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Plot Summary:
In 1930 and as a young child, Tsuneko Kohashi lives at Enshu in Shizuoka Prefecture. She has a happy life with her parents and two younger sisters. Things change after her father dies from tuberculosis. Her father asked Tsuneko Kohashi to take care of the family in his place. Due to financial difficulties, her mother Kimiko decides to move the family to Tokyo where Tsuneko's grandmother lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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Twins (2008)
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The twin girls Tajima Megumi and Ichijo Nozomi was separated at birth after their parents had divorced. Years later they meet each other. Both of them have a career within the entertainment industry. Megumi who lives in Matsue, Shimane sings in the band Shijimijiru, and Nozomi is a maiko, an apprentice geisha in Kyoto.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: asadora
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The Voice of Hope (2009)
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The story follows the 20-year-old Tsubasa who dedicates her life to her family and their shop. Her life is turned upside down when her mother who was missing came back home. To pay of her mother's debt she starts to work at a small radio station as a DJ.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: asadora
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Wakaba (2004)
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The story is about a young woman who becomes a landscape gardener following her father's wishes. Wakaba, born and brought up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, lived happily with her parents and younger brother until the Great Hanshin Earthquake shook and destroyed the city in 1995. In the disaster, Wakaba loses her father, who was an architect and moves with her mother and brother to Obi, old castle town in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, where her grandmother lives with her uncle and aunt. Living in Obi's rich natural environment, Wakaba learns that plants can heal people's hearts. She makes a resolution to return to Kobe and reconstruct the city abundant in greenery.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: asadora
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Downshifters (2015)
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A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But to their friends, they hold up a facade and explain it all with downshifting.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 40 min
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OM CITY (2015)
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OM CITY is the critically acclaimed, award-winning original series that follows the harried life of Grace (Jessie Barr), a yoga teacher in NYC, and her attempts to bring the humans of New York OM.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Step Forward (2008)
Plot Summary:
The 78th NHK Asadora is Hitomi. The series takes place in the old shitamachi area of Tokyo, and in these most recent episodes, 20-year old heroine Hitomi becomes the force around which her divorced mother, long estranged from her own father, is forced to reconcile and renew a sense of family camaraderie. This is not particularly easy, given the trifling issues and problems of modern day life that beset each of the characters, and the drama unfolds with a light comedic touch. Hitomi's upbringing is the issue that is constantly brought into focus. The family reconciliation is made possible, ironically through the death of Hitomi's grandmother. Hitomi seizes the opportunity to travel to her funeral from Sapporo. Once there, she sets out to realize her dream of becoming a dancer, all the while interfering with and disrupting her grandfather's life.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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First Penguin! (2022)
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The "first penguin" is the courageous first penguin that dives into the sea filled with enemies. Iwasaki Nodoka is a young single mother with no money, no house, and no work. While Nodoka decides that she will do anything to eat, she meets a fisherman who offers her "10,000 yen to rebuild the coast". Thus, Nodoka now carries the dreams of the local fishermen whose lives are on her shoulders. Despite her limited knowledge of the fishing industry, Nodoka does her best working with the stubborn sea men, breaks through the old common sense and customs with her boldness, and creates a revolution in the industry.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Teppan (2010)
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Teppan is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto, in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and decides to move to Osaka to start an okonomiyaki restaurant. The title word "teppan" refers to the metal surface on which okonomiyaki are cooked. The series, while interrupted by the Tohoku Earthquake, averaged a 17.2% rating, making it the fourth most popular of the Asadora dramas in the previous five years.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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Material Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
Drama about dreams, love, clothes and how we all use them to run away from who we are and towards who we should be.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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I Hate Going to Work (2019)
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A slice-of-life office drama about people who don't want to go to work that will resonate with everyday office workers.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Ever-Ready Women (1987)
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Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min
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The Kidney (2022)
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An employee of the fire department - a manipulator and a bribe-taker - is trying to get herself a kidney for a transplant. But this is not easy to do, since she lived her life in such a way that no one wants to help her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min
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SMILF (2017)
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A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: erotic, emotional, cynical, semi serious, sweet, sensual, hilarious
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The Talent Agency (2023)
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Four artist managers at a talent agency company in Jakarta call themselves agents who are very passionate about their work above their personal lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Sleepeeer Hit! (2016)
