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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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Country: Japan
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Plot tags: asadora
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Kaze no Haruka (2005)
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At the age of nine, Haruka moves from Osaka to Yufuin with her father Yosuke and her younger sister Asuka because Yosuke hopes to open a restaurant in the town. Her mother Yuko, however, chooses to stay in Osaka and the parents soon get a divorce. Yosuke starts running a restaurant but ends up closing it down soon after. Ten years later, Haruka supports her family by working part time while going to a junior college. Worrying about Haruka, Yuko invites her to come to Osaka and offers her a job. Although she has not forgiven her mother, Haruka decides to earn money in Osaka to help Yosuke reopen the restaurant. Through various experiences in Osaka, Haruka gradually understands her mother and grows as a tour planner with her talent for pleasing people.
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Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: asadora
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He Is My Ex-Boyfriend (2003)
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Toji, a manager of a food section in a medium-sized department store, has to put up with a tough boss that makes every day a real struggle. But things start to look up for him though when he meets a pretty elevator girl named Nao. Just as he is starting to enjoy a new-found happiness at work, a new account manager from an advertising agency visits Toji’s division, and it is none other than Toji’s ex-girlfriend from university, Makoto. Toji is surprised to see her again but Makoto treats him as if she has never met him before. Now dealing with a tough job and caught in the middle of a jealous Nao and Makoto who dumped him, things couldn’t get much worse for Toji!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Scarlet (2019)
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Born in 1937 in Osaka as the eldest daughter, Kawahara Kimiko moves to Shigaraki with her family at the age of 9. She works to support her family from a young age. Eventually, she jumps into the male world of pottery and becomes a pioneer of female ceramic arts. After marrying her husband who is also involved in ceramics and owning her own kiln, she raises her two children while struggling to create unique ware.
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Genere: Drama, Family, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
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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Here Comes the Morning (2015)
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Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of Imai Tadamasa. He was blessed with 3 children, Hatsu, Asa and Kyutaro. His eldest, Hatsu, was a traditional girl who loved to play the koto and sew. Whilst his second daughter, Asa, was an impish hoyden who loved sumo wrestling. Asa was engaged to be married to the second son of a distinguished family who ran a money changer business in Osaka, Shirooka Shinjiro. Although Asa was furious when she had first heard about the betrothal, when she met up with Shinjiro for the first time, his charisma greatly attracted her and she fell in love with him in no time.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
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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Tenka (2004)
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Genere: Drama, Romance
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Step Forward (2008)
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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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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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Toto Nee-chan (2016)
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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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Hot Springs Geisha (1968)
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A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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A Story Written with Water (1965)
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Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
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Fumiko's Legs (2018)
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When older man Tsukakoshi asks Unokichi to paint it is of his mistress, the geisha Fumiko. Tsukakoshi loves the feet and legs part of Fumiko's anatomy. The fetishism gives the art student a commission to put his talent to use.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
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The Geisha (1983)
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Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
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A Little Room for Hope (2018)
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A girl (Anna Yamada) is just 14-years-old, but she endures a difficult life. Her parents abuse her at home and she is bullied by students at her school. She doesn't have a place where she can feel comfortable. One day, the girl is kidnapped by a man (Shuhei Uesugi) wearing a mask. The kidnapper names the girl Sachi, while wishing her to be happy. For the first time, Sachi can feel happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Yell (2020)
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NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hardships together. Yuichi composes songs that became "Yells" for people all over Japan in the Showa Era (1926-1989) in which radical changes were going on. .
