Asian Drama

Kyoji Narita is a high ranking yakuza member. On a rainy day, he wanders on the street. He hears a singing sound and he walks towards the sound. There, he meets junior high school student Satomi Oka and he invites him to go to a karaoke place to teach him to sing. Kyoji Narita badly wants to improve his singing so he won't place last in his gang's karaoke competition. Meanwhile, Satomi Oka is a 3rd grade junior high school students and leads the school choral club. Satomi Oka has a sincere personality, but he often makes biting remarks. He has one problem, which is that he has difficulties with high-pitched notes due to his voice going through puberty. Satomi Oka is embarrassed by the unexpected request from Kyoji Narita.

Based on manga series "Karaoke Iko!" by Yama Wayama (published August 25, 2019 by Kadokawa)

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Fujisaki Aki is an employee at "Tsukiyono Drink", a medium-sized beverage manufacturer. She has been transferred to the Intellectual Property Department, that is in charge of managing intellectual property rights. Together with her superior, Kitawaki Masami, who is a licensed patent attorney, the two work together to overcome various challenges faced by the company. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Sorette Pakuri Janai Desuka?: Shinmai Chiteki Zaisan Buin no Oshigoto" (それってパクリじゃないですか？ ～新米知的財産部員のお仕事～) by Okuno Sakurako (奥乃桜子).

Shinmachi Ryotaro is a 37-year-old professional soccer player. He devoted his life to the sport and he was a member of the national soccer team. After an injury, his play has been in decline. This led to him playing for the J3 League. Now, he is forced to retire as a soccer player. All he knows is soccer, but, at the age of 37, he must find a regular job like other people and work like them. His daughters are extremely proud of him because he plays soccer, so he isn't able to tell them about his retirement. Shinmachi Ryotaro then finds sports management company Victory. He decides to work there and work hard for the company, but, in his mind, he still has a hard time accepting his playing career is over. He faces a big problem at work.

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his desire for his estate to remain neutral during the Boshin Civil War, he was bound by loyalty and duty to the clan and was compelled to choose sides.

Adapted from the novel "Toge: Saigo no Samurai" (峠 最後のサムライ) by Shiba Ryotaro (司馬遼太郎).

The story features two people who experience their first loves late in life.

Maruya Kosuke is a 29-year-old employee at a beer manufacturer who works in the sales department and comes from a rich family that owns a brewery. Since young, he has been popular thanks to his good looks and always receives confessions of love from women. However, he gets a rude awakening one day when he realises that his cuteness has an expiry date.

Sanada Izumi works as a researcher in the same company as Kosuke and always thinks of herself as being secondary to others due to a past experience.

Sagara Ryosuke is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a good natured person. His family consists of his wife Maho, high school student daughter and elementary school student son. Maho works part-time at a supermarket. They are a happy family, but, Maho and their two children suddenly disappear. There are no clues about their disappearance. Ryosuke gets the attention of the media and public. He tries to find the truth behind his family's disappearance with the help of his subordinate Ninomiya Mizuho at work.

Depicts the difficulties women face in this era.

Depicts the difficulties women face in this era.

A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so she murders her own flesh and blood. The usual media heads seek an answer in order to sell copy. A psychologist is writing a book about the character and incident. Her research for the subject matter turn the psychologist inward and things come out of the shadows that perhaps are better left buried deep in the shadows of the psyche.

Adapted from the novel "First Love" by Rio Shimamoto.

Mamiya Hibiki is a sincere young man with a bright personality. He works as a car mechanic and lives with his girlfriend Ogasawara Kurumi. They have dated since they were high school students. Hibiki makes a plan to propose to Kurumi. On the day he will propose to his girlfriend, he slides off a tunnel and becomes trapped. 4 days later, he is able to escape, but he faces a different world. There are no people outside, the traffic system is destroyed, and there are bloodstains on the streets. What happened to the world? Hibiki tries to find Kurumi.

Iwane Sakazaki has two childhood friends: Kinpei Kobayashi and Shinnosuke Kawade. They received training at the same dojo. Kinpei Kobayashi's younger sister Mai is married to Shinnosuke Kawade. Also Iwane Sakazaki will marry Mao who is the younger sister of Kinpei Kobayashi and Mai. The three friends are like brothers. Shinnosuke Kawade then hears a rumor that his wife Mai is having an affair and he kills her. Kinpei Kobayashi becomes enraged that his younger sister is murdered and kills Shinnosuke Kawade. To punish Kinpei Kobayashi, Iwane Sakazaki is ordered to kill his friend.

"I Want to Chase Him!" The irresistible high school girl, Nakajo Ayami. She is tired of living a life of constant confessions and has a desire to be rejected just once. One day, she receives an mysterious email saying that she has been rejected... "And Then There's a Legend" Thirty years after the Demon King who ruled the world was destroyed. A nurse working in a clinic with one of the Knights of Light, Yamazato, who has retired from active duty. The news of the resurrection of the Demon King arrives... and by a strange turn of events, Yoshine Kyoko becomes the hero. "The Invisible Person" Starring: Nana Mori This is an original story not from the book. The keyword of the story is that she is an "innocent heroine". "The Warmth of Those Tears" Marie Iitoyo failed to confess to the man she loved. As she's at home regretting her decision, a little man appears in her room and hands her something called a "reset button". Marie pressed the button fearfully, but... "Fusen Gum" Sakurako Ohara, a fairy who is always chewing fusen gum. Suddenly, she appears in front of the mountain villagers, puffs up the gum and pops it open... and has the uncanny ability to lighten the black emotions of the mountain villagers with a fluffy smile.... "Black belt-chan and Glass-kun" Maika Yamamoto, a genius karate girl. suddenly confesses her feelings to Yamazato, she makes a promise to him that that if she can take his handkerchief away from him, he can go out with her. The long battle between Maika and Yamazato begins...! "Little School Wars" A foursome of boys, known as the "Darkness Four," gather together to have a good time talking bad about people. Karen Otomo, the manager of the soccer club, always treats them equally. They are not pleased with her, & they have a plan to do something... The Other Side of Jealousy (Tentative title) Starring: Sei Shiraishi This is an original story not from the book. The keyword is "Jealousy". "See You Tomorrow" Starring: Riho Sayashi This is an original story not from the book. The key word in the story is "a meeting over time". "The Dark Eaters" The "Dark Eaters" have brought peace to the world by taking out the darkness that feeds on the human heart. One of the only 9 people left in the world with a special ability, Elaiza Ikeda, appears before a "dark-born" Yama, who gives people darkness...

"I Want to Chase Him!" The irresistible high school girl, Nakajo Ayami. She is tired of living a life of constant confessions and has a desire to be rejected just once. One day, she receives an mysterious email saying that she has been rejected... "And Then There's a Legend" Thirty years after the Demon King who ruled the world was destroyed. A nurse working in a clinic with one of the Knights of Light, Yamazato, who has retired from active duty. The news of the resurrection of the Demon King arrives... and by a strange turn of events, Yoshine Kyoko becomes the hero. "The Invisible Person" Starring: Nana Mori This is an original story not from the book. The keyword of the story is that she is an "innocent heroine". "The Warmth of Those Tears" Marie Iitoyo failed to confess to the man she loved. As she's at home regretting her decision, a little man appears in her room and hands her something called a "reset button". Marie pressed the button fearfully, but... "Fusen Gum" Sakurako Ohara, a fairy who is always chewing fusen gum. Suddenly, she appears in front of the mountain villagers, puffs up the gum and pops it open... and has the uncanny ability to lighten the black emotions of the mountain villagers with a fluffy smile.... "Black belt-chan and Glass-kun" Maika Yamamoto, a genius karate girl. suddenly confesses her feelings to Yamazato, she makes a promise to him that that if she can take his handkerchief away from him, he can go out with her. The long battle between Maika and Yamazato begins...! "Little School Wars" A foursome of boys, known as the "Darkness Four," gather together to have a good time talking bad about people. Karen Otomo, the manager of the soccer club, always treats them equally. They are not pleased with her, & they have a plan to do something... The Other Side of Jealousy (Tentative title) Starring: Sei Shiraishi This is an original story not from the book. The keyword is "Jealousy". "See You Tomorrow" Starring: Riho Sayashi This is an original story not from the book. The key word in the story is "a meeting over time". "The Dark Eaters" The "Dark Eaters" have brought peace to the world by taking out the darkness that feeds on the human heart. One of the only 9 people left in the world with a special ability, Elaiza Ikeda, appears before a "dark-born" Yama, who gives people darkness...

1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing her favorite piano. As the war situation worsens, she is busy helping out the war efforts. On the morning of August 6, 1945, she disobeys her father and heads into the center of town for work. In Hiroshima 75 years later, her favorite piano remains, restored and playable following it's survival of the atomic bombing.

A slice of life comedy where Furutachi Kanji and Takito Kenichi play poor brothers Ichiro and Jiro respectively. Older one (Ichiro) is very serious while the younger one (Jiro) is trying to start rental father/uncle service and they have to deal with issues from their clients.

Ryoichi Yoshimori is a university student. His girlfriend Kyoko Sawada is older than him, but he enjoys his time with her. After Ryoichi Yoshimori proposes to his girlfriend, she suddenly disappears one day. Several days later, he finally sees her again but she has no memory of him. Ryoichi Yoshimori is stunned, but he suspects her memory loss is related to the Kiokuya rumor. A person named Kiokuya is reputed to erase the memories of people. He talks to Chiaki Takaharu, who is a lawyer and attended the same university as him, about his situation. Ryoichi Yoshimori searches for the cause of Kyoko Sawada’s memory loss and gets help from childhood friend Maki Kawai and Chiaki Takaharu’s assistant.

Daichi served time in prison for attempted murder. After his release from prison, he spends his time doing nothing and he doesn't see any hope for himself. One day, Daichi hears that a woman, whom he once loved, had a daughter Hana that was his. Hana is now 8-years-old and has leukemia. She needs a bone marrow transplant surgery or she will die. Daichi goes to the hospital where Hana is staying and meets her for the first time. Daichi takes a blood test and learns that he is match with Hana. A bone marrow transplant surgery is scheduled to take place in two weeks, but a conspiracy causes Daichi to get arrested for a murder.

