Asian Drama

A love-hate drama series that follows Noyama Honoka as a florist shop owner who finds her comfortable life messed up by distrust and suspicion when she receives a letter that her newlywed husband Masamichi is hiding a secret from her. As time goes on, she begins to become suspicious of the women around Masamichi, and her negative emotions develop into ones of betrayal and revenge.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Thursday

A love-hate drama series that follows Noyama Honoka as a florist shop owner who finds her comfortable life messed up by distrust and suspicion when she receives a letter that her newlywed husband Masamichi is hiding a secret from her. As time goes on, she begins to become suspicious of the women around Masamichi, and her negative emotions develop into ones of betrayal and revenge.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Thursday

Can friendship be formed among men and women? This is a story of four men and women who led separate lives and happen to come together while facing various relationship problems due to having friends of the opposite sex.

(Source: DramaWiki)

Episodes: 10

The story revolves around the Tachibana family, who live in a 2.5 generation household. In this type of household, the parents and their children live together in a two-generation home, with the addition of a single sibling from the younger generation. The Tachibana family decides to rebuild their old home into a 2.5 generation household, and the 40-year-old unemployed and reclusive protagonist, Masaharu Tachibana, ends up living with his sister and her family. Although Masaharu is revered as a gaming expert in the virtual world, he faces challenges in his new living situation as his sister asks him to help with household chores and his teenage niece rejects him as "weird." Having lived life at his own pace until now, Masaharu gradually learns to interact with people and regain a more social lifestyle amidst the changing environment.

A countryside in 1988. Shun is crazy about fooling around with his best friends. Facing up with their family environment or bullying in school, they struggle against the problems in their adolescents.

A comedy focusing on Kondo Asami, a 33-year-old single woman who lives with her parents and works at the local city hall, and suddenly finds herself starting her life over from scratch. It happens out of a sudden and Asami finds herself on a bed in an obstetrics and gynecology clinic, where she meets her young parents and begins her life all over again.

Adapted from the manga "Me no Doku Sugiru Shokuba no Futari" (目の毒すぎる職場のふたり) by ma2.

Adapted from the manga "Choi Tsuri Dandy" (ちょい釣りダンディ) by Aki Ranta (阿鬼乱太).

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Nakagoshi Maho works as a wedding planner. She is in charge of the wedding for Isikawa Akihito and Nitta Haruka. On the day of their wedding, Nakagoshi Maho faces various problems like the appearance of Nitta Haruka's ex-boyfriend Yashiro Yuya at the wedding. Can Nakagoshi Maho, who never says no to her clients as a wedding planner, solve all the problems that come her way and have Akihito and Haruka enjoy the best wedding possible?

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Satsuki's lover Hitoshi dies suddenly. She is unable to get over his death and is mired in deep sadness. Satsuki keeps thinking about the moon shadow phenomenon, which she heard about in the past. The moon shadow phenomenon is a mysterious event that allows a person to meet the dead at the end of a full moon.

Each story begins one hour before the couples sexual activity starts and ends just before it begins. Different men and women meet with the intent of being intimate together. The drama will go into their specific struggles and unique perspectives.

Toshi-chan and BB live in a hut with a blue sheet on the banks of the Tama River. Having lived there for several years, they are familiar with the area. The two of them gather cans across town from 4 am in the morning and sleep at 7 pm in order to save money on electricity at night. While they do not have substantial income, they are not particularly concerned about money. They are carefree each day and take pride in being homeless men who can support themselves. Nao, a young female actress from a small theatre company, visits Toshi-chan and BB one day. She is playing a heroine who has a grand romance with the leader of homeless men in her next performance and asks to interview them. This is the beginning of a long night for the trio…

Mamiya Hibiki is a sincere young man with a bright personality. He works as a car mechanic and lives with his girlfriend Ogasawara Kurumi. They have dated since they were high school students. Hibiki makes a plan to propose to Kurumi. On the day he will propose to his girlfriend, he slides off a tunnel and becomes trapped. 4 days later, he is able to escape, but he faces a different world. There are no people outside, the traffic system is destroyed, and there are bloodstains on the streets. What happened to the world? Hibiki tries to find Kurumi.

Mitsuko Kuroda is 31-years-old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what do, "A" gives her the right answers. She believes her happy and peaceful single life with "A" will continue, but she falls in love with Tada-kun (Kento Hayashi). He is a salesperson and younger than her.

Adapted from the novel "Watashi o Kuitomete" by Risa Wataya.

One day, Adachi-san is approached by the editor-in-chief of a female magazine with a proposal to run a series about throwing away a personal belonging in each issue, based on the theme of parting with possessions and living more comfortably. That night, Adachi-san falls asleep like always. But a mysterious girl and the personification of the items that she has held onto appear one after another in her dream, asking to be thrown away.

A 65-year-old salaryman Etsuki Tomokazu who is approaching retirement, comes home one day to hear a shocking declaration from his wife Yuko who is near 70, “I’m pregnant!” The couple struggle with whether to have the child given the physical risk of having a baby at such a late stage in life. As first-time parents, they fail and go back and forth for everything in an antenatal class with young couples.

On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway filled with passengers and get off at the nearest subway station from work. I meet Maki Fujikawa at that subway station. She is my closest colleague at work. While talking with each other, we get to our workplace.

Sosuke reaches retirement age farmed out to a subsidiary after his elite career gets derailed. Work has been everything to Sosuke and he doesn't know what to do with his free time. His complaining gradually alienates his wife Chigusa, who is busy with her work as a hairstylist. Then, a new encounter gives his life momentum.

Based on the same-titled novel by scriptwriter Uchidata Makiko.

Kogure Nao is a shy and cute high school student. One day, Onise Taiga asks her "would you like to date with me on the promise that we will get married?" Nao is unable to turn down his proposal because she is scared of him. Taiga has red hair and piercing eyes. His appearance gives off the impression that he is a bad boy, but he is actually considerate to others and good at cooking. After getting to know Taiga, Nao begins to have feelings for him.

Kazuhiko Hoshino (Kengo Kora) will soon take a bus ride. Before taking the bus ride, he meets his five girlfriends one by one and says goodbye to them. Kazuhiko Hoshino dated the five women at the same time. Mayumi (Yuu Shirota) is large woman. She follows him as a observer and makes Kazuhiko Hoshino get on the bus.

Snack bar owner and her regular patron tell 11 different stories about the worst day in the lives of people in their neighborhood of Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. One of those instances involve a Tokyo politician being kidnapped during an S&M session. ~~ 11 screenwriters contribute 11 different stories with different casts under the theme of “The worst day of their life.”

Set 2 years after Sangenya Machi and Yashiro Dai left Teiko Real Estate's Shinjuku office.

The real estate office has seen a steep decline in business due to competition. Niwano Seiji visits Sangenya Machi for help, but he is surprised to see her holding a baby.

The next day, Sangenya appears at Teiko Real Estate and deals with customers who are having problems.

With four years left before Tokyo hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics, housing sales are fiercely competitive. At this time, an excellent real estate agent appears. Her name is Machi Sangenya (Keiko Kitagawa). She is single and 30-years-old with an attractive appearance. With any of her clients. Machi Sangenya must get a purchase. Machi has her own unique way to get her customers to buy the homes. Her unique method include getting involved in the problems of her clients and their families. She then solves their problems. With her ingenious ways, all of Machi Sangenya's customers purchase homes from her.

Tanaka Tamako had been working for a male-dominated restaurant business but was betrayed by her boyfriend who was hired as the chef. In addition, she is taken to the police as a result of an incident she caused because her friend Fujimura Satsuki was subjected to sexual harassment. Tamako resigns from her unreasonable company and starts a bistro selling homemade pot-au-feu on a rooftop in an alley in Jingumae, Tokyo. This is the story of females who are labelled “write-offs” and the restaurant they have established in order for them to get out from life’s abyss. They battle difficulties and search for ways to change their lives as they experience the joys of work. This is a problem restaurant because they are all females with problems, but it is certainly not lousy. The women who have a common enemy – men, and the restaurant unites them in a fight to the death.

Teacher Akira Suzuki (Hiroki Hasegawa) breaks away from long held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki method".

The new semester begins. His homeroom 2-A class is about to have a student council election and preparations for a school festival. A man (Shunsuke Kazama) then takes a female student hostage ...

1. Based on Kenzi Taketomi's manga series "Suzuki Sensei" (first published June 7, 2005 by Futabasha’s Manga Action magazine).

