Movies and TvShows featuring "japanese-dorama" theme.
Alice in Borderland is a Japanese drama TV show based on the manga series of the same name. It follows a group of young people who find themselves transported to an empty city where they must participate in dangerous and deadly games in order to stay alive. As they navigate through various challenges and conflicts, they unravel the mysteries of the city and discover the truth behind their circumstances. With elements of action, adventure, drama, mystery, and sci-fi, Alice in Borderland combines thrilling gameplay with psychological suspense.
Midnight Diner is a heartwarming TV show set in a small Tokyo diner that opens from midnight to dawn. The show follows the stories of various customers who come to the diner seeking a late-night meal and find much more than just food. Each episode focuses on a different customer and explores their personal struggles, relationships, and life lessons. With a nice male lead and an episodic structure, Midnight Diner is a heartwarming and insightful show that offers a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people.
Good Morning Call is a Japanese TV show based on a manga. Yoshikawa Nao is a high school girl who finds herself in a difficult situation when her parents move to the countryside, leaving her to live alone in an apartment. However, her peaceful life is soon interrupted when the most popular boy in school, Uehara Hisashi, also moves in. Now Nao and Hisashi have to navigate the challenges of cohabitation while dealing with rumors, love triangles, and the complexities of high school life.
Erased (2017) is a live-action adaptation of a popular manga and anime series. It follows Satoru Fujinuma, a struggling manga artist who has the ability to go back in time a few minutes before a tragedy occurs. When his mother is murdered, Satoru travels back in time to his childhood to solve the mystery and prevent the series of events that leads to her death.
Tasai, Mitsushima and Ango are all married, but they want to have a girlfriend. They know that is not right, but they still want a girlfriend because they are not happy with their marriage life. Their problem is that they don't know how to find a girlfriend. Mitsushima then brings Ibuse Masumi who teaches men how to make girlfriends. Ibuse Masumi first had a girlfriend at the age of 22 and he also has experience having 11 girlfriends at the same time. ~~ Based on the manga series "Furinji Man" by Aoki Uhei.
When this happens though, she blacks out. Even in her day-to-day life, she can hear people's evil intentions and true colors and senses their lies and deception. That is why she always wears headphones in order to shut out people's emotions. She works well with her colleagues at the "Red Spider Lily" (Higanbana) unit, who are all brutally honest acid-tongued women with no qualms about speaking their minds. "Red Spider Lily" is an eclectic unit that includes a science geek, a single mom, and a woman who grew up abroad. Seen by many as a department that's been taken off the main career track, "Red Spider Lily" turns out to be full of fabulous detectives!
HANA-KIMI (2007) follows Mizuki Ashiya, a high school girl who transfers to an all-boys school in order to meet her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano. To blend in, Mizuki disguises herself as a boy and becomes Sano's roommate. As Mizuki navigates her new life at the school, she forms friendships, faces competition, and experiences unrequited love. The series explores themes of friendship, identity, and love.
An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner's sister to investigate his death.
5→9 From Five to Nine is a romantic comedy TV show set in Japan. It follows the story of a dedicated English teacher who falls in love with a handsome and mysterious monk. As they navigate their feelings for each other, they also face challenges related to their individual aspirations and dreams of moving forward in life.
Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase “Congratulations! I’m here to call on you” although it is hard to say how this can be a happy occasion, and watch over the dying. To a grim reaper, persuading people attempting to commit suicide and preventing unforeseen deaths is also an important task. But because #413 is new to this grim reaper work, he has a tendency to lean towards humans in his judgments, break the rules of the nether world and get reprimanded by his superior.
GTO (2012) is a comedy-drama TV show based on a manga, where a former gang member becomes a teacher in a Japanese high school. With his unorthodox teaching methods, he aims to help his students overcome their struggles and make a positive impact on their lives.
In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke into his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is working near the area, hears a gunshot and runs towards the apartment. Detective Oomura already is at the scene of the crime.
Young, free and madly in love. As teenagers, the world was their oyster but as adults, their lives seem dimmer, like a very important piece is missing.
Takada Yu is an employee of a development firm. His father has favored his high-achieving older brother and been indifferent to Yu since young. So Yu craves for his father’s love and wants his recognition somehow. Then one day, Yu encounters a woman. Although it was the worst possible meeting, he gradually starts to have romantic feelings for her through work and an unexpected development. But ironically enough, she turns out to be the girlfriend of his older brother. Yu begins to realize what he truly treasures and matures as a person as he struggles with this complicated romance and with his older brother and father.
The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami follows Kyoko Okitegami, a detective who suffers from a peculiar form of amnesia where her memory is reset every night. Despite her condition, Kyoko solves complex cases by leaving notes for herself, making use of her exceptional deductive skills. As she unravels mysteries, Kyoko's past and the truth behind her amnesia slowly come to light.
Kyoko Ogawa is a woman in her 20's and she works at an underwear company. Because of her mother, Kyoko Ogawa has suffered from low self-esteem since she was a child. She is also shaken by two men: Kojiro Yoshizaki and Ren Hoshina. Kojiro Yoshizaki works as an editor for a manga magazine. He is bright, funny and a nice person. Ren Hoshina is a guy that Kyoko Ogawa dated when she attended college. Ren Hoshina was able to see her weakness and was controlling over her. At her job at the underwear company, Ren Hoshina appears in front of her as her boss.
Yoshioka Yuiko begins the first grade in high school. She gets sick with the cold and stays in bed. At that time, she gets a phone call from class president Matsubara. Yuiko becomes flattered by his kind voice on the phone. The next day, she goes to school and meets Matsubara. He is a mysterious boy, wearing a paper bag over his head. Her high school days begin with pounding heart.
The story of Makino Mantaro (Kamiki Ryunosuke), a botanist who ran through the Meiji era (1868-1912) in full bloom, begins. Born the heir to the Tosa sake brewery Mineya, Mantaro (Yurito Mori) is a boy who loves plants and flowers and led a straightforward life. His life was colored by the many vivid encounters he had with many people. People whom Mantaro met in his hometown of Kochi, and whose way of life and words gave him a guideline for his life. "Ranman," is a drama in which charming characters bloom freely around the main character, Mantaro, just like flowers.
Coffee & Vanilla (2019) follows the story of a young girl who wakes up in a strange bed and discovers a whole new world of love and romance. Based on a popular manga, this Japanese drama explores the ups and downs of modern relationships.
Kishi Minetaro is a skilled and serious-minded plastic surgeon. He looks down on doctors earning money through cosmetic surgeries as well as on women asking for such medical procedures. However, having to repay his father's debt, Minetaro chooses lucrative work at a clinic specializing in aesthetic plastic surgery. The clinic is full of beautiful women, including the director Yukawa Mari, who is well known for her skills in breast reconstruction, a highly-trusted doctor Ichii Mutsumi, and a cheerful nurse Kishitani Aoi. But most of them have already had some work done to their faces, and they strongly believe that “faces are for lives.” Various types of patients visit this clinic. As Minetaro needs to keep this job to continue paying off the debt, he has no choice but to respond to the patients' selfish requests, such as, “I need my previous face back because my husband suspects that I may cheat on him now that I have a surgically-altered, young-looking face,” or “I want to change my face and look different from my twin sister.” But their wishes makes him wonder...If they change their appearances, will their futures become brighter? Will their worries disappear? “Beauty” is the keyword set in this human drama, depicting the true feelings of women through the eyes of a surgeon who isn't attuned to reading a woman's mind.