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The story centers on Misa, a career-minded woman who works in the sales department of her company. She works hard, and often puts in an effort to make herself look beautiful. But she actually has no experience in romance. She can’t act cute, she’s bad at inviting people to outings, and she’s too prideful. All the men she meets end up backing away from her. Her roommate and close friend Chihiro is a department store receptionist. She is good with kids, likes housework, and is passionate about her volunteer work; the exact opposite of Misa. They live together like sisters. But a change is coming to their lives when Misa meets the man of her dreams. Meanwhile, Chihiro is apparently having an affair behind her long-time fiancé’s back.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Chimudondon (2022)
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Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa. She aims to become a chef drawing inspiration from Okinawan cuisine. The four siblings follow very different paths, but the memories of their hometown connect their hearts and they're able to overcome their hardships as a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Silent (2022)
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Aoba Tsumugi was a second year high school student when she heard the voice of a male student during a morning assembly and was attracted to it. The male student was Sakura Sou, who was reading an essay on stage. In the third grade, Tsumugi and Sou were in the same class and slowly started dating. Their relationship deepened through their shared hobbies in music but Sou suddenly left Tsumugi and disappeared one day after their graduation. Eight years have passed since then and Tsumugi has started a new life until she happened to see Sou in the crowd. She later finds out that Sou is suffering from sensorineural hearing loss, a condition that gradually makes people deaf and Sou has almost lost his hearing. This is a sad but warm love story between two who meet again in a world without sound.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: non-linear
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Will You Marry Me…Again? (2012)
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Haru and Kanako have been married for four years. They don't have any children, but they both enjoy their job and are happy together. However their lives are suddenly disrupted when Kanako faints from subarachnoid hemorrhage. After the operation, it becomes evident that she has lost some of her memory...her memory of the five years with her husband. She decides to return home to her parents. Her younger brother takes care of her. Meanwhile, Haru's colleague notices that there is something troubling him. Life without his wife makes Haru realize how much his wife means to him and vows to propose to her once again.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Heartbroken Chocolatier (2014)
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After graduating from high school, Sota Koyurugi (Jun Matsumoto) studies bakery at an institute. In high school, he fell in love with beautiful Saeko. Because of Sota's effort, he is able to have a romantic relationship with Saeko right before Christmas. Saeko though tells Sota that she will be unable to meet him on Valentine's Day, but can meet him on the day before Valentine's Day. On that day, Sota gives Saeko chocolate that he made, but she doesn't accept his gift. Saeko tells him that she didn't think they were dating. Sota is heartbroken, but he doesn't give up hope. To make Saeko love him, he travels to France with little money and studies chocolate there. This is because Saeko loves chocolate. 5 years later, Sota becomes a first-class Chocolatier. Now back in Japan, Sota opens his very own store.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, sexy
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It Was Sudden, Like a Storm (2004)
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Kozue Ogawa is a housewife and has been married to Hideo for seven years. They don't have any children, but as they live with her parents at their flower shop, every day is still lively. She is happy with her life and her husband, but she wonders if it is enough. From time to time, she is gripped by this doubt that she cannot raise with anyone. Kozue starts a part-time job in the editing department of the magazine where she used to work. Her former colleague is now working hard as the editor-in-chief. One rainy day, Kozue meets a young man. He is Takuma Fukazawa, a high school student. He seems somehow shrouded in sadness. He is a dance teacher. In the dance studio, there is just the two of them. Takuma curls his hands around Kozue's body, and his dance instruction begins. Their unexpected closeness causes Kozue to hesitate. With her heart pounding, she pushes Takuma's hands away and runs home. But the throbbing in her chest continues. It can't be. But what is this feeling?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Takane no Hana-san (2021)
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Takamine Hana is a super ace employee at a traditional confectionary company. Despite her elite look and high performance, Hana only has love skills of a fifth grader. Hana has recently fell in love with Yowaki Tsuyoshi, a young employee who always gets scolded. Can Hana make Tsuyoshi like her back? Will a love bloom between the two?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Renai Neet: Wasureta Koi no Hajimekata is a Japanese television drama series.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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The Red Apple (2023)
