A romantic film about a man struggling with a painful past as he tries to move forward, only to discover that the woman in his present life has an uncanny connection to his past. Together, they navigate the complexities of love, heartbreak, and healing, all against the backdrop of cultural and identity differences in the foreign city.
A drama about young adults and the importance of text messaging on their love lives. In the drama, Han Seung Ho is a Korean foreign student who moves in with, Miu, his friend. Han Seung Ho wants to send a message to his first love in Japanese, but because his Japanese is weak, he enlists the help of Miu to write the texts. Through this relationship, the two end up in love.
Love comes in all flavors. Secret Ingredient is the story of a Korean man who gives up his entire luxurious life in Seoul in search of his childhood girlfriend, someone he’s never forgotten all these years, in the hopes that she would fall in love with him, not for who they were back then or who they are now, but for what they can aspire to be: happy, fulfilled and blissfully in love with one another.
Woo Hyun is a Korean man, and Haruka is a Japanese woman. They live different lives, but they both carry emotional scars from their first love. While looking for answers and hope, their fateful encounter will change their lives. It started with one message… Haruka, a stage actress in Seoul, has been in a slump ever since she broke up with her first love. She cannot forget him and keeps sending messages that go unread on LINE. Despite her emotional hurt, Haruka wants to believe in love. In Tokyo, Woo Hyun, an aspiring movie director, keeps on doing interviews concerning “love”. After being deeply hurt by his girlfriend, who thought about getting married, he no longer believes in love. Haruka and Woo Hyun have both grown timid of love. The two of them, who live apart in Tokyo and Seoul, have a chance encounter because of a LINE message delivered to Woo Hyun’s smartphone from Haruka. They exchange messages without knowing each other’s faces and are drawn to each other before they realise it
Emilia, a Filipino who arrived in Japan with aspirations of becoming a model, coincidentally encounters Matsuyama Mirai, an aspiring photographer. Their connection deepens as they find themselves drawn to each other. Mirai, intent on immortalising their moments together, diligently captures their essence through the lens of his camera. However, an unexpected parting disrupts the flow of their narrative. Subsequently, the saga of these two individuals unfolds beyond the shores of Japan, traversing the vast sea to the Philippines, where their story takes on new dimensions.
L, an angel who’s endlessly fascinated with the human world, gets into trouble when she unthinkingly saves the life of Han Shi Yeong, a man who was meant to die. To make up for her mistake she must guard him on Earth for one hundred days and keep him safe from Hwan, a death god who is required to collect his soul. Both supernatural beings must contend with the knowledge that whichever one of them fails by the end of the hundred days will be erased from existence, and the longer they stay on Earth the further their powers fade and the more human they become.
Matsumura Ryouko is a popular novelist in her 50s who has just found out that she has Alzheimer’s disease. In order to gain some fulfilment in her life, she decides to be a guest lecturer at a university. Through one of her students, she meets a South Korean exchange student, So Chan Hae. As they become closer, they fall in love.
A love story of the past 5,272 km, linking the two countries, Indonesia and Japan. Elly, Indonesian students, and Ryo, a young Japanese acquainted through social media. They also met in Japan, spending time together, and eventually fell in love. However, differences in language and culture in their way. How is the continuation of their love story?
Singer Hyeon Seok develops problems with his hearing (Menieres syndrome) and has to stop his recordings. He notices a picture of Hokkaido in a magazine and decides to travel there. He eventually arrives in a a small village in Hokkaido for rest. While there, he reminisces about the old days. The owner of the inn offers him a Japanese meal. There he meets a bright cheerful girl named Megumi.
When his boss, Dae Jung, goes missing in a ship accident, the company sends Woo Joo to Osaka to finish his business. On his last day in the city, Woo Joo chases someone looking exactly like Dae Jung to Taisho, an area in Osaka. He ends up losing him, but the sound of a guitar draws Woo Joo to a small bar, Pier 34. Its owner, Snow, somehow reminds him of Dae Jung, and listening to his music brings back memories. After passing out right there, Woo Joo ends up missing his flight back to Korea. He quits his job on a whim and soon meets Haruna, who is learning how to play the guitar from Snow. Woo Joo decides to stay at Pier 34 until he finds Dae Jung and so begins an unlikely vacation for him.
This romantic comedy begins with a chance encounter between a protagonist who "can't touch people" and a heroine who "can't look people in the eye," both of whom have serious relationship problems through chocolate.
Fujiwara Sosuke is the son of a major confectionery manufacturer who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder due to past trauma and is the new president of the popular chocolate shop Le Sober. Lee Ha Na is a genius chocolatier who has been hiding her true identity as an "anonymous chocolatier" at Le Sober, where her beloved master was the owner, due to her scopophobia.
Irene is a psychiatrist who is Sosuke's friend and doctor. She later becomes a famous psychiatrist who counsels Ha Na and publishes books, but she herself suffers from alcoholism and has trouble with romance. Takada Hiroshi has been a friend of Sosuke's since his school days and the owner of his favorite bar, Brush. Hiroshi, who was also friends with the former owner of Le Sober, Ha Na's mentor, is also the man with whom Ha Na secretly is in love...
Fujiwara Sosuke is the son of a major confectionery manufacturer who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder due to past trauma and is the new president of the popular chocolate shop Le Sober. Lee Ha Na is a genius chocolatier who has been hiding her true identity as an "anonymous chocolatier" at Le Sober, where her beloved master was the owner, due to her scopophobia.
Irene is a psychiatrist who is Sosuke's friend and doctor. She later becomes a famous psychiatrist who counsels Ha Na and publishes books, but she herself suffers from alcoholism and has trouble with romance. Takada Hiroshi has been a friend of Sosuke's since his school days and the owner of his favorite bar, Brush. Hiroshi, who was also friends with the former owner of Le Sober, Ha Na's mentor, is also the man with whom Ha Na secretly is in love...
