Yusuke Nogi of Marubishi Corp. is about to seal a solar energy plant deal when he is blamed for a remittance error that sends him to the central Asian republic of Balka to retrieve 13 billion yen or face dismissal. He then nearly dies in a terrorist explosion, but learns the local authorities are hunting him as the bomber suspect! He avoids capture with the help of a mysterious Japanese intelligence agent Nozaki and a female doctor Kaoru, but can Nogi get to safety and recover the money?

DCU is a detective series of a team of elite divers boldly solving crimes where no investigation has gone before. The darkest secrets, however, might not be hiding in the oceans’ depths but are buried in their own pasts. And they must be confronted before they throw the entire world into deadly chaos.

Our favorite gung-ho teacher is back! A few years ago, a group of struggling students at a low-ranked high school made it into Japan’s top college, Tokyo University – thanks to Kenji Sakuragi, a down-on-his-luck lawyer-turned-teacher. But soon afterward, he left the school and disappeared. Now another school has tracked him down and hired him, in hopes he can turn things around. So, Sakuragi makes his comeback, this time with the motto: “Times are tough! So get a move on!” Students are overwhelmed with choices and desperate for something to hold onto. With his profound belief in their ability, Kenji offers a ray of hope. But it won’t be easy! This gripping series depicts the anxieties of today’s youth and the problems faced by parents, and provides insights on how to get ahead professionally. You’ll understand why Kenji Sakuragi is still repeating his famous line, “Suck it up! Just get into Tokyo University!”

Persistence is the key ingredient to achieving a lifelong dream. As a space science researcher, Kohei Tsukuda harbors such a dream. But when his father passes away, he finds himself returning home to take over his a small engine factory located in an old part of town. As the 2nd president of Tsukuda Works, Kohei enjoys moderate success at first, but the company is too cash-strapped to let him pursue the rocket engine of his dreams. Then everything begins to fall apart. He loses his biggest customer, the banks tighten credit and a major manufacturer files a patent infringement suit of $90 million, threatening the livelihoods of his employees and the future of the company. And then one day, a major conglomerate, Teikoku Heavy Industries”, learns of a valve system Kohei’s company has developed and approaches him with an offer of $20 million for its rights. But will it be enough to stave off disaster and keep the dream alive?
Rocket Dreams(Title) will conjure up your purest emotions and fill you with the determination to face tomorrow.

The hit drama “Newcomer ” returns for a new season of Kyoichiro Kaga's latest adventures, drawn from the hit series that sold over 10 million copies. Famed inspector Kyoichiro Kaga’s biggest weapon is his unrivaled perception and eye for detail. No mystery is too complex for his sharp mind and penchant for action. But Kaga doesn’t just catch criminals: he has a way of unravelling emotional wounds, leading suspects to bare all . In this season of “Sleeping Beauty,” we get some clues to Kaga’s past as watch his composed manner erode when a beautiful woman steals his heart. Captivated by the talent and beaut y of the lead ballerina , Kaga finds himself anguishing over his own unraveling in this detective drama that grownups can relate to.

The book author Keigo Higashino describes as the masterpiece of his best-selling ‘Detective Kyoichiro Kaga’ series now comes to the screen! His novel “SHINZANMONO”, a brilliant achievement that in 2009 placed number 1 in the ‘This is a Great Mystery!’ and the Shukan Bunshun Mystery Awards, in 2010 became a wildly popular TV drama starring Hiroshi Abe. Its sequel, “The Wings of the Kirin” published in 2011, is a jewel of a mystery Higashino describes as the masterpiece of the Kaga series. “The Wings of the Kirin”, a ‘moving human drama’ starring Hiroshi Abe, Yui Aragaki, Kiichi Nakai, Junpei Mizobata, Tori Matsuzaka, Meisa Kuroki, Rena Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and other great names in Japanese film.

One night , Akio, a businessman, is still at work . He hesitates to return home, because waiting for him are his mother, who suffers from dementia, and a family that doesn’t speak to him anymore. His circumstances weigh heavily on Akio. He receives a distraught telephone call from his wi fe, Yaeko, begging him to come home. Akio arrives to find the corpse of a young girl in the garden!
Questioning his wife , he finds out that their son had something to do with the girl’s death. How far will Akio go to protect the family? Police detective Kyoichiro Kaga, assigned to Ningyocho two years prior, is working on the case. This drama explores the concept of family, and how bizarre tragedy can unexpectedly strike the most normal of people.