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The story happens in the near future of Japan, where sexual activity is forbidden by law. Inuda Hikaru is an honor student whose father is an executive at Setori (Sexual Misconduct Control Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare). Hikaru aspires to become like his father and finds sex unpleasant. Minase Yu is Hikaru's childhood friend who has a sharp tongue but excels in her grades. Yu is also a big fan of nationally known actress Uchu Misora, commonly known as Uchura. One day, Hikaru is invited by a classmate to a shady members-only club where he witnesses men and women engaging in illegal sexual acts. He is also surprised to see Uchura, who claims to be "pure" there with a man. Before he realised, Hikaru finds himself being caught in an "underworld organization" where sexual activity is performed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Takara Shun, a high school student who belongs to a popular group in the class, and Taichi Amagi, a pure boy who is not a conspicuous type but is liked by people, realize their love for each other. Even though they start dating in secret, it is difficult for them to be honest.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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"I want to grow up quicker, so I can date Minato-san." Minato Akira inherited his grandfather's coin laundry. And so, the middle-aged former corporate drone, Akira, peacefully ran the well-loved coin laundry. One day, a high-school student, Katsuki Shintaro, enters the coin laundry. Despite the difference in age, they quickly became friends. However, Shintaro suddenly finds out that Akira is gay.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Candy Color Paradox (2022)
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As a reporter at a weekly magazine, Satoshi Onoe takes pride in his ability to write well and report ethically. But when the stakeout teams are shuffled around in light of a new investigation, Onoe ends up being paired up with the one and only Motoharu Kaburagi, an ill-mannered photographer who spells nothing but trouble. Onoe, who secretly regards Kaburagi as his biggest rival, absolutely despises him and his haphazard and unethical reporting methods, with the two bickering constantly. However, much to Onoe's surprise, his annoyance soon begins to shift as he spends more time with Kaburagi, and his feelings towards his arch nemesis turn a bit sweeter.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Hold my hand at Twilight (2023)
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Soramame leaves the countryside for Tokyo in pursuit of a childhood friend and fiancé, but instead he meets a scrappy young musician, Oto. By some odd circumstance, the two end up living under the same roof. Influenced by Oto, Soramame awakens to the world of fashion while Soramame becomes Oto's muse, reviving his forsaken dream of becoming a musician. As they chase their dreams, love is sure to germinate, but it struggles to take off for these two dreamers unwittingly caught in the world's most beautiful love story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Shitara, a man who fell from his elite life overnight. His new "place of employment", which has lost his job, house, and wife, is a boarding house?! Under one roof, a perverted love begins from the worst encounter with one of those living there!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Breathless Summer (2012)
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A 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a forbidden love that cannot be accepted by the people around them. Breathless Summer is as much a social drama as it is a love story. Takei plays said girl who learns that her mother never recorded her birth in their family register. While falling into despair after finding out the secret about her birth yet wholeheartedly trying to live to regain "herself", she happens to run into a former journalist who is suffering from a deep scar in his heart himself. Although they could be father and daughter, they start to develop much stronger feelings for each other, a love forbidden by society.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But what happens when Hana meets Takane is an unexpected pairing of utter opposites!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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Born to be a Flower (2018)
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After an unexpected encounter, perfect Momo meets mediocre Kazama and they fall in love. Watch this romance unfold as they struggle to be together!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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This Guy Is the Biggest Mistake in My Life (2020)
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Sato Yui is a dispatched contract worker at Amagi Pharmaceutical Company. Her pet has died and she feels deep sorrow over its death. One day, she drinks alone at a bar and shouts, with tears running down her face, "Develop medicine to bring back someone to life!" At that time, a man walks towards her. He makes a spiteful remark that there is no such medicine that can bring someone back to life. He also tells her to stop barking and to go home. Yui feels anger within herself and she trips him. She then leaves the bar. Yui is unaware that the man she tripped is Amagi Kyoichi and he is the CEO of Amagi Pharmaceutical Company. The next day, Yui hears at work that the CEO is looking for her. When she gets to his office, she realizes the man she tripped in the bar is the CEO. She thinks that she might get fired, but he suddenly tells her to "Please treat me as a slave.".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Onzoshi Boys (2019)
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Three high school girls are chosen among 700,000 applicants to be on the reality show “Marry the Prince”. They must find their true love in the four princes they encounter.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Tokyo Alice (2017)
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Four former classmates share an apartment in Daikanyama, Tokyo and pursue their own happiness. Arisugawa Fuu works for a design production company and spends most of her salary on fashion, Hada Mizuhois a budding manga artist, Sakuragawa Rio practices psychosomatic medicine, and Enjoji Sayuri works for a Ginza art gallery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Flower and the Beast (2017)
