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The Joy Luck Club (novel)
The Joy Luck Club (喜福会) is Amy Tan's 1989 debut novel from Putnam: sixteen interlocking stories of four Chinese immigrant mothers, their American-born daughters, and their San Francisco mahjong club.
The Joy of Painting
The Joy of Painting is the American PBS instructional series hosted by Bob Ross (1983–1994, 403 episodes, 31 seasons), teaching wet-on-wet landscape oil painting in half-hour episodes; distinct from later Bob Ross-branded streaming channels and books.
The Joy of Snowflakes
"The Joy of Snowflakes" (雪花的快乐) is a 1924 free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, published in 1925 and collected in The Poems of Zhimo.
The Joy of the Poor
The Joy of the Poor (Hebrew: Simḥat ʿAniyim) is the second poetry collection by Hebrew poet Nathan Alterman, published in Mandatory Palestine in 1941 and regarded as one of the peaks of his work.
The Joyful Cry of the Partridge
The Joyful Cry of the Partridge (O alegre canto da perdiz) is a 2008 novel by Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane, following three generations of women from colonization to independence.
The Joys of Motherhood
The Joys of Motherhood is a 1979 novel by the Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta, following Nnu Ego, an Igbo woman whose motherhood in colonial Lagos brings poverty and loss.
The Jubalaires
The Jubalaires were an American gospel jubilee quartet founded in Jacksonville, Florida, around 1935 as the Royal Harmony Singers, remembered for the 1946 rhythmic spoken narrative "Noah."
The Judas Contract
The Judas Contract is a 1984 four-part Teen Titans storyline by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez in Tales of the Teen Titans #42-44 and Annual #3, known for Terra's betrayal of the team, Deathstroke's origin, and Dick Grayson's debut as Nightwing, adapted as a 2017 animated film.
The Judds
The Judds were an American country music duo of mother Naomi Judd and daughter Wynonna Judd, who placed twenty songs in the country Top Ten and won five Grammys before disbanding in 1991.
The Judge (2014 film)
The Judge is a 2014 American courtroom drama directed by David Dobkin, starring Robert Downey Jr. as lawyer Hank Palmer and Robert Duvall as his estranged judge father on a murder charge. Released October 10, 2014 by Warner Bros.; 141 minutes; Metascore 48; Duvall earned an Oscar nomination.
The Judge from Hell
The Judge from Hell (지옥에서 온 판사) is a 2024 SBS Korean fantasy legal drama, 14 episodes, starring Park Shin-hye as demon-possessed judge Kang Bit-na; finale hit 11.9% Nielsen, second season confirmed.
The Judge Returns (판사 이한영)
The Judge Returns (판사 이한영) is a 2026 MBC Korean legal fantasy drama, 14 episodes, starring Ji Sung as corrupt judge Lee Han-young who regresses ten years after death; adapted from Lee Hae Nal's web novel, peaking at 13.6% Nielsen ratings.
The Judgment
The Judgment (Das Urteil) is Kafka's short story of Georg Bendemann, condemned by his father to drowning; written in one night, 22-23 September 1912, published 1913 in Arkadia, his breakthrough work.
The Julia Set
The Julia Set is a 2026 American drama film about a gifted mathematician, Julia Fischer. She is recruited for the Putnam Exam while dating her teaching assistant.
The Juliana Theory
The Juliana Theory: American emo/alternative rock band formed 1997 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, led by Brett Detar and Josh Fiedler; albums Understand This Is a Dream, Emotion Is Dead, Love (Billboard 200 No. 71), and Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat; broke up 2006, reunited on Equal Vision Records with A Dream Away (2021).
The Jungle
The Jungle (1906) is Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus in Chicago's stockyards; its meatpacking exposé spurred the 1906 Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts.
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book (1894) is Rudyard Kipling's collection of seven stories with poems, mostly set in India, including the Mowgli tales, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The White Seal, and Toomai of the Elephants, with an 1895 sequel.
The Jungle Book (1967 film)
The Jungle Book (1967) is Walt Disney Productions' 78-minute animated musical comedy, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, loosely adapting Kipling's Mowgli stories. The last film Disney supervised, it was 1967's second-highest-grossing picture and earned an Oscar nomination for "The Bare Necessities."
The Jungle Book (1994 film)
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) is Disney's live-action adventure directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, and John Cleese; released December 25, 1994, 111 minutes, PG, $30 million budget.
The Jungle Book (2016 film)
The Jungle Book (2016) is Jon Favreau's live-action/CGI Disney adventure based on Rudyard Kipling and the 1967 animated film, starring Neel Sethi as Mowgli; it grossed $965.8 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
The Jungle Book 2
The Jungle Book 2, also known as The Jungle Book II, is a 2003 American animated musical film continuing Mowgli's story after Disney's 1967 The Jungle Book.
The Juror
The Juror is a 1996 American legal thriller directed by Brian Gibson, starring Demi Moore as a juror blackmailed by a mob enforcer, played by Alec Baldwin.
The Just Assassins
The Just Assassins (French: Les Justes) is a 1949 play in five acts by Albert Camus about the 1905 assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.
The Justice of Kings
The Justice of Kings (2022) is Richard Swan's debut epic fantasy, first of the Empire of the Wolf trilogy from Orbit, following Emperor's Justice Konrad Vonvalt and clerk-narrator Helena Sedanka through a murder mystery and imperial conspiracy in the Sovan Empire.
The K's
The K's are an English indie rock quartet from Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows, formed in 2017 (Jamie Boyle, Ryan Breslin, Dexter Baker, Nathan Peers). Debut album I Wonder If The World Knows? hit UK Number 3 in 2024; Pretty On The Internet reached Number 1 in 2025.
The K2
The K2 (더 케이투) is a 2016 tvN Korean political action thriller, 16 episodes, directed by Kwak Jung-hwan, starring Ji Chang-wook as bodyguard Kim Je-ha with Song Yoon-ah and Im Yoon-ah.
The Kagerō Diary
The Kagerō Diary (Kagerō nikki, 蜻蛉日記) is a mid-Heian Japanese kana diary by Michitsuna's Mother about her marriage to Fujiwara no Kaneie, covering 954 to 974.
The Kane Chronicles
The Kane Chronicles is Rick Riordan's Egyptian mythology trilogy (The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, The Serpent's Shadow, 2010-2012) about sibling magicians Carter and Sadie Kane; a Disney+ live-action series is in development.
The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour
The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (康熙南巡) was a series of six journeys by the Qing emperor from Beijing to the Yangzi delta between 1684 and 1707, inspecting flood defenses.
The Kapil Sharma Show
The Kapil Sharma Show (द कपिल शर्मा शो) is Kapil Sharma's Hindi comedy talk show, launched on Sony TV in April 2016 and continued on Netflix as The Great Indian Kapil Show from 2024, now in its fifth season.