The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generations of the Tokugawa dynasty--from its...

Historical drama about the life of Saigō Takamori and his involvement with the Meiji Restoration.

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

The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train completely jam-packed with passengers heads for Aomori...

Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs.

The chronicles of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan. In order to study swordsmanship, Ryoma heads for Edo...

A story about a masked samurai who takes sides with the good and wipes out the evil. In the late Edo period in Kyoto, samurai are killing each other...

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,...

Set in Tenma, Osaka. Matsukichi (Kento Hayashi) is the son of a samurai. His father is killed because of a grudge and Matsukichi is also in danger....

Collection of short stories about women in various periods of Japanese history. Based on famous Japanese novels.

A story about a high school full of delinquents, and its elite class that has clones of famous warlords from Japan's Warring States period fighting...

During the Sengoku period, there are many factions constantly at war. One of these is led by a one-eyed man named Date Masamune and another by the...

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council...

The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the...

Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble...

Powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson adjusts to the dirty world of Chicago politics.

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II,...

When Nao Kanzaki receives a strange letter and a suitcase containing 100 million yen, she learns that she has been selected to participate in the...

After losing her mother and her homeland, Sitara’s despair transforms into determination with the power of knowledge. New possibilities unfold...

Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity,...

A young orphan named Biwa is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan—also known as the Heike—after their leader witnesses her extraordinary...

Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the...