Kaoru Kobayashi

A scarred man operates a midnight diner in the backstreets of Shinjuku. No one knows his name or his story, but his customers each bring him theirs.

Follow a yellow Labrador Retriever from the litter to his first job as a guide dog with a reluctant blind man who he’ll have to work to win over.

Patrons of an otherwise mundane Japanese diner find simple yet profound connections with one another based on the shared love of a particular dish.

Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.

Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.

The eldest son of a wealthy farming family, Eiichi Shibusawa, develops a passion for business from watching his father. This leads to him meeting the last shogun of Japan, Yoshinobu Tokugawa—an encounter that changes the trajectory of his entire life. This is the remarkable journey of the man who becomes the father of modern Japanese economics in the post-shogunate era of Japan. © NHK