Yasuo Yagi

Asura

In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel.

Release Date:2025-01-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:19

The Two in a Housing Complex

In their 50s, single, and living in their family home, these two childhood friends were born in a housing complex. Even though their hearts are stirred, they are fine together. It’s a warm and humorous story of friendship, featuring the famous duo Koizumi Kyoko and Kobayashi Satomi.

Release Date:2024-09-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

Clock Store's Girl

The story is about the emotional and spiritual exchange between an elderly watchmaker and a cheerful and kind young woman who lost her mother in the tsunami of the Great Tohoku Earthquake. The woman asks the watchmaker to repair a wristwatch, which is a precious memento left her by late mother.

Release Date:2013-11-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi

The drama is set on the Twilight Express, Japan's longest overnight train service, which runs approximately 22 hours between Osaka and Sapporo. Nakayama and Sato play Chie and Keisuke, two lovers who have decided to part ways at the end of the journey. Chie already has a family but has been carrying on a passionate, secret affair with Keisuke. The story mainly takes place in their suite room on the train. The drama was filmed aboard the actual Twilight Express with cooperation from the JR West company, which operates the train service.

Release Date:2012-03-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Ah, It's True, You Are Already Gone

Release Date:2009-01-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Hatachi no koibito

Hatachi no Koibito tells the story of Inoue Keisuke, a married salaryman. At the age of 50, he begins thinking about his purpose in life. By chance, he encounters Sawada Yuri, a 20-year-old graphic design student full of hopes and dreams for the future. Because of her resemblance to his girlfriend from long ago, he finds his heart unexpectedly beating faster... --Tokyograph

Release Date:2007-10-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:10

Time for Love

When their mother falls ill, two sisters are faced not only with her extended care, but with the romances that spring from this change in situation. The younger sister, a married woman with children, falls for the man who found her mother in the park that day. The older sister is the president of her own company. She deals with both a man who (accidently?) assaulted her on the train and the doctor charged with her mother's care. The former keeps appearing in her life, always sad looking. He may seek a job in her company, since he recently lost his. The handsome doctor asked her hand in marriage, and she declined him. The story goes on...

Release Date:2005-10-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:10

The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters

Release Date:2003-10-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:2

Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso

At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese military. One man's face was to be transformed into that of a completely different person through plastic surgery. Shortly after operation, Japanese military facility where the man was staying was involved in a battle and collapsed, and he disappeared. In 1948, a letter of warning from the Twenty Faces was posted on the wall of the Japanese Museum. The notice read, “All national treasures will be taken away. The police, aware of the warning letter, rush to the Japanese Museum...

Release Date:2002-08-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

Are You in Love?

Yuko, Mayumi, and Sakiko have all been married for some time, and are all reasonably happy. But they share their troubles, secret hopes, and dreams whenever the meet at Mayumi's beauty salon. This story highlights the lifestyles of women today--housewives in particular.

Release Date:2001-10-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:10

I Wanna Fall in Love

A story that examines the relationships and bonds that seven random people share with one another and how that bond develops over the course of the series. Beginning with a meeting of six of them. The seven main characters are named after the colours of the rainbow.

Release Date:2001-07-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:11

Oyaji

At 55, Kan-ichi Kanzaki is the old-fashioned and overbearing father of the Kanzaki family: his wife Miyako, his son Tadashi, and his two daughters Sayuri and Suzu. Being an “oyaji,” a stubborn middle-aged man that cannot keep his opinion to himself, Kan-ichi is particularly bothered when he views what he believes to be a failure in the public’s morals. But unlike the occasional stranger, his kids have to live under his scrutiny every day, and there are plenty of family crises to draw his ire. Although he can be strict, his actions are driven by his love for his family, and one can’t help but be touched and amused by the loving efforts of such an “oyaji.”