The story's main character Mariko is a woman studying child welfare in Hokkaido. She grew up always doubtful about the love from her mother, who looked nothing like her and who passed away 9 nine years ago. One day, she finds some of her mother's belongings at a relative's house, and she heads to Tokyo to seek out the truth behind her birth. Meanwhile, Futaba is a college student living in Tokyo who is focused on her band. She gets an opportunity to appear on television, though her mother is strongly opposed to it. Naturally, Mariko is shocked when she happens to see Futaba on television, since the two of them look completely alike. ~ Tokyograph

A psychological drama that explores the dilemma of whether a person who has had integral parts of them changed, fundamentally remain the same person.

Naruse Junichi hopes to one day become a painter, but he works currently on a factory line. His girlfriend is Megumi and his days are generally happy. On Christmas Eve, Junichi stops by a jewelry store to buy an engagement ring. He then becomes a part of a robbery at the jewelry and he suffers a head injury. Junichi becomes the first successful brain transplant patient in the world.

Junichi is unaware that he received a brain transplant. When he is discharged from the hospital, Junichi's hearing becomes sensitive and he also becomes violent. He does not hold the same feelings for his girlfriend, Megumi. Junichi realizes he is changing and becomes seized with horror. Meanwhile, Megumi hopes Junich becomes his old self. She also seeks to unlock the hidden mystery of Junichi's operation.

Adapted from the novel "Henshin" by Keigo Higashino.

Akira Suzuki (Hiroki Hasegawa) is the home room teacher for 2-A. After graduating from college Akira Suzuki did not work for 3 years. Instead, he spent his time thinking about ways to solve problems once he works as a teacher. Because of this, Akira Suzuki has a knack to solve problems and the principle trusts him. Mr. Suzuki always listens to his students' problems and gives them creative solutions. Due to this, Mr. Suzuki is popular among the students. Meanwhile, Akira Suzuki dates Asami (Asami Usuda) who works at a travel agency. They met through a blind date. Akira Suzuki often talks to Asami about troubles that occur at school. This is not an ordinary school drama. It focuses on taboo subjects, like teenager sex. This is a school drama for grown-ups.

In the fictional town of Mahoro on the outskirts of Tokyo is Tada Benriken, a small business which does odd jobs. Its owner is the solemn and level-headed Tada Keisuke (Eita), and his unexpected guest, the easygoing but vague Gyoten Haruhiko (Matsuda Ryuhei), a former junior high school classmate who showed up one day and started to sponge on him. The two of them get on like oil and water, and yet are somehow inseparable. They receive queer, dubious incoming odd job requests which they accept, and what comes into view are the friendship between them as well as the backgrounds of their clients.

“A completely undetectable poison that kills 24 hours after consumed.” It is the rumour that has spread on the internet of a lethal drug that makes the perfect crime possible. It has even become a topic at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Crimes Unit which Sasamoto Naomi has been transferred to. The background of Professor Matsui Toichi who invented this poison at an East European university is obscure. What is known of him is a fuzzy picture on the internet and the digits inscribed on the back of his hand. Matsui has disappeared but starts to appear before people who are trapped by their problems and hands them the poison. “You are free to use it as you will,” he would tell them. Meanwhile, magazine journalist Akimoto Shunji who is engaged to Koide Reika, the daughter of the president of his company, learns of this poison too. He has a problem. It is the existence of Otsu Mayumi, a former high school classmate with whom he has been carrying on a relationship for half a year. She poses an obstacle to his marriage to Reika. And so, he attempts to broach a breakup with her, but is told that she is two months pregnant. On the way home, a troubled Akimoto is hailed by Matsui who passes him a small bottle with the poison. Later, Akimoto is invited to a meal at a posh restaurant by Reika’s father and forced to vow marriage to Reika. He puts a drop of the poison in Mayumi’s cup in order to protect his bright future even as he struggles with himself. Mayumi unsuspectingly brings that cup to her lips... On the morning two days after the incident, her dead body is found at an unexpected place.

Adapted from 1981 novel "Doku" by Akagawa Jirō.

Episodes: 13

Duration: 40 min.

Aired On: Thursday

Ratings: 7.0

Set within the Tokyo underworld, Katsutoshi (Nao Omori) finds trouble at work and hides out at his friend Sekichi's (Ken Mitsuishi) night club "Tokyo Playboy Club." Kasutoshi's run in with a waiter (Yasushi Fuchikami) at the club and the waiter's girlfriend Eriko (Asami Usuda) leads to far bigger troubles & then unexpected consequences...

Mika is in her first year of high school. While Mika accidentally met a flashily dressed boy called Hiro at school, she turns and flees. They soon fall in love each other. Their days pass happily, but the trouble is coming to them...

Adapted from the cell-phone novel.