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Plot Summary:
Aoba Tsumugi was a second year high school student when she heard the voice of a male student during a morning assembly and was attracted to it. The male student was Sakura Sou, who was reading an essay on stage. In the third grade, Tsumugi and Sou were in the same class and slowly started dating. Their relationship deepened through their shared hobbies in music but Sou suddenly left Tsumugi and disappeared one day after their graduation. Eight years have passed since then and Tsumugi has started a new life until she happened to see Sou in the crowd. She later finds out that Sou is suffering from sensorineural hearing loss, a condition that gradually makes people deaf and Sou has almost lost his hearing. This is a sad but warm love story between two who meet again in a world without sound.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: non-linear
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Chimudondon (2022)
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Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa. She aims to become a chef drawing inspiration from Okinawan cuisine. The four siblings follow very different paths, but the memories of their hometown connect their hearts and they're able to overcome their hardships as a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: asadora
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Will You Marry Me…Again? (2012)
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Haru and Kanako have been married for four years. They don't have any children, but they both enjoy their job and are happy together. However their lives are suddenly disrupted when Kanako faints from subarachnoid hemorrhage. After the operation, it becomes evident that she has lost some of her memory...her memory of the five years with her husband. She decides to return home to her parents. Her younger brother takes care of her. Meanwhile, Haru's colleague notices that there is something troubling him. Life without his wife makes Haru realize how much his wife means to him and vows to propose to her once again.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Second Summer Never See You Again (2017)
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Satoshi, who is a high school junior, is doing something against the rules. He is forming a band. Joining him is Rin. They nonetheless perform at the school's cultural festival live in front of their fellow students. There is a mishap and Satoshi travels back in time to the moment when he met Rin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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It Was Sudden, Like a Storm (2004)
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Kozue Ogawa is a housewife and has been married to Hideo for seven years. They don't have any children, but as they live with her parents at their flower shop, every day is still lively. She is happy with her life and her husband, but she wonders if it is enough. From time to time, she is gripped by this doubt that she cannot raise with anyone. Kozue starts a part-time job in the editing department of the magazine where she used to work. Her former colleague is now working hard as the editor-in-chief. One rainy day, Kozue meets a young man. He is Takuma Fukazawa, a high school student. He seems somehow shrouded in sadness. He is a dance teacher. In the dance studio, there is just the two of them. Takuma curls his hands around Kozue's body, and his dance instruction begins. Their unexpected closeness causes Kozue to hesitate. With her heart pounding, she pushes Takuma's hands away and runs home. But the throbbing in her chest continues. It can't be. But what is this feeling?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Takane no Hana-san (2021)
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Takamine Hana is a super ace employee at a traditional confectionary company. Despite her elite look and high performance, Hana only has love skills of a fifth grader. Hana has recently fell in love with Yowaki Tsuyoshi, a young employee who always gets scolded. Can Hana make Tsuyoshi like her back? Will a love bloom between the two?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Renai Neet: Wasureta Koi no Hajimekata (2012)
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Renai Neet: Wasureta Koi no Hajimekata is a Japanese television drama series.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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The Red Apple (2023)
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The story happens in the near future of Japan, where sexual activity is forbidden by law. Inuda Hikaru is an honor student whose father is an executive at Setori (Sexual Misconduct Control Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare). Hikaru aspires to become like his father and finds sex unpleasant. Minase Yu is Hikaru's childhood friend who has a sharp tongue but excels in her grades. Yu is also a big fan of nationally known actress Uchu Misora, commonly known as Uchura. One day, Hikaru is invited by a classmate to a shady members-only club where he witnesses men and women engaging in illegal sexual acts. He is also surprised to see Uchura, who claims to be "pure" there with a man. Before he realised, Hikaru finds himself being caught in an "underworld organization" where sexual activity is performed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Minato's Laundromat (2022)
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"I want to grow up quicker, so I can date Minato-san." Minato Akira inherited his grandfather's coin laundry. And so, the middle-aged former corporate drone, Akira, peacefully ran the well-loved coin laundry. One day, a high-school student, Katsuki Shintaro, enters the coin laundry. Despite the difference in age, they quickly became friends. However, Shintaro suddenly finds out that Akira is gay.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Hold my hand at Twilight (2023)
