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At 29 years old, carefree Hiroto Ikuta doesn't have a girlfriend, a full-time job, or a plan for the future—and he couldn't be happier. Hiroto's breezy attitude isn't easy for everyone to understand, though. In a world filled with anxiety, confusion, and grief, Hiroto and the people around him are all just doing their best to figure out this thing called life.
Two men, torn by the moral dilemma of uncovering others' secrets for justice, work to solve unsolved cases using special MRI technology that can reproduce living memories of the dead.
Haru Komatsubara, a quiet prisoner, working as a hairdresser in a unique prison beauty salon, reflects on guilt, redemption, and second chances as her sentence nears its end.
Lawyer Shiro pours his heart into home-cooked meals for his partner, hairstylist Kenji, as they navigate life as a middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo.
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Eight fictional holidays are taken by actor Ryoma Takeuchi. While taking a break from filming, he visits a spice shop.
A cat who dreams of reuniting with its owner & works as a housekeeper to save money.
Tenko runs a pension alone. The pension is located in a forest in Nagano, that is full of the Japanese larch tree. She interacts with her guests, who come from all walks of life.
Akiko lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and takes over her mother's small restaurant. At the restaurant there's only two items on the menu: sandwich and soup.
Shin Karino is an unpopular manga writer and he is single. He lives in an apartment complex that has a rule forbidding children from living there. One day, Shin Karino's doorbell rings. When he opens his apartment door, he sees a small boy. The boy is 5-year-old Kotaro Sato. Kotaro Sato tells Shin Karino that he moved into the neighborhood. Shin Karino makes a weird face, because of the rule of his apartment complex. Kotaro Sato says that he lives by himself. At first, Shin Karino is annoyed by Kotaro Sato, but residents of the apartment building, including Shin Karino, become attached to Kotaro Sato.
Adapted from a popular webtoon. Toriyama Michiru, an ordinary housewife who has never thought about adultery before gets addicted to a subscription affair service that allows you to have a “safe affair.” Her married life with her husband (Kimura Ryo), who she’d met through work, began to deviate from the ideal she had originally envisioned. One day, at the recommendation of a friend, she learns of an app called “Buffet,” a subscription service that allows married people to have affairs safely and confidentially. After signing up for the service, she encounters photographer Junya, and Kentaro, the heir to a major hospital, and as a result, she becomes unable to break free from the never-ending loop of desire for self-approval and paying for more services. A new and exciting “swamp” suspense drama centered around love, money and greed begins!
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.
Komatsu Kie (Key), a magazine writer from Tokyo, teams up with Omine Sakura, an Okinawa native, to pursue the truth of a sexual assault case.
The president of an IT company is found dead. The cause of death is believed to be an overdose of medication for a chronic illness, but the possibility of murder emerges since potassium and other substances were found in the body. Ogawa, unfamiliar with the investigation, asks for help from Okawa, a former detective who now works for the police department. The "large-and-small duo", who are uneven in appearance and personality, take on the challenge of getting to the bottom of a difficult case.
"Cote d'Azur No.10" tells 9 different stories about the daily lives of ordinary people. Their daily lives are like a treasure.
This story tells the tale of a boy's life in Tokyo for 20 years. Shota attended a famous private university in Tokyo. After he learned that his girlfriend was cheating on him with rich older men, he said "Woman only care about money after all", and swore to raise his status in Tokyo. After graduating, Shota found a job at a leading trading company and lived a life with no shortage of money and love. However, his values gradually change throughout his fight for success with his co-worker Kojima and his relationship with Minami, who wants to marry a man with an annual income of more than 30 million. It wasn't until Shota reunited with his classmate, Kazuma, a CEO of a venture company, and his subordinate, Ruriko, that he starts to find new meaning to his life...
Shibui Naoto is a 52-year old single designer with a private office. He spends his daily life with style.
Set with three central figures, "Mother Water" describes the daily lives of people near the Kamo River in Kyoto, Japan.
In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named Nagano, whom she has never met before; at a small theater, runs into Kikuchi, a former screenwriter; lastly, meets Yasuko at the zoo.
