Asian Drama

This drama is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Shizuki Hoshitsuki: best-selling author Asami Hayashi posted on her blog, "Please find my body. After disappearing. But the update of the blog has not stopped, and the secrets of the people around Asami have been exposed one after another. Her husband Masataka Mishima, who was tossed by the shocking content, and Saori Ikegami, the editor who was exposed to having an affair with him and tremblingly searched for the original manuscript of Asami's new work. No clues can be found, time passes, and when you are driven by anxiety, the notification tone of the blog update rings again......

Adapted from the novel "Watashi no Shitai wo Sagashite Kudasai." (私の死体を探してください。) by Hoshizuki Wataru (星月渉).

Tags: Married Supporting Character, Married Male Lead, Writer Supporting Character, Editor Supporting Character, Unemployed Male Lead, Extramarital Affair, Infidelity, Adapted From A Novel, Investigation (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Country: Japan

Airs On: Wednesday

Aired: Sep 4, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

This drama is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Shizuki Hoshitsuki: best-selling author Asami Hayashi posted on her blog, "Please find my body. After disappearing. But the update of the blog has not stopped, and the secrets of the people around Asami have been exposed one after another. Her husband Masataka Mishima, who was tossed by the shocking content, and Saori Ikegami, the editor who was exposed to having an affair with him and tremblingly searched for the original manuscript of Asami's new work. No clues can be found, time passes, and when you are driven by anxiety, the notification tone of the blog update rings again......

Adapted from the novel "Watashi no Shitai wo Sagashite Kudasai." (私の死体を探してください。) by Hoshizuki Wataru (星月渉).

Tags: Married Supporting Character, Married Male Lead, Writer Supporting Character, Editor Supporting Character, Unemployed Male Lead, Extramarital Affair, Infidelity, Adapted From A Novel, Investigation (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Country: Japan

Airs On: Wednesday

Aired: Sep 4, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

This drama is about Moriguchi Keijiro, a retired doshin or a police officer in Edo early in the 19th century. When he was active in service, he was well-known for his generosity and kindness. After his retirement, Keijiro became a...

Set three years after the conclusion of "The Blood of Wolves."

After, Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.

Adapted from a novel of the same name by Yuzuki Yuko.

Tomoatsu Godai has the sprit of a warrior and the talents of a merchant. He was born in the Satsuma domain. He worked as a Meiji government officer and became a businessman. He laid the foundation for Osaka to become a commercial city.

Nara Rimi, an established and popular photographer, meets Hyakuta Natsume who has come to Tokyo with dreams of becoming an actress. Although Natsume suffers setbacks, she grows from these experiences in this story about the lifestyles of women whose lives intersect in this world dominated by social media.

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Episodes: 9

The 'helicopter doctor' team is back with perfect hair, perfect skin and perfect body and ready to take on expected and unexpected disasters and accidents at Japan's Narita airport and points near and far. They work together through these professional emergencies and deal with personal calamities in and out of their blue uniforms too.

Dako is a con woman. She stays at a suite in a luxury hotel and schemes to take money from vicious wealthy people like yakuza bosses and evil businessmen. She works with Boku-chan and Richard. Boku-chan is a sincere and timid young con man. Richard is a veteran con man.

Dako is able to master knowledge from various professions in a short period of time and disguises herself as someone working in that field. Along with Boku-chan and Richard, they carry their plans using fantastic teamwork.

40 years old Tachibana Yuzuki has just taken on a job as a mountain climbing guide. While on her first solo guide job to climb Mount Myoko and Mount Hiuchi, she meets the female members in her group: Yumi and Ritsuko who work in a departmental store and Mitsuko who works in a welfare facility. With various reasons and issues, these first-time climbers try to scale the mountains while led around by the nose by Kijima who is Yuzuki's senior but younger than her.

Based on the novel "Yamaonna Nikki" by Minato Kanae and features the booming trend of women climbing mountains as a hobby and the issues and feelings they have.

Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey.

Story 1- In the night of September 16, 1890, the Turkish frigate Ertugrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the coast of Kushimoto, Japan. With more than 500 crew members dead, it's the largest sea accident in history at that time. An extraordinary rescue effort is taken by the local residents to save the Turkish sailors.

Story 2 - In 1985, during the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq announces an indiscriminate attack over Iranian air space. More than 300 Japanese nationals are stuck in Tehran, Iran. Turkey offers to evacuate the Japanese by sending a Turkish airplane. For the remaining Turks who are still in Tehran, this means that they won't be able to board their own country's evacuation flight.

A Japanese-Turkish co-production.

Fumi becomes Genzui Kusaka’s wife. During the turbulent times of the closing days for the Tokugawa shogunate, she lives positively and tries to keep up Shoin Yoshida's will. Shoin Yoshida is her older brother and intellectual.

An extreme elitist, Ueba Kamo is a Tokyo University graduate and bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance. Due to her mother’s sudden passing, she is forced to turn herself into an okami, or proprietress at a ryokan (Japanese style hotel). Growing up she had loathed her hometown Kyoto as much as she hated her rare name. Uebaya, the ryokan, is smothered in debt and she cannot imagine letting go of her freedom and success she worked so hard to obtain. In a fever of resentment, she grudgingly takes on the family business, dead set and confident that she would be able to turn the business around in no time. But becoming an okami isn't as easy as she imagined. The ryokan’s reputation plummets and the entire crew of employees begin criticizing her... Trying to escape her critical situation, Kamo is greeted by a shrewd consultant in finance. The crafty man’s name is Kinugawa Shuhei and as they quarrel and try to deceive each other, they find themselves becoming partners. The two set their mission to rebuild the ryokan back to its normal state.

What was the relationship between Kamo and her deceased mother? Was the ryokan more important to her than Kamo? Why is Kamo the okami of a ryokan she thought she would never set foot in again?

Overcoming the obstacles set in front of her, Kamo gradually becomes attached to her position as okami. Had this been her vocation all along? Don’t miss the breathtaking heart-thumping chronicles of a born-again okami!

Shot in Los Angeles, California, Takeshi Kitano plays Yamamoto, a lone yakuza officer. Defeated in a war with a rival family, his boss killed, he heads to L.A.

As time passes, Yamamoto and his new gang emerge as a powerful force, gradually expanding their turf to an extent that they must confront the Mafia. The Mafia's attacks are ruthless, and soon Yamamoto and his gang are driven into a disastrous situation of no return as they are hunted down one by one.