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Sweet Kiss Bitter Kiss

  • Reality
  • Romance
The casts are eight young promising actors and actresses waiting for their big break. In each episode, they are first given a script from a romantic series which includes kissing scene and after pairing was made, they have to practice the scene with the partner decided by the pairing.

The practice of the scene includes a role-playing date to understand the feelings of the role to be played. After each pair has completed one round of practice, an audition is held in the presence of the acting coach, and the pair that can best play the role is chosen to film the full drama.

The thing is, they will play the role of lovers with a different partner each time, so each time a different partner might become their love interest. Some cast members fall in love with the person paired with each time.
But the person you fell in love with might be paired with someone else the next day and start liking them and may not even look at you anymore!

Throughout the season, this process is repeated, creating various emotions among the cast. Love, jealousy, rivalry, frustration, and ambition that you should be able to play this role better than he/ she can....

This love reality show has gained overwhelming popularity among FemaleTeen + 20-34s, and has reached its 10th season. Let’s see what it will happen in Sweet Kiss Bitter Kiss.
  • Comedy
  • Family
  • For Children
  • Science

21 Emon

Take a fascinating journey into space with the 21st Century kid, 21 Emon!

Tsuzure Inn has been running for more than 450 years, and a young lad named 21 Emon is next in line to take over the family business. However, Emon wants to take no part of it at all, but rather spend his time exploring the...

  • Education
  • Sports

31 Legged Race

The “31 Legged Race” is an ultimate team sports event where 30 elementary school children run literally together in a row for 50 meters with their legs tied together.

The race has become a nationwide event providing fun and entertainment for both the participants and the viewers. This race requir...

  • Travelogue

9 VS 9

Who says Bingo is a good old forgotten game?

Check on this to witness the thrilling excitement of an evolved Bingo, the kind of fun that you have yet to experience!

Two teams of nine are seated in a bingo-like formation and they tackle a flood of various quizzes one after another! Nine members...

  • Detective

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

AIBOU is now in its 20th year since it was broadcast for the first time! This fall, the 18th season starts in the largest scale of the series!​

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first...

  • Detective
  • Mystery

Alibi Breaker

“I will solve your mystery. 5000 yen per case.”

In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side busin...

  • Entertainment
  • Sports

Barangay 143

At 18, Bren T. Park is already a rising superstar in the world of Korean Basketball, but on the night of the biggest game of his career, his entire family perishes in an accident. This devastating blow leads him to a path of self destruction, and his guild makes him swear to never play basketball ag...

  • Reality

Battle of the Budgets

Live on $100 a month! A long-time favorite reality show in Japan!

Money saving can be fun and creative! It’s all about making the most out of a limited amount of money. This earnest money saving competition sends positive messages in hard times! The contestants’ prides are at stake. Who will mana...

  • Gameshow
  • Sports

Beat the Champions (King of Sports)

A fun and fast-moving game show featuring celebrities and amateurs challenging world-class professional athletes at their very own sports! From golf, tennis, water sports and soccer, the challenges and fascination are endless.

But wait, it wouldn’t be easy to “Beat the Champions” on an equal play...

  • Comedy
  • Entertainment
  • Human

Beshari-Gurashi

An entertainment drama about high school students who devote themselves to making people laugh.

Keisuke is a “King of Laughter at School,” who simply loves to make people laugh. One day, Jun, who used to be a young professional entertainer, enters his school and becomes his classmate.

Keisuke ...

  • Action
  • Human

BG

Bodyguards who protect people unarmed. An intense drama where the thoughts and emotions of people interweave.

A bodyguard in a civilian security company, Akira Shimazaki, had quit his job due to one incident in the past and was working as a guard for a construction site for a while. He starts wor...

  • Gameshow

Body Blow Tryouts

A new type of physical challenge format!

Comedians present their brave attempts in the studio and a comedic duo host examines the outcome. A group of comedians dare to do body blow experiments. They are dead serious... and watch how they hang in there, often creating unique and hilarious reaction...

  • Gameshow

Challengers on Fire

“Challengers of Fire” is a reality style primetime physical game show aired on TV Asahi from 1995 to 2000. Challengers try to successfully overcome many obstacles placed in the game to win 10,000 US Dollars!

The games are extremely mechanical, physically demanding, and high entertainment. Not onl...

Chimpui

Congratulations!
You’ve been selected to become the bride of His Highness, the Crown Prince of Rururu!

Two envoys, Wanderyu and Chimpui, came all the way from planet Mahl to visit a 12-year-old girl Eri with a special mission. Why...? She was chosen to become the one and only ‘bride to be’ of th...

  • Comedy
  • Entertainment
  • Fantasy
  • Romance

Cicada Boy

7 day love story of a beautiful cicada prince and a post prime woman in her 30’s.

A cicada was born in the garden of Utsusemi-So apartment in the outskirts of Tokyo. The cicada shouts “Finally, I made it!” and emerges from the ground – but at that very moment, he sees a woman falling toward him. ...

  • Family

Cocorico Creates a Legend

This is an extremely unique, original and challenging prime time entertainment show.
The concept of the program is clear and simple: Accomplish the given task and become a GOLDEN LEGEND!

