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Plot Summary:
Chris and Kyle share a house in Tokyo, Japan. They lived in peace and happiness until the day their toilet seat broke. What happened? Where do you buy a toilet seat in Japan? How do you even say 'toilet seat' in Japanese? What exactly is a Final Benza and what does it have to do with the world ending? Join Chris and Kyle on their journey for answers in this hyper realistic comedic adventure.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Popularity Papers (2023)
Plot Summary:
How do you become popular? Two best friends are on a quest to discover the answer and conquer middle school.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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My Boys (2009)
Plot Summary:
Atashinchi no Danshi is a Japanese drama produced by Fuji Television starring actress Maki Horikita. The producer, director, and screenwriter for the series consists of the same team that created the successful 2007 drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. The series ran from Tuesday, April 14 to June 23, 2009, in the 9:00 PM time slot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama
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Louder! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shing (Sadao Abe) is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Shing meets Fuuka (Riho Yoshioka) who is a street musician. When Fuuka sings, her vice is so small. Due to Fuuka, Shing looks back upon his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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My Dear Exes (2021)
Plot Summary:
Omameda Towako recently become the president of the construction company "Shirokuma Housing". She has experienced three divorces and is currently living with her 15-year-old daughter, Uta. Although Towako has been divorced thrice, she remains bright and lives her life strongly. However, her life is constantly disrupted by her three troublemaker ex-husbands.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy, romantic
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Tokyo Tarareba Girls (2017)
Plot Summary:
30-year-old Kamata Rinko is single and a struggling scriptwriter. She has no boyfriend and keeps having night outs at drinking spots with her girlfriends Kaori and Koyuki. “If I become beautiful, a better guy will appear!” “If we grow to like each other, we can get married!” They will not stop talking about these hypothetical questions. Then a younger, handsome, golden-haired guy suddenly utters, “These “what if” women!” and the trio have to face the harsh reality that they are no longer girls. Rinko enters her 30s while still immature, seeking happiness and struggling with romance and work.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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Fat Buddies (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around a pair of big-boned, bumbling cops who find themselves at the heart of a drug trafficking case. The agent "J" (Zhang Wen) was shot in the head during an A-level mission, causing damage to the intracranial hypothalamus. During the period of rehabilitating, J gradually became a big fat man of three hundred pounds and suffered from severe narcolepsy, but J still considered himself a ace agent. Finally, J received the task again and went to Japan to retrieve the confidential documents. After the file was obtained, J arbitrarily opened the file and decided to continue the task of hiding the organization for the organization, but he fainted in the izakaya. J who woke up in the hospital got to know the security guard Handsome Hao (Bei-Er Bao), Handsome Hao to prove that he is not a waste of nothing to resolutely join the mission. In the process of carrying out the task, the temporary partner has experienced the ridiculous and dangerous crisis of time over and over.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, captivating
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Hen (1994)
Plot Summary:
Yoshida Chizuru is the sexiest co-ed in her class. Secretly, she's been appearing in TV commercials - despite the fact that students are forbidden from working. But one of her professors has uncovered her secret and hopes to use this information to his advantage. Yoshida's got plans of her own, and has no intention of giving up her acting career.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sexy, manga
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It's All About the Looks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jun Jonochi works at a paper manufacturing company. She is earnest, but clueless about her own appearance. She doesn't have any interest in making herself look good. One day, she realizes that people don't view her as other women. She begins to read up on things like make-up and fashion trends with her two female colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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Public Enemy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sato Tomoko leads an ordinary life with her husband and young child. One day, she defies the rules at the company where she works part-time to supplement the household income, and is fired. Tomoko is in her 40s, a high school dropout and has no qualifications. How is she to get a job? She happens to find out about the huge pay and high winning rate of members of the city, townand village councils through a TV programme. Equating huge pay with family happiness, the foolhardy Tomoko quickly decides to run for the city council. Her rival in the election race is Todo Makoto, who comes from a long line of politicians. Hirata Kazumi, a former star political journalist at a newspaper and a friend whose child attends the same nursery school, is inspired by Tomoko’s energy and ability to unify people, and becomes her supporter.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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Flatbush Misdemeanors (2021)
