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Plot Summary:
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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A Bad Boy Drinks Tea! (2021)
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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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Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
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Tokyo Tarareba Girls (2017)
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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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Map for The Wedding (2022)
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Upon learning their employer is transferring an unmarried person to Alaska, coworkers Rika and Takuya decide to tie the knot in order to dodge a bullet.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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The Gutsy Frog (2015)
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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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Brush Up Life (2023)
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Starring Ando, screenplay and Bakarism's first tag, this work is a local time-leap human comedy in which Asami Kondo (Ando), an ordinary single woman who works at the local city hall and lives in her parents' house, restarts her life from scratch.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
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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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Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 (2012)
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The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
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Tomorrow, I'll Be Someone's Girlfriend (2022)
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A bitter love story depicting the realities of love between a female college students who earn money as a stand-in girlfriend, and men attracted to them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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Princess Princess D (2006)
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An all-boys school with a tradition of Princesses, boys chosen to dress up as girls to create tension between the students. Yutaka Mikoto, Shihoudani Yuujirou and Kouno Tooru are this year's chosen Princess team. Unsatisfied with the efforts of the current Princesses, Hanazono Otoya creates his own team of Dark Princesses to rival for the students' attention.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Love's in Sight! (2021)
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Yukiko Akaza attends a high school for blind. She has amblyopia, which causes her to recognize colors only vaguely and she can recognize large letters with a magnifying glass. When she walks outdoors, she always carries a white cane. Nevertheless, she has a bright personality. One day, Yukiko happens to meet delinquent boy Morio Kurokawa. At first, Yukiko doesn't like him, but she somehow gains an understanding of him. They become attracted to each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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One Night Morning (2022)
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Relationships take on many forms. Some can be fleeting, delicate things that only last a moment, while others are sure and steady and can last a lifetime. More often than not, relationships fall somewhere in between, but whatever the relationship, each one is as unique as the people in them. Take the eight different couples in this story, for example. While each of them ends up sharing a night, how that night looks and what comes the morning after is entirely different. For the man reunited with his former high school classmate, the feelings he has harbored all these years give their time together a very specific meaning. Meanwhile, an evening shared by two individuals who regularly hook up for sex takes on an entirely different one. No matter what their dynamic may be, each couple in this series has this in common: they each share a meal the morning after. The question is, where do things go between them, once they’ve finished their breakfast?.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop (2001)
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This story is about four men who work in a confectionary. Tachibana Keiichiro (Shiina Kippei) is the owner; Ono Yusuke (Fujiki Naohito) is the superb baker that has a mysterious and mesmerizing aura; Kobayakawa Chikage (Abe Hiroshi) is the waiter and close bodyguard of Tachibana; and last but not least is Kanda Eiji (Takizawa Hideaki), the ex-boxer who loves cake so much that he becomes a waiter at 'Antique'. This is a refreshing, yet heartfelt comedy about the 4 very unique personalities that work until the wee hours of the night at the small confectionary. The series follows the romance, family life, and most importantly friendship that these 4 men from different generations experience. This is a confectionary with a "flavor" not like most. Located in the middle of an ordinary residential area, "Antique" stays open until 2 a.m. Every single thing in the shop is antique, in fact even the sherry glasses that water comes in look like they would cost 50,000 yen. On top of this, all the sweets that are sold are unbelievably delicious. The thing that is most peculiar about "Antique" though is that all 4 of the men that work here are very handsome, and each has an interesting past. Those that frequent the store also have a story to tell. Edited Excerpt from JDorama.com.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama
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My Story Is Long (2019)
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A young man has college and a failed business behind him. Unemployed and planning his next steps he is lodging with is mother, a small business owner. His sister and her family also move in with the two, albeit temporarily. She sees him as a loser and a lush and wants him out. She also whispers in their mother's ear to ask him to leave the house in order to find his own way and begin the rest of his life. She probably has noble intentions, but is she right and will she succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, thrilling
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Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman (2017)
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A stoic book salesman leads a double life as he plays hooky from work to write his sweets blog. In his journey to attain a glimpse of sweets heaven Kantaro samples various Japanese and Western sweets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sitcom
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The Wallflower (2010)
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Sunako is very happy living her life in the darkness of her room, with her skeleton friends and her horror movies to keep her company. The darkness she so loves is pierced brightly by four dazzling young men, who come to live in the same mansion as her, and she soon realizes that they have orders from her aunt to do anything to turn her into a prim and proper lady.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama, anime
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My Boss, My Hero (2006)
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Sakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado" is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to force Makio to return to high school to receive his diploma and he asks an old friend who happens to be the principal of a nearby school to admit Makio. If Makio doesn't graduate, the position of boss will be given to his younger brother, Mikio. Furthermore, he must pose as a 17-year-old during school hours and in the presence of any classmates or teachers outside of school. If his cover is blown, it would be the end of his high school career as well as his hopes to become boss. Things start out rough and tough as Makio's violent temper is tested. As the lessons and days go by he learns there is much more to school than just tests and studying.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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For You in Full Blossom: Ikemen Paradise (2007)
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Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradise, also known as Ike-para, is a Japanese drama produced by Fuji Television and first aired on July 3, 2007. It is based on the comic by Hisaya Nakajo, published in English as Hana-Kimi. Filming locations include the Ryutsu Keizai University. A TV Special has already aired with the regular cast reprising their roles. The story starts off half a year after Mizuki's secret of being a girl has revealed. It is near Valentine's Day, and Sano and Nakatsu are talking about the last week of Summer vacation. This is when the story gets back to the last week of Summer holidays, which is between episode 7 and 8. The shooting started on March 19, 2008. A conference was held on September 18, 2008 announcing the completion of the special, subtitled Sotsugyoshiki & 7 to 1/2 wa Special. A remake of this drama with an entirely different cast was aired on Fuji Television during the 2011 summer season.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: light, dorama, inspirational, emotional, humorous, talky, novela
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From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke (2023)
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With her gloomy demeanor, Sawako has a hard time fitting in. But when an outgoing classmate approaches her, life takes a turn for the better.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, shoujo, romantic comedy, romantic drama, heartfelt
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My Brother's Husband (2018)
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Yaichi (Ryuta Sato) is a single father and he raises his elementary school aged daughter alone. One day, a foreign man named Mike (Baruto Kaito) visits him. Yaichi has an identical twin brother Ryoji, but Ryoji moved to Canada years ago. They have disconnected since that time. Mike introduces himself as the husband of Ryoji. They are a married gay couple. Yaichi is confused and doesn't know how to deal with Mike.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sofia Residents in Excess (2011)
Plot Summary:
The show recreates modern life in a Sofia suburb, tracking the dramatic and no less comical relationship between two large neighbors families.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Caution, Hazardous Wife (2017)
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Nami Isayama met a man through a blind date and married him. She and her husband moved to a quiet, exclusive residential area. Nami is now a housewife and she decides to take cooking classes. She meets other housewives at the cooking class and receives tips from them, while becoming friends. Nami surmises that one of the housewives in her cooking class is the victim of domestic violence. Nami decides to save the victim by herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Silver and Gold (2017)
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Morita, a man who never succeeds in anything, takes his anger out in gambling. He meets an underworld fixer named Ginji Hirai, who introduces him to the underworld trade, where billions of yen changes hands every moment, and speculators and other influential people bet their lives for greed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (2012)
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Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa’s class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka’s unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school’s president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, overrides resistance from her vice principal Uchiyamada Hiroshi and makes Onizuka a teacher. Onizuka goes on to tackle many issues as the teacher in charge of the most problematic class, Class 2-4.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, dorama, anime
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Dr. Coto's Clinic (2003)
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After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to get competent doctors to serve on this remote island, and the islanders are now used to traveling for hours via boat for proper medical care. Despite seeming weak and unreliable (he gets very seasick, and does not have a driving license), he wins over the skeptical islanders with his skill and dedication. Some children of the island make a flag for his clinic, but get his name wrong. Thereafter he is known by all as Koto.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Gintama 2: The Exceedingly Strange Gintama-chan (2018)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of the Yorozuya gang and their friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Kotaro Lives Alone (2021)
Plot Summary:
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 Karino's 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 his apartment complex. Kotaro Sato says that he lives by himself. At first, Shin Karino is annoyed by Kotaro Sato, but residents of the apartment building, including Shin Karino, become attached to Kotaro Sato.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Today's Webtoon (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story is about a woman who struggles together with her coworkers to mature into a true webtoon editor after joining the webtoon editorial department. On Ma Eum, who enters the webtoon editorial department after beating all odds. She has a large appetite, a great sense of smell, and cauliflower ears typical of a fighter as a former standing member for the judo national team. On Ma Eum had to quit her athletic career when an unfortunate accident during a match tore her ankle ligament, but she begins to dream anew when she coincidentally delivers food to the webtoon editorial department.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Komi Can't Communicate (2021)
Plot Summary:
It's Shouko Komi's first day at the prestigious Itan Private High School, and she has already risen to the status of the school's Madonna. With long black hair and a tall, graceful appearance, she captures the attention of anyone who comes across her. There's just one problem though—despite her popularity, Shouko is terrible at communicating with others.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious