
Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname "Joe the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).
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This anthology-style mystery series is part of the D‑5 PROJECT, centered around Detective Office 5 - a long-running private detective agency in Kawasaki. Each detective is known only by a number rather than a name (e.g., Detective 596, 532), with standalone stories featuring different characters and surreal, quirky cases.

This anthology-style mystery series is part of the D‑5 PROJECT, centered around Detective Office 5 - a long-running private detective agency in Kawasaki. Each detective is known only by a number rather than a name (e.g., Detective 596, 532), with standalone stories featuring different characters and surreal, quirky cases.

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.

A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

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Set mainly in and around the Aizumi Police Station, this detective drama depicts a detective with a past as a former delinquent who fights against the rapidly increasing number of juvenile crimes.

The struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch. Takeshi Hayano originally belonged to the Traffic Division but was transferred to the First Investigative Division of Daimon Police Station as a rookie detective. His first case is a drug-related murder, during which he ends up missing a "key witness" pursued by his senior colleagues in the First Investigative Division. Feeling responsible, Hayano becomes depressed. Investigations, daily life, and relationships. Each episode features a variety of cases, including robbery, arson, disguise, kidnapping, fraud, and split personalities. Hayano investigates the cases together with his senior colleagues in the First Investigative Division (Chief Ushiota, Chief Detective Sugaya, Detective Yazu, Detective Maehara, Detective Hazama, etc.).

Star Wolf is a Japanese science fiction TV series inspired by the novel series bearing the same name, by American writer Edmond Hamilton. It was produced in 1978 by Tsuburaya Productions.

A maverick man arrives at Yūhigaoka School. The drama incorporates educational issues as well as family problems and adult romance, and can be enjoyed by the whole family.

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