Asian Drama

This pure love story follows Iori, a third-year university student who is the heir to a large corporation, as he experiences his first love after meeting a café regular named Kaho, who is fresh out of a troubled marriage.

(Source: Japanese = natalie.mu)

Adapted from the web manga series "Rikon Koya" (離婚後夜).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 24 min.

Airs On: Sunday

Ichijo Ryoei is the son of the Ichijo family, who founded a large conglomerate. His life is perfect, but one day, he has an accident and falls into a coma. Meanwhile, Morikawa Natsumi gets into a different accident on the same day and at the same time as Ichijo Ryoei. Morikawa Natsumi also falls into a coma due to her accident, but she miraculously wakes up from her coma. A couple of weeks later, she is discharged from the hospital. Finally, she goes back to her home. What awaits her is Ichijo Ryoei, who is a ghost. He tells her that she owes him her life even though she doesn’t remember why. He tells her that she is the only one he can rely on, and he asks her to do something for him. ~~ Adapted from the webtoon "Take Me, I'm Yours" (날 가져요) written by RoseBean (로즈빈) and illustrated by One Punch Rabbit (원펀치래빗).

Aired On: Saturday

Duration: 29 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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Shitara, a man who fell from his elite life overnight. His new "place of employment", which has lost his job, house, and wife, is a boarding house?! Under one roof, a perverted love that begins with the worst encounter with the inhabitant someday!

Adapted from the manga "Hamaru Otoko ni Keritai Onna" (ハマる男に蹴りたい女) by Amasawa Aki (天沢アキ).

Shitara, a man who fell from his elite life overnight. His new "place of employment", which has lost his job, house, and wife, is a boarding house?! Under one roof, a perverted love that begins with the worst encounter with the inhabitant someday!

Adapted from the manga "Hamaru Otoko ni Keritai Onna" (ハマる男に蹴りたい女) by Amasawa Aki (天沢アキ).

Adapted from the manga "Tomodachi Game" (トモダチゲーム) written by Yamaguchi Mikoto (山口ミコト) and illustrated and written by Sato Yuki (佐藤友生).

Katagiri Yuichi is a second-year high school student who is abducted with four friends to repay a large amount of debt and he decides to participate in the mysterious "Tomodachi Game".

A certain summer day, as the cicadas sing loudly. A man with no money and no place to belong tries to end his life, however is unable to take the last step. While wavering between life and death, he sees a gourmet food program on television, and realising he's never once eaten crab in his life decides that "For my last day on this Earth, I'll eat crab". Settings his sights on the wife who lives in a high-class neighbourhood that he happened across in a library, he forces his way into her home. And thus, he demands money from her, however things go in an unexpected direction.

Adapted from the manga "Yukionna to Kani wo Kuu" (雪女と蟹を食う) by Gino0808.

A certain summer day, as the cicadas sing loudly. A man with no money and no place to belong tries to end his life, however is unable to take the last step. While wavering between life and death, he sees a gourmet food program on television, and realising he's never once eaten crab in his life decides that "For my last day on this Earth, I'll eat crab". Settings his sights on the wife who lives in a high-class neighbourhood that he happened across in a library, he forces his way into her home. And thus, he demands money from her, however things go in an unexpected direction.

Adapted from the manga "Yukionna to Kani wo Kuu" (雪女と蟹を食う) by Gino0808.

Describes how two women who are hurt by the selfish desires of the men around them and try to fight against them so as to regain hope in their lives.

Mitsuru Adachi 's short story "Short Program" will be made into a drama. All the members of the boy group JO1 will play leading roles. "Short Program" is a collection of short programs depicting the faint love of youth.

In the year 1791, Aisaka Sojiro is a samurai and also a popular shunga (erotic art) painter. But, he is banned for corrupting public morality with his drawings. He is arrested and is about to be executed. At that time, Sojiro finds himself in the present day. He meets manga writer Miyagami, who becomes his teacher while he works as his assistant. Sojiro soon meets a woman and he falls in love with her at first sight.

Although admired at school for her amiability and academic prowess, high school student Kyouko Hori has been hiding another side of her. With her parents often away from home due to work, Hori has to look after her younger brother and do the housework, leaving no chance to socialize away from school.

Meanwhile, Izumi Miyamura is seen as a brooding, glasses-wearing otaku. However, in reality, he is a gentle person inept at studying. Furthermore, he has nine piercings hidden behind his long hair and a tattoo along his back and left shoulder.

By sheer chance, Hori and Miyamura cross paths outside of school—neither looking as the other expects. These seemingly polar opposites become friends, sharing with each other a side they have never shown to anyone else.

Adapted from a manga of the same name.

Third season of Cold Case: Shinjitsu no Tobira.

Remake of the U.S. drama "Cold Case" (2003).

Set in the 1990's, high school student Ayu lives with her mother and grandmother in Fukuoka. She works as a model, but, to pursue an acting career, she goes to Tokyo with her grandmother. While attending a high school, she picks up acting work, but only minor roles. One day, Ayu meets Masa, who is the executive director of record label A Victory. He decides to make Ayu into a singer. According to Masa, Ayu prepares to make her debut as a singer. Meanwhile, she encounters jealousy from rivals at her record label. Trusting Masa, Ayu endures her problems. She also develops feelings for Masa and Masa also holds feelings for her.

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.

(Source: jdramas.wordpress)

Episodes: 9

Miwa, Motoaki, Ritsu, Aoi, and Satoru have lived at the same apartment complex for years and they are childhood friends. When they were younger, they always played together. Now, they are high school students and they attend the same high school. They are still friends, but their relationships have changed.

Miwa has feelings for Motoaki, but she can't tell him about her feelings. Motoaki is unaware of her feelings towards him and treats her like a friend. Aoi acts like she is good friends with Miwa, but, Aoi is frustrated by her sense of inferiority and jealousy towards Miwa. Aoi is dating Satoru. Meanwhile, Ritsu complains about the relationships of the other 4 and keeps his distance from them.

Asakura Koichi works as a designer at an advertising agency. Even though he works very hard, he does not receive recognition at his job. He is frustrated by his circumstances. He decides to visit a place from his school days, involving Yamagishi Eren.

Meanwhile, Yamagishi Eren has the nickname of "The Southpaw" (“Hidarikiki”) and is a painter in New York. She is gifted as a painter, but, due to her genius like talent, she suffers.

One day, a popular YouTuber called Taiga visits ex-prosecutor Iwai after being attacked on the subway station following a death threat. Iwai, who was asked to identify the person behind death threat, discovered that Taiga is the son of a politician who he had been previously investigated for corruption. Who is targeting Taiga? Is it true that once your information is posted online, you are branded with digital tattoo and you can never start over? Iwai, an analog person, wants to change that for his clients.

Oshii Takashi is a detective with excellent reasoning power. Unfortunately, he usually misses the criminal in front of him and other detectives get recognition for the capture. He is transferred to the Utobashi Police Station.

Oshii Takashi goes to a record company CEO's house. The CEO's third son was burned to death. The police are set to conclude that his death was an accident, but Oshii Takashi thinks otherwise. Oshii Takashi begins to investigate.

Shoko Takanashi, a scandalous former attorney, takes control of a minor law firm and drives them to "V"ictory no matter how precarious the lawsuit. Amidst chaotic human drama, a legal tale of justice and tears emerges.

Kahoko Nemoto is a naive 21-year-old university student. She relies on her mother, Izumi (Hitomi Kuroki), for everything in her life. Her mother wakes her up everyday, picks up her clothes, while Kahoko Nemoto has never done housework or driven a car. One day, Kahoko Nemoto meets a young man who grew up in a completely opposite environment.

The 95th NHK Asadora is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and later establishes a first-ever children's goods store in Japan. -- NHK

Mie’s father died during the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. One day, she finds a bundle of unsent New Year’s cards, which languished there for 28 years. To find out why the cards were never sent, Mie tracks down Haruhiko Sakacho. Haruhiko played on the same high school baseball team with her father. Mie eventually gathers together her father's former teammates to play in the Masters Koshien (a senior league baseball tournament). Mie also uncovers a truth about her father and the baseball team. ~~ Based on the novel "Kiroi Jou" by Kiyoshi Shigematsu.