Pattenrai!! ~Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari~ - Recommendations

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2002

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1982

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1992

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1997

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2003

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1981

• TV (35 eps)
• 1978 - 1979

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2013

At the age of seventeen, Takae Tsuneo is electrocuted during his job installing power lines and has both of his arms amputated. However, he decides to devote his life to poetry and literature, and begins to practice writing by holding a pen with his mouth. He eventually gets a job as a newspaper reporter, and turns his attention to other people dealing with disabilities.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2009

Ten years after the end of the Second World War, in a backwater rural town which used to be a major regional capital in Feudal Japan, Shinko, a girl with an active imagination who daydreams about the town as it appeared a millennium prior, befriends Kiiko, a shy girl from Tokyo whose father relocated to the town to become a doctor for a factory. The film follows their day to day lives as they take care of a goldfish in a makeshift pond, fantasize about a cloistered and lonely young princess who moved to the town in the Feudal Era, and help a boy cope with a family tragedy.

• TV (26 eps)
• 1992 - 1993

Christopher Columbus is a beautiful and entertaining series that recaptures the time when Columbus first rose to greatness, later to become one of history's greatest catalysts for his eventual discovery of America. Set in the 15th century, this series depicts his marvellous adventures and dramatic life throughout both his childhood, as well as adulthood, until his eventual death.