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Plot Summary:
French chef Ken travels back in time to Sengoku period. Due to traveling through the time slip, Ken has lost his memory, but still retains his knowledge on fine cuisine. Thanks to his excellence in cuisine, Ken eventually becomes the chef to powerful daimyo Nobunaga Oda.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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I Don't Want To Be Friends With You (2020)
Plot Summary:
A high school student time travels 20 years earlier to meet her mother in her younger days. Li Jinbu and her mom have always leaned on each other. A magical journey brings Li Jinbu 20 years earlier where she meets her mother Li Qingtong and they become fast friends. Coming from different generations and having different personalities, they run into funny situations. Through their time together, Li Jinbu gets to know her mother's forbearance and bravery.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop (2001)
Plot Summary:
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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Chef: Three Star School Lunch (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hoshino Mitsuko is the talented three-star chef of famous French restaurant, La Cuisine de La reine, in Ginza, Tokyo. She has drawn attention not just from Japan but also the world for the new recipes she continuously conceives with her delicate palate and unrivalled creativity. Gourmands around the world visit the restaurant for her cuisine and there is a three-year wait for reservations. One day, trouble occurs between Mitsuko and the restaurant owner Shinoda Shogo and she is fired. She has difficulty finding a new restaurant due to Shinoda’s interference and her over-inflated pride, and ends up creating school lunches for a popular variety programme by a hotshot producer. It was believed to be something easy for Mitsuko, but she meets many obstacles and keeps failing. Moreover, this is aired on TV and made known to the world. Even so, Mitsuko does not give up and starts to create school lunches in order to hear children say her food is delicious and also regain her lost stars.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Midnight Diner (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic, contemplative, anthology
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Feast of the Gods (2012)
Plot Summary:
Feast of the Gods is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring Sung Yu-ri, Seo Hyun-jin, Joo Sang-wook and Lee Sang-woo. The series follows the fate of two girls whose identities were switched and later become rivaling chefs of traditional royal cuisine. It aired on MBC from February 4 to May 20, 2012 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:50 for 32 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Adventures in Time (2001)
Plot Summary:
Aventuras En El Tiempo is a Mexican telenovela from 2001, presented completely in Spanish, and featuring a young pre-teen girl named Violeta.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, hispanic, telenovela
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Ashi Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hayakawa Yui is a young girl whose biggest quality is to be a fast runner. She accidentally travels through time up to the Sengoku Era and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 38 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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A New Leaf (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kim Seok Joo (Kim Myung Min) is a cold, calculating lawyer who is vying to become successful at all costs. After a fateful accident causes him to lose his memory, Kim Seok Joo must rediscover who he is as a person and choose whether he will fight for justice or fall back into his old ways. Before the accident, he was engaged to the only grandchild of a wealthy family, Yoo Jung Sun (Chae Jung Ahn), but with no memory of her, he begins to fall for Lee Ji Yoon (Park Min Young), an idealistic intern at his law firm. As he regains his memories, will his heart choose new love or old greed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Silver and Gold (2017)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Nobunaga Concerto (2014)
Plot Summary:
Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda though is physically weak and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Oh! My Emperor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Luo Fei Fei, a girl from the 21st century, was transported to a mysterious world of the past -Huang Dao Guo. In the nation of Huang Dao, its leadership is rotated among the 12 constellation owners every thousand years. There, Fei Fei meets the current emperor of the nation, Bei Tang Yi, who is also the owner of the Capricorn constellation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, costume drama
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Totally Doctor Who (2006)
Plot Summary:
A look at everything Doctor Who, with exclusive behind-the-scenes clips, interviews with the programme's stars and competitions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing
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The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami (2015)
Plot Summary:
Okitegami Kyoko is a beautiful private detective who has a deep love for money. She is also known as the Forgetful Detective. Her memory is reset when she sleeps at night, which means she can strictly adhere to confidentiality requirements. She solves all her cases within a day, whatever they may be. She is the world's fastest detective! There is something really important that Kyoko must never forget, and it is written on her body with a magic pen. “I am Okitegami Kyoko, detective. My memory is reset after one day.” Meanwhile, even though Yakusuke Kakushidate has a crush on Kyoko Okitegami, he is always mistaken by her as the culprit of a case. No matter how close he gets to Kyoko, she totally forgets about him by the next day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Oh My Geum-Bi (2016)
Plot Summary:
Geum Bi is only 8-years-old, but she suffers from dementia. She is slowly losing her memory. Her father Hwi Cheol is a swindler. While taking care of Geum Bi, he learns about the preciousness of life. Jang Joo Young becomes involved with Geum Bi and Hwi Cheol.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Let Me Introduce Her (2018)
Plot Summary:
In order to live, a woman named Eun Han risks her life by going through a dangerous surgical procedure for a new face. However, due to the after-effects of surgery, she loses her memory. She tries to find the missing pieces of her memory and while suffering from a different face and not knowing about herself, Kang Woo appears in front of her. Kang Woo has been hurt as his lover left him. He suffers as his relationship with his father gets worse. Like they were destined, Eun Han and Kang Woo reunites. He becomes determined to help Eun Han find her memory. As they work together, Kang Woo slowly opens up his closed heart to Eun Han. Meanwhile, Chan Ki, the morning news anchor, lives a perfect life. However, he seems to have a dark side which no one would have ever imagined. This mystery melodrama takes people to unexpected places with unexpected people.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about different a different customer, as they find simple yet profound connections with one another based on their shared love of a particular dish.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sitcom, anthology
