Chanpon Tabetaka [09/09]

Plot:
In early 1965, a child violinist who was expected to be a prodigy, came up to Tokyo from Nagasaki and lived in lodgings. In the 1970s, the violinist (Suda Masaki) faced a setback during the uproar over the US-Japan security treaty. Even so, he did not cut off music. By the time he realised it, he had started singing as Grape. This is a story centred around his high school and university days surrounded by different people including friends, teachers as well as older men at his part-time job.

Title: ちゃんぽん食べたか
Title (romaji): Chanpon Tabetaka
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 9
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2015-May-30 to 2015-Jul-23
Air time: Saturday

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Kung Fu Jungle

Plot:
Hahou Mo, a martial arts expert and police self-defense instructor (Donnie Yen) is incarcerated for involuntary manslaughter during a fight with an opponent. Three years later, a vicious killer (Wang Baoqiang) emerges and starts killing retired martial arts masters that Hahou knows. With his own personal agenda, Hahou reveals he knows the killer's next intended victims and offers to aid Inspector Luk Yuen-Sum (Charlie Young) in capturing the killer with his martial arts skills and knowledge in exchange for his freedom.

Movie: Kung Fu Jungle
Chinese: 一個人的武林
Director: Teddy Chan
Writer: Teddy Chan, Ho Leung Lau, Tin Shu Mak
Release Date: 30 October 2014
Runtime: 100 min.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Language: Cantonese
Country: Hong Kong

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Library Wars - Movie

Plot:
Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed force to find and destroy objectionable printed material. Meanwhile, to oppose this oppressive crackdown, the Library Defense is created. The Library Defense, including instructor Atsushi Dojo (Junichi Okada) and Iku Kasahara (Nana Eikura), work to protect the libraries. A fierce battle then ensues between these two groups.

Movie: Library Wars
Romaji: Toshokan Senso
Japanese: 図書館戦争
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Writer: Hiro Arikawa (light novel), Akiko Nogi
Producer: Kazuya Hamana, Tamako Tsujimoto
Cinematographer: Taro Kawazu
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Runtime: 128 min.
Genre: Action / Romance / Comedy
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

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Say 'I love you'

Plot:
Mei Tachibana is a high school student. Due to a traumatic incident when she was a kid, Mei has been unable to make friends or have boyfriends. By mistake, Mei then injures the most popular male student named Yamato Kurosawa. Somehow, Yamato Kurosawa likes Mei Tachibana and tells everyone unilaterally that Mei is his friend. One day, Yamato Kurosawa saves Mei Tachibana from a stalker by kissing her. From that kiss, their love story begins.

Movie: Say "I love you" (literal title)
Romaji: Sukitte Ii nayo
Japanese: 好きっていいなよ
Director: Asako Hyuga
Writer: Kanae Hazuki (manga), Asako Hyuga
Cinematographer: Yuta Tsukinaga
Release Date: July 12, 2014
Runtime: 103 min.
Distributor: Shochiku
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

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Triumph in the Skies (film)

Plot:
Young pilot Branson (Louis Koo) recently takes over Skylette, his father’s aviation empire, only to realize his old flames Cassie (Charmaine Sheh) is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to New York to take care of his father's business. To this day, the two continue to harbor feelings for each other but decide to keep them bottled up.

In an effort to rebrand the airline, Branson invites rock idol TM (Sammi Cheng) to star in an upcoming commercial and appoints Sam (Francis Ng) as her flying consultant. Incongruent in both tastes and experience, this odd couple gets off on the wrong foot. As the shoot progresses, however, they slowly discover each other's merits, developing a strong mutual attraction.

Jayden (Julian Cheung) has left Skylette Airline to become a pilot for private jets. He meets the young and vivacious Kika (Amber Kuo) during a flight and assumes her to be wayward and shallow. But they turn out to have a lot in common and start falling madly in love. At the height of their romance, Jayden realizes almost too late the secret behind her recalcitrance…

Each of the three relationships comes with its own setbacks. As long as one can accept the imperfection of things, finding happiness—however fleetingly—is a blessing in itself.

Movie: Triumph in the Skies
Chinese: 衝上雲霄
Director: Wilson Yip, Matt Chow
Writer: Matt Chow, Jun Sin, Xu Lengfeng
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Runtime: 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Language: Cantonese
Country: Hong Kong

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Eien no Bokura Sea Side Blue

Plot:
In the early part of summer, Matsuoka Aoi, is in the third year at a university. She doesn't like making trouble and enjoys the ocean with marine life. Aoi hoped to attend a different university, but because of her parent's opposition she gave up on the other school. One day, she begins work with students from the University of Marine Science and Technology at an aquarium near the sea.

Title: 永遠のぼくら sea side blue
Title (romaji): Eien no Bokura Sea Side Blue
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Mystery, comedy
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2015-Jun-24
Air time: 21:00 - 22:54

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Mousou Kanojo [04/04]

Plot:
28-year-old web writer, Takashima Keisuke, enjoys dates with his girlfriend Haru, and has been taking photographs of the two of them madly in love with each other and posting one photograph after another on social networking services. The two of them gradually move in and soon kiss. Keisuke also captures this moment on camera. However, passersby laugh derisively and stare at him with curiosity. This is because Keisuke has been taking the photographs alone with a long hair wig in his hand. His fantasy girlfriend “Haru” only exists in social networking services and is a product of his imagination. Keisuke took all the photographs of their “dates” alone. The editor Anzai Kohei watches Keisuke’s apparent satisfaction with the good photographs he has taken in amazement. He counsels him to get a real girlfriend. But Keisuke turns a deaf ear. On this day, Keisuke’s good friend, Kamakura Yuki, visits his house while he is taking lovey dovey shots with “Haru”. Yuki is similarly stunned, but does not seem to particularly mind his fantasy girlfriend. Keisuke has drinks with Anzai at a pub on the eve of his birthday. When asked about his ideal girlfriend, he starts to write about the preferred appearance and personality of his fantasy girlfriend. When he wakes up in his room the next morning, his “ideal girl” Haru is before him and she somehow behaves in the way that he fantasises. Keisuke gradually experiences a taste of romance. But is this situation imaginary? Or a reality?

Title: 妄想彼女
Title (romaji): Mousou Kanojo
Also known as: My "Girlfriend"
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 4
Viewership ratings: 4.1%
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2015-May-23 to 2015-Jun-20
Air time: Saturday 23:40
Theme song: TSUMANNE by SAKANAMON

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Yokokuhan: The Pain [05/05]

Plot:
Eiji Sakuma (Noriyuki Higashiyama) is a judge. He also leads the group Shinbunshi in secret The group holds court on a video site and imposes punishment against defendants. Detectives, including Erika Yoshino (Erika Toda), attempt to take down the group.

Title: 予告犯−THE PAIN−
Title (romaji): Yokokuhan−THE PAIN−
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Genre:
Episodes: 5
Broadcast network: WOWOW
Broadcast period: 2015-Jun-07 to 2015-Jul-05
Air time: Sunday 22:00
Theme song:

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Futagashira [05/05]

Plot:
Benzo (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Soji (Taichi Saotome) work together at a delivery agency. The delivery agency actually consists of thieves and they call themselves Akame. Their group robs dirty money from the corrupt. The leader of Akame is Tatsugoro. Benzo and Soji both adore him.

One day, Tatsugoro holds Benzo and Soji's hands and tells them "I leave Akame to you" and then dies. Tatsugoro's wife shows his will that says something different. In his will, Jinzaburo is the one who inherits. Benzo and Soji are confused, but they bid farewell to Akame and leave to carry out a big mission.

Title: ふたがしら
Title (romaji): Futagashira
Format:
Genre:
Episodes: 5
Broadcast network: WOWOW
Broadcast period: 2015-Jun-13 to 2015-Jul-11
Air time: Saturday 22:00
Theme song:

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The Last Cop [05/05]

Plot:
In 1985, when detective Kyogoku Kosuke (Karasawa Toshiaki) was hunting down some criminals, he suddenly found himself in the center of an explosion and ended up falling into a coma. In 2015, after 30 years Kosuke wakes up and has a lot to catch up, new values, technology, family, work, everything he has missed. Back to the Criminal Division, Kosuke and his new partner Ryota (Kubota Masataka) are entrusted with classified security data that aims to a terrorist group Schiesser.

Title: ラストコップ
Title (romaji): THE LAST COP
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Detective, comedy
Episodes: 5
Broadcast network: NTV, Hulu
Broadcast period: 2015-Jun-19 to 2015-Jul-24
Air time: Friday 21:00
Theme song: Fire Starter by Spyair

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Renai Jidai [12/12]

Plot:
Haru Eto (Manami Higa) works at a sports gym and Riichiro Hayase (Shinnosuke Mitsushima) works at a book store. After a fateful meeting, they eventually marry, but, due to a reason, they divorce only a year and a half later. Even after their divorce, the couple continue to see each other. On their wedding anniversary they have dinner together. Due to a petty quarrel, they begin to search for a potential spouse for each other.

Title: 恋愛時代
Title (romaji): Renai Jidai
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 12
Broadcast network: NTV / YTV
Broadcast period: 2015-Apr-02 to 2015-Jun-18
Air time: Thursday 23:59
Theme song: Arigatou Forever... by Nishiuchi Mariya

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As the Gods Will

Plot:
Shun Takahata (Sota Fukushi) is an ordinary high school student leading a boring life. His life long friend is Ichika Akimoto (Hirona Yamazaki).

One day, a teacher’s head explodes in class. Shun Takahata and his classmates are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.

Movie: As the Gods Will
Romaji: Kamisama no Iu Toori
Japanese: 神さまの言うとおり
Director: Takashi Miike
Writer: Muneyuki Kaneshiro (manga), Akeji Fujimura (manga), Hiroyuki Yatsu
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Runtime: 118 min.
Genre: Based on a Comic / Death Game
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

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