First aired in the year 2000, the comedy duo “Coco- rico” takes on the role of MC.
So many different tasks h...

  • Detective
  • Suspense

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenact- ments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information to help build...

DEAR MY LONELINESS AND DARKNESS

14 years after graduating from junior high school, a class reunion is held.
However, this is the beginning of a tragedy.
6 ex-classmates who attended the reunion die one by one.
Each of them has shocking darkness, and they are all a big liar to hide their dark side.
And their true nature will be...

dele

Freelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a wheelchair. He sets up a company called dele.LIFE in partnership with a law firm established by his late father. At the request of clients, Sakagami works together with a freelance jack-of-all-trades Mashiba t...

  • Detective
  • Mystery

Detective Zero

Tokiya used to be a competent veteran detective with 20 years of experience. But he lost all of his memories related to his career when he was following a case. He has memories of his everyday life but all memories related to his job, his experiences as a detective and the cases that he has worked o...

  • Medical/Health

Doctor-X

The 6th Season of the Blockbuster Drama Series!

Michiko Daimon is a stunningly beautiful and stubbornly self-reliant freelance surgeon who prides herself in her skills and dignity as a surgeon. Her new temporary employment is in a hierarchical university hospital where doctors pursue power and mo...

  • Science

DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon

T his drama is about a doctor who tries to rebuild a spoiled hospital on his own to save the patients.
After being employed for 12 years at a university hospital, surgeon Kosuke Sagara accepts a job at Dougami General Hospital.
To his surprise, he finds that the doctors there are more concerned ab...

  • Comedy
  • Family
  • For Children

DORAEMON

A cat-like robot, Doraemon from the future helping an elementary schoolboy Nobita!

Trouble seems to follow Nobita around... Whether it’s forgetting to do his homework or getting sidetracked from chores, he’s always in need of some guidance.

Fortunately for Nobita, he’s got Doraemon, a trusty r...

  • Gameshow

Easy Peasy

This is a game show where a team of four takes on challenges that any adult should easily be able to carry out.

The challenges use objects that are common in day-to-day tasks, such as opening a bottle of wine, buckling up a watch strap, putting a pillow in a pillow case, etc. But time limits are ...

Emergency Interrogation Room

Yukiko Makabe was a senior officer on the Special Investigations Team, but was reassigned after she took responsibility for a failed bus hijacking case. She was transferred to the Department of Grill Room Investigation. Since the department is specialized in conducting important investigations, only...

  • School
  • Suspense

Equation to Erase the Teacher

Story setting is at prestigious high school that most students enter Tokyo University. Hikaru Kitano is a new teacher assigned at a class with scientific students with high IQ. Those smart students in the class enjoy to drive their teachers into the corner, destroying teachers` mental state, like a ...

  • Reality
  • Travel

Experts Visiting Experts

A fun and engaging program where seasoned professionals from various fields visit their counterparts in a foreign country and make surprising discoveries about their own field of expertise.
During the 3~4 day visit, the experts visit 2~3 sites that are well-known in the field. What do they see?
Wh...

  • Detective
  • Human
  • Mystery
  • School

Friends Game

Which is more important, friendship or money?

Yuichi Katagiri, a high school student, is abducted with four of his friends and forced to participate in a "Friends Game" to pay off a debt he was suddenly saddled with.
The game is supposed to be easy to beat as long as you have friendship, but for...

Fund My Fantasy

Do you have a secret dream that you wish would come true?

In the show, the host presents the ‘dream of the week’ collected from the general public. Two teams lead by celebrities introduce potential companies and entities who has the experience and ability to make the ‘seemingly impossible dreams’...

  • Gameshow

GO BABY GO

The most hilarious diaper race ever where your baby can become a STAR in this studio based game show! Watch the cute and enchanting ways babies tackle the races. Their random moves and sudden inspirations never cease to glue the audiences to the screen.


A game where the baby crawls 15 meters to...

  • Food/Cooking

GOHAN JAPAN

Japan takes great pride in her food culture. Japan, blessed with four distinct seasons, cultivates seasonal food unique to each area of Japan. And at the core of her food culture lies her “food wisdom”.
There is a wide variety of food wisdom across the country that is handed down from generation to...

HAGETAKA

After the collapse of the bubble, in 1997, a foreign capital fund suddenly appeared in Japan still struggling in the middle of the “lost decade”. Masahiko Washizu, the president of the fund, is fiercely criticized, but promotes and wins takeovers on major banks and elite corporations suffering from ...

  • Romance
  • Suspense

Halation Love

Akari is a third-year psychology student at Futaba University, near where she was born and grew up. After class, she works with her mother, Natsuko, in a camera shop left by her late father. Akari liked her peaceful life in the peaceful town. However, the peace that was visible shattered after a man...

  • Mystery

Hayabusa Fire Brigade

Having given up on life in Tokyo, a novel writer, Taro Mima moved to the Hayabusa district of Yaoyorozu Town in the mountains. There is a house, 'Sakura Yashiki' left to him by his late father, and Taro enjoys his life in the great outdoors. One day, he is invited by the community chairman to a loca...

  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

Hidden Hot Springs

Japan is known as a paradise for its world famous hot springs. The number of renowned and unrevealed hot springs found throughout Japan is seemingly countless.

This program is divided into two sections, with each section introducing one hot spring inn. The owner of the inn explains the aspects th...

  • Gameshow

Hide-and Seek with Drones

Buy using the latest technology, conventional "hide-and-seek" has become an entirely fresh and thrilling game! The "it" is played by drones and they try to ambush the challengers!

The time limit for each round is 6 minutes and there are 3 challengers. The drones are operated by experts, and if th...

  • Education
  • Food/Cooking

Japanese Cuisine

This is an educational documentary where the viewer can encounter the charms of rural Japan through the culture of food. Each week a different local TV station produces the show, and introduces their homeland through traditional cuisine, specialties, and new experiments by local chefs and growers. T...

  • Food/Cooking

Japanese Homemade Recipes

This is the longest-running cooking program of TV Asahi reaching its 40th anniversary soon. Masaru Doi, the legendary cook and the father of the current host Yoshiharu Doi, used to say “Love is the best ingredient in homemade cooking”. Yoshiharu inherits this spirit and continues his search for home...

Legal V Ex-lawyer Shoko Takanashi

A legal drama featuring a scandalous female ex-attorney, Shoko, whose license has been taken away since she was disbarred for the reason yet to be revealed. She launches a law firm by employing rather incompetent lawyers and paralegals with criminal records, and herself working as its custodian. Her...

  • Entertainment
  • Quizshow

London Hearts

This is a long-time entertainment show with a popular comedy duo “Londonboots Ichi-go, Ni-go” and lots of comedians.

Each episode is totally different but they are mostly big challenges and embarrassment for the comedians such as prank, text message traps, revealing their private etc. The host is...

Mami the Psychic

What would you do if you were gifted with telekinesis, telepathy, and teleportation?

Mami Sakura is a high school student whose father is a painter, her mother a newspaper reporter, and her pet dog Konpoco which looks similar to a fox. One day, Mami acknowledges her supernatural powers, but doesn...

  • Family
  • Fantasy
  • Human

MOCOMI

MOCOMI was born with a special gift of understanding the feelings of “things” that are supposed to have no feelings.
Some of the people around her had found her creepy and she’s always been hiding her feelings from others.
Her mother had been worried and troubled about her, but her father and bro...

  • Comedy
  • Suspense

Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono

A tall husky voiced “super A-class” housekeeper Mitazono has amazing skills in cooking, laundry, cleaning and baby-sitting… plus an amazing secret as well… She is a He! Yes, he is the Mr. Housekeeper. He has a strange habit of peeping into a skeleton in the closet of the family for whom he works. On...

  • Reality

My Life in Your Textbook

One class Room, one teacher, one text book, bring you a lesson of Life!

This award-winning prime time show invites famous people who led high-flying lifestyles but then went down the wrong path to share lessons they've learned from their turbulent lives.

Teachers who will give the speech on th...

My Moochy Boyfriend

Sho doesn’t work and is mooching off his girlfriend, Yuriko. He believes he cannot achieve anything (maybe except for online games), so he doesn’t look for a job and doesn’t do anything that might tire him. Yuriko is dying to change his way of life and thinks of ways that will make Sho work… When sh...

My neighbor,Chikara

Chikara is a gentle and compassionate guy. He can’t leave people in need alone and has a strong feeling of wanting to help others.
However, he is indecisive. He easily gets involved in other people's problems half-heartedly, which finally causes him to suffer. Now, he tries to help his neighbors wi...

  • Entertainment

Neighborhood Treasures

An eye popping mega-hit variety show packed with myriad of hilarious video clips!
An one and only awesome menu at a restaurant like a colossal sushi, a unique toilet for trios, a dog with eyebrows, an avant-garde train, and an amazing scenic spot with a twist are only some examples of mind boggling...

  • Romance
  • Suspense

Never Be Yours

A rich and intriguing love suspense drama of a fierce battle between a wife and a lover based on an award winning novel “Kakuregikuku” by Mikihiko Renjyo.

Kayoko is a homey housewife keeping a happy family for 20 years married to Junpei, a son of a prestigious Japanese Restaurant working as its h...

  • Sports

New Japan Pro Wrestling

Founded in 1972, New Japan Pro-Wrestling is the oldest and the most popular wrestling organization in Japan and also the second largest in the world in terms of attendance and revenue. From the legendary Antonio INOKI to the new generation wrestlers of today, NJPW continues to bring exciting fights ...

  • Romance

NICE FLIGHT!

A realistic love story about working people in their 30s, set at the airport and during a flight! 

Co-pilot Sui Kurata is charmed by the voice of a female air traffic controller during a flight.
This is a romantic drama that begins with a "Love at first listen" of the owner of the voice, whose f...

Ninja Hattori

What happens when a 10 year old boy becomes friends with a REAL Ninja Boy?

Kenichi Mitsuba is an average 10-year-old elementary school boy who is always struggling with his homework and studies.
One day, a little ninja named Hattori Kanzo suddenly appears and befriends Kenichi. He is a courteous...