"You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately. The other boys haven't exactly tried to understand why Dad opened up his family's home to Miyeko, a survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb. Although she is only in America a short time to have surgery on her badly scarred face and arm, her visit reveals just how many ignorant and intolerant attitudes still exist 10 years after the war's end. But Johnny, who also resents Miyeko at first, becomes one of her fiercest defenders after he makes the effort to look past her outward appearance. Only then can the scars begin to heal.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Yumi Fukuzawa is an ordinary first year student at Lillian Girls' Academy. By chance Yumi meets seco...

Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He ...

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him....

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...