Asian Drama

Can friendship be formed among men and women? This is a story of four men and women who led separate lives and happen to come together while facing various relationship problems due to having friends of the opposite sex.

(Source: DramaWiki)

Episodes: 10

Adapted from the novel "Kisetsu no Nai Machi" (季節のない街) by Yamamoto Shugoro (山本 周五郎).

Episodes: 10

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with Rie who was his client. She asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke. After Rie got a divorce, she raised her child alone and returned to her hometown. There, she met Daisuke and married him. She enjoyed a happy family life with Daisuke and their 2 children. Suddenly, Daisuke died in an accident. While she was grieving, Daisuke’s older brother Kyoichi visited his funeral. The two brothers had been estranged for many years. When Kyoichi saw Daisuke's picture, he stated that the person in the picture was not his brother.

Adapted from the novel "A Man" (ある男) by Hirano Keiichiro (平野啓一郎).

30-year-old Kakioka Tetsuro returns home for the first time in 10 years to save his family’s traditional inn Niji no Ya after he hears that his father has been hospitalized. But he is lost for words when he sees that it has completely changed. The dignity and service of the inn, which boasts a 100-year heritage, has totally vanished. It has transformed into a haunt where employees who are not easy to deal with linger around. There is Terakado Lucy Kazuko, a flamenco dancer who says a stream of offensive things; Kageshima Shunsaku, a germaphobe manager who hates hot springs; Asatsuki Momoyo, the head waitress who is a single mother devoted to her son Ringoro; Ringoro, a boyish employee who loves his mother and unicycle; Uno Kanata, a chef who has a UNO addiction; and Umekoshi Hifuji, an old-timer who has clung on to the inn for 40 years. Not knowing that such formidable enemies are waiting for him, Tetsuro is told to leave when he arrives at the inn. Despite his attempts to enter using various means, he bounces off the impregnable defences and breaks down crying at the entrance, and a mysterious big man shows up. Will Tetsuro be able to enter the inn and will the day come when the employees will accept him?

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About the friendship and love between 4 police officers working at a police station who each have their own problems. Shikahama Suzunosuke is suspended from work due to a mistake he made while Mabuchi Haruhi works at the general affairs department.

Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an airplane ticket belonging to a talent agency CEO. Time passes, and Satoru makes a name for himself as an actor. He gets a call from America. Hoping it is a Hollywood offer, he instead hears about his estranged older brother.

Aoba Ippei, a police officer in the Police Dog Section of the Forensics Division, and his police dog buddy, Oliver, take on a series of inexplicable cases. As they try to solve the cases, they find themselves in the midst of various conflicting incidents...

(Source: NHK)

Episodes: 3

Duration: 45 min.

Aired On: Friday

This work is a home drama featuring Shunpei Akagi, who just became a single father three months ago for some reason. When a childhood friend wrote on SNS that "# I am looking for a family" with a humorous idea, Shunpei decided to live under one roof with four adults and three children. They are depicted as having different personalities and values, and eventually becoming a "family".

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hirō Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10,000 days later.

The story of five young people in their late 20s who try to overcome their great failures in life. Haruto Takaiwa, Shunta Asabuki and Junpei Minowa are members of unpopular comedy trio Macbeth. They always gather at a family restaurant where Rihoko Nakahama works as a waitress. Tsumugi Nakahama is Rihoko Nakahama’s younger sister.

It depicts the era of the Spanish flu epidemic 100 years ago.

Young parent Tasuku has spent his life assiduously avoiding any responsibility in his small town in northern Japan. But when he’s caught drunk and naked on live national TV coverage at the local Namahage festival, in which men dress as ogres and scare children into behaving, he flees to Tokyo in shame. After two years of rock-bottom city living, he returns home, ready to embrace adulthood. But will the town and his family have him back? Skilfully weaving traditional culture into a thoroughly contemporary story, this sensitive and assured drama asks what it truly means to be a man.

Having failed to get into graduate school, with no girlfriend, no money, and no prospects of success with his band, Tsurugi's life has reached rock bottom. One day, after watching the video of Aya Matsuura's song “Momoiro Kataomoi”, he becomes obsessed with the idol singers of “Hello! Project”, and plunges into the idol geek lifestyle. However, as time passes, he and his buddies all find other things just as important as the idols and begin to move on.

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.

Adapted from the novel "Mibuncho" by Ryuzo Saki.

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.

"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...

Yamada Atsuhisa is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa leaves his office during work hours and goes back home early. There, he witnesses his wife and an unknown man having sex, but Atsuhisa is unable to express his feelings like anger, frustration, and depression. His relationship with his wife and his friend Takeda becomes distorted.

Kato (Watanabe Daichi), a scriptwriter, is in love with Miho (Nao)—but he can never manage to muster up enough courage to make the relationship anything more than a platonic friendship. Seemingly oblivious to Kato's feelings for her, Miho is always calling him up and spilling her guts about her own love problems. She's in love with someone else, it turns out, but Kato swallows his pride—hearing about it all is almost too much to bear, but he wants to be with Miho as much as he can. In the meantime, the script he's working on for a TV drama mirrors a lot of his relationship with Miho. One day, Kato's friends tell him that his views on love are all mistaken, that he shouldn't delude himself into thinking that his dead-end crush on Miho will go anywhere. Emboldened and motivated, Kato finally decides to tell Miho exactly how he feels.

Yukisuke, a young, leggy bio-archeologist, gets to know Koyomi, a young land, selling Taiyaki on the street, similar to Korean fish-shaped bun. He is fascinated by her and visits her stall often. The two talk together and often hang out, but Koyomi gets in a car accident and is hospitalized. In a coma for days, she finally regains consciousness but suffers from temporary amnesia. Yukisuke tries to stay closest to her as before, but her past memories give him a hard time.

Adapted from the novel "Shizukana Ame" by Natsu Miyashita.

Yuge Daisuke is a tour guide studying astronomy in his free time and a playboy who only gets involved in relationships with no strings attached. He meets Fujishima Rui on Oahu in early summer and falls in love with her at first sight. The two begin a romance; however, as the result of an accident, she suffers from amnesia and her memory gets reset every night. Daisuke has to woo Rui every day as she keeps forgetting him.

Shikata Atsushi, Tadokoro Keita, and Kawabata Satoshi spent their childhood days as friends. As adults, they meet again due to a murder case. Atsushi works as a detective, Keita is a suspect and Satoshi is a victim. As they come face to face with the truth of the murder case, they must also confront their detested past, sealed within their minds until now.

Shikata Atsushi, Tadokoro Keita, and Kawabata Satoshi spent their childhood days as friends. As adults, they meet again due to a murder case. Atsushi works as a detective, Keita is a suspect and Satoshi is a victim. As they come face to face with the truth of the murder case, they must also confront their detested past, sealed within their minds until now.

Haruko Azumi is a 28 year-old woman working in a small office. She begins an awkard loveless half-relationship with an old school friend who works at a convenience store. At the same time a gang of rogue schoolgirls is attacking men at night, and another young woman, Aina, gets involved with two graffiti artists who have created a stencil from a poster of Haruko Azumi's disappearance in 2015, looking for love with either one of them.

Hikuma Koichi, a former saxophone player who has turned his back on music due to the aftereffects of an accident, becomes the advisor of a small brass band at a run-down high school. He has to deal with problem students who have lost their dreams as well as the teachers’ opposition to a professional musician entering the classroom. The path is not easy for him. Even so, Hikuma rediscovers his dream, confronts the students head-on and starts to coach the band. Despite their bewilderment, the students begin to reciprocate his passion for music.

Drama series depicts the lives of three men born in 1987 and oppose irrational things of the world through work, love and friendship. The men are from the Yutori generation when the Japanese government reformed the education system emphasizing a pressure-free environment referred to as Yutori education.

Since Masakazu’s (Masaki Okada) father passed away, he lives with his mother, older brother, older brother’s wife and younger sister. He studied hard in his school days and began working for a good company after college. He has worked in different divisions. This spring he is assigned to a bar franchise his company owns.

Kazutoyo (Tori Matsuzaka) is a elementary school homeroom teacher. His teaching style, derived from his own Yutori education, draws the ire of the school and parents. He is connected with a female university student who arrives at the school for teaching apprenticeship.

Maribu (Yuya Yagira) was born from an elite family. In his school days, he did well in his studies and sports. He applied for admission to Tokyo University, but was denied. 10 years later, he is now married and has a baby. His family still lives in a small place. Even though he is in a difficult financial situation, he is still trying to gain admission into Tokyo University.

Miura Aoi is an indecisive guy with a timid personality who dislikes summer. He once aspired to become an architect, but his dream has faded as he lets the days go by working as an assistant in a small architectural firm in Tokyo. Then one day, Aoi has a fateful reunion with Serizawa Akari, his first love and a childhood friend. Back in their school days, the two were always together. However, Akari suddenly disappeared in the summer of their third year in high school. Aoi forced himself to bury his feelings for her deep within him, but it could never truly be forgotten. Aoi's heart is once again moved by their unexpected reunion. However, there is another guy who is also named Aoi standing next to her..

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.

Kensuke Okouchi (Tori Matsuzaka) is blind, but with his desire to help the weak he has become a lawyer. Now, he works at a law office with the help of his assistant Michiyo (Keiko Toda). He also has a wife Natsumi (Nao Minamisawa) who is pregnant.

One day, Kensuke receives a client, Satomi (Mari Hoshino), seeking a divorce. She wishes to end her marriage to Kazuya (Hidekazu Mashima) due to domestic violence.

High school junior Nishina Airi gets kidnapped on her way home from school and finds herself in a dark room. There, Airi and 9 other high school guys and girls are forced to play real life game in which they have to execute and kill each other.

Amano Aki goes with her mother Haruko to her hometown in Kitasanriku during a summer vacation. There, she meets her maternal grandmother, Natsu, for the first time. Natsu is a woman diver aka "ama", and Aki thinks that is just so cool. Aki is a second-year high-school student, and she struggles to keep up with the fast-paced life in Tokyo. Having been confined indoors most of the time, everything she sees in the rural town is exciting to her. But most of all, seeing her grandmother diving under the fierce surf along the coastline, leaves a huge impact on her. "I think I would like to be a diver too..."

"Kirishima, Bukatsu Yamerutteyo" tells the story of two high school students who crosses social boundaries between the elite and lower class at their school. Ryoya Maeda, from the lower class, is a member of the film club, while Hiroki Kikuchi, from the elite class, is a non-participating member of the high school baseball team.

* Movie is based on the novel "Kirishima, Bukatsu Yamerutteyo" by Ryo Asai (first published February, 2010).

* Ryo Asai's original novel "Kirishima, Bukatsu Yamerutteyo" is an omnibus story telling the stories of numerous characters. The movie "Kirishima, Bukatsu Yamerutteyo" focuses on two characters from the novel Ryoya Maeda & Hiroki Kikuchi.

* Filming takes place in Kochi City, Japan.

The story alternates between the past and present, linked by a fateful song. During World War II, Japanese submarine I-77 battles an American destroyer off the coast of Okinawa. Before heading to war, the captain received a final present from his lover, the score to a song titled Manatsu no Orion. Sixty-four years later, his granddaughter discovers the score and the significance behind the song.

The time spent at a family restaurant where the trio of Makubes 3, Haruto, Shunta, Junpei, hang out and discuss their comedy skit scripts. ~~ The program is unscripted, solely relying on the actors to stay in character and perform.