Asian Drama

Episodes: 8

Aired On: Thursday

Duration: 54 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Saeba Ryo is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. He works as a trouble shooter, cleaning the streets of vermin, and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he's a bodyguard, sometimes he's an assassin, whatever Ryo does he does it well. In fact, his only flaw is his hormones - he loves the ladies and sometimes turns into an idiot when he's near them. Thankfully he's got people like his partner Kaori Makimura to keep him in check.

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Adapted from the manga series "City Hunter" (シティーハンター) by Hojo Tsukasa (北条司).

Duration: 1 hr. 42 min.

Ratings: 8.1

Story follows the life of Inotsume Tomoko, who dreams to be a lawyer.

(Source: Japanese = nikkansports.com)

Episodes: 130

Duration: 15 min.

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

In the year 1990, Muranishi is now at the top of his game, with his company raking in billions in annual sales. He and Kaoru Kuroki are more outspoken about porn, constantly conducting TV interviews and publicly advertising. Learning about satellite Television channels, Muranishi dives head-first, wanting to use this new innovation to broadcast porn all over Japan and the world. ~~ Adapted from the non-fiction novel "Zenra Kantoku Muranishi Toru Den" (全裸監督 村西とおる伝) by Motohashi Nobuhiro (本橋信宏).

A story that begins when a husband and his daughter, who lost their beloved wife 10 years ago and lost the meaning of life, unexpectedly reunited with their wife (mother). As his wife is reborn as a 10-year-old elementary school student, the family is reborn.

Utagawa Kotoha is a bright 25-year-old woman. She is sometimes timid, but she is also a curious person. Through her friend's introduction, Kotoha Utagawa moves to apartment #7 in an apartment building exclusively for women. There, she gets involved with weird phenomenons. She happens to meet Nakame Reishi. He introduces himself as a psychic, but he doesn’t have psychic abilities. This is in spite of Reishi Nakame's grandmother being an itako (blind women who are trained to become a spiritual medium). His aunt Iwato Shima is also the head of a Shinto shrine. Kotoha Utagawa and Reishi Nakame ask Shima Iwato to perform an exorcism.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Aired On: Saturday

Ratings: 7.2

Yoshihara Akito had no particular goal and just managed to manage his daily life. One day, he happened to meet Ishikawa Eriko, who had a secret feeling in high school. Akito decides to make a plan when he sees Eriko, who rejects all the past, "memories that he wants to change" and "memories that he wants to erase" that are revived by the reunion. To settle the abominable past for the two in high school.

A straight and slightly bitter youth group story that depicts characters with a dark past facing each other desperately while being clumsy in order to repaint the memories of memories that turned away from their eyes as adults.

Momone Nagaura lives with her parents, grandfather and younger sister on an island in Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. In the spring of 2014, Momone Nagaura graduates from high school and moves to the city of Tome. She fails to enter a university. While she tries to figure out what to do with her life, she begins to work as an apprentice of a forest guide. A turning point in her life occurs. A popular weather forecaster from Tokyo arrives. Momone Nagaura walks on a mountain with the weather forecaster. She hears from the weather forecaster that the weather forecaster can predict the future. Momone Nagaura becomes touched by that comment and decides to become a weather forecaster. She studies hard for the exam to become a weather forecaster. With the help of the people around her in Tome, she finally passes the exam. Momone Nagaura moves to Tokyo and begins to work at a private weather forecasting company. Working there, she grows up as a weather forecaster. Several years later, in 2019, a major typhoon approaches Japan. To help her hometown, she heads to Kesennuma Bay.

Shibuya Haruko is a high school student, with an ordinary life. She happens to meet Kanna Kenichi and falls in love with him at first sight. Meanwhile, Kenichi has just dropped out of high school. He was known as a studious student up to this point. Kenichi meets Mayumi, who seems like a femme fatale. He falls in love with her.

Adapted from the manga series "Georama Boy Panorama Girl" by Kyoko Okazaki.

Kano Teppei has been living a modest life as a medical sales representative. One day he learns that his wife has been hiding a 4.8 billion yen (~45.7M USD) sum that she inherited 24 years ago . (from her grandmother.) Teppei reminisces about their marriage while dealing with issues at his company. ~~ Adapted from Shiraishi Kazufumi's novel of the same name.

"Mothers in Love" follows the lives of three mothers, who have sons that attend the same school.

An Ishiwatari lived with her husband and son. Her husband worked at a travel agency and An Ishiwatari lived in comfort. Her life changed after her husband went missing. An Ishiwatari now raises her son alone and sends him to a prestigious high school.

Yuko Hayashi is a successful career woman. Her husband is an unpopular novelist and he takes care of their home. Their son is a high school student. Yuko Hayashi's family seems to run smoothly, but she worries about her son.

Mari Kanbara lives with her husband and they have 3 children (1 son and 2 daughters). Her son attends the same prestigious high school as the sons of An Ishiwatari and Yuko Hayashi and her husband works at a law firm. Mari Kanbara appears to have an enviable life, but her husband is having an affair. Mari Kanbara is unable to even blame him for his infidelity.

Adapted from the manga by Fumi Saimon.

Shinsei Hospital stands towering over its surroundings in the suburbs. At one time, this hospital which has been deeply entrenched in the local community, was one loved by the people. Everything seemed to be going well for it until a wrench was thrown one winter night in 2015. An unidentified woman with no personal belongings and in the final weeks of pregnancy was rushed to the hospital. Furthermore, there was evidence that she had attempted suicide. As a result, an indescribable mood of disquiet began to hang in the air at the hospital. One winter night some 20 years, a pregnant woman who tried to commit suicide was rushed to Shinsei Hospital in the same way. Although she did not survive, the foetus was saved through a C-section. However, the hospital forged the medical records to make it seem as if the foetus was stillborn, and the newborn baby was given the name Eiko. Were these two incidents a pure coincidence? Or intentional? The doctor Komoto Hideaki, who is the son-in-law of Shinsei Hospital director Komoto Junichiro, entered the emergency room. But the moment he saw the unidentified woman’s face, his expression hardened. Imaizumi Nao, a nurse at the hospital, took care of her. However, the woman never said a word. Junichiro’s only daughter Mie, who is also Hideaki’s wife and the hospital’s head nurse, reacted adversely to the woman’s occasionally sinister smiles and tried to get her out. As the dots between the two incidents connect, the dark side of Shinsei Hospital is gradually revealed. Status, prestige, desire, jealousy and vengeance. The complex web of human relationships around the hospital along with crime to cover up crime sets the hospital on course to collapse. Back in 2015, Nao was suffering from a curse because that unidentified woman entrusted her with something. What is Nao’s fate now?

The story revolves around the daily life of Sana Morikawa, a 30-year-old single woman who works in the finance department of a soap maker.

Kaori Fujimiya is always alone because all of her happy memories, including time spent with her friends, disappear every Monday. Deciding that he wants to be friends with her anyway, Yuuki Hase tries to get close to Kaori each week, wishing that she would one day call him "a friend."

Adapted from the manga "One Week Friends" (一週間フレンズ。) by Matcha Hazuki.