Acting
Mari Hayashida (林田 麻里, Hayashida Mari, December 29, 1978) is a Japanese actress from Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Her agency is Lucky River. In 2013 she won the Kinokuniya Theater Award.
A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin, a professional bicycle racing sport.
In the sixth installment of Taisho Roman Tanteitan, Kai Todo, "the Japanese Sherlock Holmes," takes on a serial murder case.
A detective is asked by a young woman to investigate a stalker. As the investigation proceeds, a suspect who has been persistently and repeatedly harassing her comes to the forefront of the investigation. The detective began recording the stalking behavior on video.
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.
Two immortals and a woman who repeats re-encarnations, are caught in a curse that has over a thousand years. They meet every 100 years. Sosuke doesn’t know who he is but has recurrent dreams about a woman he has met on a beach. A beautiful love story where the past is intertwined with the present and needs closure.
Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.
Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents are missing from home and are only contactable when using one particular phonecard.
Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses...