(7 vote(s), average: 8.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 演歌の女王 (えんか の じょおう) | Enka no joô | Queen of Enka

Genre: Comedy

Film Date: January, 2007

Japanese Drama Cast: Amami Yuki, Harada Taizo, Kikawada Masaya, Narumi Riko, Sakai Wakana

Description: Himawari is an unsuccessful 39-year-old enka singer who has bad luck with men and money. Born into an Osaka takoyaki shop, the young Himawari was inspired by her father's words to immerse herself in enka. At the age of 13 her father disappears and her mother, bitter over the husband that left her, remarries--but Himawari has trouble adjusting to a new father and brother. With her father's words in her head--"You're the #1 singer in all of Japan!"--Himawari immediately heads to Tokyo after high school and makes her debut as an enka singer.

(5 vote(s), average: 8.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: めだか | Night School

Genre: Human Drama

Film Date: October, 2004

Japanese Drama Cast: Sudo Risa, Hiraoka Yuta, Yamamoto Taro , Eita, Harada Taizo

Description: Takako Meguro's dream has always been to get married and quit her job. But one day, she finds herself working as a teacher at a night school. At first, she is unmotivated and doesn't take her work seriously. But she soon finds out that work at night school is tougher than she thought. There's a high-school dropout, a businessman, a cabaret girl, and many others—every student is either strange or extraordinary in one way or another. Half of the students are older than Takako, and she discovers that one of the students was her classmate in elementary school.Now that she sleeps during the day and works at night, Takako is unable to attend drinking parties to meet guys. She starts to think that's how life is, and she should go with the flow.But one night an incident ignites Takako's passion for her job, which explodes into an angry scolding of her students.

(0 vote(s), average: 0.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 古畑中学生 | Furuhata Chugakusei | 古畑任三郎生涯最初の事件

Genre: Drama

Film Date: June, 2008

Japanese Drama Cast: Asano Kazuyuki, Fukuda Mayuko, Harada Taizo, Kobayashi Takashi, Yamada Ryosuke

Description: Furuhata Chuugakusei is a detective story about a 15 year old Tokyo kid who transfers to junior high school to the countryside. It depicts the childhood of Furuhata Ninzaburo.

(0 vote(s), average: 0.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 奥さまは魔女|Bewitched In Tokyo

Genre: Family, Fantasy

Film Date: January, 2004

Japanese Drama Cast: Fuji Manami, Shioya Shun, Harada Taizo, Takenaka Naoto, Natsuki Mari

Description: The wife is a witch! But she likes humans and she loves her husband.Arisa is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she uses is faulty and she winds up in Japan. There she meets Joji Matsui who works at an advertising agency. Joji has been assigned by his boss Ichio Suzuki the difficult task of winning over Shiori Nomo who is in charge of corporate communications at a client. However a little word from Arisa helps Joji win over Shiori and his agency gets the opportunity to pitch. Arisa and Joji fall in love and marry. Arisa swears never to use magic again as she and Joji begin their strange witch/human married life. However, Arisa's mother, Daria wants to take Arisa back to her world and uses magic to be a nuisance to the new couple. Arisa has to take care of Joji's boss Suzuki who drops in all the time, the prying eyes of their neighbors and the interference of her witch mother.