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1.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Amai wana shôsha man ga chucchô hosuto de tenraku!
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yuki Inomata
Votes: 9
2.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Burîfu no shiroi iro wa koibito no iro
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yasufumi Hayashi
Votes: 9
3.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Bôryoku otto ni kizukarenai de rikon suru hôhô
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yuki Inomata
Votes: 9
4.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Bôsô! Hôchô motta obasan
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yuki Inomata
Votes: 10
5.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Iyagaru otto to kinkyû rikon! Todokede wa 24 jikan OK
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yuki Inomata
Votes: 9
6.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Koi suru onna, onsen ni urareru
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Naoki Hosaka
Votes: 10
7.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Koibito wa komochi de chikan nano!
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yuki Inomata
Votes: 10
8.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Menkyo to kôtsû ihan kippu de keisatsu to taiketsu!
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yuki Inomata
Votes: 10
9.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Sekuhara otoko ni oi sarare kekkonshiki de haji o kaku
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yasufumi Hayashi
Votes: 9
10.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
Uwakizuma isharyô sagi to yachin neage o gekitai
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yuki Inomata
Votes: 10
11.
Kabachitare! (2001– )
Episode:
A! To odoroku ii otoko to karê udon
(2001)
Drama
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yuki Inomata
Votes: 10
12. Bokura no jidai (2007– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Shun Oguri, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Sawako Agawa
Votes: 25
13.
Bokura no jidai (2007– )
Episode:
Parasyte
(2014)
30 min | Talk-Show
The series is based on a boy and an alien parasitic creature whom fate has ordained to live symbiotically with the boy. But not all of them are symbiotic. Thus, the future of humanity is in... See full summary »
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Masahiro Higashide, Shôta Sometani, Takashi Yamazaki
Votes: 68
14. Suika (2003– )
Comedy, Drama
Motoko is a 34-year-old unmarried credit union employee who moves into a boarding house with 3 other women after her best friend and co-worker Mariko embezzles 300 million yen.
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Rie Tomosaka, Ruriko Asaoka, Mikako Ichikawa
Votes: 73
15. With the Light (2004– )
Drama, Family
Sachiko and Masato Azuma, in their 4th year of marriage, had been so excited about the birth of their long-waited first child. They named their baby boy "Hikaru" (meaning light in Japanese)... See full summary »
Stars: Ryôko Shinohara, Takanari Saito, Mikako Ichikawa, Masahiro Kômoto
Votes: 71
16. Kira kira hikaru (1998– )
The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru (Fukatsu Eri) is a graduate of a medical university, also focused her discipline... See full summary »
Stars: Eri Fukatsu, Toshirô Yanagiba, Kyôka Suzuki, Yasufumi Hayashi
Votes: 15
17. Pension Metsa (2021– )
Drama
revolves around Tenko, a lady who runs a pension located in a forest in Nagano. Each episode features a new guest at the pension. The interactions between Tenko and her guests unravel throughout each episode
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Masako Motai, Takashi Yamanaka, Koji Yakusho
Votes: 64
18. Sexy Voice and Robo (2007– )
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A middle school girl teams up with a robot otaku to fight crime in Japan.
Stars: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Suzuka Ohgo, Eri Murakawa, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Votes: 111
19. Dare yori mo mama wo aisu (2006– )
Drama
A heartwarming home drama told from the perspective of 11-year-old Kaoru, who says his family is often called weird and unusual. It revolves around the lives of stay-at-home dad, lawyer, ... See full summary »
Stars: Tetsuji Tamayama, Sadao Abe, Masakazu Tamura, Yuki Uchida
Votes: 14
20. Don Quixote (2011– )
Drama
Stars: Shôta Matsuda, Katsumi Takahashi, Ken Aoki, Yutaka Matsushige
Votes: 55
21. Chushingura 1/47 (2001 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, History
During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer after scattering into society for ... See full summary »
Director: Shunsaku Kawake | Stars: Takuya Kimura, Kôichi Satô, Eri Fukatsu, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
Votes: 68
22. Pan to sûpu to neko biyori (2013– )
60 min | Comedy
Akiko (Satomi Kobayashi) lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and takes over her mother's small restaurant. At the restaurant ... See full summary »
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Kana, Ken Mitsuishi, Sansei Shiomi
Votes: 123
23. After the Storm (2016)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi, Lily Franky
Votes: 12,754 | Gross: $0.27M
24. Dogs Without Names (2015)
107 min | Drama
A film maker decides to channel her grief over her deceased golden retriever into making a documentary about people who rescue dogs and cats 'without names' - meaning with no one to care ... See full summary »
Director: Akane Yamada | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Takaya Kamikawa, Misato Aoyama, Saori Imamura
Votes: 94
25. His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)
90 min | Drama, Romance
After a failed romance, a temperamental young biker meets a carefree rural girl while riding through her island hometown and gets her obsessed about riding a motorcycle.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Kiwako Harada, Noriko Watanabe, Riki Takeuchi, Ryôichi Takayanagi
Votes: 679
26. Lonely Heart (1985)
112 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Yasuko Tomita, Toshinori Omi, Yumiko Fujita, Nenji Kobayashi
Votes: 388
27. Kamome shokudô (2006)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, ... See full summary »
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Hairi Katagiri, Masako Motai, Jarkko Niemi
Votes: 2,722
28. I Are You, You Am Me (1982)
113 min | Comedy
9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô, Sayuri Ishibashi
Votes: 526
29. The One Pound Gospel (2008)
Comedy, Romance, Sport
Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an ... See full summary »
Stars: Kazuya Kamenashi, Meisa Kuroki, Yoshinori Okada, Ryôsuke Yamada
Votes: 131
30. Megane (2007)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Taeko is a stressed career woman who leaves her life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what she expected as everyone on the island is strange.
