The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best loved stories of Japan's history. Generations have grown up hearing the stirring tale of Oishi Kuranosuke, chief councillor of the Ako clan who leads his men through suffering and hardship to ultimately avenge their lord after he is unjustly forced to commit harakiri. NHK's 38th Taiga Drama "Genroku Ryoran" is the ambitious remake of this classic epic and boasts a cast that reads like a Who's Who in Japanese entertainment.

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Kōchiyama Sōshun serves as a cha-bōzu (He is kind of tea man) in the administrative headquarters of ...

Light Yagami is an ordinary university student. One day, he receives a "Death Note", which changes h...

Five siblings struggle to live together after their parents have passed away. Arguments are a norm, ...

Four young people have been arrested for crimes they did not commit. When one of them learns that hi...

Kotaro Mochizuki (Haruma Miura) is a timid, introspective teenager who attends a private high school...

Luzon Sukezaemon is a merchant who imports vases from the Philippines. The vases are highly valued a...

Junko Sakuraba dreams of working in New York, but she currently works as an English conversation tea...

A Japanese tabloid reporter tired of working simply as a celebrity scandals writer accepts a new cha...

Jinta journeys through a century-spanning epic, all while questioning why he wields a sword.

A high school girl finally gets her own apartment, but she has to share it with the most popular boy...

Set in an old prestigious ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) in a small town in the center of Tokyo,...

Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits su...

A high-tech squadron protects Earth from evil monsters and aliens with the help of a giant super-bei...

When an estranged friend resurfaces after 12 years, a prosecutor starts connecting disjointed events...

Thousands of ninjas live in secret across Japan. One underachieving ninja spends his days doing noth...

At the beginning of the Edo Era, when people enjoyed a time of peace, Lord Tokugawa Tadanaga holds a...

A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Hom...

After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring stat...