With two map pieces secured, Sugimoto ans Asirpa continue their hunt for the remaining 22 tattooed convicts whose bodies hold the key to hidden treasure.
A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and now known as “Hokkaido”—and the “sisam”, the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese.
Born from the stone egg of Mount Huaguo, Son Goku (played by Ainosuke Kataoka) wreaks havoc in the Heavenly Realm, earning the wrath of the Jade Emperor (played by Shin Tamura) and is imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain.
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.
Shogo Higuchi is a detective whose wife was murdered by a serial killer. Hikari Tachibana is a voice profiler whose father was murdered. She has a special hearing ability which allows her to hear minutiae sounds that other people do not.
This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to make a new samurai era program using the most advanced technology. While the elderly filmmakers at Kyoei are struggling with the high-tech equipment, their skills at creating choreographed sword battles are undiminished. The NHK project will dramatize the Ikedaya incident, which was a raid launched by the Shinsengumi against Imperial loyalists gathered at an inn called Ikedaya in Kyoto during the twilight years of the Tokugawa shogunate. A series of problems occur and the climax they reach after overcoming difficulties is an unprecedented attempt at a 360° one-cut scene involving the world’s most advanced high-speed camera and wire action for a scene where Kondo Isami will fall down the stairs at Ikedaya. Can they succeed in filming the single greatest swordfight scene in samurai movie history?!?
From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end! This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” (Ishi no Mayu), and the long-awaited second instalment in the “Murder Analysis Team” (Satsujin Bunseki-han) series.
A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK.
Takahiro Fujimoto (藤本 隆宏, Fujimoto Takahiro, born July 21, 1970) is a Japanese actor and a former swimmer born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University College of Human Sciences. He is affiliated with Hillstone Enterprise. He was previously a member of the Shiki Theater Company (Gekidan Shiki). As a swimmer, he set a Japanese record in the 200m and 400m individual medley and participated in the Olympic Games for the second time in a row. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, he became the first Japanese finalist in the same category in the 400m individual medley. He joined the Shiki Theater Company and became an actor. After appearing in many stage productions and musicals, he then began working in television dramas. ** Not to be confused with the voice actor of the same name but different writing Takahiro Fujimoto (藤本 たかひろ).