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  • 2013
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    Kumokiri Nizaemon

    Kumokiri Nizaemon

    8.50 2013 HD

    During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo,...

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  • 2000
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    Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby

    Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby

    8.40 2000 HD

    Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby is a Japanese children's animated television series produced by J.C.Staff, Directed by Hiroaki Sakurai, and was aired on...

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  • 1998
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    Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

    Welcome Back For An Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai

    1 1998 HD

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  • 2014
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    Hanako & Anne

    Hanako & Anne

    7.30 2014 HD

    A Japanese girl from a poor family named Hanako went on an adventure to study in a girl's Christian school in Tokyo. She found her passion in English...

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  • 2011
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    Phi Brain: Puzzle of God

    Phi Brain: Puzzle of God

    6.70 2011 HD

    Phi Brain: Puzzle of God is a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise. The first two series aired on NHK Educational TV between...

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  • 2009
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    Guin Saga

    Guin Saga

    7.10 2009 HD

    "The seal will be broken after many years". In the land of Nospherus, four heroes embark on a patch of destiny that will weave a new legend. The...

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  • 2016
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    Toto Nee-chan

    Toto Nee-chan

    8.50 2016 HD

    In 1930 and as a young child, Tsuneko Kohashi lives at Enshu in Shizuoka Prefecture. She has a happy life with her parents and two younger sisters....

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  • 2014
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    Baby Steps

    Baby Steps

    7.90 2014 HD

    Eiichirō Maruo (nicknamed "Ei-chan" for his grades being straight "A") is an honor student, bookworm, and is not interested in anything other than...

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  • 2022
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    Chimudondon

    Chimudondon

    8.00 2022 HD

    Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa. She...

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  • 2012
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    Taira no Kiyomori

    Taira no Kiyomori

    8.00 2012 HD

    Villain or hero, Taira no Kiyomori changed Japanese history forever 900 years ago. Without ever knowing his real father, Kiyomori was raised as a...

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  • 2008
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    Atsuhime

    Atsuhime

    9.00 2008 HD

    The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa...

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  • 1987
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    7.20 1987 HD

    D'artagnan leaves Gascone and his grandparents to go to Paris to be a musketeer like his father was...

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  • 1999
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    Genroku Ryoran

    Genroku Ryoran

    7.80 1999 HD

    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....

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  • 1988
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    Jun-chan's Cheering Song

    Jun-chan's Cheering Song

    1 1988 HD

    The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has...

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  • 2019
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    Scarlet

    Scarlet

    7.50 2019 HD

    Born in 1937 in Osaka as the eldest daughter, Kawahara Kimiko moves to Shigaraki with her family at the age of 9. She works to support her family...

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  • 2023
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    What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

    What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

    7.70 2023 HD

    He lost his land, his father, and was torn from his mother. Lonely and wounded, young Takechiyo thought he'd live out his days quietly as a hostage....

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  • 2023
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    Ooku: The Inner Chambers

    Ooku: The Inner Chambers

    8.20 2023 HD

    In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant...

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  • 2016
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    ClassicaLoid

    ClassicaLoid

    6.80 2016 HD

    In a rural town undergoing revival through music, high school students Kanae and Sousuke meet none other than Beethoven and Mozart! Calling...

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  • 2004
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    Tenka

    Tenka

    1 2004 HD

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  • 1979
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    Kusa Moeru

    Kusa Moeru

    7.00 1979 HD

    The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.

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