Gaku Hamada

Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the ...

A young athlete whose running days might be behind her, a compulsive liar, a shy researcher, a bitter old woman, and a little girl with a big ...

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko’s strong ...

Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai ...

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired ...

The morning variety show, a staple of television around the world, offers news and entertainment but TV host Shingo didn’t expect to be himself ...

Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father; the other – a ...

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors ...

Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel ...

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister’s assassination, and on ...

After Satoru Watarai graduated from elementary school, he dropped out of school and decided to live within his apartment complex, never to ...

In Kyoto, Mayuko (Haruka Ayase) stands at a crossroad in her life. She’s thinking about marriage with her boyfriend Kyoichi (Hiroyuki ...

Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro (Yagira Yuya) decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy and ...