Karera ga honki de amu toki wa,

IMDB: 7.2/10

Tomo, an 11-year old girl, discovers her mother has abandoned her. Tomo's uncle and his transgender girlfriend, Rinko, take her in. Together they tackle the task of knitting 108 of Rinko's special hopes and dreams, one stitch at a...

Sunô purinsu: Kinjirareta koi no merodi

IMDB: 6.8/10

A young boy lives in poverty with his grandfather while tending his dream of becoming a painter.

The Emperor's Sword

IMDB: 4.9/10

A sword that bestows power upon its wielder was divided and hidden. A rebel seizes power and stages a massacre, leaving only one survivor. Now, the daughter of a great general is all that stands between a tyrant and his domination.

Nagareboshi

IMDB: 7.3/10

Takenouchi plays an aquarium employee named Kengo, who seems ordinary at first glance but actually possesses a secret that he would sacrifice everything in order to protect. Meanwhile, Ueto plays Risa, a young woman working in the...

Gegege no nyôbô (AKA: My Husband is a Cartoonist)

IMDB: 6.8/10

A morning drama from NHK, it tells the story of manga artist, Shigeru Mizuki and his wife. Mizuki's most famous work was Gegege no Kitaro and the drama takes it name from this, substituting Nyobo - meaning wife - for Kitaro, the h...

Toshokan sensô

IMDB: 5.8/10

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 ...