Love Is A Poison
毒恋～毒もすぎれば恋となる～
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Ryoma Shiba is a legal prodigy who, as a college student, got the highest score on the national bar exam before becoming the youngest co-partner at a major law firm. One night at a bar, he meets a genius con artist named Haruto who offers to serve as his trusty secret partner. Ryoma is impressed by Haruto’s ability to impersonate people, and the two begin living together. However, Ryoma has little experience in relationships, and gradually becomes “poisoned” by love. The two form a perfectly secret, case-solving duo despite polar opposite personalities in this groundbreaking “boy’s love” suspense comedy.
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Kanna Suzuki is a powerhouse woman with single-minded devotion once she puts her mind to something. Working for a fashion designer, her dream is to someday design clothes that will make women everywhere amazingly attractive.” But her world begins to spin out of control when she discovers that her “l...
村井の恋
A high school teacher is dubbed “Tetsuko the Iron Mask Lady” for adamantly refusing to meddle in her students’ lives or socialize with her colleagues. But she is actually a closet computer in love with a character in a dating sim game. Spending her days divorced from real-life romance, she is one da...
筋肉番付
Real athletic competition is on display in this sports game show. A field of competitors that ranges from unknown amateurs to world class professional athletes provides remarkable stories of human spirit and achievement. The competition features incredibly challenging games that have been specially ...
マイファミリー
Haruto is a young businessman whose game company struck it rich, giving him a fancy suburban home, a beautiful wife, Michiru, and a grade school daughter. But when the daughter is taken in a serial kidnapping, Haruto reassesses his priorities. Confronted with a series of challenges and revelations a...
私のシてくれないフェロモン彼氏
30-year-old Rei quit the real estate agency she started working at after college and bootstrapped a company that offers an art subscription service. She starts dating a younger, handsome freelance photographer named Shuto, whom she met at a shared office. Although she’s on cloud nine with her nearly...
私の家政夫ナギサさん
In an office, she can perform better than anyone, but when it comes household chores, she’s totally useless. She’s a single woman pushing 30 named Mei Aihara, and her room is a mess. Appearing one day at her doorstep is Nagisa Shigino, a much-in-demand “super domestic helper” who can do the cooking,...
マイ・セカンド・アオハル
Sayako is approaching 30 and has begun to mourn a life devoid of money and an education. “It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this,” she sighs, lamenting her past failed college entrance exams. That’s when she meets college student, Taku, whose words of encouragement rekindle her desire to chase a o...
先生！、、、好きになってもいいですか？
Hibiki is an awkward, 17-year-old high school sophomore who hasn't known romance.
But she's about to fall in love for the very first time. With whom?
A man who isn't great with words, but compassionate about his students.
It's her history teacher, Mr. Ito.
"Is it okay if I fall for you?" Hib...
凪のお暇
Nagi Oshima is a 28-year-old employee of consumer appliance maker, with silky straight hair and a peculiar personality, feeling she must try her hardest to “read the room” so as to interact well with others. But her striving to adapt to others leads her one day to hyperventilate and collapse. “I nee...
半沢直樹
Naoki Hanzawa is a banker at the Tokyo Central Bank. Despite his having exposed many injustices inside the bank, the story begins with his being sent off to a subsidiary company, Tokyo Central Securities. Hanzawa commands a band of workers who are part of the so-called “lost generation.” Together, t...
半沢直樹
It was the height of the Japanese economic bubble when Naoki Hanzawa landed a coveted job in a major bank. But he finds the life of a banker to be a stormy one. As a loan officer section chief, Hanzawa works to finance the Nishi Osaka Steel company 5 million dollars at the insistence of his stubborn...
닌자전사
Divided into four extreme stages, 100 competitors face the ultimate test of strength and will in their quest to become champion. Many are called. Few are chosen. Who’s tough enough to become the next Ninja Warrior! Produced by Monster 9 and airing on Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), Ninja Wa...
ノーサイト・ゲーム
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 als...
オー！マイ・ボス！恋は別冊で
Don’t miss this heartwarming, madcap romantic comedy!
Nami is an ordinary small-town girl with no special dreams or ambitions, someone who goes along to get along and wants nothing from life but a modicum of happiness. Then she moves to the big city to pursue her childhood crush. In Tokyo she by c...
