Riisa Naka

Tells a wonderful story centered on 3 friends, the tomboyish and clumsy Makoto Konono, and two hunks Chiaki Mamiya and Kousuke Tsuda. Theirs is a friendship formed after school at the baseball court where they spend quality time talking about typical teenage stuff. Things start to change however, when Makoto by accident gets the power to time travel (IMDB Comments)

An amateur wrestling fan finally conjures up the courage to sign up to the sport he has admired from afar. The wrestling troupe consist of amateur greats such as The Egg, who has the short straw when it comes to wrestling costumes. A tale of friendship and silliness; and did i mention that the lead character has no short term memory?

Sakiko is a typical teenager in many ways. She hates her divorced father, who chases after every skirt he sees. She does not know, if she will ever be loved by the other sex. When her dad suddenly inherits a lot of money and becomes really lazy, she hates him even more. He finally decides to start his own cafe, where Sakiko, of course has to help. From this moment, strange customers and good-looking waitresses form the center of tension between father and daughter. (AsianMediaWiki)

Sequel to Zebraman (2004). Zebraman wakes up in a dystopian future.

In 2010, Kazuko works as a pharmaceutical researcher secretly developing a formula for time travel. When she is left comatose after a car accident, her daughter Akari learns of her mother's first love, Kazuo. Believing that finding Kazuo will allow her mother to regain consciousness, Akari uses Kazuko's formula to leap back in time to the 1970s in hopes of finding a younger Kazuo. Instead, she meets and befriends Ryota Mizorogi. Together, they attempt to search for Kazuo. (wikipedia)

Moteki is the story of a 31 year-old virgin Yukiyo Fujimoto, a young fellow with no money, no aspirations and no girlfriend. Leaving his temp job, he decides to finally get a life and lands a job as a writer for an Internet news site. But love continues to elude him. At the nadir of his loneliness and social isolation, comes the arrival of his "Moteki" - a period of sexual magnetism and romantic irreversibility.

A whimiscal comedy from Japan that sees our eponymous protagonist - pregnant, broke, but feisty - follow a wafting cloud to whatever awaits her. Bolstered by an engaging performance by Riisa Naka, Yûya Ishii's fable follows Mitsuko as she winds up in the backwater tenement she briefly lived in as a child, and sets out to reinvigorate the forlorn, morose inhabitants. (guardian.co.uk)

Mika (Riisa Naka) is a flight attendant on board an airplane scheduled to land at Haneda Airport. On the way to the airport the airplane's engine starts to burn. In order to save the 346 people on board the airplane, sea marshall Daisuke Senzaki (Hideaki Ito) and his team are called into action... (asianwiki.com)

Reiji is a clumsy but excitable cop who is assigned to a dangerous Yakuza group as an undercover agent. His duty to his country and his determination to lose his virginity are two of his driving forces. His fears? Death and premature ejaculation. Could he survive the Yakuza alive and last in bed with his beloved Junna? The answers lie in The Mole Song, a surprising, fast-paced and highly entertaining picture from one of Japan's best directors.

When Kaoru Kanzaki was a child, her mother's restaurant went bankrupt. Her family became poor afterwards. Since graduating from middle school, Kaoru Kanzaki has worked hard and lived a thrifty life to escape poverty. As a result, she is able to save 1 million yen. Kauro though lends her colleague 1 million yen, which leads her to fall heavily in debt and her life spiral downward again. At that time, Kaoru Kanzaki happens to meet members of Koshimizu Management Consultant and becomes a member. (asianwiki.com)

The story reveals the history of "Black Jack" when he was a medical student, how he became an unlicensed doctor, and his rivalry with Dr. Kiriko. (mydramalist.com)

Yasuko is a hikikomori and has hypersomnia which means she has trouble staying awake during the day. She lives with her boyfriend Tsunagi, who works in the editorial department at a magazine. Her frustration grows, because she can't control her emotions and her boyfriend seems indifferent to her. One day, Tsunagi's ex-girlfriend Ando appears. She schemes to break up the couple. (imdb)

Takashi used to wrestle and take himself seriously, but that he was a comic figure is now apparent to all including himself with his mask and get-up since he officially wrestles as a joke. He has not told his son what he does for a living, but the boy finds out and lies to his school-mate about his father's line of work. (themoviedb)

Fukada plays Mai Aida, a woman in her third year as an english teacher at a private all-girls high school. Due to declining enrollment, the school decides to admit its first male students. Those five freshmen initially feel they're in paradise, but the concerned Mai tries to help them adjust by creating a social dance club and inviting five girls. Those ten students become the focus of the drama, which is described as a story of love and adolescence. (wiki.d-addicts.com)

Set shortly after Japan's defeat in WWII, the story follows a young man named Risuke who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the countryside to a unique nursing facility to receive treatment for his disease. (imdb)

A "cinematic" presentation of the 2011 version of the play. In 1590, seven spirits take on the threat growing in a shadowy castle. (Netflix).

When Haruko shows up for her first day as a Japanese language teacher she discovers that the school is for foreign students learning Japanese. Can Haruko survive as Japanese language instructor? (imdb)

Shinagawa Daichi used to be a good student who has now become a delinquent, while class president Adachi Hana was a delinquent who is now trying to move on. Her secret is discovered by Shinagawa, but she involves herself trying to correct his ways. (Avistaz)

A single father desperately tries to return to 1986 after somehow arriving in 2024, where his Showa-era ideas come across as completely inappropriate. (netflix.com)

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

A love triangle develops between a shy office worker, a part-time worker and a CEO. (imdb)

Shigeru Urushizaki lives with his teenage daughter Niko. Shigeru Urushizaki enjoys junk food, alcohol, and cigarettes. Despite complaints about the toxic environment in his body, the cells in his body work hard to function correctly. Unlike her father, Niko lives a healthy lifestyle. Inside her body, various cells including red blood cell AE3803 and white blood cell U-1146 work hard to protect her health and enjoy what they are doing. However, pathogens aim to invade their bodies. (asianwiki.com)