Ryuji Harada

Haunted by guilt over a woman’s accidental death, Yume Nakata forms an unexpected and fragile bond with Mio Osako, the woman’s grieving daughter, as they navigate loss, remorse, and the beginnings of an unusual friendship.

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On TOKYO MX’s 30th anniversary night, a live information show runs a stunt where a couple stamps a divorce form on air, until the producer’s own wife appears, sending the broadcast into chaos in this one-hour real-time comedy.

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During a fierce battle in Japan's Warring States era, a young swordswoman named Yui is suddenly transported 500 years into the future by the mysterious blade Muramasa. Lost in modern-day Japan, Yui finds refuge at a traditional brewery in Usuki, Oita. While struggling to understand this unfamiliar world, she discovers something she has never seen before: KENDO, the modern martial art descended from the swordsmanship she devoted her life to mastering. The brewery's KENDO club, once proud and successful, is on the verge of collapse. Determined to protect what she believes is worth preserving, Yui helps revive the team alongside Masato Fujii, the brewery's young president and a former national champion who abandoned KENDO after inheriting the family business. As the team prepares for an impossible challenge against their long-time rivals, Yui and Masato grow closer. Yet the possibility that Yui may someday return to her own time threatens the future they are beginning to imagine together.

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Hokkaido, Japan: An old woman -- formerly a man -- lives by a lake in the northern reaches of Japan, gazing at Nakajima Island in its center where her daughter's body was found long ago. She hasn't been able to visit for almost 50 years. Tokyo: A middle-aged man lives on an island where criminals were once exiled in the past, earning a sparse living as a cattle herder. He is descended from such exiled criminals. He raised his only daughter by himself after losing his wife in an accident. One day, the daughter comes home from the mainland, seemingly pregnant but unwilling to explain.

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A reclusive man’s world begins to open when a riceball-loving boy and his older brother draw him into their warm, homemade weekend tradition.

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"Takehiko Kanroji, notorious for a man of power harassment, an executive officer of the publishing company "Yudansha" has been transferred from Nagoya to the Tokyo head office. His mission is starting a magazine. However, the theme is ""sweets"" that Kanroji hates most. Even so, he tries to tackle the given work with all his heart, but his subordinates fed up with his overbearing attitude.

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In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.

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The staff gathers in the studio to conjure up their imaginative train journeys to various destinations. As they watch location footage, they immerse themselves in the fantasy of traversing actual rail routes, adhering to real timetables and the ambiance of the places.

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Musashi returns Japan's legendary swordsman and philosopher to the screen once again. In an original period drama based on the historical facts of the life and travels of the famous Miyamoto Musashi we find an apprentice, an instructor and the account of a famous battle in Japan of the Middle Ages where many questions will be answered.

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Renowned entertainers and car lovers grasp the wheel and compete with their battle cars in a variety of never before seen challenges! They face off in life-threatening duels designed to test their speed, courage, and above all, their grit! Put the pedal to the metal! Burn! Destroy! Crash into! This is a new show of the "Dangertainment variety (danger + entertainment)".

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21 female high school students are locked in a classroom and their footage is shown all over the world in real time. The only way to escape is to receive many "likes" from the audience.

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straight to video 2017.

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With the death of Nobuhide Oriki (Tokuma Nishioka), a brutal succession battle erupts within the Oriki-gumi. By vote, Nobunaga (Hitoshi Ozawa) becomes second-generation boss, forcing his brother Nobuyuki into rebellion. In the bloody aftermath, Nobunaga kills both Nobuyuki and his relative Nobuyasu Iwasaki (Hitomi Matsuda). Tragedy deepens as his right-hand man Masahide Hirako (Jiro Okazaki) takes his own life, and his father-in-law Michizo Saimon (Shinzo Hotta) is assassinated in a coup. Now as boss, Nobunaga sets the underworld in motion once more: Ujiyasu Nanjo (Sansho Fukami) rises in Kanto, Motonari Mōriya (Shinichi Chiba) expands in Aki, and in Nagano the fated clash of Kenshin Uemura (Ryuji Harada) and Shingen Takebe (Shun Sugata) begins. But the greatest threat comes from Yoshimoto Imanishi (Naoya Makoto), leading the invasion of Owari. The “war of the elephant and the ant” is about to reach its endgame.

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Rise of the Underworld Lords— The mighty Murohachi Alliance, once unifying Japan’s yakuza under Kyoto, collapses, and a fierce struggle for supremacy erupts nationwide. In Owari, Nobuhide Oriki (Tokuma Nishioka) leads the Oriki-gumi on a campaign for unification. His eldest son and underboss, Nobunaga Oriki (Hitoshi Ozawa), believes in conquest through brute force, seizing territory by any means. Meanwhile, Shingen Takebe (Shun Sugata) of Kai wages war in Shinshu, clashing with Kenshin Uemura (Ryuji Harada) of Echigo. In Aki, Motonari Mōriya (Shinichi Chiba) expands his Mōriya family’s reach across the Chugoku region. And in Suruga, Yoshimoto Imanishi (Naoya Makoto) and his Imanishi-gumi, vowing to crush the Murohachi Alliance, launch an invasion into Owari. Acting under orders, Ieyasu Tokusawa (Yasukaze Motomiya) collides with the Oriki-gumi—plunging the underworld into an age of war.

