Tiger & Dragon
A tongue-swinging rough young yakuza discovers his love for rakugo storytelling when his boss sends him to collec the debt from his rakugo master friend, who has lost his rakugo heir to a bad fashion business idea.
Tagged: tbs (japan channel)
Quartet (Jdrama)
Four people meet to form a mediocre string quartet, revealing along their journey their stories, their weaknesses, and their ultimate unremarkable purpose in life: Make music that they enjoy.
Oyaji no Senaka
Oyaji no Senaka is a 10-episode series anthology focusing on fathers’ relationships with their children and families, written and directed by ten different teams of creatives and featuring ten different sets of actors.
Our Favorite Male Characters
The YAM Magazine staff picks their favorite male characters from both film and television.
Double Face
Double Face is a two-part television drama collaboration between TBS and WOWOW. It is a remake of the successful Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs (無間道), starring Hidetoshi Nishijima as the undercover policeman, and Teruyuki Kagawa as the mole.
The Banana Guide to Asian Entertainment: It’s All About Japan: Part II
The part in which we explore the Japanese drama format.
Shiina Ringo – Companion to Freedom
Shiina Ringo has just unleashed her latest single, the music video for the song Companion to Freedom (自由へ道連れ). The song is the theme for Nakai Masahiro’s latest TBS drama Ataru, which also stars Chiaki Kuriyama.
Editor’s Chatroom: TV Shows, Better When They’re Short?
On this weeks Editor’s Chatroom Julyssa and Amy discuss the length of tv-series. What is better? Longer seasons with many episodes, or shorter seasons with fewer episodes?
Jin 2 (2011 Jdrama)
Jin 2 is the second series of the 2009 Japanese drama, Jin, about the brain surgeon who time-slips back to the Edo during the years of very important historical changes.
Jin (2009 Jdrama)
A brain surgeon time-slips back to the Edo period, where he will be in the middle of very important historical changes.
