Makiko Okano (Producer)

Glass Heart

An aspiring drummer suddenly loses her spot in the band. But when a brilliant musician recruits her for his new band, her life takes a passionate turn.

Release Date2025-07-31

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Episode Count10

Vote Count26

Straight to Hell

As Japan's most famous fortune teller, Kazuko Hosoki ruled TV and bestseller lists, but who was she behind rumors of spiritual scams and underworld ties?

Release Date2026-04-27

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Episode Count9

Vote Count23

Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~

Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Release Date2016-10-22

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Episode Count10

Vote Count15

Beyond Goodbye

After losing her fiancé in an accident, Saeko feels an inexplicable connection to a stranger — who, by a twist of fate, received his heart and memories.

Release Date2024-11-14

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Episode Count8

Vote Count32

Chastity High

When an ultra-elite high school enforces a strict "No Romance" rule that expels anyone caught dating, a student secretly helps her classmates for cash.

Release Date2024-08-29

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Episode Count8

Vote Count36

Romantics Anonymous

A brilliant chocolatier who's afraid of making eye contact meets an heir who can't touch others — but somehow, they're immune to each other.

Release Date2025-10-16

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Episode Count8

Vote Count31

Call Me Chihiro

An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.

Release Date2023-02-23

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Vote Count144

A Fading Summer

A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is the daughter of the criminal in a serious case. This was the kidnapping of a newborn baby at a big hospital 20 years ago. The criminal demanded a ransom from the director of the hospital instead of the parents. But after the criminal had the large sum of money in hand, he died in an accident while being pursued by the police. The baby was never found. Kaji Hidekazu, a former hotshot journalist who has become deadwood in the wake of an incident, is ordered by the newspaper to re-investigate the kidnapping case. He finds out the shocking, tragic truth which had been kept under wraps.

Release Date2015-01-18

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Episode Count5

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The House on the Slope

Yamazaki Risako lives with her husband Yoichiro and 3-year-old daughter Fumika. One day, she receives a notification from the court that she has been selected as an alternate member of the jury for a shocking criminal case. The defendant in the case is Ando Mizuho, a full-time housewife who is the same age as Risako. She is on trial for causing the death of her 8-month-old daughter by dropping her into the bathtub. As a mother herself, Risako feels repulsed that Mizuho killed her own child. However, after the trial opens, Mizuho’s circumstances remind Risako of her own past and she soon becomes confused with the chaotic feelings that have lain dormant in her. (Source: jdramas.wordpress.com)

Release Date2019-04-27

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Episode Count6

Vote Count14

And, Live

Toko Ikuta lost her parents in a car accident at the age of 3. Afterwards, her uncle, who ran a barbershop in Morioka, raised her and she had a happy childhood. Toko Ikuta was active as a local idol and she dreamed of becoming an actress. At the age of 19, she is set to take an audition in Tokyo. The day before her audition, on March 11, 2011, the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hits Japan. In the autumn of 2011, Toko Ikuta works at a cafe. She goes with her Korean co-worker Han Yoo-Ri to do volunteer work in Kesennuma as the area recovers from the devastating tsunami. There, Toko Ikuta meets Kiyotaka Shimizu who is a university student from Tokyo and a member of a student volunteer group. While spending time together in Kesennuma, Toko Ikuta and Kiyotaka Shimizu develop feelings for each other.

Release Date2019-08-04

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Episode Count6

Vote Count8

A Sinner's Lie

Serious legal thriller starring Hideaki Ito which depicts the glory and the darkness of an infamous and highly paid lawyer.

Release Date2014-08-31

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Episode Count5

Vote Count5

Tokkai: Furyousaiken Tokubetsu Kaishubu

In 1996, after the collapse of Japan's asset price bubble, Shibasaki Akira works in the loan department for the Yotsubashi branch office of Aoba Bank. One day, he is sent to work at a government-run company, which is a housing financial bond management organization. The company was formed to collect non-performing loans from bankrupt housing loan companies. Workers from different banks, including Akira and ex-employees from housing loan companies, gather at the government-run company. They stand up against vicious debtors and struggle to protect the taxpayers' money.

Release Date2021-01-17

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Episode Count12

Vote Count5

CO: Transplant Coordinator

Release Date2011-03-20

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Episode Count5

Drifting Net Cafe

It all started with a "net cafe." The hero Toki Koichi is a soon-to-be father leading a complacent life. One day, he happens to stop by an internet cafe, and bumps into Kaho, his first love from his junior high school days. Having just fought with his wife, Koichi's heart is filled with his old feelings. All of a sudden, a strange wave flows through the computers and cell phones in the net cafe, and the entire place blacks out, just before rain begins to pour outside. Unable to leave safely, both Koichi and Kaho stay overnight at the net cafe. The next morning, when they step outside, they find the world is completely different. Koichi is determined to find out why the entire cafe has transported him to a different world, and to return to his family in the original world. As he fights against various fears and tries to solve the mystery, people start to disappear one after another. Can they all survive through such a crisis!? And what is the secret of his first love with Kaho!?

Release Date2009-04-10

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Episode Count11

Vote Count1

Ganbare! TEAM NACS

A super big project commemorating the 25th anniversary of the formation of TEAM NACS and the 30th anniversary of wowow's opening. It was filmed in Hokkaido, the birthplace of TEAM NACS. Starting with "Back to the Sentai Futures", in which members dress as heroes who homage the masterpiece movie and Yo Yoshida participates as the villain "Emperor DeLorean", music is produced with the aim of becoming a national group, "NACS New Member Audition" will be held.

Release Date2021-03-07

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Episode Count9

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In Love and Deep Water

On a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross paths as they try to uncover a murder-mystery that occurs on the ship.

Release Date2023-11-16

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Vote Count47

Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion

Why did an abused solitary boy become a murderer? A sad but powerful gut-wrenching drama portraying the destiny of humans seeking love, starting up-and-coming actor Yuma Nakayama.

Release Date2017-03-25

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Episode Count5

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しんがり〜山一證券 最後の聖戦〜

Release Date2015-09-20

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Episode Count6

Vote Count3

Throwing Stones : Cops Against the Government

One billion yen vanishes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two police inspectors work to discover the culprit, but politics may obstruct justice.

Release Date2017-11-05

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Episode Count8

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Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka

Adapted from the book with the same title by Ryusho Kadota, a journalist who followed the "Hikari City Mother and Child Murder Case" that took place in Hikari City, Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1999, the drama is a fictionalized human story of a bereaved family that suffered repeated setbacks and was on the verge of despair, but continued to fight on with the support of others.

Release Date2010-09-25

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Episode Count2

People at Hopehills

Dramatized masterpiece from touching family drama's specialist Kiyoshi Shigematsu. "Second Chance Chauffer (流星ワゴン)" "Tonbi (Black kite)" The drama is produced by a great team starring by famous actors such as Ikki Sawamura, screen writing by Yoshikazu Okada and directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa. It shows "courage" and "pure heart" which adult need. This is an inspiring movie with lots of laughter and tears, and motivates you.

Release Date2016-07-16

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Episode Count5

Temisu no Kyuukei

Release Date2015-05-10

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Episode Count4

And Life Goes On

Despite losing her parents at age three in a car accident, Toko experiences an idyllic childhood thanks to her uncle, who raises her. She dreams of being an actress and, having had some local notoriety in her town, she is ready to take a leap of faith and travel to Tokyo to audition. But, as fate would have it, her hopes are dashed as her world and her country are turned upside down when Japan is struck by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. This motivates Toko to assist with aid efforts in Kesennuma where she meets volunteer organizer Kiyotaka. While she initially senses something about Kiyotaka is amiss in the midst of their devastated surroundings, feelings of hope grow as do their feelings for one another.

Release Date2019-09-27

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Vote Count5

Gaku

Release Date2012-01-01

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One Year to Live, Buy a Man

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Chicken Race

Story of friendship between an old man who slept for 45 years and his nurse who woke him up. (Source: D-Addicts)

Release Date2013-11-10

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Vote Count2

Mosaic Japan

After being retrenched from his job at a Tokyo securities firm, Tsunezue Riichi decides to return to his hometown to work. He soon lands a job at the company GALAXYZ, a job that his parents highly recommended. GALAXYZ is a newly set up company, with young entrepreneur Kui Yoshiaki at its helm. Unbeknownst to Riichi, the company actually handles AV (adult videos, i.e., pornography) projects. Even the office ladies at the company's premises are actually all aspiring AV actresses. Throughout the entire company, everything is AV-centric, with even filming taking place within the office! Amidst all these, Riichi finds himself fascinated by a sweet, charming girl, Momoko, another OL/AV wannabe…

Release Date2014-05-18

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Episode Count5

Vote Count14