Before Spring Festival, Yang Xiaofang's unplanned pregnancy sparks family drama. After a failed dowry negotiation, she rejects a loveless marriage, raises the child alone, and starts her own business, embracing true independence.
The Isawas are the average, ordinary Japanese family. Husband Yasuhiko and wife Yukari are the owners of Isawaya, a restaurant that serves set meals in the old downtown district of Tokyo. They are a happy couple despite their contrasting characters. But the sudden appearance of Takagi Rui, the girlfriend their eldest son Haruhiko, and Yukari’s mother Mimatsu Hanae, who has been out of touch since she divorce her husband, expose a secret of this three-generation family and family ties are tested.
When spoiled heiress Lisa returns from England to find her family in debt, she’s forced to find work. Meanwhile, Don must marry and have a child within a year to inherit his grandfather’s farm. Brought together by Don’s mother, who helps pay Lisa’s debt, the two enter a marriage of convenience, agreeing to pretend for six months, despite their differences and lack of love.
My Love Toram is about a woman who loses her sight in an accident. She despairs at first, but finds new hope to live again through the help of her guide dog, Toram.
45-year-old Reiji Watanabe visits his parents' home. His parents used to run an arcade. While there, Reiji fondly yearns for his friends Kido and Takano. Back in 1983, their family's arcade "Game Center Watanabe" was always full of customers, including neighborhood kids and salarymen. Reiji's friend Kido would come over to their arcade every day. Kido would spend most of his allowance on the games there. Reiji wasn't interested in the video games at the time, but after he saw a pretty girl named Takano playing, he also began to play. Reiji and Kido would then compete all the time. From 1983, Reiji, Kido and Takano enjoyed playing games and experienced good and bad times together.
Siam runs away from home after his stepmother tried to seduce him while he was drunk. Jeed relieves the stress by driving her car very fast. Jeed's car stops for no apparent reason and Siam fixes it for her. He ends up having dinner at her house and, after getting shot while saving her family from a robbery, Siam is hired as their gardener and later as a mechanic at the family's car company. Soon, he becomes the person who listens to all her problems. This way, Siam and Jeed start developing feelings for each other.
Rod 'n' Emu was an animated series shown on CITV around 1991.
It starred the voices of Rod Hull who created and wrote all the episodes starring as himself, Carol Lee Scott starred as Grotbags and Freddy Stevens as her assistants Croc the crocodile and Redford the robot.
This was the last series to feature Hull, Emu and Scott before she starred in her own TV series Grotbags. The show was made by FilmFair for Central Independent Television and thirteen episodes were aired.
Hyunhaetan Marriage War is co-production between South Korea and Japan. Dae-cheon and Takako are lovers who decide to get married. However, Dae-cheon's father, who is a fishing boat captain, dislikes the Japanese while Takako's father has an unfavorable opinion of Korea. So Dae-cheon teaches Takako how to talk in a heavy, folksy Korean accent and tells her to limit what she says to his father to only four words. He then introduces Takako to his father under the name "Choi Do-ja", which is a girl's name in Korea. Thinking that Takako is Korean, his father approves of their marriage. But later on, Dae-cheon's father learns that Takako is Japanese and becomes infuriated.
Spell-Mageddon is an American spelling bee game show on ABC Family and is hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro. It premiered on July 24, 2013. Its season finale aired on September 11, 2013.
Freek Vonk finds a box of old video tapes in the attic. They are the first short nature films, which he made earlier with his friends Maysem and Bas. The young Freek and his friends discover that they can learn a lot from animals. About nature, but also about themselves.