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Plot Summary:
Haru is an old maid who has moved to the USA to work. She is recruited to work for a Japanese trading company back home. She weighs her options and responds in the affirmative. Upon her return she finds her former husband of a decade ago Mr. Wada being her manager. There are multiple challenges, but she wants to make do. She wants to make a good impression, she wants to avoid conflict with her co-workers and of course she wants to justify their trust in her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Bewitched In Tokyo (2004)
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Arisa is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she uses is faulty and she winds up in Japan. There she meets Joji Matsui who works at an advertising agency. Joji has been assigned by his boss Ichio Suzuki the difficult task of winning over Shiori Nomo who is in charge of corporate communications at a client. However a little word from Arisa helps Joji win over Shiori and his agency gets the opportunity to pitch. Arisa and Joji fall in love and marry. Arisa swears never to use magic again as she and Joji begin their strange witch/human married life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
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Fictitious OL Diary (2017)
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The drama is based on a blog written by Bakarhythm between 2006 and 2009 where he posed as a OL nicknamed Masuno Kakū, who supposedly worked in a bank and wrote stories about the daily feelings of a OL from her perspective and the people around her.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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Around 40 (2008)
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Ogata Satoko is a 39 years-old woman. She is happily enjoying the single life. However, things change after an alumni reunion wher she's the last single and a meet with Okamura Keitaro.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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The Third Finger Offered to a King (2023)
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Ayaka, who works at the bridal department at a hotel, has a beauty that everyone recognizes, yet her personality is the worst. Everyone calls her a "wicked woman" after the way she wraps numerous men around her finger. The one who sets his eyes on her is the hotel's new executive Togo, who is the son of a very powerful person of the town. What are the orders that this King-like man requests of her!?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Naked Dining (2023)
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Ichijou Souta is an office worker in a financial office, hardworking, capable and good looking. However, he has a hobby that most people don't know about - he likes to eat completely naked! For him, enjoying food in the buff is a good way to relieve his stress. One day, he receives a letter from his grandmother and goes back to his hometown, but he didn't expect that his secret would be accidentally discovered by Mahiro Miki, a local boy who runs a fruit and vegetable store! Is it game over for Souta? What will his next decision lead him to?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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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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Love Yourself (2020)
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Television reporter Sun Yihe, corporate manager Ren Ran, the optimistic Dingding and single mother Xue Kairui are all on the cusp of turning thirty and have reached career bottlenecks. Their love lives don’t go too smoothly either, as all sorts of conflicts and problems start to surface when they begin dating.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Divorce (2012)
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The series is about three men aged between 35 and 45 who are in the middle of a divorce. They decide to temporarily live together. They share joys and sorrows, and a deeply rooted friendship grows. The story revolves around everything that a divorce entails: the strong emotions, the quarrels, the mourning, the doubts, the children, finances, rediscovering yourself, starting again, dealing with your ex and dating on your fortieth. But the series is also about a typical male friendship. Men who need but a few words to understand each other, who give each other space to be sad and who back each other up when they are vulnerable. But also men who are not afraid to tell each other the brutal truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, suspense, suspenseful
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Let's Get Divorced (2023)
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A mediatised married couple who no longer love each other is highly optimistic about getting a divorce. However, external circumstances will get in their way and they will have no other choice but to work hand in hand to reach their ultimate goal: getting a divorce.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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The Last Cinderella (2013)
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Sakura is a single 39-year-old woman who works as the assistant manager at a beauty salon. She spends her days making her customers look beautiful but doesn’t pay much attention to her own appearance. All of that changes when she goes to a party and meets Hiroto, a much younger man who is a biker. Will Sakura revel in the attention of the handsome but dangerous Hiroto or notice the constant interest of her hard-talking and hard-drinking salon manager, Rintaro?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, touching, feel good, captivating, sexy, shoujo, romantic comedy
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Followers (2020)
Plot Summary:
When an aspiring actress hits it big thanks to a candid Instagram post, the lives of several Tokyo women cross as they struggle to define happiness IRL.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, light, disturbing, inspirational, witty, heartfelt
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Suppli (2006)
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Minami is a 27-year-old female office worker in an advertisement agency. Though she has a boyfriend, she spends the majority of her time working and appears to feel ambivalent about the relationship at best. When the boyfriend finally breaks up with her, it's the push she needs to start a social life with her co-workers. In-office romances soon follow. Much of the story is told through Minami's thoughts, which are full of self-doubt.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Once Again (2020)
Plot Summary:
A turbulent divorce story of the Song family that ends in the discovery of romance and familial love. The Song family includes a frugal father, a cute but materialistic mother, and four adult children with their own quirks and family troubles.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: light, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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A Girl and Three Sweethearts (2016)
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Sakurai Misaki has not dated in a long time. She has focused on her work as a pâtissier to eventually run her own business. One day, she gets fired from work. She then meets her first love from high school Shibasaki Chiaki. Misaki works part-time at Chiaki's restaurant and also stays there. While she lives with Chiaki at his restaurant, she realizes that Chiaki's two younger brothers Touma and Kanata also live there.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, shoujo, romantic drama
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About a Boy (2014)
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Will Freeman lives a charmed existence as the ultimate man-child. After writing a hit song, he was granted a life of free time, free love and freedom from financial woes. He's single, unemployed and loving it. So imagine his surprise when Fiona, a needy single mom and her oddly charming 11-year-old son, Marcus, move in next door and disrupt his perfect world. When Marcus begins dropping by his home unannounced, Will's not so sure about being a kid's new best friend, until, of course, Will discovers that women find single dads irresistible. That changes everything and a deal is struck: Marcus will pretend to be Will's son and, in return, Marcus is allowed to chill at Will's house. Before he realizes it, Will starts to enjoy the visits and even finds himself looking out for the kid. In fact, this newfound friendship may very well teach him a thing or two that he never imagined possible - about himself and caring for others.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, touching, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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William and Mary (2003)
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William and Mary is an ITV romantic comedy drama set in London, England, starring Martin Clunes as William Shawcross, an undertaker, and Julie Graham as Mary Gilcrest, a midwife. Its title refers to its two principal characters and is a cultural reference to the reign of the English monarchs William and Mary. It was shown in three six-part series in 2003-2005. It was also screened on Seven's best of-Scottish and English-oriented 7TWO.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Starter Wife (2007)
Plot Summary:
The events of one woman's life following her divorce after years of marriage to a Hollywood studio executive. Based on the best-selling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 276 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sentimental, romantic comedy
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It's Not That I Can't Get Married, I Just Don't Do It (2016)
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Tachibana Miyabi is 39-years-old and she hasn't had a boyfriend in 5 years. She enjoys her life as a single woman. She is a doctor and runs her own beauty dermatology clinic. Miyabi is pretty and confident, but at her school reunion, she finds herself being pitied by others for still being single. After the school reunion, she attends a gourmet meeting at a restaurant. There, she talks about her school reunion. At that time, Seiji, the owner of the restaurant, makes a biting remark that she isn't the type popular with men. She becomes upset by the remark, but she accepts his advice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo (2013)
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At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn't that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her feelings to him, but finally has a chance to tell him how she feels. Unfortunately, Naoki turns Kotoko down, saying "I don't like dumb women." One day, Kotoko Aihara's house is severely damaged by an earthquake. Until the house is rebuilt, Kotoko Aihara and her father decide to live with her father's friend. When Kotoko Aihara moves to her new temporary house, she is surprised to learn that Naoki Irie lives there as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Emergency Couple (2014)
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Medical school student, Chang Min, and a dietitian, Jin Hee, fall in love and marry despite his family's strong opposition. When Chang Min marries Jin Hee, he gives up his medical internship to become a pharmaceutical salesman despite the fact that the rest of his family are successful doctors. Their married life is miserable as Chang Min's family looks down on Jin Hee and Chang Min begins to treat her poorly. They finally divorce and go their separate ways until they are suddenly reunited as interns working at the same hospital. Will this couple's tumultuous feelings for each other be rekindled?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, medical drama, touching, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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I Don't Love You Yet (2019)
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Mitari Yo is a career woman who works for a shoe company. She finds her work rewarding and has successfully advanced in her career. Her love life, on the other hand, isn't doing as well. Ishida Ren works for a real estate developer and is Yo’s best friend. An ex-classmate from both high school and university days, he understands her best and is the only person she pours her heart out to. On Yo’s 29th birthday, the two friends place a wager to give 300,000 yen as a congratulatory gift to the one who is the first to get married by the last day they are 30. Although they declare that it is impossible for them to fall in love with each other, this wager, as well as advances by Ren’s junior in the company and Yo’s reunion with her ex-boyfriend, lead to gradual changes in the relationship of the two best friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating
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Hooray for Love (2011)
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Hooray for Love is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Lee Bo-young, Lee Tae-sung and Jin Yi-han. It aired on MBC from July 16, 2011 to January 29, 2012 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 57 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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La Colombiana (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
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Camp (2013)
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Off the grid and miles from civilization, Little Otter Family Camp has summer fun for everyone. Parents decompress over gin and tonics while their kids run wild, and teenage counselors fall in and out of love. Mackenzie Granger is the camp owner and director. Still reeling from her recent divorce, Mackenzie is ready for a fresh start. She is running things on her own for the first time and scrambling to keep the cash-strapped Little Otter from going under.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Spirited (2010)
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Spirited is an Australian television drama series made for subscription television channel W that aired for two seasons, 2010 and 2011. The series stars Claudia Karvan, as dentist Suzy Darling, who walks away from a loveless marriage and into an old apartment block that is inhabited by the ghost of a 1980s English rock star, Henry Mallet, played by Matt King. Suzy had been married to Steve Darling, played by Rodger Corser, for 15 years, and they have two children, Elvis, 13, played by Louis Fowler, and Verity, 8, played by Charlie Hancock. Belinda Bromilow plays Suzy’s sister Jonquil.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, sincere, offbeat
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Boys Over Flowers (2005)
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Hana Yori Dango is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2005. It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, Boys Over Flowers, written by Yoko Kamio. The series is the third television adaptation of the manga following Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II in Taiwan. It also resulted in a sequel Hana Yori Dango Returns and a movie adaptation Hana Yori Dango Final. It was one of the most popular dramas of the year and won many major awards.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: touching, dorama, humorous, semi serious, sincere, sweet, captivating, entertaining, shoujo, anime
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Horimiya (2021)
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Although admired at school for her amiability and academic prowess, high school student Kyouko Hori has been hiding another side of her. With her parents often away from home due to work, Hori has to look after her younger brother and do the housework, leaving no chance to socialize away from school. Meanwhile, Izumi Miyamura is seen as a brooding, glasses-wearing otaku. However, in reality, he is a gentle person inept at studying. Furthermore, he has nine piercings hidden behind his long hair and a tattoo along his back and left shoulder. By sheer chance, Hori and Miyamura cross paths outside of school—neither looking as the other expects. These seemingly polar opposites become friends, sharing with each other a side they have never shown to anyone else.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, humorous
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Erkek Severse (2022)
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Zeynep who lives with her twin children, is divorced from Oktay whom she married with great love during her university years, because she was cheated on. Zeynep loses her faith in men and closes her heart to love. Until he met Kenan Yelda is one of the women after Kenan and she intends to carry on the business partnership they have just started with Kenan to marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Happily Ever After (2007)
Plot Summary:
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ex-gangster boyfriend (Hiroshi Abe). But as flashbacks reveal, there's a reason behind Yukie's unconditional love for her man. Yûko Natori and Mayumi Sada also star.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Glow of Fireflies (2007)
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Hotaru no Hikari is a Japanese josei manga series by Satoru Hiura. It has been adapted into 2 television drama series and a live action film that was released on 7 July 2012.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious