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A Collection of the best drama movies in Asia from Korea, China, Japan,...
Country: Japan
Genre: Food, Business, Romance, Drama
Year: 2020
Kiki Inoue works part-time at a convenience store spending the better part of her day lazing about or reviewing sweets on her social media account. One day at work she is introduced to the chain’s CEO Takumi Asaba who as it turns out is familiar with Inoue’s online reviews. Asaba asks Inoue to develop new desserts to sell chain-wide. As CEO Asaba is tasked with turning around the...
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2020
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Kono Koi Atatamemasuka
Genre: Food, Business, Comedy, Life
Serizawa Tatsumi the charismatic owner of a popular ramen chain which gets long queues day after day plays a leading role in the world of ramen. She is also a food consultant who saves ramen shops facing difficulties. One day her subordinate Natsukawa Aya discovers a female customer who has not touched a new ramen dish. The young woman criticises the flavour of the ramen that Tatsumi created...
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Gyoretsu No Megami
Genre: Horror
It is a live-action version of the popular horror anime Yamishibai Every week at 5 p.m. an old man in a yellow mask the kamishibaiya or kamishibai narrator shows up at a childrens playground and tells them ghost stories based on myths and urban legends of Japanese origin. The man tells the stories on the back of his bicycle using a traditional kamishibai. Each episode has 3...
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Dark Drama (yami Shibai)
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18-year-old Saito Mifuyu is a simple girl who grew up in Nagano. After her mother’s death her father brings his lover over which displaces Mifuyu in her own home. She arrives in Tokyo following an invitation from her late mother’s younger cousin Kashimada Naoko to come over to her house for a while. It is a house blessed with “wealth” that she herself cannot obtain even if she wishes for...
Utsubokazura No Yume (2020)
Genre: Drama
Year: 2021
Career woman Shimura Eriko works for a large general trading company on equal footing with the men. She is beautiful and highly educated. Her parents have a house in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward. Life seems to be going well for Eriko whose single greatest hang-up is the fact that she does not have any female friends. Her secret pleasure is to read a popular journal written by a housewife influencer...
2021
Nile Perch Girls' Association
Genre: Thriller, Historical, Mystery, Drama
Set during the early Meiji era Private Detective Shinjuro Yuki returns to Japan from abroad. Trusted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Detective Yuki attempts to solve some strange cases that have taken place. While investigating he meets Rie the daughter of a powerful business man who takes an interest in him....
Meiji Kaika: Shinjuro Tanteicho (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Family, Medical
Asagao continues her work as a forensic scientist at a university forensic medicine class in Kanagawa Prefecture. Her father Taira and her husband Shinya are busy with their work as detectives. Her daughter Tsugumi insists on having a younger sibling. Asagao spends ordinary days with her family but due to a reason Asagao visits the Tohoku Region alone to find her mother’s dead...
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Kansatsui Asagao 2
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Supernatural
Enmadou Sara is the judge of the world who decides whether to send the deads to heaven or to hell. Victims who were killed by someone went to her and told her that they still have their thoughts left in the world and want to come back to life. Sara told the deads that they need to find out the truth of their deaths in order to revive. However not only did they learn about the truths of their...
Enmadou Sara No Suiri Kitan
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2012
With the progress made in forensic science the number of cases of arrested criminals proven innocent because of new DNA tests has been increasing. The police always expect to swiftly solve cases. As crime scene detectives try to measure up to those expectations they occasionally jump to wrong conclusions. Thus the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s First Investigative Division set up the Evidence...
2012
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Answer – Keishichou Kenshou Sousakan
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Year: 2019
Shogo Higuchi is a detective whose wife was murdered by a serial killer. Hikari Tachibana is a voice profiler whose father was murdered. She has a special hearing ability which allows her to hear minutiae sounds that other people do not. Victims in criminal cases call #110 which is connected to the emergency control room. To save people as quickly as possible an investigation emergency call...
2019
Voice: 110 Emergency Control Room
Genre: Music, Comedy, Life
Kanda Fuyuki is a world-famous pianist who has been keeping his life busy after his wifes death. One day Fuyuki meets an unsold cat Fukumaru at a pet store. Fuyuki is not good with animals but decides to get Fukumaru after being attracted by it. Since then Fuyukis life changes as Fukumaru starts living with...
Ojisama To Neko (2021)
Genre: Food, Comedy
Sarukawa Kenta a marketer for a mid-range drinks company based in Osaka is transferred to the Tokyo office for a good job. But in the new place all difficult clients were thrown off on him and his colleagues are in no hurry to make friends with him. Influenced by his new boss Tanioka Kazuhiko who loves very spicy food Sarukawa also decides to enter the spicy...
Gekikaradou (2021)
Genre: Historical, Romance, Fantasy
Shunsuke works part-time at a cafe owned by his uncle Takehiko. One night a woman who is dressed like a traditional oiran high ranking courtesan appears in front of him. The womans name is Senka. Apparently she just travelled across time from the Edo period to the present day and she looks completely lost. Shunsuke takes her to his uncles house where he also stays. Senka stays at...
Edo Moiselle (2021)
Genre: Food, Friendship, Comedy, Drama
Amasawa Yoichiro was abandoned by his parents and has been wandering the world alone. Some trouble leads to his encounter with a shy university student Suzuki Nita who hopes to become an artist. A penniless and homeless Yoichiro makes Nita buy him curry on the grounds that he saved him and mutters briefly about his family. Kiyokawa Kaoruko who runs Kiyokawa Realty has been keeping the ashes of...
Curry No Uta (2020)
Genre: Romance
At 30 years old Moriyama Shino has a fulfilling job but no love life. She wants to date and get married to someone the same age as her. However one day she gets confessed to by Sato Mayuki a man 9 years younger than her. Surprised but impressed by his straightforward confession she agrees to date him until she finds a marriage...
30 Kin Sore Wa 30-sai Miman Okotowari No Koi
Genre: Mystery, Crime, School
Tokyo decides to introduce a police system for schools. The school police will reside on campus at middle schools. Ryuhei Shimada is a detective for the Investigation Unit 1 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He always stays cool and calm but he has a spiteful tongue. Ryuhei Shimada decides to apply for the new school police system and he is assigned to work at Akamine Middle School....
Ao No Sp: Gakko Nai Keisatsu Shimada Ryuhei
Genre: Romance, Life, Drama, Sci-Fi
Motoharu travels back in time only to learn that he is unhappily married to another woman and discovers his love for his original...
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Familiar Wife (shitteru Waifu)
Imachi Jun 24 is a rookie novelist whose debut novel is a big hit. Because it sold so well the pressure prevents her from writing her next novel. Jun escapes the hustle and bustle of Tokyo and ends up at Cable-hachimangu-sanjo Station on the Keihan Electric Railway between Osaka and Kyoto. There she meets Sosuke 39 a former chef and Kokoro an elementary school student.Jun is taken to...
Keihan Ensen Monogatari
Genre: Psychological, Life, School, Drama
Takayanagi is a mysterious high school ethics teacher. While his students appear innocent they have serious problems k as being bullied and harming themselves. Takayanagi tosses out words & ideas on ethics and philosophy to his class. The words written in textbook seem boring but those written by such figures Socrates empower the students to deal with their own problems and...
Koko Wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu
Genre: Life, Drama
40-year-old Usui Arata had worked as a salesperson for her dream company but right before her marriage she is betrayed by her fiance. Not only is her engagement broken off she is demoted to work at the logistics warehouse in the name of restructuring. Arata’s future is bleak. She has no dream savings or boyfriend and wonders whether her life will end just like this? This day is her 40th...
Sono Onna, Jitterbug
Upon learning salaryman Aoyagi Seiichi will lose his job due to company cutbacks his family deserts him! Given a reprieve he must ensure a struggling ballet company achieves financial success with their year-end performance of ‘Swan Lake’. Can he successfully turn the troupe’s fortunes around despite not knowing the first thing about ballet?...
The Company (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Karibe Seiichiro is a genius manga artist who is not good at socializing. He rarely goes out and has an unusual way of thinking. One day Seiichiro meets his late-brothers former girlfriend Kuon Aiko and requests her to be his pseudo-romance...
Renai Mangaka
Genre: Comedy, Life, Drama, Family
Now sidelined due to injury and age former pro-wrestling star Juichi Miyama was once groomed by his father Jusaburo an acclaimed Noh actor and “Living National Treasure” to be his successor. But the young Juichi rebelled left home and cut off ties with his family. Now he’s just learned that his father having miraculously survived a critical illness intends to marry his young...
Ore No Ie No Hanashi (2021)
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Drama
The Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s Investigation Support Analysis Centre tackles criminal investigations using big data such as footage collected from some five million surveillance cameras from across the nation. Fushimi Kyosuke a former detective with the Prefectural Police’s First Investigation Division is now a special investigator whose loved one was murdered by a serial killer....
Red Eyes: Kanshi Sousa-han
Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Drama, Supernatural
Mochizuki Ayako is a 35-year-old detective who works hard to seek justice but she lacks flexibility. While investigating a murder case she targets Hidaka Haruto as a murder suspect from her collected evidence. Hidaka Haruto is a chemistry researcher and he runs his own company. He is smart and proficient with his work but he is also a psychopathic murderer. Right before Mochizuki Ayako...
Tengoku To Jigoku: Psychona Futari
In 1996 after the collapse of Japans asset price bubble Shibasaki Akira works in the loan department for the Yotsubashi branch office of Aoba Bank. One day he is sent to work at a government-run company which is a housing financial bond management organization. The company was formed to collect non-performing loans from bankrupt housing loan companies. Workers from different banks including...
Tokkai: Furyousaiken Tokubetsu Kaishubu
Genre: Food, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Batafu Gakuen 2-Cs Class Chairman is a young lady raised in a wealthy family. She is serious and sometimes a little high-handed. One day she delivered chicken ingredients to classmates Yoshida who skipped the cooking class. The Class Chairman who was interested in oyakodon ordered Yoshida to prepare the dish for school the next day. The Class Chairman who has never eaten donburi rice bowl...
Donburi Iincho (2020)
Genre: Friendship, Business, Comedy, Sitcom
Shin and Ryudai run a public bathhouse Otori no Yu located in a suburb. The bathhouse has been there for 150 years since the Edo period. Due to poor finances Shin and Ryudai struggle to maintain the bathhouse. While they work they face various problems and happenings caused by their...
Dekke Furoba De Mattemasu (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Supernatural
Sou and Aoi of Aoki = immature Vampire runs a coffee shop that is open only at night. Due to the influence of the new corona the monthly blood distribution from the Vampire Association headquarters in Romania has stopped. Vampires can attack humans and become full-fledged he says but its not easy for the two blue vans who have never sucked blood on their own... Can Sou and Aoi survive...
Aoki Vuanpaia No Nayami
Genre: Friendship, Life, Sci-Fi, Medical
Year: 2015
Shiratori Sakuto is 28 but has the intelligence of a 6-year-old boy. He works for Dream Flower Service a flower distribution centre which provides employment for problem youth. One day he and a colleague Yanagawa Ryuichi delivers a rose bouquet to the apartment building where Mochizuki Haruka lives. Because Haruka does not know that the deliveryman is mentally challenged she is shocked by...
2015
Algernon Ni Hanataba O
Genre: Historical, Drama
Year: 2018
It is the Bunsei era 1818 – 1830. While the finances of samurai families were tight people would entrust their household budget on a half-yearly basis to a roving steward who is the modern-day accountant and management consultant. Karaki Ichibeitakes care of the household budgets of families in desperate financial situations. He is not only adept at the abacus but also the sword. The...
2018
Soroban Samurai Kaze No Ichibei (2018)
Genre: Murahashi Naoki, Tanaka Kenji, Kawano Hideaki, Kurosaki Hiroshi
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work which was to manufacture and sell indigo production and also silk farming. He left his hometown at the age of 23 and began working for the government. He later traveled to Paris and learned about banking. Upon his return to Japan he helped build up the first modern bank in Japan. He eventually...
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Seiten Wo Tsuke
Genre: Comedy, Life, Drama
Matsuura Natsuki works at apparel company Avril and dreams to be a world-class fashion director. One day Natsuki reunites with former classmate Miura Motoya and they spend the night together. Natsuki finds herself pregnant a few months later. Can Natsuki overcome her pregnancy marriage childbirth and childcare? Will she be able to balance her work family and realize her...
Hot Mom (2021)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Wako Machida is an editor for a manga magazine. She focuses on her work and she doesnt have time to think about making herself look beautiful. Meanwhile Meguru Soma is good at adorning himself and he is surrounded by beautiful things. He works at a fashion shop and he also works as a model. These two people who are quite different from each other begin to...
Colorful Love: Genderless Danshi Ni Aisareteimasu (2021)
Genre: Mystery, Comedy
Kazama Naoki is a crack detective at the private investigation firm Nemesis in Yokohama. He has a brilliant mind like Sherlock Holmes and solves every difficult case. But the true detective is actually his talented assistant Mikami Anna. The two of them who make quite an odd duo are searching for Anna’s father Hajime. He is a scientist and went missing all of a sudden. Together with Kurita...
Nemesis (2021)
Genre: Action, Tokusatsu, Drama
Koharu is a dull high school girl who is always alone. Her only hobby is making plastic models. One day Koharu stops by a mysterious antique shop and purchases a plastic model gun and a toy figure named Alice. After spending the entire night assembling the gun Koharu wakes up and witnesses bullets flying everywhere in school. She then meets Alice who moves like a human and tells her to get...
Girl Gun Lady (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Mariko Goto is 29-years-old and dreams of marrying her ideal man by the age of 30. She finds her ideal man in Mitsuo Tomizawa. He works as a section chief at the same company where Mariko Goto works. Mitsuo Tomizawa is smart handsome and tall. He also does his job well. He seems like a perfect man but he has a secret. His secret is that he loves his doll Michuko....
Kekkon Dekinai Ni Wa Wake Ga Aru (2021)
Genre: Romance, Life, Drama
Mashiba Kurumi works as a publicist for el Arco Iris an interior design company becoming popular with young people on social media. Shes a fashionista who cares a lot about her appearance and what others think. She works hard to gain the admiration of her coworkers and boss Hayama Shogo. Kurumi is so busy with work she forgets to renew her apartment lease so her friend Koko helps her...
Kikazaru Koi Niha Riyuu Ga Atte (2021)
Genre: Friendship, Life, Youth, Drama
The story of five young people in their late 20s who try to overcome their great failures in life. Haruto Takaiwa Shunta Asabuki and Junpei Minowa are members of unpopular comedy trio Macbeth. They always gather at a family restaurant where Rihoko Nakahama works as a waitress. Tsumugi Nakahama is Rihoko Nakahama’s younger...
Konto Ga Hajimaru (2021)
A cold-looking business woman constantly mocks and degrades her coworker for his mistakes during work. But secretly shes madly in love with...
Takane No Hana-san
Genre: Comedy, School, Drama
A few years ago a group of struggling students at a low-ranked high school made it into Japan’s top college Tokyo University thanks to Kenji Sakuragi a down-on-his-luck lawyer-turned-teacher. But since he left the school has been on a downward spiral. Now they’ve wooed him back and he’s determined to turn things around again – this time with the motto: “Times are tough! So get a...
Dragon Zakura 2
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Family
Himawari is a comedy that focuses on the main character Akiko who works in the same company as her father Kenichi No.1 and wants to become a manga artist. Akikos love interest is Kenichi...
Himawari Kenichi Legend (2020)
Genre: Friendship, Comedy, Drama
Shin Karino is an unpopular manga writer and he is single. He lives in an apartment complex that has a rule forbidding children from living there. One day Shin Karinos doorbell rings. When he opens his apartment door he sees a small boy. The boy is 5-year-old Kotaro Sato. Kotaro Sato tells Shin Karino that he moved into the neighborhood. Shin Karino makes a weird face because of the rule of...
Kotaro Wa Hitorigurashi (2021)
Genre: Drama, Medical
Ameno Ryuji graduated from a medical school out in a province. He is now a doctor-in-training in the surgery department at a hospital in Tokyo. Every day he is scolded by senior doctors for not being able to do something or know something. Ameno Ryuji feels helpless when he sees patients and their families because the patients and their families think he is a doctor. Ameno Ryuji feels he is...
Nakuna Kenshui (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Life, Drama
Mizuguchi Saki is an outstanding fashion magazine editor who grew up in a modern and liberal family. She meets Obara Koichi who is the ace of the Air Rescue Wing of the Air Self Defense Force. He grew up in a strict military family and is the classic straight-laced guy. Although Saki and Koichi are polar opposites the two of them quickly get married without dating believing that they would...
Rikokatsu (2021)
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Kamijo Ren is the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Liaison Division. His father is a former police officer. An incident in Ren’s childhood triggered his thirst for power and he has his sights set on heading the police force by becoming its Superintendent General someday. Ren believes topping the faction that he belongs to is the shortcut to...
Sakura No Tou (2021)
Genre: Romance, Life
A love story begins when Hirasawa Momoko the cafe clerk at a hotel meets a stranger on the hotels observation deck. Even though they have just met they repeatedly kiss. The next day Momoko is unable to forget about it and learns that the man was Hase Kei the elite hotelier who works at the same hotel and is too perfect for...
Love Phantom (2021)
Year: 2022
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Himawari: Kenichi Legend (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Nozomu Momochi is a pretty nice guy who is altruistic not too ambitious works in a supermarket and is into reading mangas. One day at work he has a lucky encounter with Tomoe Yuizuki the writer of his favorite manga. But she’s not quite who he had imagined. She’s rich has a luxurious home and an expensive designer wardrobe. He learns she loves her work and attends hula dancing...
Ano Toki Kiss Shite Okeba
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Life, Drama
Masataka works as a freelance writer. He has been married to Yukie for the past 7 years. Yukie works as a school teacher. Masataka and Yuki are not in love with each other. They just havent gotten divorced. Meanwhile Masataka is having an affair with a young woman who delivers newspapers. This leads to a shocking...
Tada Rikon Shitenai Dake (2021)
Genre: Food
Takamura Misono works for a company that makes tsukemono preserved vegetable side dishes. She enjoys listening to podcasts and eating alone at home from food bought at franchise restaurants on her way from work. She isnt very good socializing with other people but she is enthusiastic when she talks about things she likes. Her co-worker Sudo Arisa suggests to her that she should start her own...
Omimi Ni Aimashitara (2021)
Momone Nagaura lives with her parents grandfather and younger sister on an island in Kesennuma Bay Miyagi Prefecture. In the spring of 2014 Momone Nagaura graduates from high school and moves to the city of Tome. She fails to enter a university. While she tries to figure out what to do with her life she begins to work as an apprentice of a forest guide. A turning point in her life occurs. A...
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Okaeri Mone (2021)
Genre: Life, Drama, Sports
Natsuha Mai is a 17-year-old high school student. She begins to work part-time during her summer vacation at her uncles batting cage center. There she meets a mysterious man named Ito Tomohiro. He is a former professional baseball player and he claims that he can discern a persons worries by looking at their batting swing. Ito Tomohiro comes to the batting center every night that Natsuha Mai...
Hachigatsu Wa Yoru No Batting Center De (2021)
Genre: School
St. Girls Square Academy or Garugaku for short is a school that raises girls who dream of becoming professional star performers. This school is only open to those who have passed the auditions that have been held around the country. Students who attend here dream of standing on the “Girls Arena” the gateway to becoming professional performers. However only one team can stand on that...
Girl Gaku: Garuzugaden (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Onotora Shu does not know that his foster father is a legendary professional killer. However his daily life dramatically changes after someone murders this professional killer. Onotora decides to take over the family business and become a hitman in order to avenge his foster father. He is well prepared when he approaches Narumiya Mitsuki who is his assassination target. Despite his physical...
Boku No Satsui Ga Koi O Shita (hitman In Love) 2021
Tokyo MER was formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo; it stands for Tokyo Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals who go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters using ER cars. Their ER car is a large vehicle equipped with the latest medical devices and an operating area where Tokyo MER saves the lives of the injured. Kitami Kota is a doctor for Tokyo MER...
Tokyo Mer Mobile Emergency Room (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Family
A tough guy with a knack for housework tackles household tasks with meticulous care in these comedic live-action...
The Ingenuity Of The Househusband (2021)
Noburu is a handsome designer who draws a high salary and has a good marriage with Aiko whom he much loves. That is until Noburu witnesses Aiko enjoying an affair with her boss and looking very happy. Feeling betrayed Noboru decides to get revenge on his...
Saretagawa No Blue (2021)
Genre: Business, Comedy, Romance
Izumi Hidaka is 36-years-old and the CEO of start-up game company Pegasus Ink. Four years ago she developed the game Love My Pegasus which was targeted towards women and became very popular. Since then she has been obsessed with the character Kento-sama from Love My Pegasus. One evening Wataru Igarashi suddenly appears in front of drunken Izumi Hidaka. She is shocked by Wataru Igarashi’s...
Oshi No Oujisama (2021)