婚姻届に判を捺しただけですが
Akiha extols the virtues of the single life and has no desire for marriage. But then she encounters a sudden proposal from Shu, a handsome company man whom she just met. Shu has an urgent need to be officially designated as “married” when he floats the fake marriage proposal. For her part, Akiha is ...
ハモリ我慢ゲーム
Outsing the Choir! is a musical game show featuring two teams of contestants facing off in a singing showdown. Each contestant must sing their chosen song perfectly while not getting thrown off by a live, in-studio choir. While this may seem like any singer’s dream, it’s actually every singers’ nigh...
ペンディングトレイン―8時23分、明日 君と
It begins as any other day with commuters and passengers catching the 8:23 train. That is, until one train car suddenly warps into a wormhole and lands in a devastated future world. Without smartphones or social media, the passengers must confront extraordinary and extreme conditions. Mere strangers...
病室で念仏を唱えないでください
Shoen Matsumoto is both a trained paramedic and Buddhist monk attached to a hospital. While providing emergency care straight from the mortuary while still in monk clothes unnerves some patients, Shoen nevertheless proves fully devoted to saving lives, and if that’s not possible, performing rites of...
監獄のお姫さま
Attempted murder, fraud and embezzlement, illicit drugs, tax evasion and even murder? Five women convinced of various crimes and a crime-loathing female warden put aside their differences to hatch a grand plot of revenge against a handsome but crooked company CEO. But the revenge plan keeps hitting ...
プロミス・シンデレラ
Hayame’s peaceful existence is suddenly shattered one day when her husband announces he wants a divorce, and she runs away from home. Then all her money is stolen, and she finds herself with no place to live. That’s when she encounters high school student Issei, a rich, handsome rogue who offers to ...
Revue Starlight is a new form of entertainment that fuses musicals with anime. Ever since the project was announced, there have been a wide variety of installments from a musical, anime, comic, smartphone game, to a music group by the nine main cast members: Starlight Kukugumi. And now, a long-await...
ユニコーンに乗って
Sana is a 23-year-old is an entrepreneur whose educational app “Dream Pony” catapulted her to CEO of a unicorn firm less than ten years old. Determined to create a brand used by people all over the world, she is disinterested in romance and unaware that her partner, Isao, is secretly in love with he...
陸王
Dramatization based on the novel “RIKUOH” by Jun Ikeido. Koichi Miyazawa is the CEO of the longstanding company which manufacture tabi(traditional Japanese socks). Due to a decrease of demand for tabi thesedays, the Company, Kohazeya, has fallen upon hard times. For the company's survival, Miyazawa ...
埼玉のホスト
Yurika is a top consultant who has restructured countless restaurants, but finds herself on new ground when hired by a local Saitama prefecture host club to prevent its hostile takeover by a large Tokyo outfit called Love 2000. Appalled by the club’s mediocre “hosts” and poor customer relations, Yuk...
SAKABA: Bar Hopping Report by Rui Yoshida
吉田類の酒場放浪記
This is a unique program that introduces “izakayas” (Japanese-style bars) in downtown Tokyo, where “any adult can drop by alone when ever he feels like it.” One izakaya began as a food stall 80 years ago, another one serves raw pork guts… Every izakaya serves its own unique variety of Japanese sake ...
사스케 / 쿠노이치
SASUKE and KUNOICHI (all female version) are challenges of Olympic proportions that are designed to test the limits of human ability. Each program features 100 competitors who take on the enormous four stage course. The drama and tension are high as world class athletes struggle along side top amate...
さよならマエストロ〜父と私のアパッシオナート〜
Ever since gifted conductor Natsume’s wife and daughter left him five years ago, he has isolated himself from the music scene. Then one day, he decides to return to Japan for the first time in decades to conduct a small town orchestra and return to his estranged daughter, Hibiki, who loathes him and...
ジョブチューン〜アノ職業のヒミツぶっちゃけます！
“Professionals” from a variety of occupations voluntarily share the secrets of their trade in a new and unique job info variety program. Every “occupation” requires its own set of skills, knowledge and abilities with each harboring benefits and attractiveness unknown to the layperson. This program c...
Seven Days of a Daddy and a Daughter (2022)
パパとムスメの7日間
A high school girl, Koume, and her working stiff father, Kyoichiro, wake up one day after a traffic accident to find they have switched bodies. The two had been drifting apart, but are now thrown into each other’s lives. Kyoichiro, for example, shows no interest in Koume’s love interest, a classmate...
