Churasan ちゅらさん (2001)

Synopsis

The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the U.S. Eleven years later, Kamimura Shizuko and her two sons, Kazuya and Fumiya, from Tokyo come to stay as the guests of a small inn run by Eri’s family. Eri’s fun-loving, yet eccentric family welcomes them warmly. However, Eri is shocked to hear one of the sons, Kazuya is terminally ill and Shizuko and her sons came to Okinawa to spend his last moment together in beautiful nature. Fumiya, Kazuya’s younger brother, and Eri promise to marry each other someday. However after Kazuya’s death, Fumiya and his mother leave the island to go back to Tokyo. Years later, they are reunited, Eri as a nurse and Fumiya, a doctor, working at the same hospital in Tokyo.

Chibi Maruko-chan SP1 ちびまる子ちゃんSP1 (2006)

Cast
Morisako Ei as Sakura Momoko aka Maruko
Takahashi Katsumi as Sakura Hiroshi (Father)
Shimizu Michiko as Sakura Sumire (Mother)
Moto Fuyuki as Sakura Tomozo (Grandfather)
Fukuda Mayuko as Sakura Sakiko (elder sister)
Ichige Yoshie as Sakura Kotake (Grandmother)
Miyama Karen as Tama-chan

Umareru 生まれる。 (2011)

Synopsis

Hayashida Manami (Horikita Maki) is the oldest of four siblings (Okura Tadayoshi, Nakajima Kento). One day, the family is told about the pregnancy of their 51-year-old mother, Aiko (Tanaka Misako). As the eldest daughter and female, Manami understands her mother the best, but learns to respect life and the depth of human bonds while she struggles with her inability to accept the news. This event exposes the family’s long-hidden secret and quickly upsets the balance of what had been thought to be an ordinary family.

Inu Wo Kau To Iu Koto 犬を飼うということ (2011)

Synopsis

Yuji Hongo (Ryo Nishikido) has a wife and two kids. The family lives near the Tokyo Sky Tree tower. He once dreamed of becoming a musician in his college days, but eventually settled into a job as the manager of a human resource department for a mid-sized manufacturing company. His job is to tell other employees that they have been laid off. It is now Yuji Hongo turns to become informed he has been laid off.

Meanwhile, his wife Sachiko (Asami Mizukawa), who had taken the opportunity of her first pregnancy to marry Yuji Hongo, struggles under the load of working several part-time jobs to try to support their family of four. As their family seems to be fraying at the edges, their daughter Mako, one day, brings home a small puppy they name "Sky Tree." The dog helps to brings the family together once again...

Arifureta Kiseki ありふれた奇跡 (2009)

Synopsis

One day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in front of a train. Nakashiro Kana and Tasaki Shota both happen to be on the same platform, and sensing what is about to happen, they quickly pull him back to safety. There’s a reason why Kana and Shota realized Makoto’s intentions, they both have the kind of emotional scars that can’t be put into words. Even after so much pain, through a series of e-mails, they've become attracted to one another and slowly learn to open up their hearts once again. --Fuji Creative

14 Sai No Haha １４才の母 (2006)

Synopsis
Shida Mirai, the young actress of Jyoou no Kyoushitsu fame, plays an average junior high school student who becomes pregnant with her lover’s child. The drama will show her gradually maturing as the circumstances around her change.