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryô Kase, Ken Mitsuishi
Votes: 1,886
31. Haru ni Nattara (2024)
Drama
Masahiko has raised his daughter Hitomi by himself. As Hitomi is getting married in 3 months and Masahiko has been told by doctor that he only has 3 months to live, they try to fulfill their bucket lists of things they want to do.
Stars: Yo Aoi, Tatsuya Fukasawa, Gaku Hamada, Manami Hashimoto
Votes: 9
32. Beijing Watermelon (1989)
135 min | Drama
The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. His life, and that of his wife, Michi and their two children, undergoes a ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Bengal, Masako Motai, Yasufumi Hayashi, Haruhiko Saitô
Votes: 157
33. Kami wa saikoro wo furanai: Kimi wo wasurenai (2006– )
Drama
Everything seems normal until the Oriental Air 402 plane is swallowed into some kind of energy and disappears. Ten years after having everyone think the plane had mysteriously crashed and ... See full summary »
Stars: Riko Narumi, Tarô Yamamoto, Tomoya Nakamura, Satomi Kobayashi
Votes: 8
34. Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B (1979–2011)
Drama
Kinpachi Sakamoto is the homeroom teacher for a group of third-year students known as the "B-Group". The students are from a wide range of backgrounds, and have an equally wide range of ... See full summary »
Stars: Hideko Hara, Tetsuya Takeda, Aya Ueto, Miho Konishi
Votes: 50
35. The Deserted City (1984)
105 min | Drama
After reading a newspaper article about a town being destroyed in a fire, Eguchi begins to recall the summer he spent there writing his thesis. It's a beautiful canal town, the "Venice of ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Kisuke Yamashita, Toshie Negishi, Tôru Minegishi
Votes: 134
36. Ryôma no tsuma to sono otto to aijin (2002)
115 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Noritake Kinashi, Kiichi Nakai, Kyôka Suzuki, Yôsuke Eguchi
Votes: 40
37. Pale Moon (2014)
126 min | Drama
A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble.
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Rie Miyazawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yûko Ôshima, Seiichi Tanabe
Votes: 949
38. Young Girls in Love (1986)
98 min
The story of a young girl's first love is told from the heroine's point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.
Director: Kazuki Ômori | Stars: Yuki Saitô, Haruko Sagara, Mamiko Takai, Toshirô Yanagiba
Votes: 32
39. Anone (2018)
54 min | Drama
One day a woman named Anone is getting ready to leave her home for work when she accidentally drops her wedding ring. As she searches for it she finds quite a bit of cash under the floor. ... See full summary »
Stars: Suzu Hirose, Eita Nagayama, Yûko Tanaka, Anne Suzuki
Votes: 111
40. Toad's Oil (2009)
131 min | Drama
The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope with the death of his son and somehow ... See full summary »
Director: Koji Yakusho | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Satomi Kobayashi, Eita Nagayama, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 139
41. Mountain Days with Tom (2015 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Hana (Kobayashi Satomi), who had been living in Tokyo, starts life in the countryside with her friend Toki (Ichikawa Mikako) and Toki's daughter Toshi (Sasaki Haruka), an elementary school ... See full summary »
Director: Oto Ueda | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ken Mitsuishi, Hitomi Takahashi
Votes: 34
42. Akahana no sensei (2009)
Drama
Ishihara Santaro is an electronics salesman with a knack for entertaining customers while wearing his trademark red nose. But his actual sales are poor, and he soon gets fired. Through his ... See full summary »
Stars: Yô Ôizumi, Yû Kashii, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Satomi Kobayashi
Votes: 11
43. Eien no 1/2 (1987)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Kichitarô Negishi | Stars: Saburô Tokitô, Shinobu Ôtake, Tomoko Nakajima, Fukuko Sayo
Votes: 22
44. Riyû (2004)
160 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Four people are murdered in an apartment block, but none of them seem connected.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Takehiro Murata, Saki Terashima, Miyoko Akaza, Takuro Atsuki
Votes: 150
45. Kabachitare! (2001– )
Drama
Tokiwa stars as Tamura Nozumi, with a cheerful outlook in life, always choosing to believe in everyone. Fukatsu stars as Sakada Chiharu, an amanuensis (daisho) but goes way beyond her ... See full summary »
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Tomohisa Yamashita
Votes: 481
46. Rikon na Futari (2019)
Drama
Noda Ryusuke is a popular scriptwriter specializing in stories about the perfect married couple but is shocked when his wife of 23 years suddenly wants to get a divorce.
Stars: Lily Franky, Makiko Watanabe, Masaki Okada, Satomi Kobayashi
Votes: 17
47. Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (2020)
113 min | Drama
Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the... See full summary »
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Lily Franky, Elaiza Ikeda, Yoshino Kimura, Satomi Kobayashi
Votes: 291
48. The Female Teacher in Black (2012– )
54 min | Drama
Stars: Nana Eikura, Fumino Kimura, Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya
Votes: 11
49. Fukigen na jiin (2005– )
Comedy
Yoshiko Aoi is a biology researcher at a Japanese university when her ex-lover, the flashy, popular, and completely over the top professor Takashi Minamihara bursts back into her nerdy life.
Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Seiyô Uchino, Satomi Kobayashi, Yû Yamada
Votes: 18
50. Family of Strangers (2019)
117 min | Crime, Drama
Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That ... See full summary »
Directors: Hideyuki Hirayama, Park Gyu Taek | Stars: Tsurube Shôfukutei, Gô Ayano, Nana Komatsu, Toshiki Ayata
Votes: 276