Remake of Korean drama of the same name.

Kaori is a single mother and she raises her high-school-age daughter Futaba. Her daughter is in a rebellious phase and ignores her mother. Kaori decides to take measures to communicate with her daughter and also get some revenge. Kaori creates messages in her daughter's bento meals.

Kasane's face is so hideous, you couldn't bear to look twice at her—and her ugliness has forced her to walk a harsh path in life. But her mother left her something: a tube of lipstick. The power of this lipstick will change everything about her downtrodden life.

The eldest daughter of the distinguished head family of the famous Tsukishima style of flower arrangement, 29-year-old Tsukishima Momo has everything – beauty, talent, career and wealth. She is engaged to the man she deeply loves. However, she discovers her fiance has been two-timing her and cancels their marriage on the day of the wedding. A shattered Momo has a crisis of confidence all at once. That is when Kazama Naoto happens to show up. The owner of a bicycle shop, he is an ordinary man who has nothing, and she is a woman out of his league. In spite of this, the two of them fall in love.

Sakagami Takumi, a high school student, is assigned to his class’s Community Outreach Committee. One day, his homeroom teacher also assigns his classmates Naruse Jun, a girl who is unable to speak because of a past trauma, Tasaki Daiki, a former ace player on the baseball team, and Nitoh Natsuki, a cheerleader and straight-A student, to the Committee. Each one of them harbors feelings that they "long to shout" in their hearts. Because of their homeroom teacher's foresight, their class ends up having to perform a musical at the exchange party, but nobody in the class seems willing. But as they see Jun courageously making an effort to communicate her feelings by singing, Takumi and the other classmates who were reluctant begin to participate in a positive way.

The day of the performance arrives. Will they be able to convey their true feelings they have locked away in their hearts?

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

After Sugihara Oto’s mother passed away when she was young, she was raised by adoptive parents in the Hokkaido countryside. Although she gave up having dreams, she lives cheerfully and bravely. But she is troubled by her adoptive parents attempts to force her into a marriage with a wealthy man 20 years her senior to save the family from poverty. Soda Ren lost his parents early and was brought up in the great outdoors in Fukushima by his grandfather. However, his grandfather gets swindled and Ren leaves for Tokyo in order to earn money to recover the farmland. He dreams that he will be able to live with his grandfather some day, but reality is harsh. By coincidence, Oto heads to Tokyo too. This is the story of love and growth of six young people from the rural areas who gather in Tokyo.

A suspenseful, action-packed, fast paced, intelligent detective thriller.

The cool, beautiful Sasaki Rena is the lone investigator who works for for a medium-sized research agency called Suma Research Agency. Because of her past related to her sister's death, she became a detective that investigates and pursues unscrupulous detectives. Her beloved younger sister was murdered by a stalker and she has been searching for the investigator who caused her sister’s death in order to take revenge.

Saori, Yukko, Garuru, Nakanishi and Akemi are high school students at a provincial city and members of a playgroup at their school. Yoshioka, who used to perform in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo, begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. When the girls decide to compete in a play competition, with the goal to make it through the regionals, teacher Yoshioka tells them they're aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.

Born to a poor family in Yamanashi prefecture, in the year of 1903 at the age of 10, Muraoka Hanako was accepted by a Missionary school in Tokyo. It was her father's Ando Kippei, greatest wish that his daughter gets a higher education. The Missionary school was attended by daughters from noble families, and as a charity case, Hanako was reminded by her father to never be inferior to her rich schoolmates. As the classes were carried out in English, Hanako faced a culture shock when she started school. Unable to understand the teachers nor able to grasp the conversation of her peers, Hanako resolved to work really hard at her studies.This drama follows Hanako from her childhood, through her years at the missionary school, to her life as a school teacher and finally as the translator of L.M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables".

Born to a poor family in Yamanashi prefecture, in the year of 1903 at the age of 10, Muraoka Hanako was accepted by a Missionary school in Tokyo. It was her father's Ando Kippei, greatest wish that his daughter gets a higher education. The Missionary school was attended by daughters from noble families, and as a charity case, Hanako was reminded by her father to never be inferior to her rich schoolmates. As the classes were carried out in English, Hanako faced a culture shock when she started school. Unable to understand the teachers nor able to grasp the conversation of her peers, Hanako resolved to work really hard at her studies.This drama follows Hanako from her childhood, through her years at the missionary school, to her life as a school teacher and finally as the translator of L.M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables".

In the year 1830, Tatsugoro was once known as a legendary gambler, but heavy losses in gambling cause him to fall deeply into debt. As a child, he grew up as an orphan and he is still all alone as an adult. One day, Tatsugoro is selected by lots as a representative of a Nagaya; multi-unit housing. He and others go to Ise Grand Shrine to worship. During the journey, Tatsugoro meets a dog Okinamaruo, a boy Miyoshi and a beautiful woman Saya. He pretends to be a family with them. ~~ Adapted from the novel Daken Douchuu Okage Mairi by Dobashi Akihiro.