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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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Overprotected Kahoko (2017)
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College student Kahoko is the quintessential overprotected child born out of today's Japanese society. Shielded by her parents, Kahoko grew up completely pampered and became somewhat of a miraculously naive "test tube human." She is 21 years old and about to start working for a company, but she has never slept away from home, had a part time job, chosen her own clothes, or even ridden a train alone. Kahoko has had her picture taken, but she has never taken a picture herself. Now, Kahoko is about to step out of her germ-free isolation pod and into the germ-infested world. It won't be long until she realizes, "I'm different from everybody else!" She has been her mother's best friend all her life and her father can't live without her. As they become emotionally unstable from the changes that Kahoko goes through, their family begins to fall apart. That's when Kahoko herself and the people around her begin to see the strength that hides deep within.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Into The Ring (2020)
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A poor young woman decides to try her hand at civil service when she hears that a district representative position has an annual salary of 50 million won. She teams up with the newly-demoted Seo Gong Myung to penalize corrupt politicians.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, romantic, political
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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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Tall Order (2022)
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Hinako is the executive assistant to the CEO of Relation Gate, a startup company growing at breakneck speed. Apt to listen to his gut feelings, her boss bombards her day in and day out with tall orders he concocts on a whim. Life is far from chill for Hinako, who hasn't had a boyfriend in six years. She barely even has time to sit and think carefully about her future. Each long workday ends with the same toxic thought, "I find no meaning doing this!" as she clutches a beer and lets out a huge sigh.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, thrilling
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Our Dearest Sakura (2019)
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Sakura grew up on a remote island. She has a dream, which is to build a bridge on her island. In the spring of 2009, Sakura joins a big construction company. She does not hesitate to tell her colleagues about her dream to build a bridge. Sakura's determination to accomplish her dream affects the colleagues at her company.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Sakura (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sakura is a Japanese serialized morning television drama that aired on NHK from April 1 to September 28 of 2002. The series totalled 156 episodes. It chronicles the life of Matsushita Sakura, a Sansei Japanese-American living in Hawaii. She moves to a small town in Japan to be an assistant language teacher for Japanese middle-school students. The show, lasting only 15 minutes long, is on every morning except Sunday, every week. Sakura first comes to Japan living with her grandparents; later, she moves because she has to teach English to the Japanese students. There she learns many valuable lessons and makes new friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, asadora
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The Flying Publicist (2013)
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Rika Inaba is a beautiful and strong-headed director at the Teito Television Broadcasting Company. Ever since she was young, she had dreamed of becoming the best news reporter in the business, but on into her fifth year with the TV station, she finds to her dismay she's been transferred to a lighter fare, information program where she is assigned to report on the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Meanwhile, Daisuke Sorai had just reached his long-sought goal of becoming an aerobatics pilot only to injure his leg, crushing his chances at ever becoming a member of the elite Blue Impulse flying team. He gets assigned to the force's public relations desk and subsequently finds himself attached to Rika in the role of attendant. Sorai and Rika differ on just about everything; their views, their mindset. But they share one thing: their childhood dreams have been shattered and they've hit a wall in life. From there, a mutual understanding begins to germinate, drawing them toward each other and toward the discovery of a new dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic
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Today's Webtoon (2022)
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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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On the Verge of Insanity (2021)
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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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Jun to Ai (2012)
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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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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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Rita (2012)
Plot Summary:
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: funny, cynical, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, not serious, light hearted, telenovela
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Can You Hear Me? (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three friends in a low-income neighborhood find humor and hope in their lives as they grapple with bad boyfriends and their dysfunctional families.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating
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Succession (2018)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, captivating, inspirational, disturbing, tense, stylized, dark, dramatic, deep, tragicomedy
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The Bold Type (2017)
Plot Summary:
A glimpse into the outrageous lives and loves of those responsible for a global women's magazine. Their struggles are about finding your identity, managing friendships and getting your heart broken, all while wearing the perfect jeans to flatter any body type. Inspired by the life of Cosmopolitan editor in chief Joanna Coles.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: feel good, sincere, light, sentimental, queer cinema