新幹線変形ロボ シンカリオン
Hayato Hayasugi (his last name is a pun on the words for "too fast") and other children will serve as conductors to pilot the Shinkalion.
The Shinkalion robots are various models of real-life Japanese bullet trains (shinkansen) that transform into robots to fight an unknown evil to protect the saf...
笑うマトリョーシカ
When newspaper reporter Kanae Michiue suspects that a young politician hailed as a future prime minister is being manipulated, she looks into his past in an effort to find out by whom. His secretary? Or someone else? She discovers several mysterious deaths have occurred during the politician’s stell...
義母と娘のブルース
Miyuki Miyamoto is an 8-year-old girl who lost her mother few years ago and now lives with her father, Ryoichi. When one day a hard-working career woman, Akiko Iwamoto, appears and becomes Miyuki’s new stepmom, Miyuki resists, particularly seeing Akiko presents herself with a business card. But Akik...
Stepmom and Daughter Blues FINAL（2024）
義母と娘のブルース FINAL～2024年謹賀新年SP～
Stepmom Akiko grows concerned when daughter Miyuki, who is about to graduate from college, seems content to work part-time at Bakery Mugita without looking for a “real” job. After Akiko lectures Miyuki about her tardiness to job-hunting, they begin researching companies together. But no sooner do th...
Stepmom and Daughter Blues SPECIAL
義母と娘のブルース2020年謹賀新年スペシャル
Akiko's back! This special picks up a year after the series ended . When we l as t saw Akiko, an ambitious career woman, she 'd just started work ing again after a long hiatus , but out of the blue she’s been fired f rom her high-powered job. Her stepdaughter Miyuki is now a university student livin...
Stepmom and Daughter Blues SPECIAL（2022）
義母と娘のブルース 2022年謹賀新年スペシャル
Company worker Akiko finds that a business she helped to revive has been taken over by a vulture capitalist, Ryoji, who looks identical to her deceased husband. When Ryoji’s next acquisition turns out to be a beloved bakery, Akiko suspects an ulterior motive and vows to resist. Caught between hatred...
스마트폰을 떨어뜨렸을 뿐인데:붙잡힌 살인귀
In the first movie, Stolen Identity, the loss of a smartphone by a lover leads to the horror of a heroine’s life being targeted, followed by the exposure of a hidden past for a double mystery that resonated deeply with the smartphone generation. Depicting an ever-present danger that could befall any...
Stolen Identity Final Hacking Game
スマホを落としただけなのに ～最終章～ ファイナル ハッキング ゲーム
Genius hacker and murderer Urano escaped from prison and fled to South Korea.
Urano was hired by a South Korean anti-government organization to set a trap targeted for the Korea-Japan summit meeting.
Sumin is assigned to watch over Urano but is intimidated by his frantic behavior.
Urano distru...
俺の家の話
Now sidelined due to injury and age, former pro-wrestling star Juichi Miyama was once groomed by his father, Jusaburo, an acclaimed Noh actor and “Living National Treasure,” to be his successor. But the young Juichi rebelled, left home, and cut off ties with his family. Now he’s just learned that hi...
スイートモラトリアム
Kokoro leads a happy college life dating Sayo who is madly in love with him. Then one day, his ex-girlfriend Ringo shows up. Still seeking some closure after being dumped by her, Kokoro allows Ringo to move in with him without telling Sayo. She learns of it unbeknownst to Kokoro and is wary of Ringo...
わにとかげぎす
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...
風雲！たけし城
The legendary audience participation variety program that took the entire world by storm! Laugh and cheer along with average citizens as they face a slew of challenging games!
전세계가 열광하는 시청자참가형 초인기 오락프로그램. 일반참가자가 여러 난관의 게임에 도전하는 모습이 웃음을 불러일으킨다!
全世界為之瘋狂的超人氣大型觀眾參加型綜藝節目，讓我們隨著各地來的挑戰者們一同闖不同的遊戲難關，一...
映画「からかい上手の高木さん」
Nishikata, a physical education teacher at a middle school he attended on a small island, receives a phone call from an ex school-mate Takagi-san, who moved to Paris in the summer of their third year of junior high school 10 years ago. Takagi-san, who is currently attending university in Tokyo, tell...
