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Plot Summary:
Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase “Congratulations! I’m here to call on you” although it is hard to say how this can be a happy occasion, and watch over the dying. To a grim reaper, persuading people attempting to commit suicide and preventing unforeseen deaths is also an important task. But because #413 is new to this grim reaper work, he has a tendency to lean towards humans in his judgments, break the rules of the nether world and get reprimanded by his superior.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, anime, manga, grim
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Decline and Fall (2017)
Plot Summary:
Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, period drama
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Hell Teacher Nube (2014)
Plot Summary:
Meisuke Nueno (Ryuhei Maruyama) is the homeroom teacher of a 2nd grade 3 class in high school. He is referred to as Nube. He sometimes carries himself as an idiot, but he does care about his students a lot. He also has a hidden side. Meisuke Nueno has a demon's hand. He solves monstrous case and fights desperately to save students from monsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: manga, anime
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My Little Nightmare (2012)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful and young, Ayami has a solid reputation as a dedicated and reliable elementary teacher, but her true character is solely clandestine. Ayami does not believe in love and trust, and her values make her oblivious to other people's matters. Almost devious, she is always scheming so she never has to deal with responsibility and troubles that spur around her. One day, a new student Yuiko enrolls in her homeroom class. It does not take long for Ayami to find out that Yuiko has an ability to predict the future through the dreams she sees in her sleep; dreams which are symbolic and require proper interpretation to understand the upcoming occurrences. But when Yuiko begins to have nightmares of people around them, Ayami, though unwillingly, must team up with Yuiko to try to change the tragic fate of those around them... But can they properly assess what Yuiko's nightmares truly mean and change what may already be destined?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, offbeat
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The Golden Monk (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a monk who realizes he is the reincarnation of Golden Child / Taming Dragon Lohan who was cast down from heaven to experience life and death one hundred times as he broke a sacred rule by falling in love with another fairy, Jade. While Golden Child’s memories were erased, Jade refused to forget their love and accumulated goodwill over one hundred reincarnations….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic, scenic
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River's Edge: The Ohkawabata Detective Agency (2014)
Plot Summary:
Muraki works for a small detective office situated in downtown Tokyo. He takes frequent naps in between cases, during which he often have dreams with premonitions of his next client's case. Their clients come up with strange requests that sometimes seem impossible to solve.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Wise and Foolish (2015)
Plot Summary:
All of a sudden, Prime Minister Taizan and his carefree son Sho find their bodies switched around. They have no idea why nor how to turn back. Now Sho has to attend the Diet as Prime Minister. He cannot even read the words as he speaks as Prime Minister...but the diet members and the people are gradually moved by his straightforward opinions and things begin to change... Meanwhile, Taizan, the Prime Minister, is now a college student undergoing numerous job interviews. But he cannot pass the interview. And things become more confusing as he meets Sho’s ex-girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Kaibutsu-kun (2010)
Plot Summary:
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
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, sitcom
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Blue Flame (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1980's, Moyuru is a student at an art school in Osaka. He is full of passion and desire in his pursuit to become a manga writer. He also doesn't lack confidence in his abilities. Morinaga Tonko is Honoo's senior at school and the manager of the badminton team which Honoo belongs to. Right before summer vacation, Moyuru makes a decision. He decides to take his manga manuscripts to a publishing company in Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, anime, manga, seinen, shounen
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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (2012)
Plot Summary:
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. Park’s Clinic (2022)
Plot Summary:
Since young, Dr.Park worked and studied really hard to become a successful doctor. After he gets the license, he opens a clinic of his own, but struggles between the art of medicine and his business ability in a clinic without patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Wedding Bells (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Wedding Bells is an American television comedy-drama that ran on Fox from March 7 to April 6, 2007. The series was greenlighted after the network became interested in a series centered on wedding planners. The network approached David E. Kelley to create the show, and he essentially remade a rejected pilot he created for ABC in 2004 entitled DeMarco Affairs which starred Selma Blair, Lindsay Sloane and Sabrina Lloyd as three sisters who inherit a wedding planner service. Though the show had a moderately strong premiere, it faded in the ratings and was cancelled after seven episodes had been produced and five episodes were aired.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice about pointing out her boss' mistakes. Her job is to investigate any wrongdoings in the bank branches. She is the voice of the suppressed staff who are unable to go against their bosses. Her partner is the veteran staff, Soma Ken, whose career with the bank had reached a dead end, no promotions in sight. Together, they resolve all the non-compliance issues at the bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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MPD: Animal Unit (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tomozo Sudo is a detective. Due to an incident, he is excluded from investigative work. He is then assigned to work in a division responsible for taking care of animals whose owners are suspects or missing. Keiko Usuki is a police constable and works in the same division. She loves animals more than humans. Keiko develops inferences from clues from animals left behind at crime scenes. Tomozo and Keiko work together to solve cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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God's Favorite Idiot (2022)
Plot Summary:
Clark Thompson, a midlevel tech-support employee, finds love with co-worker Amily Luck at exactly the same time he becomes the unwitting messenger of God. Also, there's rollerskating, a lake of fire and an impending apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, funny, sitcom
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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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Ghost Doctor (2022)
Plot Summary:
A genius doctor who's the star doctor at a hospital falls into a coma. As his spirit leaves the body, he meets a 20-year old ghost doctor with great skills who once helped him process a surgery.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, entertaining, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, medical drama
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My Ambulance (2019)
Plot Summary:
Peng, an emergency room resident and Tantawan have been in love for 15 years. Tantawan, who owns magical power, starts to doubt whether Peng still loves her. One day, they met a traffic accident and Tantawan is seriously injured. When she wakes up, she loses all her memories. Unbeknownst to her, the truth about the accident was hidden... A young warm-hearted intern, Chalam appears in her life and reminds her of the same feeling she once had for Peng. While her magical power with Peng has been weakening, Chalam has started to have the magical power leading to her confusion- who is the one for her. During this time, Peng also meets a new girl, Bami, who has a crush on Peng and comes to the hospital as an ambulance driver to get closer to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Bla Bla Baby (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a freak accident, a nursery school janitor finds out he can now understand babyspeak.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Prison School (2015)
Plot Summary:
5 male students enrolls at a school that has all female students. The boarding school was formerly an all-girls high school until the new school year. The student council then places the 5 male students in a place known as the prison on charges that they were peeping on the girls in the showers. The 5 male students struggle to escape from the prison. ~~ Based on the manga series with the same name by Hiramoto Akira.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sexy
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Cooking with Valkyries (2019)
Plot Summary:
Join the table with Valkyries this summer for a feast of mouth-watering food and heartwarming memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy
Country: China, Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Work Matters (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional office faces hilarious obstacles in this Hungarian rendering of "The Office".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Dignity of Special Temporary Staff (2007)
Plot Summary:
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has something painful to hide. Satonaka Kensuke has just been promoted to head S&F's new Marketing Division. Saddled with a rag-tag group of subordinates, he is struggling to lift his division off the ground. When Oomae is placed in Kensuke's department, she finds herself doing more work than she's ever done before. This is a timely drama that examines the different attitudes toward temp workers and regular employees, and the ways to overcome frictions in interpersonal relationships. This follows an October report on labor conditions by the Labor Ministry, which showed that, after regulations were relaxed, the proportion of regular employees to Temps had doubled compared to that of eight years ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Smoking Room (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Smoking Room is a British television sitcom written by Brian Dooley, who won a BAFTA for the series in 2005. The first series, consisting of eight episodes, was originally transmitted on BBC Three between 29 June and 17 August 2004. The Christmas Special was first transmitted on 20 December 2004. A second series of eight episodes began airing on 26 July 2005. The first series, including the Christmas Special, was released on DVD by the BBC on 6 February 2006 and on CD in a four-disc set on 4 April 2005. The second series was released on 16 October 2006; a boxed set containing both series was released on the same date. There will not be a third series; in an interview for the BBC News website on 30 November 2006, the actor Robert Webb who plays Robin, said in passing, "...there is no more Smoking Room". England's smoking ban, which prohibits indoor smoking in workplaces, came into force on 1 July 2007, as a result of which internal smoking rooms, like the one in which the series is set, became illegal.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Bloods (2021)
Plot Summary:
When tough-acting loner paramedic Maleek is paired with over-friendly divorcee Wendy, their partnership looks dead on arrival. But pretty soon they're giving each other life support.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom
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The Jake Effect (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Jake Effect is an American NBC situation comedy starring Jason Bateman, Nikki Cox, and Greg Grunberg. Seven episodes were produced to premiere in midseason of 2002, but NBC cancelled the series before a single episode aired. In 2006, Bravo started airing the series on the "Brilliant But Cancelled" block.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store tells the story of part-time convenience store worker Matsukoma, and the new part-time worker, Tomoharu Nii, nicknamed Nietzsche-sensei. Despite Matsukoma’s enthusiastic approach to his job, his teachings are lost on Nietzche-sensei, who, much like his namesake, has a bleaker outlook on things.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mastram (2020)
Plot Summary:
Series is about a reluctant pornographic writer Rajaram a small-town bank clerk who aspires to be a litterateur, is inspired by the anonymous author of popular pulp fiction and sex stories in Hindi. His litterateur aspirations are supported by none except his wife Renu. He leaves his job to become a full-time writer, but cannot find a publisher for his book. One publisher agrees only if he would add sensational elements or masala to his dull tale. He gets successful however all credits are attributed to Mastram, not Rajaram. Mastram has been a vital part of adultery content in the 80s. Where youngsters don’t have the privilege as today where many websites are stuffed sexual conveyance on the internet and easily accessible with mobile & laptop. As most of the people have seen the 2014 feature film, which pretty famous for steamy scenes & songs like ACHKO – MACHKO sung by Honey Singh. Now will be interesting to see what maker of web series has something to offer different.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: sexy, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Special Labor Inspector Jo (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jo Jin-Gab was once a promising judo athlete. He protested against corruption at a game and he was kicked out of the sport. After that, Jo Jin-Gab became a gym teacher. Again, he could not control his anger against the son of the school's chairman. Jo Jin-Gab was once again kicked out of his profession. Jo Jin-Gab then successfully pass the exam to become a public officer. Working as a public officer, he does not have to worry about being kicked out of his job. He tries to live peacefully, but he is then transferred to work as a labor inspector at the Ministry of Employment and Labor. Facing many people who wield their power unjustly, Jo Jin-Gab reverts back to his old self.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Danda Rin - The Labour Standards Inspector (2013)
Plot Summary:
Labor Standards Inspectors... are you aware of their existence? For the sake of the 52 million actively employed people across the nation, the government had set up this body to help ensure that there is safety at workplaces. Danda Rin, is an example of a very diligent and strict inspector. She doesn't compromise when it comes to the rules. The story opens with the transfer of Danda Rin to the new Labor Standards Inspector office. "She had caused her boss at her ex-office to go bald!!" is the rumor that accompanies her to her new office. Danda Rin is someone who doesn't do things in half measures, which is totally unlike the laidback male colleagues in the office. "Unpaid overtime", "Managers in name only", "Power harassment by managers"; these are all the things she fights against!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, detective
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Love Strikes! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Moriyama plays a temp worker who has never had any luck with women. One day, he suddenly starts getting invitations from several beautiful women, and he finds himself confused about how to deal with this new experience of having a "moteki" (a period when one is very popular and attractive to others).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sexy, seinen