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- Mimi is a physician who is diligent, meticulous and uncompromising. She sees her work as critical and refuses to take short-cuts when it comes to anyone's health. Unfortunately, her perfectionism has lead to her being considered a tyrant. people are just not up to her standards. While working so hard she has forgotten how to love and romance and hence is single. She is dealing with the corona virus and life and death situations after all. She decides to find a man.
- The year is 2099, there is tumult everywhere and Japan is dominated by a secretive society. A mysterious girl called Shin roams the country and its outlands. There is an investigation, infiltration, an alliance and a betrayal. What is to become of Japan given its rulers, the outlaw and the Green Turtle?
- A frustrated writer has 5 mysterious women turn up at his house, all seemingly invited and all must adhere to strict rules, they all pay him a million yen as rent. Who is responsible for the invites?
- Three nerds are knee deep into their hobbies, collections and toys and the thought of real and actual women of flesh and blood to them is like social justice to a right-winger. Logically, these two things will remain as far apart as possible forever. Yet, coincidences happen and one night one of our nerds meets the woman of everyone's dreams and is of actual service to her.
- At a high school in the city of Yokohoma the baseball team trains to go to the top. There are struggles, hardships and successes and not all of it is due the star pitcher or batter and those in the centre of attention. There are rewards to being the great, but it is a long way to the top and they know it.
- Twelve kids go into an abandoned hospital to give up on life. In the room where they meet, a boy is already lying dead, and no one knows who he is.
- Life in the village may seem monotonous to a junior high school student. Local bullies are trouble and parents are annoying. Then one exciting day in 1987 Takashi hears a rumour that a porn star called Kyoko is visiting the village to sign autographs at the local video store - and it happens to be the one he frequents. Takashi and his friends have something for which to be excited.
- Reiko's plan was to become an idol and an actress, but instead she is now back in her hometown as a teacher at the same school she herself had attended. Also at the school is Reiko's younger sister Rika, who is a student, and the oldest sibling Kanae who is also a teacher. The sisters are not going to have a year free of trouble however.
- It is 2017 and a resurrected Tomodachi rules world. The prophecies of The New Book have all come true.
- Someone gets asked out on a date and someone catches her beloved out and about with another woman. The woman is cute and long-haired, which is cause for jealousy. A robot provides some comfort. Feminism rears its head at work when Yuri goes to bat for her team's concept and company's creative.
- Yuma is a young Japanese woman with cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, she struggles to lead a self-determined life.
- Meeting the woman of your dreams in Hawaii is a blessing until you discover she has short-term memory loss and forgets everything the very next day.
- A young female manager is tasked with bolstering her own department's toys and mascots, as well as the company's main product line of sweets and confectionery, sales. While her small group improves the sales of toys and figures, the sales of the company's increasingly stale candy is not seeing a similar boost. The company's impulsive president brings an old hand back to assist the fledgling department. There is a forty-year age difference between the new older employee and his manager.
- It portrays a family on Earth who come to believe that they are actually from other planets all of a sudden. They try so hard to save the endangered planet Earth but things get crazy on the way.
- Narrated and viewed from perspective of a child in family, Shoonen H portrays daily trials and societal difficulties of a Christian family from just prior to commencement of World War II to its aftermath.
- Thirty-five-year-old Yuji Koroki likes singer Tamio Okuda. He is useless with women in the tradition of films like Train Man or My life Changed When I Went To A Sex Parlour. He works at a popular magazine and has a difficult time with the banter of those coworkers around. There is Akari though and is lovely and flaunting and hence desirable and attractive to Yuji and all men. With love comes misery however as Yuji is soon deep in both.
- In a film that recalls the memories of the director's youth in Miyazaki Prefecture in Southern Japan during World War II, the local population is working hard in factories, on the road and the land aiding the war effort and preparing to defend against the impending invading American army. Life goes on amidst the deaths, turmoil and tragedy, but these are not usual times.
- At a night school a diverse group of students ranging from teenagers to elderly, smart to under-developed and of different races have been assembled to study and finally hopefully graduate.