Plot Summary:
Neighborhood best friends and urban millennials Dan and Kevin hilariously climb the ladder to nowhere in Flatbush, Brooklyn. But even inside the losing, they find there are little wins that come from tackling hipsters, mental health issues and the rising tide of gentrification.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, dark comedy
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Take Me to Tarzana (2021)
Plot Summary:
After learning their company has been illicitly spying, collecting and selling data on them, three millennial friends band together to fight back against a lecherous boss and the company's maniacal, Tarzan-obsessed CEO.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, dark comedy, romantic comedy
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Wheels of Fortune (2020)
Plot Summary:
To claim a big inheritance, a down-on-his-luck mechanic must win a series of competitions as outlined in his birth father's will.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Chad and JT Go Deep (2022)
Plot Summary:
Best bros Chad and JT set out to spread positivity through community activism and chill vibes in this raucous prank comedy series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, buddy comedy
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Alone Together (2018)
Plot Summary:
Esther and Benji are platonic best friends who want nothing more than to be accepted by the vain and status-obsessed culture of Los Angeles. Despite their sometimes contentious relationship, when push comes to shove, they’ve got each other’s back … And they have nobody else to hang out with.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, satirical, psychological, humorous, captivating
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Prescription Police (2006)
Plot Summary:
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective
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Wise and Foolish (2015)
Plot Summary:
All of a sudden, Prime Minister Taizan and his carefree son Sho find their bodies switched around. They have no idea why nor how to turn back. Now Sho has to attend the Diet as Prime Minister. He cannot even read the words as he speaks as Prime Minister...but the diet members and the people are gradually moved by his straightforward opinions and things begin to change... Meanwhile, Taizan, the Prime Minister, is now a college student undergoing numerous job interviews. But he cannot pass the interview. And things become more confusing as he meets Sho’s ex-girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Overprotected Kahoko (2017)
Plot Summary:
College student Kahoko is the quintessential overprotected child born out of today's Japanese society. Shielded by her parents, Kahoko grew up completely pampered and became somewhat of a miraculously naive "test tube human." She is 21 years old and about to start working for a company, but she has never slept away from home, had a part time job, chosen her own clothes, or even ridden a train alone. Kahoko has had her picture taken, but she has never taken a picture herself. Now, Kahoko is about to step out of her germ-free isolation pod and into the germ-infested world. It won't be long until she realizes, "I'm different from everybody else!" She has been her mother's best friend all her life and her father can't live without her. As they become emotionally unstable from the changes that Kahoko goes through, their family begins to fall apart. That's when Kahoko herself and the people around her begin to see the strength that hides deep within.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Blue Flame (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1980's, Moyuru is a student at an art school in Osaka. He is full of passion and desire in his pursuit to become a manga writer. He also doesn't lack confidence in his abilities. Morinaga Tonko is Honoo's senior at school and the manager of the badminton team which Honoo belongs to. Right before summer vacation, Moyuru makes a decision. He decides to take his manga manuscripts to a publishing company in Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, anime, manga, seinen, shounen
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Samurai Sensei (2015)
Plot Summary:
Takechi Hanpeita, a samurai from Bakumatsu period time-travels 150 years to modern day Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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MPD: Animal Unit (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tomozo Sudo is a detective. Due to an incident, he is excluded from investigative work. He is then assigned to work in a division responsible for taking care of animals whose owners are suspects or missing. Keiko Usuki is a police constable and works in the same division. She loves animals more than humans. Keiko develops inferences from clues from animals left behind at crime scenes. Tomozo and Keiko work together to solve cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Corporate (2018)
Plot Summary:
A dark, edgy look at life as a Junior-Executive-in-Training at your average, soulless multinational corporation. Matt and Jake are at the mercy of a tyrannical CEO and his top lieutenants while navigating an ever-revolving series of disasters. Their only ally is Human Resources rep Grace.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, light, entertaining, not serious, funny, sitcom, psychological, black comedy, dark comedy
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I Love Tokyo Legend - Kawaii Detective - (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tsukiko Otonashi is a fashionista who is too beautiful to be a detective. She is also intrigued by urban legends so much so that she believes all crimes are somehow linked to these legends. She even conducts her investigations in such a way as to prove them to be true. Tsukiko also likes to make use of whatever she can. She especially likes to enlist the help of crime lab officer Hitoro Katsuura, who happens to have a crush on her. Many other unique characters will make appearances as she investigates the crimes related to urban legends, using odd and exquisite techniques.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective, sad
