair, it gradually begets subtle changes in feeling. Mitsu’s husband, Ryota, becomes aware of the affair and ups his devotion to her in an attempt to keep her by his side. Arishima’s wife, Reika, a perfect mother and devoted wife, makes this four-way relationship an increasingly complicated web of mixed emotions.

Release Date:2017-04-18

Character:Reika Arishima

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

7.3

The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio

A young undercover cop tries to get back with his former love, while unraveling the mystery behind the head of the police force. Meanwhile he has to protect the boss' daughter.

Release Date:2016-12-23

Character:Junna Wakagi

Vote Count:15

Death on Gokumon Island

Shortly after the end of the war, Kindaichi Kōsuke, visiting a remote island in the Seto Inland Sea, arrives at the powerful Kitō family on the island guided by the monk Ryouzen. There, Kindaichi encounters a beautiful woman named Sanae and encounters three sisters with unconventional and outlandish appearances that don't quite fit the island's atmosphere. And then, one evening, the youngest sister disappears... Kindaichi Kōsuke is rebooted into action!

Release Date:2016-11-19

Character:Sanae Kitō

Prison Gate Island

In 1946, on a fictional island called Gokumon-tou, located in the Inner Sea of Seto, the famous detective Kindaichi intended to pass his convalescence after the invitation of his war buddy Kitou Chimata, the successor son of the powerful clan of the Kitou Family. But Kindaichi arrives alone, bringing the bad news of Chimata's death. However, the truth is that Kindaichi is not on the island to recover. Before Chimata died, she uttered the words: "My sisters will be killed!" Indeed, as the three sisters are murdered one by one in horrible and strange ways, Kindaichi desperately tries to find the culprit and in the process discovers the intrigues of the family, secrets, island mentality, discrimination, and eccentricities, With the backdrop of the turbulent postwar period.

Release Date:2016-11-19

Character:Sanae Kito

Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~
7.9

Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~

Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Release Date:2016-10-22

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:12

One Thousand Trillion Yen Randsom

Based on the mystery novel by Yagi Keiichi, the former Deputy Prime Minister was investigated after leaving a national debt of 1,085 trillion yen, but charges were mysteriously dropped. Now, his granddaughter has been kidnapped. The ransom? Either 1,085 trillion yen- the same as Japan's national debt- or a formal apology and financial reconstruction plan from the former Deputy Prime Minister are to be prepared within the next seven days. Can the police save the young girl before the deadline?

Release Date:2015-10-17

Character:Atsuko Imamura

3.0

Partner in Crime

For the past 15 years, Fuyukawa Misaki has lived a quiet, reclusive life while keeping her secret well-hidden. With just two months left before the statute of limitations on the murder of her colleague expires, a mysterious man appears in Misaki’s life, who says, “I know your secret.” Is he a friend or foe? The nameless man who claims to know about Misaki’s past does not reveal any personal information about himself, but only says he wants to live with her in exchange for keeping her secret. Hence, a bizarre living arrangement begins. Who is this man and what is his purpose? Meanwhile, conventional detective Kiba is convinced that Misaki is the elusive criminal behind the 15-year old murder case and is determined to uncover evidence to prove his theory. As this peculiar love-suspense drama unfolds, you will need to piece together information to solve the mysterious puzzle of murder while the clock counts down to the expiration deadline.

Release Date:2015-09-30

Character:竹岡良子

Vote Count:1

Temisu no Kyuukei

Temisu no Kyuukei

Release Date:2015-05-10

Episode Count:4

I'm Taking the Day Off
6.1

I'm Taking the Day Off

Hanae Aoishi is set to turn 30. She works for a general trading company and has never taken a day off or been late for work. She dresses pleasantly plain and has zero dating experience. She attends a company party and drinks with part-time employee Yuto Tanokura. He is a handsome university student. Through the evening, Hanae becomes drunk and passes out. When she wakes up, Hanae finds Yuto Tanokura sleeping next to her and he is naked. She becomes confused about what happened and takes the day off from work for the first time. To come out of her shell, Hanae decides to date Yuto Tanokura who is 9 years younger than her. At this time Yu Asao, the CEO of a food company located in the same building as her company, begins to have feelings for Hanae.

