The golden age
Tokyo Love Story, Long Vacation, Beautiful Life and GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka filled Monday nights in the 1990s and set the eleven-episode shape that J-dramas still follow.
Workplace heroes
Hanzawa Naoki, Legal High, Hero and Shitamachi Rocket turn banks, courtrooms and factories into arenas.
Modern favourites
Unnatural, MIU404, Quartet, First Love and Silent show the craft of the newest writers. Open Japanese dramas.