Release Date:2000-10-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:11

Forbidden Love

Michi, a 26 year old high school math teacher, tentatively accepts her boyfriend’s proposal of marriage, uncertain of her love for him but feeling pressure from her father and society to do what is expected of her. Hikaru, a 17 year old boy frustrated by his home life with his single mother and having been expelled from many high schools for bad behavior, enters Michi’s class as a new transfer student. As their relationship grows they realize that they both feel that they have lost themselves to the pressures of those around them, and it is this common bond that draws them dangerously close. What follows is a heart-wrenching story of forbidden love where Michi must face society’s judgement for corrupting a minor, abandoning her fiance, and disappointing her parents and co-workers.

Release Date:1999-04-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:10

Kamisan Nanka Kowakunai

Faithfully married to his wife for 25 years, Goro is left to live alone for three months while his wife visits their pregnant daughter in London. His two devious childhood friends use the chance to gain a little freedom for themselves and move in with Goro. Goro would rather have his wife home and his friends out the door; but with all the beautiful women that keep walking into his life every episode, he may take the opportunity to do a little flirting of his own.

Release Date:1998-04-12

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2

A Twist of Fate

Eri and Shuji meet as next door neighbors and over the course of a year become lovers. However, just as Shuji is planning on asking Eri to marry him, they are each offered job opportunities at opposite ends of the globe. Pulled apart by their careers, they happen to meet years later and are surprised to find they still have feelings for one another. However, the fact that they are both in serious relationships with other people promises to complicate matters.

Release Date:1998-04-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:12

智子と知子

Release Date:1997-07-03

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:12

Mid-day Moon

When a woman is viciously raped, the traumatic event robs her of her self-confidence and ability to love as she had loved before. With special attention to her story of personal triumph over adversity, this touching drama recounts the tale of two lovers attempting to regain the happiness and level of affection that was theirs before her attack. --TBS

Release Date:1996-04-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:12

Why I borrowed money from her

Kunihiko Yamanobe, played by Hiroyuki Sanada, owes money to Yuki Tachibana, played by Kyoko Koizumi, because of his wife's credit card bankruptcy. This is the love story of two men and a woman who are brought together by a strange bond of debt!

Release Date:1994-10-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:11

男嫌い

Release Date:1994-07-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:11

Roman Holiday

A newscaster meets and falls in love with a woman in Rome who is the spitting image of the Crown Prince's bride-to-be.

Release Date:1993-01-04

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Papa to Nat-chan

Papa to Nat-chan is a drama about a young girl who matures from a high school student into a wife.

Release Date:1991-04-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:10

Sotsugyō

Release Date:1990-01-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:12

Mama is an Idol

A junior high school teacher marries a much younger woman despite his teenaged daughter’s disapproval. Her step-mother is now the sex idol for many of the boys in her school.

Release Date:1987-04-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:3

Daddy, the Newscaster

He didn’t even like children, yet without warning, the handsome, single newscaster finds himself playing the role of father to three impertinent daughters. His entire image of the roles of the sexes gets turned upside down as he makes the transition from a swinger into a caring parent.

Release Date:1987-01-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:1

Jesus' Ark

One-episode drama starring Beat Takeshi depicting the turbulent life of the protagonist Takeyoshi Sengoku, based on the "Jesus' Ark Incident".

Release Date:1985-12-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo

Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who raped and killed eight women in Japan in 1971. The case moved the whole country.

Release Date:1983-08-29

Department:Production

Job:Producer

The Lonely Olympics

This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater boat). Every night he stays up all night playing mahjong and drinking. Masao lives his life aimlessly, and even the university he got into after failing the entrance exam twice is on the verge of repeating the year. One day, a high school classmate and friend who graduated from Tokyo University and got a job at a top bank is invited to his wedding reception, and Masao is invited as well. However, Masao feels uncomfortable with the glamor of the surroundings, and when Rie, who is also attending, comforts him, he blurts out, half-jokingly, that he might compete in the Olympics.

Release Date:1983-03-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Television ga Kureta Yume

Focusing on the directors, writers and producers who have worked on numerous dramas and variety shows produced by TBS, the program explores the behind-the-scenes stories behind their masterpieces, including the ingenuity used to create hit productions and the friendships between them and celebrities.

Episode Count:2