Release Date:2014-10-15

Character:Ookawa Hitomi

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:7

昨夜のカレー 明日のパン

昨夜のカレー 明日のパン

Release Date:2014-10-05

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread
7.7

Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread

Release Date:2014-10-05

Character:寺山彻子

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:3

Villiany Ganbo
7.3

Villiany Ganbo

When Kanzaki Kaoru was young, her mother operated an Okonomiyaki restaurant. However, in just a day, her entire life as she knew it turned upside down. Her mother was declared a bankrupt, and they were plunged into a life of poverty. Moving from place to place, Kaoru started working the minute she graduated from middle high school. By scrimping and saving, today, Kaoru finally has 1 million yen in her savings account. Since she understood fully what it felt like to be poor, Kaoru lends her money to her colleague who is in financial trouble. She finds herself moneyless again, and under strange circumstances, she comes to know of someone who works for the company "Koshimizu Consultant"... and thus begins her journey into a world where betrayals are the norm, and everyone is trying to outwit the other; a world full of sly and cunning people. With her indomitable spirit, Kaoru claws her way.

Release Date:2014-04-14

Character:Kiriko Mayakashi

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:3

The Covers

The Covers

A group of talented artists breathe new life into classic Japanese songs and pop songs that have influenced them, covering them in fascinating arrangements, each with their own unique flavor. This is also a music program where they talk about their obsessions to the fullest.

Release Date:2014-03-31

Episode Count:2

6.2

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan to set him up as an undercover cop in the Yakuza.

Release Date:2013-11-15

Character:Junna Wakagi

Vote Count:43

8.5

Seven Souls in the Skull Castle

After the demise of warlord Nobunaga ODA, Japan was about to be unified by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI. However, there was one man in Kanto region that was defiant to it. That man, who named himself TenmaOh (Mirai MORIYAMA) and leads the KANTO DOKURO-TO, an armed group hiding in the pitch-black DOKURO-JO (skull castle), once worked for NOBUNAGA. Sutenosuke (Shun OGURI) happens to rescue a woman who has been chased by the KANTO DOKURO-TO, which was headed by the bloodthirsty madman TenmaOh.

Release Date:2013-01-12

Vote Count:2

Lucky Seven Special

Lucky Seven TV MOVIE Special

Release Date:2013-01-03

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
7.4

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

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.

Release Date:2012-10-18

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:29

Resident: Story of 5 Interns
7.7

Resident: Story of 5 Interns

Patients are brought in one after the other. Being put in an environment where there is a race against time to save lives, all they can do is stand there doing nothing. Though they still have a lot to grow as a doctor and as individuals, will they be able to overcome adversity and one day be able to proudly identify themselves as being a doctor?

Release Date:2012-10-18

Character:Miyama Shizuku

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:3

Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara

Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara

Onodera Mariya’s married life was supposed to have been happy but turns out shortlived when her husband Tatsuya suddenly disappears without a trace. At her wit's end, she heads for a heart-shaped island in Okinawa that Tatsuya had once spoken of. On the other hand, at a time earlier than this, Tsuruta Kameko, who has been working as a midwife in Tokyo, gets disgusted with the mentality of frivolous girls who regard abortion as reasonable, and a compromise in natural childbirth because of the hospital, wins a large sum of money in a lottery and leaves for a trip around the world. However, she learns that the Okinawan archipelago that she first stopped at is suffering from a shortage of midwives and decides to set up the ideal maternity hospital down there. These two women of different generations meet in the southern islands. The islanders including Kameko warmly embrace Mariya just like the Okinawan words say, “If we meet by chance, we’re all brothers and sisters”…

Release Date:2012-08-28

Episode Count:8

6.2

Brave Hearts: Umizaru

Mika is a flight attendant on board an airplane scheduled to land at Haneda Airport. On the way to the airport the airplane's engine starts to burn. In order to save the 346 people on board the airplane, sea marshall Daisuke Senzaki and his team are called into action ...

Release Date:2012-07-12

Character:Mika

Vote Count:25

Lucky Seven
8.3

Lucky Seven

Lucky Seven Rakkīsebun is a 2012 Japanese television drama broadcast by Fuji Television from January 16 to March 19, 2012. It stars Jun Matsumoto and Eita.

Release Date:2012-01-16

Character:Asuka Mizuno

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:6

5.2

Mitsuko Delivers

Mitsuko is 24, heavily pregnant and estranged from the American father of her child. Her parents believe she is happy and successful in America and are unaware that she has secretly returned to Tokyo. Making the biggest decisions on the slightest whim, she moves back into the tenement street where she lived as a child. The move changes lives, reignites old romances and creates a supportive circle of love that may be exactly what Mitsuko needs.

Release Date:2011-11-05

Character:Mitsuko

Vote Count:6

7.7

Love Strikes!

Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm and is attempting to start a new life by working as a writer for a news site. Suddenly, Yukiyo experiences "moteki" - a period when a man becomes suddenly popular with woman. Cute magazine editor Miyuki, pure and naive office worker Rumiko, beautiful shop assistant Ai and beautiful, but tough co-worker named Motoko all become interested in Yukiyo. He tries to calm down, but is shaken by the interests of these women.