- While drinking outside Tome decides to help in a jiffy and inevitably impresses with his cooking skills, as well as willingness to help. Unfortunately, the evening works against him when it is determined that he has placed his place of employment's reputation in jeopardy. He atones by resigning. The restaurant is short-handed now.
- When Yo is hospitalized she gradually develops feelings for Yayoi who is a nurse tending to her. However, Yayoi eventually leaves the nursing profession. Yo is disappointed, but turns to the older woman after she is the subject of unrequited love from her mother's boyfriend. The two grow closer and Yo is about to find out what motivates Yayoi.
- Two brothers work at a small winery in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The older brother is picky and strives for the highest quality to make the best wine possible. He is not succeeding. The brothers are twelve years apart. The younger brother is not so keen and does not have the same focus or passion as his brother. A woman and her RV arrive one day. She becomes involved in the brothers' life and things begin to change.
- Boyatetsu is from 1945, but travels forward to the year 2020. He finds himself in a Tokyo where Japanese are having less children and the population is in decline. There is also actual problems like unemployment. He is surprised, bewilders and wants to gather his wits together again and play mahjong.
- After many happy years of happily living with her husband Kinuko has been widowed recently. Her granddaughter and she live in the house and receive visitors now, but Kinuko is happiest watching the camellias in the garden bloom at her house in Kamakura. She contemplates the future and her next steps. She comes across a dead goldfish in the garden one day.
- A home-care nurse's relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their daughter.
- Machan and Mikun lead isolated lives after being kidnapped and confined as teenagers a decade ago. Mikun had promised Machan to be there for her forever and now with a serial killer who is also a kidnapper on the looser the two reunite to fulfill their promise to one another.
- Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their mother for his farewell and prepare themselves for the emotions to follow.
- After their twenty-something son moves out Yohei, a school teacher, and his wife Miyoko may begin a new phase in their lives. Yohei is taken aback, however, when he comes across divorce papers stashed in the house. rethinking his life he has to plat his next steps with his wife.
- In an omnibus film that is adopted from a novel, four individuals' lives come into focus. One is thief. One is a boy who believes in god. Yet another is a a woman councilor who not only is planning to kill her husband as she is having an affair, but is also involved in a plan to kill off her lover's wife. Then there is the former company employee who has lost both his job and family. The four lives and situations meander and cross paths.
- Sawako who works as a physician away from her hometown return home to Shikawa for her father's sake. She obtains a job at a local clinic. As part of her job she provides outpatient services alongside a former colleague and other caregivers from the clinic. She has no choice but to become enmeshed in the lives of her colleagues and patients who come from different walks of life.
- A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
- A South Korean journalist and a Japanese cameraman in South Korea are invited to an abandoned apartment one day.
- A content samurai is given ten years to comprehensively chronicle his clan before he commits harakiri, or ritual disembowelment, for being caught in a tryst with one of the concubines of the lord of the fief. However, not all is as it seems. Nonetheless, fearing dishonoured if the tasked samurai has second thoughts about his sentence chief retainer to the lord assigns a younger samurai to live with and oversee the older swordsman.
- During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs.
- A young Ayane Kataoka (Rin Takanashi) works at the City Hall in Akaiwa, Okayama, but her main interest is growing and developing peaches in the orchard. She even plans to register a new type on which her dead brother worked. Enter Osamu Kimura (Takumi Saito) from the Ministry Of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries who has come to the city. The film premiered at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival.
- Two brothers are in the film business and run a production company. With his divorce proceedings underway the younger brother has moved in with his older brother. A last-minute cancellation leaves them looking for a script. Enter the maid and a ready-made script that is right under their noses.
- 2007–201147m7.3 (12)TV EpisodeWith courage comes results. Another cliche: good things come to those who wait. Yet another cliche: third time's the charm. The two co-workers go on one date, but it is awkward. The second one is uncomfortable. The third one is it and there are not any intruders either. The manager mails in his divorce papers, but is caught by an employee regarding his living arrangement. Two other co-workers are only half clicking.
