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©2021 "What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?" Film Partners
©2020 "What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?" Film Partners

Broadcast Date

JP Release 2021.10.30

Episode / Duration

115 min

Director

Tetsu Maeda (前田哲)

Scenario Writer

Hiroshi Saito (斉藤ひろし)

Cast

Yuki Amami (天海祐希)
Yutaka Matsushige (松重豊)
Mitsuko Kusabue (草笛光子)

The 2015 best-seller novel by Miu Kakiya has been adapted to film by director Tetsu Maeda (“A Banana? At This Time of Night?”). As of April, 2020, the book has sold over 260,000 copies.
In Japan, it is said you need 20 million yen saved up for retirement. Though everyone has their worries about the future, not many openly talk about it. This film comically depicts this problem through the eyes of a respectable-looking family that’s actually a bit dysfunctional.

The main character, Atsuko, is your average housewife who believes in frugality. She has a husband, Akira, who’s quite clueless about the family budget, a daughter who works part-time, and a son in college. Though Atsuko had been saving up for retirement, she gets in an argument with her sister-in-law and her husband one day, and she ends up having to pay 4 million yen for her father-in-law’s funeral. As if that’s not enough, her husband’s company goes bankrupt, she gets fired from her part-time job, her daughter wishes for a lavish wedding with her fiancé who’s in a heavy metal band, and her big-spending mother-in-law moves in. The family’s savings dwindle by the day.
Problems between husband and wife, parent and child, wife and mother-in-law, a child’s marriage, a child moving out, caring for a parent, and funerals… These are all problems that everyone faces. As the family is hit by one dilemma after another, they struggle and torment themselves in order to overcome adversity.

Dragon Sakura

ドラゴン桜   드래곤 사쿠라   東大特訓班

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 10 eps|11 episodes

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!

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ダイヤモンドは砕けない 第一章   죠죠의 기묘한 모험:다이아몬드는 부서지지 않는다   JoJo的奇妙冒険 不滅鑽石

119 min.

There’s something bizarre about this town...
Morioh, a picturesque seaside town.
In this deceptively peaceful-looking locale, strange deaths and other peculiar incidents begin occurring one after another...
Morioh is home to high school student Josuke Higashikata. Although he has the outward appearance of a delinquent, he is actually kind at heart. He possesses a special power called “Stand,” and his unique ability can heal the wounds of others and fix broken objects just by touching them. When he learns that the unsettling events happening around him are the handiwork of other stand users, Josuke rises up to protect his beloved town!

MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge)

MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge)

30 min. x 78 eps|Eps 78

Highly rated and critically acclaimed, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge is the break through comedy that premiered in the United States on Viacom’s Spike TV. Known as MXC, and made from footage from the popular game show, Takeshi's Castle, it has been re-edited, re-written and re-voiced into a hilarious, intentionally over-produced, modern "action/X-treme" sports show. MXC pits such teams as "America's Meat Handlers" against their hated rivals, "The Cartoon Voice-Over Actors."

No Side Manager

ノーサイド・ゲーム   노사이드 게임   No Side Manager -逆轉大叔

85 min × 1 ep / 75 min × 1 ep / 80 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 7 eps|10 episodes

Adapted from a novel by Jun Ikeido, the story follows the travails of a company man once touted as an elite executive candidate who falters when he voices opposition to his superiors over an acquisition, and is exiled to general affairs manager at a branch factory. Adding insult to injury, he is also ordered to serve as general manager of the plant’s failing rugby team, the Tokiwa Motors “Astros”, which once basked in glory but has since sunk to perennial cellar dweller. Hoping to resuscitate his own future along with that of a weak rugby team on the verge of disbandment, the embattled company man stakes pride and fortune on fulfilling two missions, putting all he’s got into work and sports in this inspirational human drama.

Ouran High School Host Club

桜蘭高校ホスト部   오란고교 호스트부   櫻蘭高校男公關部

30 min x 11 eps|11 episodes

The setting is one of Japan’s most prestigious private high schools, Ouran Academy, with a student body made up of scions of the country’s rich and famous. It is also home to an extracurricular club made up of “beautiful” boys called the Ouran High Host Club. The story begins with the only penniless boy in the school, Haruhi Fujioka, making his way into the school on academic merit alone, and unwittingly stumbling into Ouran High Host Club membership. Having found himself saddled with enormous debt, Haruhi is ordered by the club’s leader, Tamaki, to make his debut as a host. But the problem is… Haruhi’s actually a girl.

PANIC IN

PANIC IN

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

Who can resist a good crisis or the scent of a woman?
The panic-thriller/comedy series “Panic In” celebrates all of the classical panic and disaster movie themes and tropes with a high-octane television drama full of suspense, laughter, tears, joy and soul-satisfying human emotion! Computer graphics add a level of scale and impact never before seen in made-for-television entertainment.
Torao Kurumada (43) is a hapless, middle-aged bachelor who is always changing jobs, but every time he starts at new place of employment, he is interrupted by some major incident or disaster such as a runaway bus, an unidentified mysterious animal, or terrorists. Each challenge is accompanied by a fateful encounter with a woman whether a college student, an office lady or a widow with whom he falls helplessly in love and for whom he is willing to sacrifice life and limb to save. It is the classic tale of a guy trying to win the girl amid extreme circumstances. But will it ever work for Torao?

Each episode is filmed by a guest director; Taichi Suzuki, the first ever 4-award winner at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (“The Brat” ’12), action specialist, Yoshikatsu Kimura (“Karate Girl”, ’11), globally-acclaimed director SABU ( “Bunny Drop”, ’11 & “Kanikosen”, ’09), Munenori Nagano, who while active also as an actor in the popular theatrical troupe “European Project” is an award-winning independent filmmaker, for a total of 4 directors all bringing their own flair and taste to this all new “panic” action-comedy genre.

Swimming in the Dark

わにとかげぎす   심해어   超級懦弱的男人的戀愛

40 min x 1 ep / 30 min x 9 eps|10 episodes

With a title inspired by “Stomiiformes”, an order of deep-sea ray-finned fish called, this story follows Tomioka, a late-night security guard at a supermarket who laments his drab and solitary life. Feeling it unnatural to exist alone, he wishes upon a shooting star one night for a true friend. Soon, a mysterious woman appears in his life. She is Azusa, a next door neighbor who instantly falls in love with him. But as the kind of social awkwardness, Tomioka is obtusely unaware of her feelings for him. Can love bloom between these two? Especially when compounded by the sudden emergence of a homeless guy, who calls himself a “life wanderer”, and then an enigmatic death threat in the form of a letter that reads: “You will lose your mind within a year and die”. Life is suddenly turned upside down.

The Demon Girl Next Door

まちカドまぞく   길모퉁이 마족   小恶魔女在街角   小惡魔女在街角

30 min.|12 episodes

One morning, a sealed demonic power awakens in 15-year-old Yuko Yoshida. Her mission? To defeat the “Magic Girl” who lives in her town. Yuko has grown a tail and horns, but her powers fall short of a normal girl’s, and she struggles to lift the curse of having to live off 40,000 yen per month.
To fulfill her destiny of defeating the shrine maiden of the Light Clan, she challenges Momo. However, she hasn’t become any stronger despite being in the Demon Clan, and her lack of experience results in her losing. After the duel, she becomes friends with Momo for some reason and ends up receiving her help on many occasions. Though she’s strict when it comes to money, Yuko is so nice that she could never hurt anyone—quite ironic for a member of the Demon Clan. Her kind heart wins the trust of people around her, and she works hard to repay Momo for her help and to become a respectable Demon Clan member.

The New King

新しい王様   新的国王

Season 1: 30 min × 8 episodes Season 2: 30 min × 9 episodes

Nao Kitazawa, 34, leads a busy but fulfilling life as a doctor at a women’s clinic and as fiancee to an elite psychiatric physician, Yuchi Ihara. With their wedding day a month off, Nao is preparing to move into a new home when she meets Shinji Mamiya, a struggling writer who works part-time as a mover and falls inexorably in love with him. The fateful encounter compels Nao to follow her heart and experience true love. Overwhelmed by Nao’s passion, Shinji soon falls for her as well, but their budding romance is threatened by the tragic discovery that Nao has early onset Alzheimer’s. What unfolds is a story of pure love. As Nao’s symptoms worsen, Shinji spends the next ten years giving Nao mental and health support even as she begins to lose the precious memories they both shared.

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun 2

地縛少年花子くん2

Part 1 : 30min × 12eps Part 2 : 30min x 12eps

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is a popular comic book series that sold more than 10 million copies before being adapted into a TV anime in January 2020, followed by a short animated series: After-School Hanako-kun in 2023 and 2024. The latest in the series is Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun 2, to be aired in January 2025, given the great reception for the earlier anime both in Japan and abroad. The Seven Wonders of Kamome Gakuen, Hanako-kun and his occult-loving assistant, Nene Yashiro, spend their days trying to solve mysteries in their school. What is behind all the strange occurrences and creatures these unique students encounter?