Release Date:2011-09-23

Character:Ai

Vote Count:36

7.5

Young Black Jack

On Christmas day, a bomb explodes in a shopping mall. The explosion was perpetrated by a serial bomber. A 9-year-old boy Kuro Hazama and his mother Mitsuko (Naho Toda) are seriously and transfered to a university hospital. With the elite skills of surgeon Dr. Jontaro Honma (Masachika Ichimura), Kuro survives, but is shocked to learn his mother is in a coma. Dr. Honma tells Tokio that when medical science advances, Michiko might one day awake. Tokio decides then to become a doctor. 15 years later, 24-year-old Kuro is a medical student and his mother is still in a coma. Kuro researches ways to awaken his mother whilst practising medicine without a licence.

Release Date:2011-04-23

Vote Count:2

The Marriage Counselor
8.5

The Marriage Counselor

Release Date:2011-04-18

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Character:Marika Sakuragi

Episode Count:[ 11 ]

Vote Count:4

The Party is Over

The Party is Over

Naka Riisa plays a manga artist who goes to the celebration party of another manga artist and encounters five men about whom she imagines five stories.

Release Date:2011-02-01

Episode Count:5

Goodbye Alma

Goodbye Alma

Release Date:2010-12-13

Character:Fumiko Takahashi

Episode Count:4

The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know
7.8

The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know

Haruko lands a job in a local tutoring establishment and upon showing up for work on the first day, she discovers that she will not be teaching Japanese people, but teaching people Japanese. Her students are all foreigners who live in Japan for several reasons, and she is faced with their many questions on the Japanese Language that she'd never really thought of before.

Release Date:2010-07-15

Character:Haruko Kano

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:5

6.1

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City

A post-apocalyptic humankind in 2025 finds a hero in the form of Zebraman. But the Zebra Queen steals his powers, making him lose his ability to survive Zebra Time. But he wants his powers back.

Release Date:2010-05-01

Character:Yui Aihara / Zebra Queen

Vote Count:34

Bad Boy and Good Girl
7.3

Bad Boy and Good Girl

Shinagawa Daichi used to be a good student who has now become a delinquent, while class president Adachi Hana was a delinquent who is now trying to move on. Her secret is discovered by Shinagawa, but she involves herself trying to correct his ways.

Release Date:2010-04-23

Character:Hana Adachi

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:7

6.2

Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.

Release Date:2010-03-13

Character:Akari Yoshiyama

Vote Count:62

7.5

Pandora's Box

After Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the countryside to a unique nursing facility to receive treatment for his disease. At the sanatorium all the patients and nurses go by nicknames and Risuke decides to reinvent himself as Hibari. During his stay, Hibari develops realationships with other patients and nurses. After Hibari's friend Tsuikushi (Yosuke Kubozuka) gets discharged from the nursing facility, Hibari writes to him about his relationships with Dakesang (Mieko Kawakami) the chief nurse and Mabo (Riisa Naka) another nurse that is bright and seems to like him.

Release Date:2009-10-10

Character:Mabo

Vote Count:1

7.5

Summer Wars

A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.

Release Date:2009-08-01

Character:Yumi Jinnouchi (voice)

Vote Count:934

Care Worker Gang
6.7

Care Worker Gang

Hikoichi is the boss of a yakuza family, "Tsubasa-kai". One day he receives a sudden order from the main branch of his family...only to become a helper at a senior care home. Regardless of this unbearable order, he reluctantly obeys to keep his chance of becoming an executive in the future. But he soon finds out that he was not the only yakuza working there. The yakuza helpers soon realize that the senior care home is full of flaws; the yakuzas confront a female president of the care house.

Release Date:2009-07-09

Character:Haruna Misora

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:3

3.5

An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women

This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.

Release Date:2009-05-30

Character:Ryoko Nakatani

Vote Count:1

6.1

Halfway

In this high school romance Hiro is dismayed to learn her new love Shu will be going away to college in Tokyo. She asks him not to go.

Release Date:2009-02-28

Character:Megumi Megyro

Vote Count:16

Kami no Shizuku
6.5

Kami no Shizuku

Kami no Shizuku is a Japanese multi-award-winning television comedy series, based on the manga series The Drops of God. Produced by Nippon Television and featuring Kazuya Kamenashi, Seiichi Tanabe, Riisa Naka, Nozomi Sasaki, and Yuki Uchida, it was first broadcast on January 13, 2009, and ran till March 10, 2009.

Release Date:2009-01-13

Character:Miyabi Shinohara

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:2

School can't teach!
7.0

School can't teach!

Gakko ja Oshierarenai! is a Japanese television drama series concerning the life of ten high school students. It stars Kyoko Fukada as their teacher. It started to air on July 15, 2008. Aida Mai is a woman in her third year as an english teacher at a private all-girls high school. Due to declining enrollment, the school decides to admit its first male students. Those five freshmen initially feel they're in paradise, but the concerned Mai tries to help them adjust by creating a social dance club and inviting five girls. Those ten students become the focus of the drama, which is described as a story of love and adolescence.

Release Date:2008-07-15

Character:Eiri Yokoyama

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

6.8

Cafe Isobe

Sakiko is a typical teenager in many ways. She hates her divorced father, who chases after every skirt he sees. She does not know, if she will ever be loved by the other sex. When her dad suddenly inherits a lot of money and becomes really lazy, she hates him even more. He finally decides to start his own cafe, where Sakiko, of course has to help. From this moment, strange customers and good-looking waitresses form the center of tension between father and daughter.

Release Date:2008-07-05

Character:Sakiko Isobe

Vote Count:9

81Diver

81Diver

Sugata Kentaro used to be one of the most hopeful trainee to be a professional Shogi (Japanese chess) player, but fails at the final test. Now he has become a "Shinkenshi," a gambler who plays Shogi for money, and boasts his 182 wins in a row. But he is devastated when he is beaten completely by a young woman known as "Ukeshi" who takes any challenges and never loses. As Shogi means everything to him, he decides to train himself harder to become the strongest player. Based on a popular comic, this comedy drama is about a young man's exciting journey to reorganize his life through a series of tough challenges in Shogi guided by a mysterious girl.

Release Date:2008-05-03

Character:Nakashizu Soyo

Episode Count:11

7.4

Gachi Boy: Wrestling with a Memory

A wrestling club must deal with the fact that their newest member is an amnesiac.

Release Date:2008-03-01

Character:Akane Igarashi

Vote Count:10

Chii-chan wa Yukyu no Muko

Chigusa and Yuuto always spent time together as children. They enter high school at the same time and happen to be put into the same class. Yuuto's mother ran off and his father is an alcoholic, so it seems as though the only time he can feel any relief from the pain of his life is when he spends time with Chii-chan and can be reminded of the happy little moments from his past.

Release Date:2008-01-19

Character:Chigusa

Bomb Bee Men
5.0

Bomb Bee Men

A poor college student is so deep in debt that his desired job offer could be at stake! To get his money back, he plays the money-lender’s game.

Release Date:2008-01-15

Character:Sumire Shinjo

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:1

You Gotta Be Kidding Me!

You Gotta Be Kidding Me!

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 changes. The mother of his newly-wed bride is his old lover! What is worse, the mother voluntarily moves herself in with the newly weds. Their newly married life, which would have been honey-sweet, is becoming a roller-coaster ride. This is a comical drama portraying the triangle with reason of these three people. --TBS

Release Date:2007-04-15

Character:Karen Hirose

Episode Count:11

Sexy Voice and Robo
8.0

Sexy Voice and Robo

Hayashi Niko is a mature middle school student with heightened hearing and the ability to mimic the voice of anyone she encounters. Sudo Ichiro is an immature Otaku who is obsessed with toy robots. Together they will form Sexy Voice and Robo; a spy team that solves various cases.

Release Date:2007-04-10

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:1

6.0

Shibuya Maruyama Story

Two love stories set in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Release Date:2007-03-17

Character:Yumi

Vote Count:2

「アイランドタイムズ」メイキング

Making of Island Times

Release Date:2007-02-27

Island Times

Fifteen-year-old Masaharu lives on the small island of Aogashima, which has a population of 197. On the island, life is simple and facilities are spare. As there are no high schools on the island, Masaharu, in his final year of junior high, will be leaving for Tokyo after he graduates. He is the editor of Blue Island Times, the local newspaper he started with a friend, who has hit on hard times in Tokyo. One day, Yuki transfers from the city to his island school, and Masaharu is immediately smitten. As the two grow closer, Masaharu discovers his new friend's secret.

Release Date:2007-02-21

7.8

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

Release Date:2006-07-15

Character:Makoto Konno (voice)

Vote Count:2039

My Boss, My Hero
8.1

My Boss, My Hero

Sakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado" is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to force Makio to return to high school to receive his diploma and he asks an old friend who happens to be the principal of a nearby school to admit Makio. If Makio doesn't graduate, the position of boss will be given to his younger brother, Mikio. Furthermore, he must pose as a 17-year-old during school hours and in the presence of any classmates or teachers outside of school. If his cover is blown, it would be the end of his high school career as well as his hopes to become boss. Things start out rough and tough as Makio's violent temper is tested. As the lessons and days go by he learns there is much more to school than just tests and studying.

Release Date:2006-07-08

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:27

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