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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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The Most Difficult Love in the World (2016)
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Reiji is young CEO of a first-class hotel. He is single and 34-years-old. Even though he has a good appearance and wealth, women eventually leave him because of his personality. He is generous with himself, but strict with others. For the first time, Reiji falls in love with someone. Her name is Misaki. Hoping to gain her love, he begins to change.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Career (2016)
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On the day the new Chief of Staff arrived at Kitamachi Station, the officers here prepared to welcome him. At that time, a bus was hit by a man with a knife and robbed the passengers in the car. Newcomer Aikawa Minori was kicked out by a passenger when he tried to board the bus. She followed the bus by taxi, but the bus headed straight towards Kitamachi. For some strange reason robbers came to the station to present themselves. Minori then handcuffed her who prevented her from performing her duties. But the man she handcuffs to is the new Sheriff, Toyama Kinshiro.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Blanket Cats (2017)
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Shiina Hideaki has been searching for new owners for the cats that his late wife had reared, together with his childhood friend Fujimura Misaki, who is a vet. Hiromi who wants to be given a cat that will be a substitute for the pet that her grandmother had loved, comes to visit. After inspecting Hiromi’s house, Hideaki hands her a blanket together with a cat. Hiromi is relieved that her grandmother is happy to be reunited with the cat. However, this time, she brings up her desire to meet Hiromi’s fiance. (source: jdramas.wordpress.com) ~~ Based on the collection of short stories "Blanket Cats" by Shigematsu Kiyoshi (published from March to September, 2003).
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
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Dirty Mama! (2012)
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Nagasaku will play the part of Takako, a police detective and a single mother of a child who will soon turn 1 year old. She is described as “dirty” because she doesn’t mind taking bribes or leaking information if it is to her own advantage. The series depicts her battles with the child’s irresponsible father, her police colleagues who only think of protecting themselves, and the criminals in the cases she handles. Karina (27) will play a trainee detective whom Takako partners with.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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School Teachers (2001)
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Sentaro Sakuragi (Tsuyoshi Domoto) moves to Tokyo from Osaka. He works now as an substitute elementary school teacher, in place of another teacher on maternity leave. Sentaro hopes to turn his class into the best class in all of Japan. Meanwhile, Sentaro lives in a ramen shop owned by Choichiro Asakura (Chosuke Ikariya). Choichiro is a conservative person but kind. One day Choichiro's second daughter Motoko (Yuko Takeuchi) rides the subway and notices a rude female high school student. The girl sits near a pregnant and doesn't offer to give her seat to her. Motoko then asks the female student to her seat to the pregnant woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 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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Sanbiki no Ossan (2014)
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Kiyokazu (Kinya Kitaoji) retires from the company where he worked for many years. He will begin a new job as a temp at a game center affiliated with his former company. After finishing his last day of work, he goes home. To celebrate his 60th birthday, his wife Yoshie (Yoshiko Nakada), son Kenji (Masahiro Komoto), daughter-in-law Takako (Naomi Nishida) and grandson Yuki (Takuro Ohno) are there waiting for him. Something causes Kiyokazu to become angry and he leaves home.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 56 min
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Ochanomizu Rock (2018)
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Hajime (Ryuji Sato) and Ryo (Toshiyuki Someya) are brothers. They hoped to perform at the Budokan one day, but, after their mother died, they went their separate ways. Years later, the 5 member band Daidarabotchi decides to do a live performance. The group was formed by Hajime. A week before their live performance, their vocalist suddenly quits. Hajime, who plays the guitar, takes over on vocals. He aims to perform at Budokan and hoping to be recognized by his older brother Ryo. (taken from asianwiki).
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Fukigen na Gene (2005)
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Yoshiko Aoi is a budding researcher in ethology, the study of animal behavior. "Men=male" are born unfaithful. But through her studies, Yoshiko learns it's not the males' fault. Rather, it's the fault of their genes, who work to replicate themselves by controlling the males' body. This is the sad, but commonly accepted theory of biology. What's even sadder is that Yoshiko's nickname is "Gene," because her name written in Chinese characters can also be read as "Jinko/Geneko." The love story follows Yoshiko's struggles with research and romance. -- Fuji TV.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Life as a Girl (2018)
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Miki Ogawa (Jun Shison) yearned to live the life of a lovely girl and moved to the city from the countryside because of this. She holds a job at a fashion mail order company. Miki Ogawa also has a secret. She is transgender. Although, she has a pretty woman's appearance, her gender is male. One day, Tadaomi Goto (Keita Machida) appears in front of Miki Ogawa. They graduated from the same school. Tadaomi Goto is flustered by Miki's different appearance, but they happen to live together.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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My Boys (2009)
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Atashinchi no Danshi is a Japanese drama produced by Fuji Television starring actress Maki Horikita. The producer, director, and screenwriter for the series consists of the same team that created the successful 2007 drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. The series ran from Tuesday, April 14 to June 23, 2009, in the 9:00 PM time slot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama
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Rebound (2011)
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After a failed relationship, Nobuko puts her all into dieting and finds success. She begins to work for her favorite fashion magazine, and just when her new life is falling into place she meets Taiichi, a handsome patissier. However, when Nobuko eats cakes, she can't stop - moreover, if she gains weight, she'll be fired. In the end, will Nobuko rebound...?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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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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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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Deceiving Idol (2012)
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The story revolves around the 38-year-old Shijimi Usa (Watanabe), who is a high school classical literature teacher. Her students are mean to her, but they do not realize that she has another identity. Outside of school, she lies about her age to be active as the super popular 17-year-old Idol Singer Mayu Watanabe, whom the students adore. The show aired on TV Tokyo on Fridays starting from January 13, 2012 to April 7, 2012 with 12 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama
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Do It Yourself!! (2023)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
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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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Nanba MG5 (2022)
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Born in a family of delinquents, Nanba Tsuyoshi is expected to succeed as the strongest delinquent in school. Unbeknownst to his family however, he decides to enroll in the top high school in town to live as a normal high schooler. Can he maintain his double life as the strongest delinquent in town and as a normal high schooler?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot (2018)
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In the 1980s, a simple-minded fool named Hideaki meets comedy legend Sanma, changes his name to Jimmy and becomes a comedic superstar.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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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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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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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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Babysitter Gin! (2019)
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Babysitter Gin Shimochiai's wish is to deliver love to children and parents! Gin, a man dressed as an English maiden inspired by her childhood nanny and the story of Mary Poppins, established a babysitting agency solving the problems of parents from different families in his own way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, light, absurd
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Yamegoku - I Will Quit Yakuza (2015)
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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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Kaibutsu-kun (2010)
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Tells the story of the prince of the land of monsters. As part of his training to succeed the throne, he visits the human world, where he has various adventures with other monsters.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, sitcom
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Becoming Mother (2017)
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In the spring, when Kashiwazaki Yui and her 3 years old son were coming back home from kindergarten, she let go of her son's hand for a moment and then he was gone. 9 years later, her son appears in front of her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Detarame Hero (2013)
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Kuzumi Kenta is a lowlife moocher whose tendency to always do absolutely nothing because he thinks doing anything is troublesome, is a sure sign that he is NOT a hero. However, upon eating mysterious candy, Kenta discovers that his physical strength and sensory abilities are increased tenfold for exactly ten minutes. When a police officer, his best friend Tanba Shuiji, discovers this ability, Kenta is forced to use his newly found abilities for good.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Teddy Go! (2015)
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Kazuko Yamase is a 23-year-old, broken-hearted freeter. One day, she sees a knitted teddy bear that really appeals to her. She decides to buy it. Later, the knitted teddy bear suddenly speaks! Within the teddy bear, Yasuo Amano's spirit lives. He is the person who knitted the teddy bear and he was also detective. Kazuko then becomes involved in a case with Yasuo and helps to solve the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective
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Priceless (2012)
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Originally a mid-level manager (Kimura Takuya) with a promising future in a big corporation and loved by his subordinates, the life of this elite employee changes dramatically one day. Having for some reason attracted the attention of the senior management, he is framed for a crime which he knows nothing of and forced out of the workplace. Even after that, he is assailed by a series of surprises and in one day, he loses his house, wealth and handphone until he is without a cent to his name. At his wits end, he comes to a park where he encounters two children. Learning from them how to survive even if he does not have money, he somehow weathers this crisis and discovers the truly important and priceless things in life. The good thing about him is that his carefree personality amazingly does not shift. It is not resentment and bitterness that become his driving force, but the love and help of the people he meets that enables him to keep go forward step by step.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Reason I Can't Find My Love (2011)
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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:
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious