Japanese dramas and movies I've seen
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1. Imawa no Kuni no Alice
Japanese Drama - 2020, 8 episodes
Obsessed gamer Arisu suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive.
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2. Switched
Japanese Drama - 2018, 6 episodes
High schooler Ayumi's perfect world evaporates when envious classmate Zenko somehow steals her body, her boyfriend and her life.
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3. Drowning Love
Japanese Movie - 2016
Natsume is shown as a Teen idol in Tokyo who has to give up on her career who moves to her father's hometown in of Ukigumo as her parents have decided to aid her ailing grandfather inn in the small town.
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4. Coffee & Vanilla
Japanese Drama - 2019, 10 episodes
A naive college student looking for love falls for a 30-year-old businessman with a dark past.
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5. Good Morning Call
Japanese Drama - 2016, 17 episodes
A teenager has finally gotten her own apartment. The only problem is that she's sharing it with the most popular boy in school, and they have to keep it a secret.
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6. Hot Gimmick
Japanese Movie - 2019
A quiet teen's life is shaken up when she is forced to be her arrogant neighbor's slave; he loves her, but they both have a lot to learn about trust.
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7. Re:Mind
Japanese Drama - 2017, 12 episodes
When high school classmates wake up, they find themselves in a perilous situation -- restrained in a large dining room. They want answers as to why somebody is holding them hostage, so they try to think of reasons why they are locked up and, more importantly, how they can escape. Fearing their situation is retribution for a past incident with a classmate, they offer up confessions and point blame in order to figure out who the captor is.
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8. Followers
Japanese Drama - 2020, 9 episodes
When an aspiring actress hits it big thanks to a candid Instagram, her life intersects with many other Tokyo women as they follow their dreams.
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9. Ai Naki Mori de Sakebe
Japanese Drama - 2020, 7 episodes
A con man forces himself into the lives of two impressionable young women and leads them down a dark and depraved path.
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10. 37 Seconds
Japanese Movie - 2019
Yuma is a young Japanese woman who suffers from 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.
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11. Love and Fortune
Japanese Drama - 2018, 12 episodes
Frustrated by life with her boyfriend, thirty-something Wako can't stop herself from being interested in high schooler Yumeaki, despite their age gap.
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12. Mother
Japanese Movie - 2020
Shuhei's erratic mother feels threatened when he starts to awaken to a world beyond her distorted control, sending the family hurtling toward tragedy.
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13. Hitsuji to Okami no Koi to Satsujin
Japanese Movie - 2019
Etsuro is a loner who does not leave his place. He is isolated, has no friends and suffers emotionally after failing to gain acceptance into college. He attempts suicide, but is even a failure at that. He happens to see the girl next door and she tickles his fancy.
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14. Sachiiro no One Room
Japanese Drama - 2018, 10 episodes
A girl is just 14 years old, but she endures a difficult life. Her parents abuse her at home and she is bullied by students at her school. She doesn't have a place where she can feel comfortable. One day, the girl is kidnapped by a man wearing a mask. The kidnapper names the girl Sachi, while wishing her to be happy. For the first time, Sachi can feel happiness.
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15. Birds Without Names
Japanese Movie - 2017
An unbalanced young woman longs for her ex-boyfriend, the one who almost beat her to death.
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16. Todome no Kiss
Japanese Drama - 2018, 10 episodes
Otaro does not believe in love and all he wants is money and power. One day, a woman whose face is pale and bluish gives him a kiss. The kiss makes him go back to the past. -
17. Ousama Game
Japanese Movie - 2011
One night, Honda Chiemi and childhood friend Kanazawa Nobuaki receive an email. The sender is the King and the subject of the email is "King Game." The email states that if the recipient does not complete the king's order within 24 hours then they will be punished. Since that first email all of Chiemi's classmates receive an email from the King. At first, students think it's a joke, but perform the orders anyways. Gradually, the orders become worse. Finally, 2 classmates who do not follow the orders are punished. Then classmates start to disappear in sequence. With Iwamura Ria, Honda Chiemi gets closer to uncovering the identity of the King, but tragedy is about to come to Chiemi.
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18. Hanaoni
Japanese Movie - 2009
On her 16th birthday, a shy girl is brought to a strange, new school and told she's destined to marry the king of demons.
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19. Hanaoni 2
Japanese Movie - 2009
Moegi Sahara is just a normal 16-year-old girl, but she has to marry Reiji Takatsuki, a demon. She is not happy about and tries to run away.
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20. Hanaoni 3
Japanese Movie - 2009
Tochizuka Momoko is having a bad day, when a red car nearly hits her. The driver is Horikawa Hibiki. The next day she finds out that he is a student at her school, and a demon.
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21. 3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu
Japanese Drama - 2019, 10 episodes
With graduation 10 days away, homeroom teacher Hiiragi gathers all 29 students of class 3-A and proclaims them as his hostages. His last lesson regards the death of a student that passed away a few months before. Nobody will be able to graduate until the truth is known.
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22. Orange
Japanese Movie - 2015
During the spring of her 16th year, Takamiya Naho receives a letter from her future self. Upon reading the initial page of the letter, her class was introduced to a transfer student from Tokyo named Naruse Kakeru. The letter she realized was an account of the things her future self had experienced and regretted the most. Frightened, she tries to avoid reading further, but as her interests towards Kakeru bloom, Naho eventually decides to encourage him. Naho, together with the help of her friends, Suwa, Chino, Hagita, and Azusa do their best to avoid having the same regrets their future self had and heals Kakeru from his desolation and self-blame.
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23. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Japanese Movie - 2019
A prestigious private high school has students who rank academically at the top of the nation. The school's student council president is Miyuki Shirogane and their student council vice-president is Kaguya Shinomiya. They are attracted to each other, but do not confess their feelings for each other due to their stubborn pride. About a half a year has passed since they have kept their feelings private. Now, Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya think the person who confesses first will be the loser. They both think of ways to make the other person confess first.
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24. Confessions
Japanese Movie - 2010
Middle school teacher Moriguchi Yoko's life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Eventually, Yoko suspects some of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter's death. She comes up with an elaborate plan for revenge against the students who killed her innocent daughter.
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25. Battle Royale
Japanese Movie - 2000
A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are taken to an abandoned island, each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die.
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26. Signal 100
Japanese Movie - 2020
A group of high school students are forced into a game where they are hypnotized to commit suicide on an unknown command. Where no one is safe from a sudden death, how can they avoid their fates?
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27. As the Gods Will
Japanese Movie - 2014
A 2nd-year high school student named Shun Takahata lives an ordinary teenage life until one day he’s suddenly forced to participate in a series of children’s games such as “Daruma-san ga Koronda” with death as the penalty for losing. With no knowledge of who’s behind the games, he’s left with no other choice but to keep winning as his only means of protecting himself and his childhood friend, Ichika. Meanwhile, a troubled classmate named Takeru seems to actually be relishing the opportunity to get other students killed.