Ooku (The Lady Shogun and Her Men)

Synopsis:

In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children.
A young man named Unoshin Mizuno (Kazunari Ninomiya) hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu (Maki Horikita), but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa (Kou Shibasaki) takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku...

Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru (Heavenly Forest)

Synopsis:

The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky, under-developed girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other people, but she succeeds in getting him to open up to her naturally.
All Shizuru wants is to be with Makoto, so she takes up his hobby of photography. The two spend their days together taking photos in the forest behind the campus. However, Makoto has feelings for another student named Miyuki. Shizuru decides that if Makoto likes Miyuki, she wants to like her too. However, she keeps hinting to Makoto that she will grow up to be a beautiful woman, and he will be sorry for not picking her. One day, she tells Makoto that she wants to take a photo of them kissing in the forest as a present for 'her birthday'. He obliges for her sake, and they kiss in the forest.
After this, Shizuru unexpectedly leaves school and is not heard from again for two years, when she sends Makoto a letter asking him to come to New York to see her photography exhibit. By then Makoto has broken up with Miyuki because he has decided he really loves Shizuru and will wait for her to return. When he arrives in New York, he is greeted by Miyuki, and finds out that Shizuru was hiding her disease from him, and she has died. He goes to the exhibit and sees many photos of himself, and a huge photo of Shizuru all grown up and beautiful, as she had foretold. There is also the photo of the two of them kissing in the forest, with a caption saying that this was her one true love.

Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score - Part II / Nodame Cantabile The Movie II

Related: Nodame Cantabile, Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe

Synopsis:

Part two of The Final Score picks up where the first film ended, with successful conductor Chiaki (Tamaki Hiroshi) moving away from his cheerful piano wunderkind girlfriend Nodame (Ueno Juri) to concentrate on his career. Aspiring to meet her boyfriend's level, Nodame starts to work harder than ever to improve her craft. However, Nodame's opportunity to fulfill her dream of performing with Chiaki on the same stage is thwarted when famous piano prodigy Rui (Yamada Yu) steps in. As Nodame hits her lowest point, Maestro Stresemann (Takenaka Naoto) decides to give Nodame a chance that rocks the classical music world. Will Nodame and Chiaki ever come to terms with each other's talents?

Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe

Related: Nodame Cantabile, Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score - Part II / Nodame Cantabile The Movie II

Synopsis:

This 2 night special takes off during their graduation, where Chiaki-senpai & Nodame left for Europe. The first special centered on Chiaki’s story, the story tells about Chiaki’s dream to be a conductor. Nodame on the other hand attended the conservatory to attain her dream to one-day play the piano for Chiaki. After her hard work, Nodame was given a chance to have a mini recital. During the recital, Chiaki saw her worth and realized that he cannot go on with out her.

Nodame Cantabile

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episode: 11
Broadcast Periode: 2006-Oct-16
Related: Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe, Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score - Part II / Nodame Cantabile The Movie II

Synopsis:

Based on the hit comic book by Tomoko Ninomiya, this is a fun-filled quirky romantic story of two very opposite people.
Megumi Noda, or “Nodame” is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a kindergarten teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized, takes baths several days apart and loves to eat, sometimes stealing her friend’s lunchbox when it is filled with delicacies.
Shinichi Chiaki, is Momogaoka’s top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he feels mired in Japan because of a childhood phobia.
They meet by accident. Nodame quickly falls in love, but it takes much longer for Chiaki to even begin to appreciate Nodame’s unusual qualities. Their relationship causes them both to develop and grow. Because of Nodame, Chiaki got the opportunity to lead a student orchestra and begins to have a broader appreciation of people's musical abilities. Because of Chiaki, Nodame faces her fears and enters a piano competition. Opportunities open up as both begin taking risks, stretching themselves far more than they ever thought possible.