Detective Kyoichichiro Kaga has just been transferred to a police station in Tokyo’s traditional quarter of Ningyocho. A woman has been murdered and Kaga must work the case.
But he finds that the leading suspects consist of the entire chapter of Ningyocho’s local shopping district . As a newcomer and distrusted outsider, Kaga struggles to work his way inside the complicated tangle of local relationships, one snarl at a time. But with every clue he unravel s, Kaga must contend wi th new suspects, each afflicted with their own dark secrets. What and who will he find at the center of the knot?

This time, the scandal is in ER.- A mysterious letter arrives for Dr. Kimiko Taguchi (Yuko Takeuchi), a specialist in “unidentified clinical syndromes” at Tojo University Hospital. The letter reads: “Chief Surgeon Hayami of the Emergency Center has a collusive relationship with a medical supplies maker. And the head nurse is in on it with him.” - Somewhere under all the mystery lies an unimaginable truth.

At the Tojo University Hospital, a group of specialists in the type of heart surgery called the “Batista operation,” which is said to have a success rate of 60%, have formed a specialist team called “Team Batista,” and the team is improving their record miraculously with 26 consecutive successful cases. However, all of a sudden, there are three operational death cases in a row. Are they just accidents? Or murders? A doctor, Taguchi is assigned to conduct an internal investigation. Taguchi, who knows nothing about surgery, reluctantly plays the role of a detective, but, not surprisingly, things don’t work. When Taguchi is trying to wrap up her investigation by determining that those operational deaths are simply accidents, a daring and astute government official of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare named Shiratori shows up in front of Taguchi, saying “These are murder cases. The suspect is among the 7 members of Team Batista!” The two investigate the Team Batista members once again…

A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Ryuzan High to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students, and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!

Tetsuo Nagai is a probation officer. His job is to rehabilitate young offenders and get them on the straight and narrow. Married with one son, he lives a happy life. All that changes one day when his wife is murdered and his son is gravely injured in an attack. Nagai wrestles with the assailant, but he escapes. Nagai takes his son to the hospital run by his father-in-law, but his son is again attacked and left in a coma. Nagai is interrogated by police detectives and finds himself the chief suspect due to the emergence of a number of pieces of unfavorable evidence. Is someone setting him up? At the verge of giving up, he is struck by another option - he becomes a fugitive, striving to prove his innocence and find the real killer while his son hovers at deaths’ door.

Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an interview for a job at a publishing company. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono, and finds popular comic book writer Reijiro Sakurai is having an editorial meeting with some staff. He is planning to lock himself away at a hot spring for the next three months to concentrate on his next project. Sakurai comments that if Yumi were to join him he wouldn't mind being away for so long..., and so their adventure begins.

Ando, the head of prestigious Izumida Hospital, drafts Takashi, a battle-hardened and brilliant surgeon. On his first day, he meets Detective Mizusawa who has brought in a critically injured criminal whom she was forced to shoot. Against the wishes of his superior, Takashi miraculously saves the criminal. Takashi learns of another patient in the hospital that has been in a coma for 21 years. Takashi suggests a way he may be able to revive the man, but is stubbornly opposed by Ando. This arouses Takashi's suspicions that Ando may have a personal stake in keeping the patient in a vegetative state; and he and Detective Mizusawa set out to unravel the mystery behind this 21-year old incident and ultimately learn more about their mutual past in the process.

Seri, an unknown yet talented female chef from the country, arrives in Tokyo to work at French restaurant, Etoire, but discovers that they have gone out of business due to the departure of their main chef. Together with the restaurant’s former manager, she opens a French restaurant of her own and begins to recreate the flavors her late father mastered as a famous gourmet chef. Unfortunately, Etoire returns with an unscrupulous manager, and to make matters worse, Seri learns that it happens to be owned by her birth mother living in Paris who she hasn’t seen since she was a child. Seri wonders if her passion and skill will be enough to succeed.

29-year old Hara Akari, who is currently in a relationship with a man who doesn’t take their relationship seriously, finds herself reminiscing about her old college boyfriend before a class reunion. She is disappointed to discover he is married, but when he makes an unexpected appearance at the reunion, she finds herself torn between the present and the past.

The central character of this bittersweet drama is an office worker who succeeds in marrying the man of her dreams. Her struggles and triumphs, in her personal life and at work, reflect the wrenching transition demanded of young women by the bursting of Japan’s economic bubble.