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: asadora
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Kurohyō: Ryū ga Gotoku Shinshō (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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Hitoshi Tadano, the Extraordinary Undercover Detective (2003)
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Hitoshi Tadano is an assistant manager of an advertisement company who seems to be nothing but a dull and incapable “nobody”. While most of the employees wonder why such a passive and incompetent person like Hitoshi is yet to be laid off, there is just one person who heavily relies on him as a “savior” to the company, the CEO. In fact, the “Mr. Nobody” is simply a disguise from the real Hitoshi, as he is under various special missions of the CEO to quietly carry on his “extraordinary” task to fight against the corruption of the company.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Money Wars (2015)
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The story begins with an inventor and entrepreneur's suicide. Despite his company being on the brink of a breakthrough he is out of money and out of time. All is lost. His son vows to put things right, but he first has to pick himself up and that is not a simple concern.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru (2019)
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Jun, a closeted gay teenager who loves Queen, starts a relationship after bumping into his classmate, Sae, and sees her buying "yaoi" manga. However, Jun suffers a lot when he tries to learn to be straight.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, sweet
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Mother (2010)
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Mother is a Japanese television drama that aired on Nippon TV between 14 April and 23 June 2010, starring Matsuyuki Yasuko.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspense, realistic, captivating, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Seven Women in Prison (2017)
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Kamiwatari Kotone is a geisha in Kyoto. While she is sleeping after a night of drinking, her fellow geisha is killed. Kotone Kamiwatari is falsely accused of her murder and is sent to prison. There, she is bullied by other prisoners, but Kotone relies on her training from senior geishas to persevere. She also learns why she was framed for murder and sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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
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Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, thrilling
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14-year-old Mother (2006)
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Miki Ichinose is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic relationship with Satoshi Kirino who is 15-years-old. They keep their relationship a secret from their parents because Miki is young and Satoshi is expected to excel in school and get into a university so he can take over the family business by his overbearing mother. One night, after a date, they sneak into a treehouse and consummate their relationship. Soon after, Miki suspects that she is pregnant and steals a pregnancy test, which her mother later finds. She is taken to a doctor who confirms her pregnancy. Initially upset, Miki's parents promise they will support her. Miki tells Satoshi of the pregnancy and he takes the news well. However, his mother is furious when she learns of it and forbids the two from seeing each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Shinzanmono (2010)
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Shinzanmono is a detective Japanese television drama, part of the Spring 2010 season of the Japanese TBS Network. It is based on the latest novel in the "Kyoichiro Kaga" series by mystery author Keigo Higashino and is set and filmed in the Ningyo-cho area of Nihonbashi, Tokyo. This series was followed by a special "Akai Yubi" aired on January 3, 2011 and a feature film The Wings of the Kirin, released on January 28, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mother Game (2015)
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Kanbara Kiko is a divorcee and raises her 5-year-old son alone. To open a box lunch food store, she moves to her grandfather's house. She tries to enroll her son Haruto into nursery school there, but a person in charge of the district office tells her Haruto can't attend immediately. Kiko, busy to open her box lunch food store by next month, finds herself in a predicament with her son not having supervision by then. At this time, a director of a kindergarten school, Fune Naraoka, talks to Kiko.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Tomorrow, Mom Won't Be Here (2014)
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There are over 600 orphanages across the nation, housing approximately 30,000 children; Most of them had been abused by their parents. Maki, was placed into the orphanage "Kogamo no Ie", after her mother, Ryoka, was arrested and jailed. There she was handed over to the care of Kana, and also Sasaki, the eccentric caretaker of the home. Under Sasaki's management, the home is a calm and safe haven from all the madness of the real world. At the home, Maki befriends 3 other little girls, who all go by their nicknames instead of their real names. Piami who plays the piano really well, Bombi who came from a very poor family, and Post, who is the leader of all the kids.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, suspenseful, tear jerker, tearjerker
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I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper (2011)
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Kaseifu no Mita is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. The story revolves around a family who is grieving over their mother's recent suicide. They hired Mita as a housekeeper to upkeep the house, which has been thrown into disarray. Mita, who is played by actress Nanako Matsushima, will do anything that her employer orders her to do, except smiling or revealing her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, 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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Carnation (2011)
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Carnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October 2011 to 31 March 2012. It is the 85th Asadora. It is based on the life of the fashion designer Ayako Koshino in Kishiwada, Osaka. Ayako was the mother of the internationally famous designers Hiroko Koshino, Junko Koshino, and Michiko Koshino.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, asadora, stylized