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US Army medic Desmond T. Doss, er medlem av Syvendedags Adventistkirken, et kristent, protestantisk kirkesamfunn, som av samvittighetsgrunner nekter å bære våpen. Likevel ble han tildelt Medal of Honor av president Harry S. Truman for egenhendig å ha reddet livet til over 75 av sine kamerater under konstant fiendeild ved slaget om Okinawa under den andre verdenskrig.

Ichi er en lutrygget og blind mann som vandrer omkring og livnærer seg som massør. Iallfall er det slik han fremstår. For de fleste synes Ichi å være en mild og ubetydelig mann. Men å vise ham forakt er farlig. Vandrestokken hans kan på sekunder åpenbare et sverd som rydder unna alle hindringer med ufattelig presisjon og hurtighet. Massøren er samuraien Zatôichi, landets beste sverdsvinger. En dag kommer Ichi til en liten by for å tilby sine muskelavslappende tjenester. Han får mer bruk for sverdet enn hendene. Byen herjes av rivaliserende gjenger og mektige samuraier. To geishaer på jakt etter sine foreldres mordere gjør situasjonen enda mer uoversiktlig og truende. Zatôichi forsøker å passe sine egne saker, men byens maktkåte bråkmakere blir for nærgående. Det er på tide å skape fred - med sverdet til hjelp

En leiemorder er blitt skutt ved alteret av sin hensynsløse arbeidsgiver, Bill og andre medlemmer av deres mordergjeng - men "Bruden" lever videre for å utføre sin hevn. Og når hun bestemmer seg for å utføre hevnen, lager hun en dødsliste og jakter ned de som ødela henne, og sparer Bill til sist.

Jorden stilles ovenfor ondskapsfulle skapninger som truer hele menneskehetens eksistens. Et radioaktivt, livsfarlig monster utrydder alt på sin vei når det hensynsløst tramper ned alt som menneskene har skapt. Men menneskene nekter å la seg utrydde.

Denne originale animerte antologien følger historien til tre av historiens tøffeste krigere: en vikingplyndrer som leder sin sønn i et blodig hevntokt, en japansk ninja som vender seg mot sin samuraibror i en brutal arvefølgekamp, og en 2. verdenskrigspilot som etterforsker en utenomjordisk trussel mot de allierte.

Fem leiemordere går om bord på et japansk lyntog på vei til Kyoto og oppdager at de tilsynelatende separate oppdragene deres har en mystisk forbindelse.

Bob Harris og Charlotte er to amerikanere på besøk i Tokyo. Bob er filmstjerne, og i byen for å spille inn en reklamefilm for whisky, mens Chalotte er en ung kvinne som har blitt med sin arbeidsnarkomane ektemann på tur. En natt ingen av dem får sove, krysses Bob og Charlottes veier i baren på luksushotellet der begge bor. Dette tilfeldige møtet leder snart til et overraskende vennskap. Charlotte og Bob går sammen på oppdagelsesferd rundt i Tokyo, noe som byr på mange pussige møter med lokalbefolkningen, og til slutt får de to en ny tro på livets muligheter.

Mr. Miyagi og Daniel ta en tur til Okinawa for å besøke Mr. Miyagi sin døende far. Etter ankomst finner Mr. Miyagi at han fortsatt har følelser for en gammel kjærlighet. Dette vekker problemer med en gammel rival som han opprinnelig forlot Okinawa for å unngå. I mellomtiden, møter Daniel en ny kjærlighet og får også noen fiender.

Tom Cruise spiller borgerkrigshelten kaptein Nathan Algren, som kommer til Japan for å slåss mot samuraiene og ender opp med å kjempe for deres sak. Ken Watanabe spiller Kat Katsumoto, en samuraileder som står ovenfor en utdøende livsstil, og hvis skjebne flettes sammen med den amerikanske kapteinens. Edward Zwick regisserer denne dramatiske og følelsesladde episke fortellingen om det moderne Japans fødsel.

Igjen hjemsøkes jorden av enorme monstre som må bekjempes med gigantiske Jaeger-roboter. Jake Pentecoast må gå i farens fotspor for å forhindre jordens undergang.

Alle hunder i Megasaki City har blitt forvist til en øde øy full av søppel. 12 år gamle Atari begir seg ut på en odyssé for å finne sin savnede livvakthund, Spots.

I dette japanske dramaet, satt på 1700-tallet, kjemper samurai krigere hverandre i deres søken etter en mester i kjølvannet av en Shogun-mandert desentralisering. Et potensielt offer er tvunget til å utføre ritualet med et treblad. Familien hans forsøker å dekke opp hans degraderende dødsfall.

Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

The son of a world famous mystery writer, Jimmy Kudo, has achieved his own notoriety by assisting the local police as a student detective. He has always been able to solve the most difficult of criminal cases using his wits and power of reason.

The adventures of Sazae Fuguta and her family and friends in their Tokyo suburb.

In the year 2113, people are given brain scans to determine how likely they are to commit a crime. Those who fail are apprehended, or even killed.

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Mazinger Z, known briefly as Tranzor Z in the United States, is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974. It was adapted into an anime television series which aired on Fuji TV from December 1972 to September 1974. A second manga series was released alongside the TV show, this one drawn by Gosaku Ota, which started and ended almost at the same time of the TV show. Mazinger Z has spawned several sequels and spinoff series, among them UFO Robot Grendizer and Mazinkaiser. It was a very popular cartoon in Mexico during the 1980s, where it was dubbed into Spanish directly from the Japanese version, keeping the Japanese character names and broadcasting all 92 episodes, unlike the version aired in the U.S.

A Japanese variety show hosted by popular Japanese owarai duo, Downtown, with comedian Hōsei Tsukitei (formerly known as Hōsei Yamasaki) and owarai duo Cocorico co-hosting.

Mikado Ryugamine moves to Ikebukuro at his friend’s invitation and quickly becomes entangled in the city’s dangerous underworld. After witnessing the legendary Headless Rider, he finds himself caught up in escalating violence and gang conflict that begin to throw Ikebukuro into chaos.

Middle schooler Valt Aoi, with his Beyblade Valkyrie (Valtryek), faces off against friends, classmates, and rivals to become the world's number one Blader.

Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, an era of war that saw the uprising of citizens against the Tokugawa shogunate. The revolutionaries wanted to create a time of peace, and a thriving country free from oppression. The new age of Meiji has come, but peace has not yet been achieved. Swords are banned but people are still murdered in the streets. Orphans of war veterans are left with nowhere to go, while the government seems content to just line their pockets with money.

Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

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 of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.

Satsuki Amamiya was feeling down due to the graduation of the high school Photography Club’s president. However, her best friend and fellow member An Kiriyama encourages Satsuki to dedicate herself to the newly merged Cinephoto Club. Join Satsuki and An as they set out to track down a missing camera, meet new faces, and capture stunning photos and videos along the way.

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. Adapted from a biography of the man, this series depicts the character, his art, vision and his interactions with the approving and disapproving folk around him.

Ohma Tokita enters a hidden world where corporate disputes are settled in brutal gladiator bouts. Forget the money, he just wants to fight — and win.

NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen (NHK紅白歌合戦, "NHK Red and White Song Battle"), more commonly known simply as Kōhaku, is an annual New Year's Eve television special held on December 31 every year, and produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on NHK General TV, BS4K, BS8K, and NHK radio (nationally) and internationally on NHK World Premium and some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters who buy the program. The program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The "red" team or "akagumi" (紅組) is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the "white" team or "shirogumi" (白組) is all male (or groups with male vocals).

Host Peter Barakan delves into various aspects of Japanese culture; exploring practices, history, and modern innovations in such areas as ramen, rice, sushi, geisha, bonsai, and so much more. Local experts discuss their passions at fascinating length, and American Japanophile Matt Alt experiences the food, practices, and cultures in each episode in depth. Viewers will finish each half hour episode with a new understanding of an area of Japanese life through demonstrative videos and explanations, all delivered respectfully and true to the Japanese way of life.