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Adult School (2017)
Plot Summary:
To solve the country's low birthrate problem, the Japanese government set up Otona Kōkō (Adult High School). Adults over 30 with no sexual experience are forcibly enrolled into Otona Kōkō by the government. Eito Arakawa is a 30-year-old single man. He graduated from a prestigious university and works at a bank. He has received recognition for his work there. He is also physically attractive, but he has never had sex. One day, he receives an entrance guide to Otona Kōkō.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Princess Jellyfish (2018)
Plot Summary:
20 year old Tsukimi Kurashita can barely see without her glasses. She came to Tokyo from Kagoshima Prefecture to become an illustrator, but she doesn't attend college or sells any of her illustrations. She lives at a communal apartment. At the apartment, only otaku type women live there. Tsukimi Kurashita likes jellyfish due to memories she has with her late mother. One day, due to a jellyfish, Tsukimi Kurashita meets Kuranosuke Koibuchi. He loves fashion and his hobby is to dress up like a woman. She also meets Kuranosuke’s older brother Shu Koibuchi. Her life soon changes because of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hitman in Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
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 abilities as a hitman, he is not able to kill her because of his terrible timing, no matter how he tries. On the contrary, he ends up protecting her as danger approaches. The two of them who should not fall in love, have an unlikely romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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We're Millennials. Got a problem? (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drama series depicts the lives of three men born in 1987 and oppose irrational things of the world through work, love, and friendship. The men are from the "yutori generation", when the Japanese government reformed the education system, emphasizing a pressure-free environment referred to as yutori education.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, semi serious
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Detroiters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Best friends and fledgling ad men Sam and Tim may not have the money, connections or talent that the big guys do, but they have ambition out the wazoo. Together, they’re out to build a local advertising empire and restore their home city of Detroit to its former glory in this new show from executive producers Lorne Michaels and Jason Sudeikis.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, sitcom, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Your and My Secret (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around high school student Akira Uehara, sensitive and demure by nature. Despite that he has a large crush on the most feared and violent girl in school-Nanako Momoi, who seems fragile and cute, until she opens her mouth. One day, Uehara is made to go to Momoi's house where he meets her mad scientist grandfather and unwillingly becomes the test subject for one of his machines. Accidentally, Momoi alsogets tangled in the experiment and the two end up switching bodies. To make matters worse Momoi in Uehara's body breaks the machine (which will cost 2mil. yen to fix) as she would like more time in this body thus beginning their world full of debts and troubles.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 17 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, dorama, sexy
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The Reason I Can't Find My Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
More than half of women in their 20's to 30's admit to "currently lacking a boyfriend." Men, love, sex, work, marriage... All the issues women face today are revealed in truth through this generation, an "ice age of love." "The reason I can't find my love" highlights the lives of three women, Fujii Emi, Ogura Saki and Hanzawa Mako. Emi works for a lighting company as a lighting technician, where she is surrounded by men due to the nature of the profession. She has a straight-forward and generous personality, but is unconcerned about general feminine interests such as fashion. She is often treated like another man by her boss and colleagues, and feels that being in love is tiresome. However, she cannot forget about her ex-boyfriend and hopes to someday fall truly in love. Saki is prideful and determined, but fails in landing a desirable job. As a result, she starts to work at a bar as a hostess, keeping the fact a secret from her parents. Mako is the youngest of all, having attended the same high school following Emi and Saki. She is earnest and responsible, but on the other hand, rather clumsy and afraid of taking chances on a romantic relationship. The three women end up living under the same roof by coincidence, and it is there that they share each other's experiences, bitter or sweet, desperately struggling with their love life. A life-sized unconventional love story ever to air on Fuji TV's prime 9 Monday drama slot! -- Fuji TV.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Don't Cry, Hara-chan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Echizen, who is a modest woman, works at a fish cake plant. Instead of keeping a diary, she draws cartoons of "Nakuna, Harachan" on her notebook about her daily life. The main character in her comic, Hara then appears in the real world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious