Asian Drama

A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.

(Source: Netflix)

Duration: 2 hr. 12 min.

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Nasuda Ayumi is a young travel nurse who gives a bad first impression. In fact, he had been an excellent nurse practitioner in the US. He has the qualifications to carry out certain medical procedures and assist doctors in surgeries. However, some circumstances trigger his return to Japan where nurse practitioners are relatively unknown and nurses are still expected to do what doctors order. Ayumi ends up working at Amano General Medical Centre where he encounters a mysterious, legendary nurse Kuki Shizuka who will become his partner. Shizuka cleans “quietly” just like his name suggests and gets mistaken for a cleaner by the hospital staff including Ayumi. But he is actually a super nurse with boggling skills. Although Shizuka does not defy doctors and is too soft, when it comes to the crunch, he would boldly take decisive action with scathing words. He is quite a “liar” and has a huge secret. With their respective skills and philosophies, Ayumi and Shizuka are different types of unsung nurses who repulse each other but also collaborate to slowly bring about changes in not only the patients but also the healthcare professionals around them.

Koshobu Tsutomu is smart enough to have passed his bar exam at the age of 20. He also graduated at the top of the law department at Tokyo University. He had his choice of prestigious job opportunities, but he chose to work at the Fair Trade Commission. The commission is commonly called the Guardian of the Market. There, Koshobu Tsutomu works for the 6th examination team. One day, Shirokuma Kaede joins the 6th examination team. Shirokuma Kaede is a detective. While chasing a criminal, she failed to catch the criminal that was right in front of her eyes. She was then ordered to transfer to the Fair Trade Commission. Even though Koshobu Tsutomu and Shirokuma Kaede have totally different personalities, they team up to tackle difficult cases.

Adapted from the novel "Kyousou no Bannin" (競争の番人) by Shinkawa Hotate (新川帆立).

Matsuda Anna is a dedicated journalist who doggedly pursues the truth about a government corruption scandal even as powerful enemies seek to neutralize her reporting.

Naoto Aoyagi runs a supermarket. One day, he sees a middle school student stealing cosmetics at his store. The middle school student runs from the supermarket, but she gets hits by a car and truck. She dies from the accident. The girl's father, Mitsuru Soeda, does not believe the accusation that his daughter was stealing from the store. He begins to place people involved in his daughter's death, including Naoto Aoyagi and the car driver, into a corner. Meanwhile, Naoto Aoyagi and the female car driver become confused by Mitsuru Soeda’s pressure and the intense media coverage.

The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture in the era around the Second World War. When the story opens in 1928, the heroine, Sakurako, is a very active seven-year-old girl who is interested in becoming a jazz pianist, and music features extensively in the plot.

A story of yakuza family from 1999 to 2019. Kenji Yamamoto’s (Gou Ayano) father died from using a stimulant drug. His life fell into desperation. Kenji Yamamoto then joined a crime syndicate. There, he meets the gang's boss Hiroshi Shibasaki (Hiroshi Tachi). Hiroshi Shibasaki reaches out to Kenji Yamamoto and they developed a relationship like father and son. As time passes, Kenji Yamamoto has his own family.

There is a happy family that consists of parents and their 3 children: Hajime, Kaoru and Miki. Hajime is the first son and he is handsome and popular. His presence in the family is large. Kaoru is the second son and he is an ordinary university student. Miki is the young child in the family. She looks up to her brother Hajime a lot. One day, Hajime has a car accident and the family falls into despair. Slowly. the family recovers.

Adapted from the novel "Sakura" by Kanako Nishi.

"Poison Daughter” & “Holy Mother”

Yumika is an actress. Since she was a child, she has had to endure her mother Yoshika controlling her life. Yoshika is a “poison mother” to Yumika and Yumika cannot tolerate her mother anymore. Yumika appears on a talk show and criticizes her mother. Her criticism causes a sensation.

Meanwhile, people around Yoshika state that she is not a poison mother and she is actually a good mother.

“Tsumibukaki Onna”

She blames herself for everything and feels like terrible.

“Best Friend”

A screenwriter gets nervous because her rival is doing good.

“Yasashii Hito”

A woman is too nice to commit murder.

“My Dearest”

A middle aged woman opens her mind only to a cat.

Spring, 1969, 21-year-old Megumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Wakamatsu Koji gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.

40-years-old Makoto Tanaka has remarried and is now caring for Nanae, his new wife, and the two daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family, but when Nanae gets pregnant, things begin to change. His eldest stepdaughter becomes openly rebellious. Feeling stifled, Makoto asks his wife to abort the baby…

Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri

In the late Tokugawa Shogunate, Asa was born as the second daughter of a wealthy merchant in Kyoto, Japan. Later, in Osaka, Asa entered various business fields like coal mines, banks, life insurance. She also founded the first female university in Japan.

An ordinary man (Nao Omori) discovers and attempts to join a mysterious club. Membership to the club lasts for one year only and the membership cannot be cancelled on any terms. Soon, various women appear in front of him dressed in black leather. Has the man received more than he bargained for?

31-year-old Iwasaki Urara became a lawyer and did a disservice to client because of her own mistake in her first court case. This traumatized her and she gave up being a lawyer. Fretting that she isn't cut out to be a lawyer, Urara ekes out a living by working part time. She is saddled with a debt of 4 million yen in fees to become a lawyer and her days are empty without purpose in life or work. On the other hand, 41-year-old elite lawyer Ebisawa Rinka works for the largest law firm in the industry and is also rumored to be a candidate for a position at the top. She lives in a high-rise apartment, and likes fine wines and branded goods. Her philosophy is “It’s meaningless if I don’t win” and she often wins cases through high-handed methods. However, the methods that Rinka used in a case becomes evident and she is fired from the law firm. In addition, she is ousted from the bar association and no longer able to stand in a courtroom. She has no choice but to build up confidence in the many court cases she won so that she can win back credibility as a lawyer. Making Urara’s acquaintance by chance, Rinka sets eyes on Urara’s legal qualifications. She makes Urara do her bidding in an attempt to somehow regain her own qualifications. Will the two women be able to grasp happiness both as a lawyer and a female?

"Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-san" follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers.

34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.

Toru, a 20-year old man, falls in love with a woman who is not only married but also 20 years older than he. Complicating matters even further, she also happens to be a good friend of his own mother. Not the makings of a simple relationship, to say the least. For her part, the married woman has all the money and possessions she could ever want. But something is missing, and it is that "something" that she finds in this very unexepected yet undeniable love for a man young enough to be her own son. The story unfolds in tandemwith that of Toru's friend, Koji, who also falls in love with a married woman. The two couples struggle to deal with the complexities of modern relationships, in an effort to find a balance between the forces of true love and the reality surrounding them.

When Kasumi's husband dies in a car wreck, Ryuichi vows to watch over her and her unborn son. Over the next ten years, he gradually falls in love with Kasumi. Now 35-year-old, Kasumi has resisted loving another man for fear of reliving the pain of losing a loved one. She happens to meet Ryuichi's bad boy younger brother and finds herself physically attracted to him; but Ryuichi finally acts on his bottled-up feelings for Kasumi and asks her to marry him. Kasumi must decide if she can bring herself to fall in love with a responsible man like Ryuichi, or if she can be content with the purely physical relationship that his brother can provide.