Ryô Nishikido

Kijima Yasube (Ryo Nishikido), a samurai from the Edo Period, travels through time - 180 years - to arrive in present day Japan. He then meets divorcee Hiroko (Rie Tomosaka) & her son Tomoya (Fuku Suzuki). Yasube ends up working for Hiroko as a housemaid in return for food and lodging. One day. Yasube starts to make pastries for Tomoya, which leads to Yasube become popular patissier. In the process the three become very close, but the moment they must say good bye also draws near. (asianwiki.com)

A based-on-a-true-story romance tale between Masami (Nishikido), a charming taxi driver and Tsukasa (Kitagawa), a woman who's wheelchair-bound and suffers from memory impairments after a tragic accident.

Suffering from population decline, a small seaside town decides to welcome 6 strangers into the community. A malevolent fishing boat operator, a sexy caregiver, a frightening launderer, a timid barber, a methodical cleaning woman, and a simple-minded deliveryman are all brought together by a mysterious government program. Even the young official put in charge of the program has no idea why they've been brought to town. Then the truth starts to come out about their mysterious past. (imdb)

A young tomboyish woman struggles against the odds in achieving what becomes her dream, becoming a Japan Airlines Cabin Attendant. (imdb)

Takechi Hanpeita, a samurai of Tosa domain who campaigned for the expulsion of foreigners, unwittingly travels 150 years in time from the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate to present day Japan. (imdb)

After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo (60s) and his son Toshi (30s) receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child – Lake Windermere in England. Surprised by this unexpected request, father and son are initially at loggerheads over their next steps.

It tackles issues that afflict the current generation. Michiru's mother has brought a man back to their home, and she is bullied at her workplace, where she works as a beauty parlour assistant. She starts cohabiting with her boyfriend, a good young man who works at the Child Welfare Division and is the only person who can give her emotional support but she ends up the victim of domestic violence and becomes fearful of love. (imdb)

Heisuke Hara works as a teacher at an all-boys high school where he had an unfortunate accident 15 years ago. Now, it's decided that the boys school where he works will be merged with a girls school because of a decline in student numbers. (imdb)

Three grifting siblings do everything they can to solve the murder of their parents before the statute of limitations runs out. (imdb)

A married couple that want to get divorced, but circumstances have kept together. (imdb)