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The Kanto Mutsumo-kai, one of Japan's foremost gangster organisations, is under the dictatorship of Sugo, the third president of the Ryujin clan, and Saito, its president. Toraji (Ozawa Kazuyoshi), who rebelled against this dictatorship but was unsuccessfully insulated and expelled, is picked up by his uncle Ryuzo and joins the Takematsu Rengokai. Toraji recruits a group of local delinquents headed by Hiroshi Maeda (Yasukaze Motomiya) into his ranks and begins a guerrilla war against the Kanto Rikukai-affiliated Yoshinin-kai. The two expand their power, but Toraji begins to dabble in stimulants and gradually goes berserk. An assassination plot is hatched against Toraji, and Hiroshi tries to stop it.

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Newly appointed 7th-generation head of the Takematsu Union’s Kurumaya faction, Atsumi Toraji (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), recklessly squanders drug money on partying and harms Noboru, the underling of his sworn brother Hiroshi (Yasukaze Motomiya), ignoring the pleas of Hiroshi and Sakura (Yuma Asami). Despite growing resentment among Hiroshi’s men, Hiroshi can’t abandon Toraji, his elder brother-in-arms. But when Toraji causes an incident, the third-generation head of the Tago family, Dazai (Ryuji Harada), severs ties with Kurumaya. Hiroshi rushes to apologize but is turned away. Enraged by Hiroshi’s actions, Toraji expels him and his men. Now alone, Toraji begins to put a mysterious plan into motion...

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Now leading the Hamon-gumi (the exiled syndicate), Kyoichi Sakura (Ryuji Harada) receives a request from Ichihara-kai’s chairman to eliminate a violent gang terrorizing Kisarazu. However, it turns out the gang’s leader is the son of the Sanno-kai Kenzaki-gumi boss, head of a massive organization. To make matters worse, a Chinese mafia group allied with the Kenzaki-gumi retaliates by targeting the Four Kings of the Hamon-gumi. The once tightly united group now faces the threat of collapse...

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Kyoichi Sakura (Ryuji Harada), the underboss of the Ichihara-kai, is known as the brains of the organization, trusted absolutely by Chairman Ichihara. One day, the boss of the rival Sanno-kai Todo-gumi is shot by a member of the Ichihara-kai. To take responsibility, Kyoichi is expelled from the syndicate. However, it was all part of a trap set by an internal spy. Soon after, loyal followers and other yakuza who had been exiled gather around him, and together they form a new group known as the Hamon-gumi — the exiled syndicate.

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There was once a boy who pointed a gun at his own father—the head of a yakuza group. Shuji (Ryuji Harada) now runs a bar in Minami, Osaka. Having resented being born into a yakuza family, he had long cut ties with that world. But when a fierce conflict erupts between his father's organization, the Tajima-gumi, and a rival group led by Tokuda (Hitoshi Ozawa), who betrayed them, Shuji gets caught in the middle. As the feud intensifies, it even affects Shuji’s close friends and younger sister. Though he despised the yakuza, the blood of the underworld still runs through his veins—and it's that very blood that begins to drag him into the heart of the battle...

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In the near future, the brilliant Dr. Komyoji is enlisted to lead the ARK Project—a scientific endeavor dedicated to forging a brighter tomorrow through robotics. However, the doctor’s mysterious death puts those plans to an abrupt hold... Not long after, the grieving Komyoji children wander into the crosshairs of a black ops squad on the hunt for their father’s research. But from within the cross fire emerges Jiro—a bleeding-edge android programmed to protect the siblings! Now on the run, the Komyojis soon discover their father’s once hopeful ambitions have taken a DARK turn...

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Roku Takewaki (Ryuji Harada) of the Rikiishikai launches an attack on the head of the Ebina Union! However, the attack fails, leading to Roku’s imprisonment and Rikiishikai falling under the control of the Ebina Union. Upon his release, Roku is expelled from the organization by Rikiishikai’s Wakagashira, Gondo (Hideo Nakano), and is forced to survive by working as a shady debt collector. One day, Roku learns that Gondo was secretly behind the failed attack. Armed with twin pistols, he storms into Rikiishikai alone…!

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The Kyowakai, aiming for nationwide domination from Kansai. The Kurosaki-gumi, led by Asakawa (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), contributed greatly to their expansion into Kanto, but he became the target of relentless harassment from Wakagashira Kito. Unable to endure it any longer, Asakawa slashed Kito and was expelled, only to be assassinated soon after by an unknown hand. It is then that Sejima (Hakuryu), the Kurosaki-gumi’s Wakagashira, returns after serving his prison sentence. With the quiet flames of vengeance burning within him, he sets out on a path of retribution.

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After the shocking death of former Seiun-kai chairman, "Oni" Shima Shu (Hiroki Matsukata), Yuuki Mishima (Yuta Sone) takes on the role of Seiun-kai chairman, aiming to expand his clan constructively. Meanwhile, his cousin Atsushi (Junichi Kawamoto), impulsive and violent, continues to keep Kanto on the verge of conflict, though Yuuki manages to avoid war. Amidst all this, the Kansai-based Tatsumi-gumi's lieutenant, Yamanaka (Ryuji Harada), secretly plots to expand into Tokyo. With clashing intentions, internal divisions, and an external threat encroaching, the true mastermind who controls it all smiles in the shadows... Thus concludes this epic yakuza saga!

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