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Plot Summary:
Back in his high school years, Kazama Masamune had a girlfriend four years his senior, who one day left to go study abroad. Now, six years later, Kazama hears that his girlfriend has passed away, and that she had secretly given birth to their daughter, who is now five years old. Kazama then decides to raise his daughter on his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
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Katha Ankahee (2022)
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Katha, a single parent, is in need of funds for her son's medical treatment. She comes across Viaan, who offers help but his conditions put her in an awkward situation.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
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Black Kite (2013)
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Yasu's mother passed away when he was very young and his father abandoned him. Yasu's wife, Misako, also lost both her parents when she was young. The two spend their days in happiness, watching their young son, Akira, grow up. Unfortunately, a freakish accident occurs that results in Misako sacrificing her life to protect her son. Yasu loses himself in grief and remorse, but recovers as he vows to raise his 3 year-old son as best as possible.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Come Home (2018)
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Greg and Marie have been married for nineteen years, when, seemingly out of the blue, Marie walks out on him and her three children – the last taboo of parenting.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Deep Love: The Story of Ayu (2004)
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Ayu has lost the meaning of life after she has been working as a prostitute. However, her cold life change when she meets Yoshiyuki whom she wants to help with his heart problems. The two love each other, but Yoshiyuki's father doesn't allow their feelings. Ayu goes back to prostituting only to help Yoshiyuki earn money for his operation.
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Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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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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Denei Shojo: Video Girl Mai 2019 (2019)
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Whoever plays the video with Video Girl Mai, becomes Mai's master. To grant her master's wishes, Video Girl Mai carries her orders using her femme fatale charm. She fascinates people and trifles with them, but what is her real purpose?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Unmarried Family (2001)
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Sanada plays a salariman who just lost his job. Yonekura, his wife, is a dancer who gave up her career when they got married. In the middle of family crisis, Yonekura leaves to pursue her dream. Sanada is stuck with their only son. Suzuki, his old flame -turn jet set career woman- is forced to take care of them. Will the romance spark again, now that Sanada already has family, and Suzuki has a younger man, Makoto, beside her?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Heart Beats (2021)
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When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a friend, but Tsukasa still has feelings for him. Meanwhile, Hayato becomes attracted to Tsukasa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
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Chaser Game (2022)
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Tatsuya Shindo (Keisuke Watanabe) has worked as a game creator for Dynamic Dream for the past 9 years. He dreamed of holding that job since he was a middle school student. Now, Tatsuya Shindo gets promoted to a middle management position within the company. He is excited to work in his new position as a manager, but what awaits for him are team members who are hard to deal with. A new project is also assigned to him. While working on the project, Tatsuya Shindo encounters various problems. Can he complete the project successfully?.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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Ooku (2003)
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The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord and on occasion even wield more power than their master.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Sweet Revenge (2021)
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Mariko who seems to have no luck with romance but is actually the president of a company named Sweet Revenge which helps their female clients take revenge on men who have dumped them in cruel and harsh ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: manga
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Yukionna to Kani wo Kuu (2022)
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A certain summer day, as the cicadas sing loudly. A man with no money and no place to belong tries to end his life, however is unable to take the last step. While wavering between life and death, he sees a gourmet food program on television, and realising he's never once eaten crab in his life decides that "For my last day on this Earth, I'll eat crab". Settings his sights on the wife who lives in a high-class neighbourhood that he happened across in a library, he forces his way into her home. And thus, he demands money from her, however things go in an unexpected direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological horror
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Money Crazy (2009)
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Fuutarou has always lived in poverty and hated it. Because of his past he had become obsessed with money and will do anything to obtain it.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Hitoshi Tadano, the Extraordinary Undercover Detective (2003)
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Hitoshi Tadano is an assistant manager of an advertisement company who seems to be nothing but a dull and incapable “nobody”. While most of the employees wonder why such a passive and incompetent person like Hitoshi is yet to be laid off, there is just one person who heavily relies on him as a “savior” to the company, the CEO. In fact, the “Mr. Nobody” is simply a disguise from the real Hitoshi, as he is under various special missions of the CEO to quietly carry on his “extraordinary” task to fight against the corruption of the company.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: sexy
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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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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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Yakuza Lover (2022)
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When feisty college student Yuri is attacked at a party, she's saved by Oya Toshiomi, the underboss of a yakuza syndicate. Despite her obvious attraction to him, she convinces herself that she's not in the market for a bad boy type. But when they meet again, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to him—kicking off a steamy and dangerous love affair that threatens to consume her, body and soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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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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The Real Thing (2019)
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Kazumichi Tsuji is a bored office worker in questionable relationships with two women at work. One day he meets the intriguing Ukiyo Hayama at a convenience store. However, having her in his life brings nothing but trouble.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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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
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Close Range Love (2014)
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In high school, Sakurai Haruka, Mirei and Kanata are good friends whom everyone envies. The three of them believed their relationship would remain like this forever. Then Haruka’s stepsister Ririko suddenly returns from overseas. After several years away, she has become beautiful to the extent that classmates call her “goddess”. Although Haruka has often built walls around other people, Ririko deliberately gets close to him. One night, she barges in all of a sudden and starts to cry against his chest. “I have no where to go. You’ll let me stay here, right?” Haruka is baffled by his pushy stepsister, Mirei secretly loves Haruka and Kanata has become aware of Mirei. The distance between Haruka, Mirei and Kanata who had taken it for granted that they would always be close, starts to change little by little.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, shoujo
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I'm Home (2015)
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Ieji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent five years because of an accident at his job posting. His wife of five years, Megumi and their 4-year-old son seem to wear masks. He can neither tell their facial expressions nor their emotions. He also struggles about his love for them. On the other hand, Ieji feels an attachment to his ex-wife, whom he divorced five years ago, and their daughter. What sort of days did he have in those five years which are a blank to him? Ieji sets out on a journey to find his past self with a mysterious bunch of 10 keys that he has. He becomes aware that he was a cold, career-minded man before the accident, and the persona that is gradually revealed is beyond the imagination of his present kindhearted self.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Otomen (2009)
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Otomen is a Japanese romantic comedy manga by manga artist Aya Kanno, which began in Bessatsu Hana to Yume in late 2006 and concluded on November 26, 2012. The series has been adapted into a live action TV drama. The series has been one of the best-selling shōjo properties in America, since being licensed by Viz Media. The series is also licensed in France by Delcourt and in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama
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Life (2007)
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Adapted from Keiko Suenobu's manga "LIFE," this drama delves into the dark side of high school life. The story focuses mainly on bullying, but the manga also touches on subjects such as self-mutilation, suicide, and rape. Kitano Kii stars as Ayumu Shiiba, one of the students bullied by a group of classmates led by Ayumu's former friend, Manami Anzai (Fukuda Saki).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, dorama
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Woman (2013)
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After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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The Noble Detective (2017)
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A man identifies himself as “Kizoku” ("Aristocrat") and works as a private detective for a hobby. Nobody knows his age, address or anything about his family. The actual deductions and investigations are carried out by his employees including his butler, maid and chauffeur. He only has a good time talking to the women involved in the cases. Meanwhile, Aika Takatoku works as a private detective. She competes with the Aristocrat Detective to solve cases.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Jyouou (2005)
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Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn the money, she enters the Hostess Grand Prix.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Future Diary: Another World (2012)
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This survival action series revolves around the "Future Diary," a cell phone diary that contains entries about future events. Arata Hoshino is a college student who could be the poster boy for "inertia." By chance, Arata gets his hands on a brand new type of smartphone made by the Chronos Corporation. The cell phone includes a diary application (Future Diary) that details ever-changing future events. At first, he takes advantage of the power of knowing what's going to happen in advance, but one day, the Future Diary displays the message, "Arata Hoshino dies." And thus begins a game of survival between seven people who possess the Future Diary.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking
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Friend Game (2017)
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High school student Katagiri Yuichi cares about friendship more than money because of his mother’s teachings. One day, Yuichi and his close friends, Shiho, Tenji, Makoto and Yutori, are suddenly forced to participate in a mysterious game of wits that involves a lot of money. It is supposed to be a simple game. However, friendships are unexpectedly tested under extreme conditions which triggers paranoia. The trick to clearing the game is to trust in friends. But will Yuichi and his friends choose money over friendship?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime, entertaining