Asian Drama

This movie is a human drama inspired by an article published in a newspaper in June 2020 that describes the heroic life of a girl. Ann was born and raised by a dysfunctional family. She was abused by her own family and became addicted to drugs. She finds hope by meeting warm-hearted people like a detective and a magazine journalist. She is touched by their kindness without conditions. Ann slowly opens her mind to them, but, just as she sees a glimmer of hope in her life, the cold, brutal reality of her life hits her again.

Duration: 1 hr. 53 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Adapted from the manga series "RoOT of Oddtaxi" (ルート オブ オッドタクシー ) written by Konomoto Kazuya (此元和津也) and illustrated by Abaraya Takeichi (肋家).

Episodes: 1

A psychiatrist, Fujishiro Shun, receives a letter from his former lover, Iyota Haru. The letter, which came from Salar de Uyuni, known for the "mirror of the sky," contains the memory of her first love from ten years ago. Uyuni, Prague, and Iceland More letters would soon arrive from all over the world, the letters of spring.

At the same time, Fujishiro was preparing to marry his fiancé, Sakamoto Yayoi. But Yayoi suddenly disappeared. "What could be the way to keep love from ending?" Why did Haru write a letter to him? Where did Yayoi disappear? These two mysterious entities would soon become connected. "Why do love and romance, which we thought would last forever, eventually fade away?"

The present and the past, Japan and the world, intersect. As "April" begins, he will search for the truth about his loved ones.

(Source: Japanese = 4gatsu-movie.toho)

Adapted from the novel "Shigatsu ni Nareba Kanojo wa" (四月になれば彼女は) by Kawamura Genki (川村元気).

In the year 1986, Ichiro Ogawa is a middle-aged man. He works as a PE teacher and the advisor of the middle school's baseball team. He is called the "Ogawa of Hell," because he is foul-mouthed and he repeats inappropriate behaviors. But at home, he is a single parent who has raised his daughter alone since his wife died due to a disease. He is an ordinary father who worries about his daughter acting out. Somehow, Ichiro Ogawa travels through time to the year 2024. There, he meets various people, including single mother Nagisa Inushima who works at broadcasting station.

Meanwhile and in the year 2024, Sakae Sakisaka works as a sociologist She is a flag bearer of feminism and frequently appears in the media to talk about gender discrimination or other gender issues. She and her son happen to time travel to the year 1986.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Friday

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with Rie who was his client. She asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke. After Rie got a divorce, she raised her child alone and returned to her hometown. There, she met Daisuke and married him. She enjoyed a happy family life with Daisuke and their 2 children. Suddenly, Daisuke died in an accident. While she was grieving, Daisuke’s older brother Kyoichi visited his funeral. The two brothers had been estranged for many years. When Kyoichi saw Daisuke's picture, he stated that the person in the picture was not his brother.

Adapted from the novel "A Man" (ある男) by Hirano Keiichiro (平野啓一郎).

Sousuke Aoyama is a college student who suffers painfully from the loss of his parents in a traffic accident. He meets Kozan Shinoda, a suibokuga (India-ink painting) artist, at an exhibition. Kozan becomes interested in Sousuke and surprisingly accepts him as his disciple. However, Kozan's niece is dismissive of Sousuke and declares to compete with Sousuke for the "Kozan Award." Although Sousuke seemed uninterested in painting at first, he gradually becomes drawn to it by each stroke he draws...

Adapted from the novel "Sen wa, Boku wo Egaku" (線は、僕を描く) by Togami Hiromasa (砥上裕將).

A story of eight different couples with fleeting, delicate relationships and their “simple breakfast” as if to make up for what is lacking in body and soul after spending a night together, including a man who is reunited with a former high school classmate whom he continues to have feelings for; a university student’s first date with a girl whom he met through a matchmaking app; sex friends, who have been carrying on with their rather businesslike relationship.

Adapted from the manga series "One Night - Morning" (ワンナイト・モーニング) by Okuyama Kenichi (奥山ケニチ).

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Wataguchi Jun is a young man living in a port town. He doesn't attend school and hangs around a group of thugs. His parents run a business to transport landfill by ship. Their business is not doing well. Wataguchi Jun doesn't have interest in his parents' business and he doesn't speak to his parents very much. One day, a person, who hangs out with Wataguchi Jun, gets attacked by someone. An unexpected person is accused as being the attacker.

An omnibus drama depicting the stories of 8 women and 8 unique chairs.

In the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a country on the decline. Wanting to break free of this endless situation, Prime Minister Washida sets up an experimental project Utopi-AI. Commonly known as the UA concept, leaders are selected from all over the country by AI and made to govern cities that have degenerated. It has been said that the reason why young people cannot take charge of politics is their lack of experience. AI has a massive amount of data that one person cannot possibly “experience”. In other words, AI can supplement any amount of “experience”. As if to prove it, AI chooses 17-year-old Maki Aran who is immature and wants an ideal society, to be the Prime Minister. The other members are all young people around the age of 20. Maki and his compatriots use AI to push forward reforms to regenerate the degenerated regional cities as the experimental city UA.

Higashiyama Haruto is a 34-year-old Japanese history teacher who combines good looks with an honest and friendly personality.

When he has been assigned to Nitaka High School, a school for advanced students, Haruto immediately attracts the attention of his female students.

But he has a secret that he cannot tell anyone; he wants to be killed by a beautiful high school girl.

Obsessed with such a bizarre desire, Haruto approaches four beautiful girls of different types, Maho, Aoi, Kyoko, and Aika, according to the perfect crime scenario he has devised.

Who among the four is the high school girl that Haruto has been longing to be killed by for nine years?

Eventually, on November 8th, the day of the school festival when the class play is to be performed, the curtain opens on a forbidden stage where Haruto's entire life is at stake...

Adapted from the manga “Joshikosei ni Korosaretai” (女子高生に殺されたい) by Furuya Usamaru (古屋兎丸).

Koji runs a second-hand bookstore. He likes female drummer Ikka, but, suddenly, female high school student Misaki appears in front of him and keeps confesses her feelings for him.

A high school with poor academic performance has various problematic students who cannot receive proper education due to abuse or poverty. The hot-blooded teachers here take the role of gathering these students and help them to get back on their feet.

Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival. During the production, Barefoot finds out that Rintaro is a time-traveler from the future.

Hayashi Miyoshi is one quirky high school student who enjoys doing fun things that don’t always quite make sense. Despite being hard to pin down, his mysterious charm never fails to draw others to him.

In order to finance his activities, he sometimes helps out at his parents’ restaurant, allowing him to continue living by his motto, "It’s comfortable to have enough free time to waste."

Adapted from the manga of the same name by Wayama Yama (和山やま).

A gourmet comedy featuring 12 girls who are fascinated by gourmet burgers. Two girls appear every episode and develop in omnibus format. In addition, all the stores that appear are real stores, and we pay particular attention to the lighting and the sound of baking patties, and depict the gourmet burgers at each store with a sizzling feeling