Program List
- Crime & Investigation
NEW
東京サラダボウル
Scooping up struggling souls in Tokyo’s underbelly
Now home to about 700,000 non-Japanese, Tokyo is a veritable "salad bowl" where different languages, food, and cultures mingle. And it's a place where more than a few struggles to fit in...
Arikino Ryo is an interpreter for Chinese attached to the Metropolitan Police Department. One day after a suspect interview, he chances upon a girl with shocking green hair munching on a scorpion in the middle of Shinjuku. The impressive eater turns out to be Kouda Mari, a police detective in the international investigations division. The two could not be more different—while Kouda is in-your-face about showing interest in people regardless of nationality, Arikino prefers to keep his distance. But as the pair begins working together on cases from missing tourists to international smuggling rings, and munching on various international cuisines in between, their "bellies" find total synchronicity.
Soon, this one-of-a-kind duo finds themselves chasing down an organization called The Volunteers that targets foreigners who've exceeded their legal stay. And this opens the Pandora's Box into Arikino's tragic and shocking past...
- Art
- Fashion
- Romance
NEW
舟を編む ～私、辞書つくります～
From fashion to dictionary!
Kishibe Midori, an editor at a popular fashion magazine, is abruptly informed that the magazine is folding and that she's being transferred to the Dictionary Department. Midori's life is turned upside down when she joins the department which is run by the hyper earnest Majime Mitsuya and his idiosyncratic team. Inspired by how her new colleagues are committed, focused and patient in their decade-plus endeavor to edit one dictionary, Midori begins to discover the fantastic world of words and propels herself into the new job. United by the devotion to edit The Great Passage dictionary, the Dictionary Department team are hard at work.
This TV series is based on Miura Shion's bestselling novel of the same name but in this version, our protagonist is Midori whereas the novel focuses on Majime. Having Midori at the center of the story, gives a fresh perspective through her exploration of the Dictionary Department as a new employee.
The novel is also known for its award-winning film adaptation (2013) starring Matsuda Ryuhei and Miyazaki Aoi. It won acclaim domestically as well as internationally, becoming box office hits in Hong Kong and Taiwan.