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Dr. Coto's Clinic (2003)
Plot Summary:
After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to get competent doctors to serve on this remote island, and the islanders are now used to traveling for hours via boat for proper medical care. Despite seeming weak and unreliable (he gets very seasick, and does not have a driving license), he wins over the skeptical islanders with his skill and dedication. Some children of the island make a flag for his clinic, but get his name wrong. Thereafter he is known by all as Koto.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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I'm Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know (2010)
Plot Summary:
Haruko lands a job in a local tutoring establishment and upon showing up for work on the first day, she discovers that she will not be teaching Japanese people, but teaching people Japanese. Her students are all foreigners who live in Japan for several reasons, and she is faced with their many questions on the Japanese Language that she'd never really thought of before.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Close to Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jo Harding is a woman who has a perfect life with her partner until a fall erases an entire year from her memory. As she struggles to piece events together, Jo discovers that her life was in fact far from perfect.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Lady & Liar (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in Shanghai's 1930's, Jiang Xin (Tiffany Tang) is a young lady who was originally an heir to a rich family, is in search to find her family. Due to an accident, Xin loses her memory, and therefore, Du Xiao Han (Yang Rong) takes the identity of Xin. While the real Jiang Xin falls into the hands of Bai Zhangjie, a powerful business man, her previous lover, Sheng Jie Wen (Tony Yang) had been searching for Xin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense
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Plot Summary:
Sanako Moriwaka (Mikako Tabe) is single and works in the accounting department of a soap company. For her job, she checks receipts and bills. Each slip that she reviews, mentions only the dollar amount and a brief reason for the expense. When Sanako Moriwaka reviews the slips, she can often discern suspicious facts surrounding the expense or even troubles in the lives of the employee.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The Girl's Speech (2015)
Plot Summary:
Haruna Tsubame, an inconspicuous high school girl, is always sensitive to people’s moods and keeps the peace in school. One day, she gets pushed to become the president of the student council by the people around her. Tsubame's encounter with a man who is a genius speechwriter, leads to a revolution in school. She struggles to change a school full of irrationality and dissatisfaction with the power of words.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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DOC - Nelle tue mani (2020)
Plot Summary:
Professor Andrea Fanti, a brilliant Head of Internal Medicine, has his life turned upside down when the father of a patient who has died in his ward shoots him in the head. Andrea survives the shooting, but loses his memory of the last twelve years of his life. When he wakes up, he struggles to recognise his colleagues, his family and the man he had become.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, intellectual, captivating, realistic, disturbing, medical drama
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Winter Sun (2016)
Plot Summary:
The winter sun; In the garden of his house on the day 7.dog twin brother, Mete and friends will witness an event that will change the whole life playing hide and seek with Efe April. The father, without telling anyone, to tell his father to see what is stored in the car. All household Efe while looking in a hurry to leave his father's home with a phone Harun al.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Queen's Classroom (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Queen's Classroom is a live-action Japanese television drama about Maya Akutsu, a new teacher at Hanzaki Elementary School who strives for perfection and punishes her students in unorthodox manners. A 12 year old student, Kazumi Kanda, has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure. A South Korean remake of the same title starring Go Hyun-jung in the lead role, was produced in 2013.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ichikei's Crow (2021)
Plot Summary:
Michio Iruma is a former lawyer. He now works as a judge in the first criminal court (commonly known as "Ichikei") of the Tokyo District Court. He is an unusual judge. To avoid issuing wrong judgements, Michio Iruma seeks out the truth in cases by performing on-site inspections by himself. Due to this, lawyers and prosecutors are afraid of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Plan B (2017)
Plot Summary:
Et si c'était possible de faire marche arrière dans le temps pour modifier le cours des événements et changer sa destinée? Et si une deuxième chance nous était offerte? Et si c'était possible grâce à Plan B - Le jour où Philippe perd l'amour de sa vie, Evelyne, il découvre une invraisemblable compagnie du nom de Plan B qui offre la possibilité de revenir dans le passé. Après un premier essai fructueux, Philippe réalise l'immense pouvoir que lui donne ce stratagème. Il voudra donc aussi s'en servir au profit de son cabinet d'avocats qu'il possède avec son associé/ami/beau-frère Patrice et pour remettre son frère André sur le droit chemin. Mais Philippe réalisera qu'un choix nouveau, aussi minime soit-il, a des répercussions aussi incontrôlables qu'insoupçonnées sur sa vie et celle des autres. Plus rien ne sera sans conséquence. Le jeu en vaut-il la chandelle? Valait-il mieux accepter son véritable destin?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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Saki (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the 2011 drama, Utsukushi Rinjin, Nakama Yukie reprises the character Saki. This time round, as Saki Amihama, she will be targeting men. With the facade of an angel, she draws men to her, only to lead them to a destructive end. Like a moth to the flame... but where is the line drawn between the saint and the devil?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Jyouou (2005)
Plot Summary:
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