TBS Japan Exclusives

For enquiries please contact our Head of Client Relationship & Development, Nixon Lim.

Ninja Warror

Genre: Obstacle Course, Sports Entertainment

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Ninja Warrior, also known as Sasuke in Japan, is a popular and challenging obstacle course competition television show. It originated in Japan and has since inspired various international versions, including American Ninja Warrior, Ninja Warrior UK, and Ninja Warrior Germany, among others.
The concept of the show revolves around contestants attempting to complete a multi-stage obstacle course within a certain time limit.
The course is designed to test their strength, agility, balance, and overall athleticism.

My Family

Genre: Drama

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Haruto is a young businessman whose game company struck it rich, giving him a fancy suburban home, a beautiful wife, Michiru, and a grade school daughter. But when the daughter is taken in a serial kidnapping, Haruto reassesses his priorities. Confronted with a series of challenges and revelations about people, he and Michiru fight to get their daughter back the only way they can: by themselves, in this non-stop thriller about family bonds under the most trying of circumstances.

A Warmed Up Love

Genre: Romantic Drama

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Kiki Inoue has lost her bearings in life and works a part-time job in a convenience store. But thanks to an incredible passion for conveniences store sweets, she encounters the manager of a major convenience store with whom she forms a partnership to develop the next big convenience store dessert! The manager, however, is only concerned with winning and views Kiki as nothing more than a pawn for achieving his own success. Feigning to be an angel, he is in fact a devil in disguise preying upon Kiki’s dreams and using her. Against this cutthroat corporate backdrop, Kiki is a symbol for many despairing from life’s many disappointments and failures and asking themselves the question “What is most important in life? Here is a Cinderella love story for them and for everyone.

Tower of Sand

Genre: Thriller / Suspense

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Aki Takano is a homemaker who has built an ordinary yet amply content family life. When she and her family move into a luxurious, high-rise condo with all the latest security advancements, Aki anticipates the start of the kind of family life of which dreams are made. Until, that is, she meets her creepy and scary neighbors. Behind the walls of this ivory tower, life is a social ecosystem dictated by strict rules and decorum of vainglorious housewife residents. There are “compulsory Halloween parties”, “hellishly exorbitant lunches”, “floor discrimination”, and even “strictly enforced proper attire for putting out the trash.” Though farcical and comical at first glance, the housewives’ behavior easily becomes sinister, as Aki begins to discover in unexpected ways. Someone is trying to tear her life and family apart.

Will she have be able to stand up and defend her beloved family? Is there another reason why the neighbors are targeting the Takano family?

Only Just Married

Genre: Romantic Comedy

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Akiha extols the virtues of the single life and has no desire for marriage. But then she encounters a sudden proposal from Shu, a handsome company man whom she just met. Shu has an urgent need to be officially designated as “married” when he floats the fake marriage proposal. For her part, Akiha is hurting for the money to care for her sick grandmother and keep her family business afloat. So a bargain is struck. Shu agrees to take over her debts if she will marry him. After a rocky start, however, Akiha gradually finds herself drawn to Shu’s kind and gentle nature. But then she learns the true reason behind their marriage in this disarmingly poignant romantic comedy about love built on a lie.

Hold My Hand at Twilight

Genre: Romantic Drama

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Soramame leaves the countryside for Tokyo in pursuit of a childhood friend and fiancé, but instead meets a scrappy young musician, Oto. By some odd circumstance, the two end up living under the same roof. Influenced by Oto, Soramame awakens to the world of fashion while Soramame becomes Oto’s muse, reviving his forsaken dream of becoming a musician. As they chase their dreams, love is sure to germinate, but struggles to take off for these two dreamers unwittingly caught in the world’s most beautiful love story.

Eye Love You

Genre: Romantic Comedy

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An accident endows protagonist Yuri with the unwelcomed ability to see into people’s hearts just by looking into their eyes. Such exposure to the true feelings of herself and others scares her into social reclusiveness. That is until the day she meets Teo, a Korean youth with a genuinely affable personality. Her telepathy being neutralized when with Teo, Yuri begins to harbor hopes of a romantic relationship she’d once thought impossible. But can this ray of sunshine melt the frozen wall that protects her?

Dearest

Genre: Drama

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Leading female industrialist, Rio, has been named a key person of interest in a serial murder case investigated by Detective Daiki. The two were once in love with each other in their youth. Rio’s legal advisor, Kenichiro, will do anything for her. Caught in a love triangle and a criminal investigation, Rio and Daiki’s “forbidden” romance seems doomed by a missing person incident 15 years ago and its possible links to a current serial murder case. Is Rio complicit? What would you do to protect those who are most beloved to you, be it a first crush, a sibling, a parent, a child, or a lifelong friend? This suspenseful romance evokes the uncompromising passion, struggle and redemption of true love.

Thorns of Alice

Genre: Thriller / Suspense

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The story is set at a university hospital where the strong ambitions and sharp minds of unscrupulous doctors clash in a never-before-seen medical suspense drama. A cute but strong heroine who lost her father to a mistake in O.R. that got covered up. She joins the hospital staff as a rookie physician, and then one by one takes revenge on those responsible. Anger and sadness cloaked beneath a white smock, a lifelong vendetta is about to be paid!
“An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.” To fight demons… you need to be a demon yourself.

Why Didn’t I Tell You a Million Times?

Genre: Drama

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When childhood friends Yui and Naoki are by chance reunited as adults, they begin to feel they were destined for each other. However, just as Naoki prepares to propose to Yui, he becomes embroiled in a mysterious incident and dies.

Now Naoki's soul wanders the world unable to express his true feelings for Yui. Yuzuru, a detective and the only person who can see Naoki, goes in pursuit of the truth behind Naoki’s death. At Naoki tries to use Yuzuru to talk to Yui, but will he be able to convey his message of love?

For enquiries please contact our Head of Client Relationship & Development, Nixon Lim.

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