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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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Mio Kurasaka was a bright musical star on Broadway, but setbacks forced her to return to her hometown of Yume City in Japan. Back in her hometown, Mio is asked to coach a band of amatuer housewives in the town music hall which is under threat of being torn down. Can Mio return the music hall to it's former glory and stop it's destruction?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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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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Lady Girls (2015)
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Lady Girls is a poignant romantic comedy portrays the lives of three single, 40-year-old women as they search for happiness and love while longing to stay always-a-girl-at-heart regardless their age.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Masaya Funabashi was called the "Devil Makun" due to his intimidating appearance and was known to always get into fights. When he entered high school, he wanted to stop getting involved with violence and spend his days peacefully. However, a quarrel happened on his first day of school and people started avoiding him. Naomi Anesaki was the only one who approached Masaya as she needed members for her tea ceremony club. Masaya then decided to join the club and slowly changed while being involved with his best friend Wataru Yamada, and the club's new member, Kaho Asakawa.
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Goodbye Ghosts! (2016)
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Madoka Tsutsumi is a university student. He rarely expresses his feelings and he has never done an impulsive act in his life. One night, he sees an old man and a pink rabbit struggling physically. The pink rabbit seems surprised and asks Madoka if he can see them. The pink rabbit then introduces itself as the Angel of Death and says the old man is a ghost who died yesterday.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Ramen Loving Girl (2015)
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Koizumi is a mysterious and attractive high school student. But what most people don't know about her is that she's a ramen master who is always on the lookout for great ramen restaurants. Everyday, she goes hunting for real-life places serving the best ramen dishes and delightfully eats the delicious noodles. The way Koizumi downs a giant bowl of ramen–more adeptly than any large man—will amaze and delight you!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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Boys on the Run (2012)
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Toshiyuki Tanishi (Ryuhei Maruyama) is 27-year-old single guy, who has never had a girlfriend in his whole life. He works for small toy company, Saida Company. People view Toshiyuki Tanishi as stupid and the last person who will achieve success. Meanwhile, Toshiyuki has feelings for co-worker Chiharu (Akina Minami), but is unable to approach Chiharu. Instead, Toshiyuki goes to telephone clubs or watch adult videos. One day, Toshiyuki gets along with the salesman Aoyama (Takumi Saito), from rival company Manmos. With Aoyama's suggestion, Toshiyuki is finally able to have dinner with Chiharu. After dinner, Toshiyuki and Chiharu miss the last train and go to a hotel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
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Live-action version of the popular 70's japanese manga and anime, "Dokonjô Gaeru". In this version, Hiroshi, Kyôko, and the rest of the classmates are 30 years old. The setting is modern day Japan, and of course, Hiroshi still wears Pyonkichi (aka Raponchi) on his shirt.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: anime
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Hen (1994)
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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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Barakamon (2023)
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A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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It's All About the Looks (2017)
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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)
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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
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The Benza (2019)
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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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Hell Teacher Nube (2014)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: manga, anime
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Bakushu is an adviser in the "Clean Break Helpline" - a special unit in the Organized Crime Department at Tokyo Metropolitan Police which helps those who want to make a clean break from a gang group. Although she treats gang member clients like "scum", she goes far beyond her responsibility to help them quit the organization by getting a written agreement from the gang boss and finding jobs for them afterwards. Also, her colleague and a former detective at the Organized Crime Department, Mikajima Kakeru doesn't get along with Bakushu. One day, "Clean Break Helpline" receives a call from a client. He is the leader of a gang group under the umbrella of a designated organized crime group "Kanto Kifune Gumi", and claims that he already made an apology to the boss of Kanto Kifune Gumi, Tachibana Isao. The client says that his group has got in trouble because of Bakushu.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Shimokita Glory Days (2006)
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Yuta Ono flees from the responsibilities of his family run business and attempts to get into college to get a girl. By a twist a fate, Yuta Ono then finds himself living with five beautiful young ladies. all of whom Yuta finds exciting.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, sexy, ecchi, realistic, not serious
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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)
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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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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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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, stylized, anime, manga
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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
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We Married as a Job (2016)
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A series of events leads single, 25 year old Mikuri Moriyama and 36 year old Hiramasa Tsuzaki to marry as a cover.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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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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Hiroshi Tanaka moves to Tokyo after being laid off from his job.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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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:
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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