Asian Drama

A drama about the interactions between the owner/chef of a gourmet restaurant that is tucked away in a back alley, and the customers who visit with their various concerns. However, although he is warm-hearted and listens with the intent to help them, he misunderstands their problems and as a result gives misguided advice which confuses his customers…

A variety of mouthwatering dishes are also a highlight of each episode.

Adapted from the manga series "Meshi wo Kurahite Hana to Tsugu" (飯を喰らひて華と告ぐ) by Adachi Wahei (足立和平).

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Tags: Restaurateur Male Lead, Chef Male Lead, Middle-Aged Male Lead, Short Length Series, Miniseries, Misunderstanding, Cooking, Adapted From A Manga (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 12

Aired On: Tuesday

Aired: Jul 9, 2024 - ?

Duration: 12 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

The story follows Fushiki, a newbie employee from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare who is assigned to the department to work alongside Yukimura Kai, an 88-year-old vampire detective who still looks 18 due to his immortality. Together, they will investigate a series of murders by the “Ram Killer” that have been occurring every Christmas in the year of the Ram over a period of 70 years.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Friday

Adapted from the manga series "Sex-chan" (セックスちゃん) by Aso Haro (麻生羽呂), Iota Tatsunari (五百田達成) and Sakamoto Mano (さかもと麻乃).

Episodes: 10

A man killed himself. Due to his death, three of his former classmates from art school, reunite for the first time in a long while. These three people have connections to the man in different ways, including his ex-girlfriend, the manager of a rugby club where the man played, and his ex-boyfriend. While struggling with their own lives, these three people begin to meet and have meals together.

Oda Chiharu worked as a designer for a company she has long coveted to work for, but, due to bullying by her boss, she quit her job. She finds pleasure in cooking and serving her food to other people. When she is alone, she often eats food from the convenience store.

Nakamura Seiko works in the PR department for a cosmetics company. Being influence by her family, she has grown up with the idea that marriage is mandatory and not optional. She now has a strong desire to marry, but her fiancé, who works in the same department, suddenly breaks off their engagement.

Amagai Eiji worked as a designer for an advertising agency, but he was suddenly transferred to the sales department. He doesn’t know what he wants to do anymore. He is a gay man, but he hasn't revealed his sexual orientation to his parents.

Adapted from the manga series "Kashimashi Meshi" (かしましめし) by Okazaki Mari (おかざき真里).

Adapted from the essay book "Jiko Kotei Kan ga Hikukute Kujike Sona Toki, Ashita no Jibunnotameni yu de Tama go wo Tsukuru" (自己肯定感が低くて挫けそうな時、明日の自分のためにゆでたまごをつくる) by Chie Maru (ちえ丸).

Jo Takumi has worked as a salesman for an advertising company for the past 3 years. He seems confident, but he actually tries hard to live up to expectations of those around him. His plan to digitize the reception desk, which he thought wouldn't be approved, is surprisingly greenlit. Jo Takumi is then placed in charge of laying off people who work at the reception desk. He faces strong opposition from the reception desk team. To understand their work better, Jo Takumi begins to work at the reception desk. While working with the reception desk team and realizing how hard their work is, he begins to change his view on the need for layoffs. Meanwhile, Jo Takumi has a crush on a female employee at the same company. They were hired around the same the same time.

Detective Higuchi Shogo and Emergency Command Center Leader Tachibana Hikari continue to work together to save victims and catch criminals as quickly as possible. They face an evil criminal, but the criminal is not a simple evil person. The criminal exhibits exploding anger, which some younger people have against society. Younger people feel the criminal's behavior is not just a crime, but like representing themselves.

Tamaki who becomes a surrogate mother for the sake of her elder brother, Satoshi, who is gay by going through artificial insemination using his partner Keito's sperm with her egg and the siblings wanting to reveal the truth to their parents after her pregnancy passes the first trimester.

Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, which was to manufacture and sell indigo production and also silk farming. He left his hometown at the age of 23 and began working for the government. He later traveled to Paris and learned about banking. Upon his return to Japan, he helped build up the first modern bank in Japan. He eventually became a founder or supporter to about 500 companies and was involved with about 600 public services, including education for women.

Set in a post-COVID world, Sawai Ryuichi (Ikuta Toma) is one half of a comedy duo Orenchi and plays the funny man. However, he causes a scandal and Orenchi is dropped from a television programme where they are regulars. Sawai cuts ties with his partner Sakane Akira (Emoto Tokio), quits their agency and shuts himself at home. Nevertheless, he continues to be an entertainer with an improvised comedy programme called Orenchi Channel that he streams live online. He has an AI robot that does everything it is asked from ordering meals to cleaning. In addition, it learns Sawai’s funny man routine and grows into the role of his partner for the programme. The rapid-fire comic dialogue with his AI robot goes down well with netizens and Sawai is very pleased. He is able to earn income to support his wife Rinko (Matsumoto Marika) and their young daughter, and is already over Orenchi. But one day, Sawai receives a strange phone call while live streaming. Because of that, he gets entangled in a preposterous situation beyond his wildest imagination. Can the programme end without any trouble and will his wife and daughter be safe?

Kobayashi Haruka fell in love before finding out that her boyfriend was actually a married man. At that time, a regular customer predicts that she will wind up meeting 3 different men. She begins encountering them just as predicted. There's the hairdresser Shintaro, the band vocalist Yu, and the bartender Yoshi. What will come of these fateful encounters?

Adapted from the manga series "3B Lover - Love with a Professional Boy Who Shouldn't be Dating" (3Bの恋人～付き合ってはいけない職業男子との恋遊戯～) by Yokoyama Moyo.

21-year-old Kiki Inoue works part-time at a convenience store. She spends her days in a state of torpor. One day, Kiki Inoue meets Takumi Asaba, who is the CEO of a convenience store chain. She has a social media account where she reviews sweets. Her social media account has caught the CEO's attention. Takumi Asaba gets her to work on developing sweets to sell at his convenience store chain.

Meanwhile, Takumi Asaba became the CEO to turnaround his company that's ranked lowest among convenience store chains. While talking about developing new sweets, they become attracted to each other.

Arimura Kasumi suddenly gets a break from filming and returns to her hometown for the first time in a long while. Her mother Yumiko comes to the train station to pick her up and they head for the family home. She is idly chatting with her mother at home when a male stranger comes to visit. His name is Ueshima Makoto. He puts his hands together in front of Kasumi’s father’s tablet. Then her mother asks him to repair a bicycle. At Yumiko’s invitation, the three of them have dinner together.

Nanase Sakura is a 23-year-old rookie nurse. She met Doctor Kairi Tendo several years ago and fell in love with him. To meet him again, she studied hard and became a nurse. After 5 years, she finally meets Kairi Tendo again, but he has a totally different personality than what she imagined. Kairi Tendo, who is 31-years-old, is commonly referred to as the "Devil" at work. He is a level-headed perfectionist and often makes biting remarks to doctors and nurses. Nanase Sakura works hard to receive recognition from Kairi Tendo and she also expresses her feelings honestly to him. Due to her persistence, Nanase Sakura becomes well known at the hospital and she picks up the nickname of the "Warrior." Meanwhile, Kairi Tendo becomes attracted to Nanase Sakura.

Ryo Onodera, played by Miyazaki, had a groom runaway on the wedding day four years ago. Her father, Tosaku (Matsushige) and her mother, Machiko (Matsuzaka), built a large two-family house to live with their daughter and her new family.

One day, Ryo says that she has been proposed to, Machiko is surprised to see that face. This is because Kotaro was a former subordinate of the workplace and was now her boss. Although she wants to congratulate her daughter's marriage, Machiko wonders if she can live with her boss. Where is the love between Ryo and Kotaro? Can the two get married? Can Ryo and Kotaro, Tosaku and Machiko become a family?

Season 2 of this drama starts off with Machi being married to Dai Yashiro, while Kenji Rusudo is a rival real estate agent.

Set in the 1960's, high school student Watanabe Toru loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko in the university. They grow close because they both share the same loss.

As Toru and Naoko grow even closer, Naoko's sense of loss also grows. After Naoko's 20th birthday, she leaves for a sanitarium in Kyoto. Toru, devastated by the situation, meets pure-hearted Midori during the spring semester. Midori looks like a small animal that just came into the world.

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older