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Midnight Diner (2009)
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.
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Netflix
80
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7.8
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3.7
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La Grande Maison Tokyo (2019)
Determined to attain three stars, a middle-aged female chef teams up with a disgraced Michelin-starred chef to start a new restaurant together.
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Solitary Gourmet (2012)
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
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Netflix
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7.0
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Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love (2024)
After a painful breakup, Miu vows to focus on art and avoid love — until an encounter with an aloof, charming artist stirs her deepest instincts.
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002)
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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7.3
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Shitamachi Rocket (2015)
Tsukuda Kohei was once a researcher with the Aerospace and Science Exploration Agency and now runs Tsukuda Industries, a small factory which was left by his father. Although his relationship with his teenage daughter Rina is somewhat strained, business at Tsukuda Industries has gradually started to improve. But Tsukuda puts too much effort into his dream of developing a rocket engine and business declines little by little. One day, a major client suddenly declares that it is dropping Tsukuda Industries. Then, Tsukuda Industries gets sued by a big rival company, Nakashima Industries, for patent infringement. Tsukuda Industries’ reputation is hurt and financing from banks is also in a desperate situation. In the midst of this, Teikoku Heavy Industries, one of Japan’s leading corporations, offers to buy a patent which Tsukuda Industries possesses for 2 billion yen
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Netflix
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Two Husbands One Wife (2025)
When a man's ex suggests a three-person marriage with her boyfriend, the trio face jealousy, social stigma and intimacy issues in their unique setup.
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The Crimes of Those Women (2023)
Elegant in appearance, fulfilling in her career. Yet, she struggles with romantic relationships, longing for love. Married to a high-profile doctor, residing in an upscale residential area. Living like a servant, however, she yearns for freedom. Burning with ideals, assigned to the coveted criminal investigations division. But torn by a sense of duty, she seeks justice. Mistress, housewife, detective. Are they enemies, allies, or perhaps…? One after another, their secrets and hidden sides are revealed. Cracks begin to form in perfect crimes, and the truth behind the incidents comes to light. Their longing for "ordinary happiness," each envisioned in their own way, drives them to madness. A thrilling suspense.
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Muyoan Retirement Training (2017)
The main character, Hanbei Hinata, who plays Mizutani, is a direct hatamoto guardian who guards Edo Castle. While working honestly on that mission, he became disgusted by a colleague who only thought about his career advancement, and soon he abandoned all his desires and began to think about a retired life
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Bukatsudo (2010)
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Akinai Seiden: Kin to Gin (2023)
Set in the mid-Edo period, this drama follows Sachi, who works as an apprentice at the Osaka Tenma kimono merchant Isuzuya and strives to carve a way to success despite the challenges she faces.
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Isn’t It a Ripoff?: The Job of a New Member of the Intellectual Property Department (2023)
Fujisaki Aki is an employee at "Tsukiyono Drink", a medium-sized beverage manufacturer. She has been transferred to the Intellectual Property Department, that is in charge of managing intellectual property rights. Together with her superior, Kitawaki Masayoshi, who is a licensed patent attorney, the two work together to overcome various challenges faced by the company.
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Shall We Have a Toast For Now? (2023)
Kayama Hanabi, Machi Akebi, and Shiraishi Wakana are three ladies who met because they were three-timed by the same man, Yamada. After confronting Yamada, the three hit it off and decide to attend a matchmaking party together next time. This is a heartwarming comedy of three women with different looks, personalities, and preferences, but are connected by a strange fate. While they meet new men each time through weekend matchmaking parties, the women also grow as humans and regain their youth.
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Puzzle (2008)
Misako Ayukawa, a woman in her 30s, is an English teacher with ironically poor English skills. She values herself over her students and money over love. She displays arrogance in front of her students, but acts pleasantly around everyone else. However, Ayukawa possesses a brilliant mind for solving puzzles. Motivated by the possibility of rewards and treasure, she ends up tackling various cases on the weekends along with 3 of her top students.
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24 JAPAN (2020)
Japanese adaptation of the American TV Series "24". Genba Shido is the director of Team A in the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He is excellent at his job and a reasonable person, but he often has to make drastic decisions to save lives.
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Kumokiri Nizaemon (2013)
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.
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Rasen no Meikyu: DNA Kagaku Sosa (2021)
In Tokyo, a murderer leaves his signature, an `X`on the dead body. When found, the mark appears eerily similar to that of the one seen on the body of the dead wife of Detective Genji Ando. Banned from the investigation, he secretly reaches out to Jin Jinbo, an associate professor at the medical school`s genome analysis lab. Who better than a DNA expert to identify this potential serial killer?
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7.0
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Sleeping Jukujo (2012)
Aizawa Senba's husband asks her to get divorced after he meets his first love through facebook and wants to marry her. In order for her to get custody of her son, she decides to work at a luxurious hotel, and there she meets the young heir of the hotel, Takaoka Yuusuke, and starts to have feelings for him.
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Teppan (2010)
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.
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Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono (2016)
Kaoru Mitazono (Masahiro Matsuoka) is a talented housekeeper with an usual secret. Kaoru is actually a guy! Besides cooking, cleaning and babysitting Kaoru Mitazono has the unusual habit of discovering secrets held within the family of her employers.
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Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance (2012)
In this modern adaptation of the Dostoyevsky classic, a loner named Miroku takes it upon himself to kill a teenage girl leading a prostitution ring. She's an insect that hurts everyone around her. She needs to die -- and he's going to kill her. Why is that wrong?
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School can't teach! (2008)
Gakko ja Oshierarenai! is a Japanese television drama series concerning the life of ten high school students. It stars Kyoko Fukada as their teacher. It started to air on July 15, 2008. Aida Mai is a woman in her third year as an english teacher at a private all-girls high school. Due to declining enrollment, the school decides to admit its first male students. Those five freshmen initially feel they're in paradise, but the concerned Mai tries to help them adjust by creating a social dance club and inviting five girls. Those ten students become the focus of the drama, which is described as a story of love and adolescence.
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Mother and Son (2013)
Takashi's mother, Chise, lost her home in Miyagi in the Great East Japan Earthquake, and is hospitalized with terminal cancer near Takashi's house in Kanto. She is concerned about her second son, Takumi, who has not been in contact with her. Takashi has complicated feelings for Takumi, who has always been the recipient of his mother's love. The brothers, who were born and raised in Tohoku and have different personalities and lifestyles, are reunited when Chise falls ill, and the three decide to head to Matsushima at Chise's request, who has only a short time left to live. Matsushima is the only place they remember where they went on a family trip after losing their father at an early age. They encounter various people and see the disaster area spreading out. The group continues their journey with their own thoughts in mind...
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Maniasan to Aruku Kansai (2024)
A new documentary-style drama that looks at the everyday landscape from a manic perspective.
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Lawyer in Kabukicho, Rinka (2019)
Following her father’s disappearance, a principled corporate attorney takes over his practice located in Tokyo’s seedy red-light district of Kabukicho.


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