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Kumi (Yurika Nakamura) is a transfer student at a prestigious high school. She meets Hyo (Yosuke Sugino) who is handsome and kind. Kumi falls in love with him and has her first kiss with him, but Hyo is famous for being a womanizer at school. After she discovers his true side, she gets hurts, but her feelings for him doesn't go away.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Chushingura: A 48th Loyal Retainer in Love (2016)
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Set in the Edo period, a story revolves around Kiyo, a woman who strives to overcome status differences of those days. When she pledges to live for love, a knife attack occurs at Edo castle. And as a 48th loyal retainer, her fate changes after a raid on Kira: she is determined to serve at the inner palace of Edo Castle called "Ooku".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, period drama
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Coffee and Vanilla (2019)
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A love story between Risa Shiroki and Hiroto Fukami. Twenty year old Risa Shiroki comes to Tokyo from her hometown in the countryside to attend university. Pretty and popular with male students, she has never had a boyfriend and dreams of having a sweet love. One day, thirty year old Hiroto Fukami appears in front of her. He is business man who appears to be gentle and looks perfect. As romance blossoms between them, Risa discovers Hiroto's dark past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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Happy Marriage!? (2016)
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A rich, handsome businessman, Hokuto, proposes marriage to Chiwa, whose father has a large debt. Hokuto apparently has a secret reason for marrying Chiwa. Will this marriage work out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 182
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Country: Japan
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Rinko-san Wants to Try (2021)
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Rinko Amaki is a successful 27-year-old woman who works at a busy wedding planning agency. She excels at her job to such an extent that she is promoted to lead her unit. She is popular, beautiful, and hard-working, but there is just one thing that frustrates her: Despite being surrounded by loved-up couples and romance all day at work for years, she is still single. And on top of that, she has never made love. She wants to lose her virginity, but has never found the right man. In a twist of fate, her male co-worker Gen Kamisaka, another wildly successful wedding planner is in the exact same predicament. Also aged 27, he has never had any intimate relations with a woman. The duo, having discovered they share the same “problem,” decides to do something about it. But they soon discover that work and physical intimacy are not easy to balance. And while they might have initially envisaged a quick and fuss-free fling, Cupid might have other plans for them.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Is this Love Checkmate!? (2018)
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A love story between a 24-year-old office worker who has neither love experience nor communication skills and a 32-year-old female shōgi player he meets on his daily commute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Seizing Love by Force, Winter (2017)
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Hikari works at a design office. Her upbringing is not a wealthy one, but now she has a good job and an affectionate fiancé Kota. She is happy and feeling very much fulfilled. But, when she happens to see her ex-boyfriend Shin, once the love of her life, her relationship with her fiancé starts to fall apart... Hikari and Shin used to work for the same design office where he was her boss. They had been lovers but one day, all of a sudden, Shin left her without a word. Now, he is married to Ran. Ran’s over posses- sive manic love towards Shin makes her consumed with jealousy against Hikari. And Hikari’s fiancé Kota also finds himself suffering from his love and his jealousy... Shin’s presence is driving him slowly but steadily to the brink of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Perfect Crime (2019)
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Kaori (Reina Triendl) works as an interior designer for a housing manufacturer. She has been in a secret relationship with her boss Fuyuki (Hidekazu Mashima) for years. Fuyuki is a married man and Kaori can't see a future with him, but she still loves him and continues their relationship. One day, Haruto (Dori Sakurada) appears in front of her. Haruto is a young interior designer who was just transferred from a New York office. Haruto happens to see Kaori and Fuyuki having an affair. Meanwhile, Kaori and Haruto begin to work together as partners at work. Through meeting Haruto, Kaori's fate begins to change.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
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Hana Nochi Hare: HanaDan Next Season (2018)
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The setting of the drama takes place 10 years after the F4 graduated from Eitoku Academy. Edogawa Oto is the daughter of a former company president. Her life completely changed after their family business went bankrupt. Her fiance is Hase Tenma, the popular student council president of the rival school. With declining enrollment due to a recession and the rise of a rival school, Eitoku Academy is now ruled by the Correct5 whose leader is Kakuragi Haruto. The group seeks out, then runs out, any students whose families haven’t made appropriate donations to the school. When Haruto and Oto discover each other’s secrets — that Haruto buys self-help items to get stronger, and that Oto is poor and works at a convenience store – they promise to keep each other’s secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing