Ikkei Watanabe

The body of a male has been discovered, strangled to death, his face pulverized beyond recognition and fingers burned to a crisp. Assigned to the case are local precinct detective, Kaoru Utsumi, and her ex"colleague from headquarters, Shunpei Kusanagi. It turns out that the neighbor of the victim's ex"wife is a college alumnus of brilliant physicist, Manabu Yukawa, aka "Detective Galileo."He is Tetsuya Ishigami, a high school math teacher whom Yukawa personally considers a true genius. (AsianMediaWiki)

Strange things start to happen at the school. Toru Danda, a target of bullying who has stopped coming to school, shows up one day wearing a strange mask and acting like a completely different person. From that day on, one student after another dons a mask and is reborn within the school community. The fashion appeals to the twin desires to be anonymous and to be someone else, and quickly becomes a social phenomenon. (facebook.com)

In the year 2009, a young policeman must collapse a Yakuza family whose members make a large profit with a new drug. (imdb)

Grandma is a nasty and maipulative thing most of the time, causing endless trouble for her son-in-law and daughter, her grandchildren, and her neighbours.

The "origin" movie of the title Ultraman, who befriends a little boy named Musashi and fights an updated version of a classic Ultra-foe, Baltan-Seijin. (imdb)

Ryujo Hoshiko comes to detective Kindaichi Kosuke's office with a request. She would like him to investigate an attempt to poison her father, Baron Ryujo Kiyohisa. Hoshiko says this may have something to do with the issues of succession such as the peerage and fortune. Accepting the request, Kindaichi and Hoshiko are driven by a servant of the Ryujo family to the mansion in Nagano Prefecture. On the way, the car comes to an abrupt halt on a country road. (mydramalist.com)

Inogashira Goro arrives in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture for the first time in eight years at the request of an old friend Kishimoto. The request this time is a job at Sea Pearl Pia Onagawa, a commercial facility in the town of Onagawa, where Kishimoto is running an event. Kishimoto would like people to lend a hand to revive it after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Goro is fully supportive. (mydramalist.com)

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. (The Movie Database)

The director Nagasaki transports us to the remote barren wilderness of Hokkaido, the most northerly of the four main islands that make up Japan, in a powerful and compelling three and a half hour DV-shot epic based on an original novel by Natsuo Kirino that ostensibly deals with the search of a young mother for her missing five-year-old daughter... (The Movie Database)

In Galileo, Fukuyama Masaharu plays a genius physicist and university associate professor, Yukawa Manabu, who solves difficult mysteries. Affectionately known as Detective Galileo, Yukawa is brilliant, an all-round sportsman, tall and handsome but eccentric. Yukawa's partner is a rookie cop, Utsumi Kaoru, a hot-blooded woman with a strong sense of justice. (mydramalist)

Raised by his single-parent mother, Shinichi is driven from the village where he lives due to the influence of his reviled father. (jfdb.jp)

***Kyouko-san (Miss Kyouko) ***Buchou OL (Manager-OL) [office lady] ***Kinou Kouen (Yesterday at the park) ***Neko ga Ongaeshi (Cat Repays a Favor) ***Kazoku Kaigi (Family Meeting)

An old house stands amongst newly built buildings as if it has been left behind. Tamako, a popular fortune teller, has been living there alone with her son, Tadao, for years. Because he has an intellectual disability and autism, their neighbors often complain about his unpredictable behaviors. One day, Tamako is informed that a room is available in a group home owned by a company that runs the community workshop Tadao works at. Residents there all have an intellectual disability ...