- Artificial Intelligence has permeated every aspect of planetary life in 2030. Tokyoites experience AI in every aspect of their lives whether medical, finance, transportation or their personal and day-to-day interactions. Many would tell you that AI is indispensable. Yet, as is often the case with technology jumping the gun on ethics and rules AI spins out of control and causes calamity after calamity. The city and the country are in chaos.
- Somewhere a television presenter is murdered. Somewhere else, a member of the Japanese Diet (parliament) is saved from almost-certain death by two policemen assigned to her detail. The police soon identify a connection between the cases and also find it part of a larger picture. The cases soon hit close to home.
- Ryoko a talented, popular and vaunted adult film actress has a film shooting in Seoul, the capital of South Korea on her schedule next. She has it in her so this will be no problem. Unfortunately, she can take only so much of what comes to her in South Korea. Problems arise as soon as she takes in Incheon International Airport. She has to embrace the inexperienced crew and swallow hard when the low budget blocks her creativity and zeal. Then comes a South Korean actress who is thrust into the menage without really having the experience for it.
- Five different directors showcase different segments under the 'twenty-year-old love' theme. Each segment begins with the shot of a bed and involve romance, lust and love. The film is inspired by the 1962 film of the same name in which one, among the international locations, is Tokyo, Japan.
- A thirty-three-year old woman lives her life by a personal code of righteousness. Her life experience has shaped her morality and sense of justice. After becoming pregnant and a housewife she and her old school friends drifted apart, but they meet to catch up. Her friends' lives are slowly but surely altered as a result of their meeting.
- Master Kaei, the heir to the affluent and well-regarded Karasuma family, is back at home in Japan after a period of studying in the United Kingdom. Back at the mansion he has Kisaragi Soma to serve him. Soma is efficient and intelligent beyond his station. There is something unusual afoot and the two men need to counter it.
- There is a man who works at a strip bar directing the strippers. He attends his fifteenth anniversary reunion party where he meets his old school-mate's wife. The woman visits the man's work place a couple of days later. One of the dancers is having her crazy period as she is having her period. The visitor is intrigued when the man tries to comfort the woman by being touchy-feely. The woman is hot and horny and visits the man's office seeking sexual relief.
- A vehicle for the idol band AeLL, which is comprised of several cases, has the three girls running their own detective agency. They occupy an office, but cannot afford the rent. The landlord tries to evict them. With that said, the landlord also owns an apartment that is unfortunately haunted and asks the girls to solve this problem in lieu of rent payment. In another episode they act as bodyguards for a famed lyricist. The girls are picky about their clients and yearn for that special case.
- Shy and self conscious Miwa attends university, goes home, studies and converses with her turtle. Saori in contrast is an entitled daughter of a rich and somewhat idolized family. Koyuzu is in the family business conducting shady business out of their offices. The agency gets even on behalf of customers. The three become entangled in life and are set against one another, which in their cases is not a simple matter.
- Things become awkward in the aftermath of a spontaneous kiss. The lack of experience and confidence immediately shows. The attempts at communication are rebuffed and every step forward seems to come with a step backward. Things get so bad that eating together is avoided and the man and the woman communicate via texting from either side of a door. Ice wine helps break the - ice though.
- Ito is a young woman, but is not just a pretty face. She wields a sword better than a samurai; better than any man. That is until one day she finally finds someone who is her match on the sword. She is smitten, but is not available any longer. She can, however, become involved in investigating an ensuing crime. Her talent will come in handy.
- Akira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student who used to be a part of the track and field club. Working part-time at a restaurant, she finds herself inexplicably falling in love with her manager, a divorced 45-year-old man.
- A girl loves an older man. A man loves the girl, but it is a different co-worker than the older man. Nothing gets in the way of her feelings. They all work in a restaurant and mix their emotions with their jobs. The serial is an offshoot of the manga and the film of the same name focusing on the non-mainstream feelings and emotions of a young woman.
- Tanaka Hiroshi (Kaku Kento) has a set of hair that can only and best be described as Afro. it is thick, bushy and voluminous. He is naive and not from Tokyo where he moves to. He finds a place to stay at a dormitory and also finds a job. he is set to go. Then there is his hair and its unusual style.