クロサギ
The stage is set in Japan in the year 2022.
In a time where fraud is an imminent threat, societal issues give rise to a slew of elaborate scams. Kurosaki is a man who lost his family to a “white swindler,” which is a professional swindler who scams people out of their money. In order to exact reven...
祈りの幕が下りる時
A woman is found strangled to death in an apartment in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
The victim is Michiko Oshitani, a resident of Shiga Prefecture who worked for a home cleaning company.
What’s more, the occupant of the apartment where the murder took place, Mutsuo Koshikawa, has gone missing.
Matsum...
危険なビーナス
Based on a masterpiece Keigo Higashino mystery novel, Hakuro Teshima is a bachelor veterinarian with a strong sense of justice and incapable of telling a lie. One day a mysterious woman, Kaede Yagami, appears at his door, claiming to be his younger brother’s wife and informing him of her husband’s s...
The Last Man: The Blind Profiler
ラストマン―全盲の捜査官―
Hiromi Minami is a US FBI agent on temporary loan to Japan. He’s blind but dubbed “the last man" for his ability to crack tough cases with keen analysis and honed senses. Shintaro Godo is a field cop with a top arrest record who shuns his pedigree as police commissioner’s son. The two make for a hig...
マッスルドア
THE MUSCLE DOOR is a social experiment reality show about ordinary young men desperate to acquire a strong, muscular physique. The show follows their two-month journey of physical transformation, culminating in a heroic attempt to heave open the three-ton MUSCLE DOOR.
Genre: Reality / Social Exp...
新しい王様
A new type of comedy-adventure about two industrial kings, one new and one old, both diametrically opposed to each other in their values, lifestyle and pursuit of money.
The story centers on two “kings”, Akiba and Etchu.
King Akiba once known for eye-opening acquisitions has since liberated ...
オールドルーキー
Ryotaro is a cheerful professional soccer player devoted to the game he loves. He has risen to national team member, and come through with decisive goals when it counts… until injury begins to plague him. Facing retirement at 37, he realizes it is a little late for him to enter normal working societ...
ピラミッドダービー
Leading professionals from various fields vie with each other in games with eccentric rules to decide the “No. 1 Rare Event” champ. Contestants in the studio place bets with coins on who they think will win with experts setting the odds for the outcomes of the various matches. The contestant with th...
The Quintessential Quintuplets 2
五等分の花嫁∬
They are teenage female quintuplets who hate studying and are at risk of failing their classes. That is until a private tutor, Futaro, appears to help them make it to graduation. Various adventures ensue as the five sisters and Futaro attend a study camp in the woods that ends up deepening their tru...
The Quintessential Quintuplets Specials
五等分の花嫁∽
Featuring new, original episodes, not shown in the anime series, delving into the unspoken emotions of each sister.
Futaro, a part-time tutor, has taken on the task of guiding the Nakano sisters—quintessential beauties who are on the brink of flunking out of school and despise studying—until their...
テセウスの船
A serial murder by fatal poisoning ushers in the first year of the new Japanese Reiwa era. Arrested as the prime suspect is a police officer. His son, Kokoro Tamura, along with his mother, elder sister and brother are forced into a life of social ostracism and prejudice as the alleged family of a ki...
階段下のゴッホ
Miyako is a beautiful salesperson on the fast track at a major cosmetics company earning more than 100 grand a year. But when she begins to question her life, she drops everything to pursue a past dream to become a painter. At a cram school for getting into an art institute, she meets a cute yet you...
罪の声
35 years have elapsed since the greatest unsolved crime in the postwar era, an incident that involved a threatening phone call captured on tape that featured the “voice of a child.” So where is that child today? The story follows one man who accidentally stumbles upon an old tape recording and disco...
The Voyage of World Spectacles
地球絶景紀行
In this program, the narrator, a wayfarer, travels around the globe and introduces spectacular sceneries that are encountered along the way. Not only does it deliver all the magnificent landscapes of the places; the ecology of the wildlife that inhabit them and the activities of all things in nature...
THE 世界遺産
TBS’s ”World Heritage,” is a 30-minute weekly documentary series that is registered by UNESCO under Natural Heritage, Cultural Heritage and Cultural Sciences. The program started in spring, 1996, and over a span of 10 years has covered about 560 topics around the world. To better convey the grandeur...
