Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

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

The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who ...

Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse tha...

Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her...

A photographer on a trip to Japan meets a fellow American woman and they quickly fall in love. Howev...

Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can s...

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

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide t...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep...

In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of ...

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno t...

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b...

Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a vi...

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumat...