Known for Acting
Former member of Japanese idol group Nogizaka46.
Four high school girls in an astronomy club once dreamed of going to space together. Years later, as adults leading separate lives, they unexpectedly reconnect with their forgotten ambition. Inspired by the idea that an ultra-small satellite might finally make their dream achievable, they reignite their passion and embark on a second youth chasing space.
San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordered to die for their country, the remaining members of the group escape only to face the harsh environment of a tropical paradise that has become a hellish battlefield.
Sasaki is a sincere civil servant, working at city hall. Due to his timid personality, he can't properly deal with nasty people, including a single mother on the verge of giving up her own child, another civil servant pressing him to have a physical relationship, and a person who receives welfare benefits unfairly. His passivity leads him to get caught up in a terrible crime.
The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people living in Kobe.
Once close friends, an incident led them to different lives and to become enemies.
Cha-Cha is the love story between the titular Cha-Cha, a free-spirited artist, and Raku, a boy with increasingly questionable tastes. Cha-Cha is painted with the whimsical colors of a romantic comedy at its surface that belie much, much, much darker hues to be found in its deranged depths. Cha-Cha is silly, sweet, screwball, and completely unexpected.
Yoshizawa Miku leads a busy life as part of the variety show team at the local TV station "P-Tele". One day, her drama proposal is accepted and she's able to transfer to the drama department. Her joy was short-lived, as the department head then asked "Can we make the protagonist of this proposal a person with disabilities?"
Riki, who works as a temp, is distressed when her colleague invites her to earn money by donating her eggs. However, after taking the interview, she realizes it’s not for egg donation but for surrogacy. A former ballet dancer, Kusaoke Motoi, and his wife, Yuko, are looking for a surrogate mother to bear their child in exchange for high rewards.
A portal to another dimension is suddenly discovered. What spread out beyond the nondescript door was a parallel world with a history different from this one. This year marks 50 years since the world behind the door was named "PORTAL" and observations of its interior began. "PORTAL-X" is a program that has been broadcast for many years with the aim of utilizing the failure cases of various portals in our society. Kaif is a new program director who reports on all sorts of parallel worlds, and Luna is a program cameraman. The various parallel worlds and portals that the two of them cover are all worlds where people have made wrong choices at turning points in history and have fallen into irreversible situations. What is shown on camera are food shortages, a world where immortality has been achieved, a society that has not achieved true diversity, an extremely low birthrate, and a world that relies entirely on luck.
When scandal leaves actress Rie unemployable, she returns to her hometown for the first time in a decade for a documentary shoot. But mayhem ensues when assistant director Saki is the only person who shows up. Rie left town after getting in a fight with her father Yasuo, and now he is dealing with terminal cancer.
Miwa Kubota is a 29-year old movie fanatic who just got fired from her dead-end job. She saw that her favorite actor, the world-renowned Takahashi Yakai, is looking for a housekeeper. Even though she is totally unqualified, she goes there anyway. When she saw the new hire get into an accident outside his door, Miwa steps in to become the "pretend" housekeeper for her idol.
Tokiwa Megu is a modern-era woman who excels at work but cannot succeed where romance is concerned. By chance, she meets Iura Kakeru, a member of the time patrol team who comes from the future and together they receive a special mission where they are tasked to catch illegal time travelers. Although the two were former lovers, Megu’s memory of their time together has been erased in accordance with the time traveling governing rules. In order to make her relationship come to fruition this time, Megu spends time struggling to find the love of her life.