東京フレンドパーク 2
A studio transformed into an amusement park is the setting for this celebrity-based game show. Well-known stars pair up to compete in games that test their knowledge, strength and coordination.
TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room
TOKYO MER～走る緊急救命室～
Kota Kitami, a brilliant young ER doctor, has been handpicked by Mayor Azusa Akatsuka to head a new emergency response team dubbed TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room, or MER, outfitted with leading-edge medical technology and a large mobile operating theatre to respond to major accidents, natural disasters...
TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room - THE MOVIE
劇場版『TOKYO MER～走る緊急救命室～』
The 70th floor of a Yokohama skyscraper is ablaze with 193 lives trapped inside. MER rolls into action determined to save everyone.
Winning “Best Asian Drama for a Regional/Int’l Market at ContentAsia Awards 2022” and “Best Actor for 4th Asia Contents Awards”, TV series “TOKYO MER: Mobile Emerge...
TOMICA Hyper Rescue Police DRIVE HEAD
トミカハイパーレスキュー ドライブヘッド 機動救急警察
A little bit in the future, the government has established a brand new organization with the purpose of rescuing lives to respond to the increasingly complicated and varied types of disasters, accidents and crimes that go beyond human comprehension. It is called the “Mobile Emergency Police DRIVE HE...
とんび
Late summer 1972. Truck driver, Yasu, is in the highest spirits singing to himself while working and restraining himself from his favorite hobbies of drinking and gambling. The reason? His wife is about to give birth to a son. Yasu himself never had parents to speak of, his mother having died while ...
アンナチュラル
A story-a-week episodic medical mystery that treats the theme of reality changing when faced with imminent death. Mystery and exhilarating human drama unfold against the backdrop of the “unnatural death institute”, or “UDI”. For example, the body of a young man is brought into the UDI lab one day; h...
VIVANT
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 hu...
チア☆ダン
Wakaba Fujitani is a high school sophomore in Fukui Prefecture. Ever since she was little, she has been an ardent fan of the JETS, a top high school cheer dance team from her hometown that won the U.S. national championship for the first time. Her dream is to one day join the team and win the covete...
花束みたいな恋をした
Missing the last train of the day on Tokyo’s Keio Line at Meidaimae Station, college student Mugi Yamane (Masaki Suda) encounters Kinu Hachiya (Kasumi Arimura). Finding they have near identical tastes in music and movies, the couple quickly hit it off and embark on a romance that has them move in to...
What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?
老後の資金がありません！
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 th...
Why didn’t I tell you a million times?
100万回 言えばよかった
When childhood friends Yui and Naoki are by chance reunited as adults, they begin to feel they were destined for each other. However, just as Naoki prepares to propose to Yui, he becomes embroiled in a mysterious incident and dies.
Now Naoki's soul wanders the world unable to express his true feel...
着飾る恋には理由があって
Fashionista Kurumi Mashiba works as a publicist for a popular online home décor company. When she launches a social media account to promote the company, she ends up amassing 100,000 followers and becomes a fashion influencer in her own right. But she’s so wrapped up in work that she forgets to rene...
Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle
下剋上球児
Nagumo is a social studies teacher at Mie Prefectural Koshiyama High School. A former baseball player in college who had to retire due to injury, he worked as a sports trainer before turning to his “other dream” of becoming a teacher at 32. When he is made advisor for the high school’s weak and disb...
きみが心に棲みついた
Kyoko is a young woman whose low esteem often manifests itself as suspicious behavior. So when she joins a company and is taken by a senior colleague to her first ever speed date party, she meets a manga editor, Yoshizaki, who doesn’t hold back in his harsh appraisal of her. Though mortified at firs...
G線上のあなたと私
Yaeko Kogure’s marriage engagement is broken off by her fiancé just as she resigns from her job amid congratulations. Standing stunned in a shopping mall, she hears Bach’s “Air on the G String” playing nearby, and it moves her to overcome her setback by taking up the violin. She joins a class with a...
You’ve Got Someone to Come Home To
あなたには帰る家がある
A realistic portrayal of the daily struggles, pent-up frustrations and miscommunication of marital life that people everywhere can relate to, centered around the marriage of two couples. Mayumi Sato and her husband Hideaki are into their 13th year of marriage and have a teenage daughter. With childr...