Akira Shimazaki (Takuya Kimura) lives with his middle school student son. He used to work as a bodyguard, but, due to an incident, he now works as a security guard at a construction site. The private security company where he works establishes a new bodyguard division. Hiding his past as a bodyguard, Akira Shimazaki begins work as a novice bodyguard.
"The Family", the program commemorating the 55th anniversary of the launch of the TBS TV station, is a social drama depicting the inside story between bureaucrats, politicians and big businesses over a bank merger revolving around the family discord between Daisuke Manpyou, the owner and president of Hanshin Bank, and his eldest son, Teppei.
Because of the legend left by Tatsuya Uesugi, Meisei Academy High School was well-known for their strong baseball team. But 26 years after their glory, the team has not been able to keep their record and has since lost their fame. Two stepbrothers, Souichirou and Touma Tachibana, aim to revive of the once-strong Meisei Academy baseball team and enter the National High School Baseball Championship. Souichirou and Touma are second years in Meisei Academy Middle School. Both boys are talented baseball players. Souichirou has shown excellent skill as a catcher and batter. Though having an extraordinary skill as a pitcher, Touma no longer pitches due to a certain reason. Once the two enter high school, they pair as a battery and aim to enter the National High School Baseball Championship!
The People’s Republic of China now plays a central role in global politics, economics and diplomacy – more than it ever has before. Its president, Xi Jinping openly espouses the model forged by former Chairman, Mao Zedong, known as the Great Helmsman. But what do we really know about Mao? And how does his legacy relate to Xi’s ‘China Dream’? This 3-part documentary series explores Mao Zedong, his beliefs and his methods. It shows how these have shaped Xi’s philosophy and the reality of today’s China. Mao had set China on the road to true sovereignty, freeing it from the humiliation of foreign domination. Xi is now completing that journey towards the strong Middle Kingdom and cultural predominance that Mao aimed for – while sweeping under the carpet the unthinkable victims and costs of Mao’s rule. The story arc of Mao’s astonishing biography provides varied and profound insights into the ideals, strategies and ambitions of today’s People’s Republic and its position in the next decade.
As a result of a vile abuse cause in the past, Violeta Salazar has sworn to herself to take revenge on the Callassis family and all their descendants. She sends her daughter Amanda to make the life of the Callasis as miserable as possible, but love can be surprising, and not everything comes out as planned.
A British ex-pat New Yorker and his American buddy take a motorcycle journey across the U.S. to see if the spirit of American optimism still exists.
Overland or Overland World Truck Expedition is a documentary series of expeditions promoted and organized by Beppe Tenti. The documentaries are broadcast from 1996 on RAI 1, for a total of more than 150 episodes. From the thirteenth season Overland is also broadcast in high definition on RAI HD. The centerpiece of these expeditions is the re-discovery of the journey by land, combined with the aim of obtaining a snapshot of the planet and its culture in the late 20th century and early 21st century.
Mysterious ghosts -- determined to reconnect with the living world -- begin to cross over and disrupt the lives of those they left behind.
Some men and women, desperate to find a partner to share a life-long relationship, enter an extreme social experiment: A group formed by a psychologist, a sexologist and a psychiatrist has previously studied their personalities until finding the most compatible candidate. The catch? These pairs only will meet for the first time at their wedding day.
Photographer César Fraga and writer Maurício Barros de Castro travel throughout Africa to investigate the true history and impact of colonial slavery.
The show explores the journey of the Bajpai family through the complexities of the lives of each crisscrossing the other while exposing the past, coming to grips with the present, and unfolding a promising future.
A story about three modern-day women who make different decisions, how it affects them in the workplace and changes their friendship and how they find love.
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a one-hour Sesame Street special that aired on PBS on November 16, 1983. The title comes from a song in the special "Don't Eat the Pictures," sung by Cookie Monster. It was released on VHS in 1987. The special has the regular cast of Sesame Street getting locked in the Metropolitan Museum of Art overnight as they search for Big Bird, who has gotten lost looking for Snuffy. The cast must stay in the museum until the morning while avoiding a security guard. The special features the regular human cast of Sesame Street along with several of the Muppet characters, including Cookie Monster, Telly, Ernie and Bert, The Count, Grover, and Oscar the Grouch. Snuffy also appears, however at this point in the show's history he is still the 'imaginary' friend of Big Bird, never seen by the other characters.
This is a drama about the everyday ups and downs of life and the complex network of relationships within a family. The story begins with Ou Da Liang's marriage to psychiatrist Wu Rui. Da Liang's mother strongly disapproves of her new daughter-in-law and always laments about how great Da Liang's ex-girlfriend was...
The drug dealer, Afandina, tries to monopolize the drug trade in his neighborhood, but he has a tough rival in Al-Noah and his son Bara'a, who want to take revenge on Afandina for killing Gharib Al-Noah.