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Soramame leaves the countryside for Tokyo in pursuit of a childhood friend and fiancé, but instead he meets a scrappy young musician, Oto. By some odd circumstance, the two end up living under the same roof. Influenced by Oto, Soramame awakens to the world of fashion while Soramame becomes Oto's muse, reviving his forsaken dream of becoming a musician. As they chase their dreams, love is sure to germinate, but it struggles to take off for these two dreamers unwittingly caught in the world's most beautiful love story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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After the Rain: Wish in a Pocket (2018)
Plot Summary:
After the Rain: Wish in a Pocket, the live-action spin off web mini-series based on the live-action film of Jun Mayuzuki's Koi wa Ameagari no You ni (After the Rain) manga, on Wednesday. The new mini-series focuses on the relationship between the characters Takashi Yoshizawa and Yui Nishida, who are supporting characters in the original story. The series maintains the same cast as the film. Hiroki Kazama is directing the series.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Unexpected - Love Story in Maison Ginseiso - (2023)
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Shitara, a man who fell from his elite life overnight. His new "place of employment", which has lost his job, house, and wife, is a boarding house?! Under one roof, a perverted love begins from the worst encounter with one of those living there!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Last Letter (2020)
Plot Summary:
It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, adaptation directed by original author
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My Lover's Secret (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Rei Okumori was in the 3rd grade of middle school, he killed his father to protect his mother Akiko. His father physically abused his mother. They buried his dead body in their yard and made it appear he went missing. Since that time, they kept they their secret and did not tell anyone. 8 years later, Rei Okumori is now a law school student and pursuing his dream of becoming a lawyer. At his law school, he meets Sawa Tachibana who hopes to become a public prosecutor. They fall in love and Rei Okumori wants to marry Sawa Tachibana. He begins to receive a message from someone that knows his secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Strula (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow Ella and Nadia who are in high school. They get to know different circles of friends, are faced with different dilemmas of love and the pressure to be able to stand up to peer pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration:
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Perfect World (2019)
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Tsugumi, who works at an interior design firm, has an unexpected encounter with her first love from high school, Itsuki, at a dinner with her client’s whole comp any, an architectural firm. Seeing Itsuki, who is a registered architect with a first-class license and is quite charming, brings back the faint memories from high school. In the middle of dinner, he quietly slips away and begins to head home, getting into a wheelchair. “You didn’t know? Itsuki was in an accident in college, and he can’t walk.” Tsugumi, her pulse racing, takes a step back and thinks to herself, “I can’t love someone in a wheelchair. It’s just not possible to date someone like that.” But when she accepts the reality of the situation and interacts with Itsuki, who struggles but fights to survive each day, she becomes overwhelmed with emotions that she has kept since her youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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This Guy Is the Biggest Mistake in My Life (2020)
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Sato Yui is a dispatched contract worker at Amagi Pharmaceutical Company. Her pet has died and she feels deep sorrow over its death. One day, she drinks alone at a bar and shouts, with tears running down her face, "Develop medicine to bring back someone to life!" At that time, a man walks towards her. He makes a spiteful remark that there is no such medicine that can bring someone back to life. He also tells her to stop barking and to go home. Yui feels anger within herself and she trips him. She then leaves the bar. Yui is unaware that the man she tripped is Amagi Kyoichi and he is the CEO of Amagi Pharmaceutical Company. The next day, Yui hears at work that the CEO is looking for her. When she gets to his office, she realizes the man she tripped in the bar is the CEO. She thinks that she might get fired, but he suddenly tells her to "Please treat me as a slave.".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Onzoshi Boys (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three high school girls are chosen among 700,000 applicants to be on the reality show “Marry the Prince”. They must find their true love in the four princes they encounter.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing
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What She Likes (2021)
Plot Summary:
An emotional coming-of-age drama centered around Andou Jun, a gay student who is not out. He accepts a confession from his fujoshi classmate Miura Sae and they start dating. However, Jun is also seeing Makoto, but fails to tell Sae about his male lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, sweet
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The Black Devil and the White Prince (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yū Akahane moves to a dormitory room after her father's transfer from work. She is excited that she will live in the same dorm as Takumi Shirakawa, aka "White Prince." Yet, Haruto Kurosaki, aka "Black Devil", kisses her as punishment for going against him. It is Yū Akahane's first kiss. Since then, she becomes obedient to Haruto Kurosaki.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, sincere, contemplative, sexy, crying, rough, hot
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Flower and the Beast (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kumi (Yurika Nakamura) is a transfer student at a prestigious high school. She meets Hyo (Yosuke Sugino) who is handsome and kind. Kumi falls in love with him and has her first kiss with him, but Hyo is famous for being a womanizer at school. After she discovers his true side, she gets hurts, but her feelings for him doesn't go away.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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My Brother Loves Me Too Much (2017)
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Setoka Tachibana is a female high school student who has confessed her feelings to other boys 12 times, but has been rebuffed each time. Her older brother Haruka Tachibana cares for his younger sister deeply, but he keeps secret from her that they are not blood related. One day, Setoka's first love Takane Serikawa appears after many years and approaches her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: shoujo, psychological, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Say 'I Love You' (2014)
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Mei Tachibana is a high school student. Due to a traumatic incident when she was a kid, Mei has been unable to make friends or have boyfriends. By mistake, Mei then injures the most popular male student named Yamato Kurosawa. Somehow, Yamato Kurosawa likes Mei Tachibana and tells everyone unilaterally that Mei is his friend. One day, Yamato Kurosawa saves Mei Tachibana from a stalker by kissing her. From that kiss, their love story begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, anime, light, sincere, shoujo, touching, captivating, romantic, romantic drama
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Coffee and Vanilla (2019)
Plot Summary:
A love story between Risa Shiroki and Hiroto Fukami. Twenty year old Risa Shiroki comes to Tokyo from her hometown in the countryside to attend university. Pretty and popular with male students, she has never had a boyfriend and dreams of having a sweet love. One day, thirty year old Hiroto Fukami appears in front of her. He is business man who appears to be gentle and looks perfect. As romance blossoms between them, Risa discovers Hiroto's dark past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: touching, enigmatic, captivating, sentimental, romantic, suspenseful, dorama
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Close Range Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
A smart high school student falls in love with her English teacher after she receives one-on-one tutoring from him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, melancholic, sincere, bleak, disturbing, shoujo, romantic drama
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Happy Marriage!? (2016)
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A rich, handsome businessman, Hokuto, proposes marriage to Chiwa, whose father has a large debt. Hokuto apparently has a secret reason for marrying Chiwa. Will this marriage work out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Is this Love Checkmate!? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a 24-year-old office worker who has neither love experience nor communication skills and a 32-year-old female shōgi player he meets on his daily commute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Seizing Love by Force, Winter (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hikari works at a design office. Her upbringing is not a wealthy one, but now she has a good job and an affectionate fiancé Kota. She is happy and feeling very much fulfilled. But, when she happens to see her ex-boyfriend Shin, once the love of her life, her relationship with her fiancé starts to fall apart... Hikari and Shin used to work for the same design office where he was her boss. They had been lovers but one day, all of a sudden, Shin left her without a word. Now, he is married to Ran. Ran’s over posses- sive manic love towards Shin makes her consumed with jealousy against Hikari. And Hikari’s fiancé Kota also finds himself suffering from his love and his jealousy... Shin’s presence is driving him slowly but steadily to the brink of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Ouran High School Host Club (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a highschool girl named Fujioka Haruhi at the prestigious Ouran Academy, who stumbles upon a group of male students who have formed their own club as hosts. Accidentally breaking an antique vase, Haruhi ends up owing the club a vast amount of money, and she ends up posing as a host in order to repay her debt.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, dorama, manga, shoujo, parody
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Hana Nochi Hare: HanaDan Next Season (2018)
Plot Summary:
The setting of the drama takes place 10 years after the F4 graduated from Eitoku Academy. Edogawa Oto is the daughter of a former company president. Her life completely changed after their family business went bankrupt. Her fiance is Hase Tenma, the popular student council president of the rival school. With declining enrollment due to a recession and the rise of a rival school, Eitoku Academy is now ruled by the Correct5 whose leader is Kakuragi Haruto. The group seeks out, then runs out, any students whose families haven’t made appropriate donations to the school. When Haruto and Oto discover each other’s secrets — that Haruto buys self-help items to get stronger, and that Oto is poor and works at a convenience store – they promise to keep each other’s secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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My Love Mix-Up! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, the girl in the seat next to him in class. But he despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she's written the name of another boy—Ida—on it. To make matters more confusing, Ida sees Aoki holding that very eraser and thinks Aoki has a crush on him!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious