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Plot Summary:
Kokoro Kurosawa used to be a contender for the Olympic Judo Team, but she had to give up on her dream due to an injury. In the end, she ends up working at weekly manga magazine "Vibes." The publishing industry is going through a turbulent time due to ebooks. Members of the editorial department struggle to come up with ways to sell more manga books. She learns about editing from her senior editors and becomes fascinated with the edition world, interacting with manga writers, and discovering new manga artists. But what surprises her the most is that in a competitive world such as manga publishing, not all dreams come true, and even when they do, they come with a price.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, manga, seinen
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Chief Kim (2017)
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Kim Gwan-Chul used to work as an accountant, but now he works as a chief for a company. He is man who follows his principles and uses common sense. He also stands up for those in weaker positions.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, dorama
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Attention Please (2006)
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Yoko, a sort of modern tomboy, almost by chance gets her sights set stubbornly on becoming a Cabin Attendant (CA), a type of woman the men are all fond of, but a role which is completely out of character for her. (This is a drama about young people including a girl who wishes to work on the stage of big sky) The headstrong Yoko Misaki (Aya Ueto) is a boyish girl who loves rock’n roll but hates dishonesty and has never once worn high heels. A chance comment by one of her friends causes her to aim for the job of a cabin attendant on an airline, which is completely out of character. Although she also feels the work is not up her alley, Yoko starts to prepare for the entrance examination with vigor, exhibiting her inborn never-say-die spirit and miraculously passing the examination. Naively assuming that she would immediately become a cabin attendant upon passing the test, Yoko of course has stiff training awaiting her.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, dorama, offbeat
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Ready for Start (2016)
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Based on writer Lee Hyeon-min's original web-toon which had more than 1 million views a day when it was published on Naver, this black comedy is about the daily lives of employees in an advertisement agency and their competitive working environment.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 8 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Blue Flame (2014)
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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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Special Honors (2017)
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Laura, 21, is determined to earn her High school diploma, just like anyone else. Except Laura is a bit different. She has Down syndrome. As she faces her own difficulties, she must also deal with the doubts of her loved ones and the occasional cruelty of her peers. Overcoming challenge after challenge between emotion and laughter, Laura battles for every inch of an opportunity that life tries to keep from her. Like a movie in which disability brings a fresh perspective on life challenges and the pursuit of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Caution, Hazardous Wife (2017)
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Nami Isayama met a man through a blind date and married him. She and her husband moved to a quiet, exclusive residential area. Nami is now a housewife and she decides to take cooking classes. She meets other housewives at the cooking class and receives tips from them, while becoming friends. Nami surmises that one of the housewives in her cooking class is the victim of domestic violence. Nami decides to save the victim by herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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True Law (2012)
Plot Summary:
True Law is a Polish legal drama television series directed by Maciej Migas and featuring Agnieszka Dygant as the title character, Agata Przybysz. It premiered on TVN on 4 March 2012. The plot is set in Warsaw.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, hilarious
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Brews Brothers (2020)
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Two rival brothers must work together to keep their brewery in business, but shenanigans keep foaming up their company with chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Pepper Dennis (2006)
Plot Summary:
Pepper Dennis is a comedy-drama television series.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, sexy, realistic
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The Night Shift (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three men working at a petrol station in Reykjavik battle boredom, strange visitors and their own customers.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious, captivating, light, offbeat, realistic
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Porters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Deluded Simon Porter, dreams of becoming a doctor - but he has to start from the bottom and be a porter. His plan? Work his way up to be the best porter the NHS has ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Miss Pilot (2013)
Plot Summary:
Haru Tezuka's parents run a bar in Kamata, Tokyo. She is honest and bright, but she can't lie which sometimes causes her to get in trouble. Haru finds it difficult to get a job. Haru then notices an application guideline from airline company ANA (All Nippon Airways). Haru, who never thought of working in the airline industry, decides to take a test for the airline company. She first attends a company presentation by ANA. There, she sees elite persons who have dreamed of becoming pilots for lengthy periods of time and airplane enthusiasts. She becomes overwhelmed by them. Haru is indecisive about whether she wants to go through with it, but she manages to barely pass her test. Now, Haru wants to become a pilot, but what awaits for her is harsh training.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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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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The Agency (2020)
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Dicle finds herself in an agency when she comes to Istanbul dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. There’s only place for stars, ego wars, greed, fame, money, hope and disappointment here. As Dicle struggles to exist in this glamorous world without losing her way... Her broken family ties start to bleed again. Her father who abandoned them before she was born is now one of the sharks of the industry and they are working in the same agency. And the magical lights of cinema start to shed light on Dicle’s first love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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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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The American Embassy (2002)
Plot Summary:
The American Embassy is an American drama series that aired on Fox from March to April 2002. The series was created by James D. Parriott, and executive produced by Danny DeVito.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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On the Verge of Insanity (2021)
Plot Summary:
It follows the story of middle-aged office workers struggling to survive in a turbulent workplace.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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I Do, I Do (2012)
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I Do, I Do is a 2012 South Korean romantic-comedy television series, starring Kim Sun-a, Lee Jang-woo, Park Gun-hyung and Im Soo-hyang. It is about a successful shoe designer in her late 30s whose career is sidetracked when she accidentally gets knocked up. The series aired on MBC from May 30 to July 19, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, dorama
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Jun to Ai (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jun to Ai is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on October 1, 2012 and was broadcast until March 30, 2013. It is about a girl named Jun Kanō, raised in Miyakojima, Okinawa, who moves to Osaka to work in a hotel. There she meets a man named Itoshi Machida, with whom she falls in love. It is the 87th NHK Asadora.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, asadora
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Battleground (2012)
Plot Summary:
Battleground is a mockumentary comedy-drama television series created by J. D. Walsh streamed on Hulu. The show follows a group of political campaign staffers working to elect a dark horse candidate to the U.S. Senate in the battleground state of Wisconsin. Walsh serves as executive producer alongside Hagai Shaham and Marc Webb. The show marks Hulu's first foray into original scripted programming. It premiered online on February 14, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film, fake documentary
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Gokusen (2002)
Plot Summary:
Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it. Eventually in the story, the students found out that she is different from other teacher and earned their respects. They called her Yankumi.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, dorama, anime, josei
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Call My Agent! (2015)
Plot Summary:
TV mini-series about a French talent agency.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light, captivating, suspense, satirical, biting, alternative comedy
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The Restaurant with Problems (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tamako works for a company in the restaurant business. She experiences betrayal from Makoto, a chef she recently hired. Rumors then spread at work about her. Tamako decides enough is enough and quits her job. She decides to open a restaurant and run it from a woman's perspective. Tamako soon learns that Makoto has opened a luxurious restaurant across the street from her modest restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Dignity of Special Temporary Staff (2007)
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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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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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Leap Year (2011)
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After being laid-off from their corporate day jobs, Aaron, Bryn, Derek, Olivia and Jack compete to get their businesses off the ground when a mystery benefactor promises to invest $500,000 in one of their startups.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, inspirational, realistic, semi serious
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A.U.S.A. (2003)
Plot Summary:
A.U.S.A. is an American sitcom television series that aired in 2003 on NBC, starring Scott Foley.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, 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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The Full Throttle Girl (2011)
Plot Summary:
Devoted to becoming an international lawyer, Ayukawa Wakaba is full of ambition. Her hard work pays off when she lands a job at an international law firm, but to her disappointment, the first prestigious assignment that is given to her is to babysit the boss' 5 year old daughter, Hinata. Wakaba loathes kids and nursing, but unwillingly takes on the job as she is fixated on wealth and success. One day when she goes to a preschool to pick up Hinata, she meets a man named Yamada Sota. Sota is a man without higher education, wealth, or a future goal, someone that Wakaba absolutely cannot stand, the complete opposite of her ideals. Once again, contrary to her will, she ends up looking after Hinata and a few other kids along with Sota. Despite being exhausted from all the first-time experiences in child care, Wakaba begins to realize what is truly important to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic
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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