Takashi Naito

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

La piccola Chihiro non sopporta l'idea di traslocare e di perdere i propri amici, ma non può far niente per impedirlo. Proprio quando la famiglia è in viaggio verso la nuova casa, il padre imbocca una strada sterrata che termina davanti a un tunnel misterioso. I genitori sceglieranno di attraversarlo nonostante le rimostranze di Chihiro, per giungere a un parco dei divertimenti abbandonato, almeno apparentemente.

Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her belief in science and continues to pursue the truth.

Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.

Ambientato a Yokohama nel 1963, La collina dei papaveri è una storia d’amore i cui personaggi sono studenti delle scuole superiori chiamati ad essere la “prima generazione” di un “Nuovo Giappone”. Dal momento che il Paese comincia ad uscire dalla devastazione causata dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale, la nuova generazione lotta per costruire un futuro migliore, cercando però di non perdere i legami col passato che li ha resi ciò che sono oggi.

The First Investigative Division is the star unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Jun'ichi Ōiwa, the head of the division, leads around 400 elite detectives. He has an extremely heavy responsibility: attends initial investigations at the scenes of all brutal crimes that occur within the metropolis, decides on the course of action of the investigations at the same time as he directs many investigation task forces and gets into investigations himself at the critical phase. However, Ōiwa is definitely not a superman. Amid his suffering, Ōiwa overcomes this grave responsibility and is quite simply a "life-size hero" and "ideal boss" to his subordinates.

Giava, 1942: il maggiore britannico Jack Celliers giunge al campo di prigionia giapponese comandato dal giovane capitano Yonoi. Questi, che crede fermamente nei principi della disciplina, dell'onore e della gloria, considera i detenuti nemici dei codardi che hanno preferito la resa al suicidio: poco a poco, fra i due ufficiali si instaura una complessa relazione, venata di attrazione sessuale…

Quando i draghi che controllano il confine estremo di Terramare si spingono minacciosamente fino alle terre abitate, fino ad allora, solo da uomini, è segno che l’equilibrio del mondo sta crollando. Per Ged, un giovane mago, comincia così il lungo viaggio alla ricerca della misteriosa e terribile forza che sta minacciando la terra…