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Sep 27, 2024 · Learn Japanese with these 23 entertaining TV shows! Drama, comedy and adventure await. Read this post to see how you can learn vocabulary, grammar, culture and more while kicking back and relaxing, Japanese style. Forget about learning Japanese the hard way!
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Beautiful Rain
Japanese Title: ビューティフルレイン (びゅーてぃふるれいん) Year: 2012 Watch It On: FujiTV(VPN Required) This drama is called “Beautiful Rain” in English, and just seeing the title regularly is enough to help your katakana. It stars veteran movie and TV star Etsushi Toyokawa (豊川悦司, とよかわ えつし) as a widowed father bringing up his young daughter, child superstar Mana Adashi (芦田愛菜, あしだ まな). After a small injury at work, Etsushi’s doctor makes the unwelcome discovery that he has Alzheimer’s disease. Each episode focus...
I Propose to You Once Again
Japanese Title: もう一度君に、プロポーズ (もういちどきみに、ぷろぽーず) Year: 2012 Watch It On: Amazon Prime Japan, Paravi(VPN Required) This drama, titled “Will You Marry Me Again” in English, is a very interesting romantic drama. Emi Wakui (和久井映見, わくい えみ) plays a happily married wife who faints due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Upon hearing this, her husband—played by Yutaka Takenouchi (竹野内豊, たけのうち ゆたか), an extremely popular model and TV star—rushes to the hospital and is there when she wakes up. Unfortunately, she...
Absolute Boyfriend
Japanese Title: 絶対彼氏 (ぜったいかれし) Year: 2008 Watch It On: FujiTV(VPN Required) “Absolute Boyfriend” looks at the dynamics of what a relationship is. Model and popular TV star Saki Aibu (相武紗季, あいぶ さき) plays a single girl who keeps failing to catch the man she likes and gets unwittingly picked by a scientist to be part of a trial using the first human-like robots. She names her robot Night—played by Mokomichi Hayami (速水もこみち, はやみ もこみち) who is also a model and even has his own cooking show—while at...
Rich Man, Poor Woman
Japanese Title: リッチマン、プアウーマン (りっちまん、ぷあうーまん) Year: 2012 Watch It On: FujiTV(VPN Required) This drama, “Rich Man, Poor Woman,” and the following two dramas are relatively more difficult to follow due to the more complex language used and, as such, you might want to watch with subtitles. “Rich Man, Poor Woman” follows the story of a rich and successful man played by Jun Ogura (小栗旬, おぐらじゅん), who you may have spotted in a small role in “あずみ” alongside Aya Ueto and in a more expanded role in its se...
Attention Please
Japanese Title: アテンションプリーズ (あてんしょんぷりーず) Year:2006 Watch It On: n/a; DVD Only “Attention Please” is focused on a rock chick, Aya Ueto, who ends up applying to be an air stewardess because the boy she likes doesn’t view her as a real girl, but who shows an interest in air stewardesses. Somehow she passes her interview and begins training to become a real air stewardess. The story is quite entertaining and informative about the training that a Japanese air stewardess goes through, but also it’s...
MONSTERS
Japanese Title: もんすたーず Year: 2012 Watch It On: n/a; DVD Only SMAP is a massive pop sensation that has had a dominant position in Japanese entertainment for around 20 years. All the members of SMAP frequently appear in dramas and TV variety shows, and “MONSTERS” sees SMAP member Shingo Katori (香取慎吾, かとりしんご) as a very unusual detective. Although he’s always smiling and very polite, he’s unpopular as he does what he wants when he wants and purposely intrudes into places where he shouldn’t. His s...
Doctor X
Japanese Title: ドクターX (どくたーえっくす) Year: 2012 Watch It On: Amazon Prime Japan This famous series boasts a whopping six seasons, which is nearly unheard of for a Japanese drama. That should give you plenty of binge material! Ryoko Yonekura plays Michiko Daimon, a freelance surgeon who works at various hospitals throughout Japan, represented by her manager Akira Kanbara. A lone wolf, she takes on the most challenging surgeries, snubbing hospital politics in order to treat her patients. Nobody kno...
Unnatural
Japanese Title: アンナチュラル (あんなちゅらる) Year:2018 Where to watch: Viki This medical drama has a different take on the genre: by looking into the world of forensic pathology, a science that determines the cause of death in those who have died in an unusual manner. Featuring a new case every week, “Unnatural” features forensic pathologist Mikoto Misumi (Satomi Ishihara) and her team at a medical research institute called the UDI, who uncover the mysteries behind bizarre deaths. Not only does this sho...
Jin
Japanese Title: JIN-仁- (じん) Year: 2009 Watch on: Amazon Prime Japan One of the most popular dramas of 2009, “Jin” combines medical science and time travel all in one engaging package. The titular character, Jin (played by Takao Osawa), is a brain surgeon struggling with the guilt of putting his fiancée into a comatose state during an error he made during her surgery. After an accident, he finds himself waking up in the closing years of the Edo period (1603-1867) . Having to live in this new w...
Alice in Borderland
Japanese Title: 今際の国のアリス （いまわのくにのありす) Year: 2020 Watch on: Netflix Based on a manga of the same name, this is one of the newest Japanese dramas to target an international audience. It was so popular after its December 2020 release, Netflix renewed it for a second season just weeks after it aired! “Alice in Borderland” stars Arisu, a shut-in who’s obsessed with video games. When he’s not gaming, he’s goofing off with his two friends. One day, after hiding from the cops in a bathroom after a pr...
You Taught Me All of the Important Things
Japanese Title: 大切なことはすべて君が教えてくれた (たいせつなことはすべてきみがおしえてくれた) Year: 2011 Watch It On: n/a; DVD Only “You Taught Me All of the Important Things” explores the relationships between teachers and students, and is very good for improving your casual Japanese language skills. Haruma Miura (三浦春馬, みうら はるま) plays a teacher who wakes up with a hangover to discover an unknown girl in his bed. She keeps most of her face covered and as he has to rush to work, he gives her his key so she can lock up when leavi...
35-year-old High School Student
Japanese Title: 35歳の高校生 (さんじゅうごさいのこうこうせい) Year: 2013 Watch It On: Hulu Japan(Requires VPN) This school-based drama starts with a very unusual premise: a new student is going to join the class and she’s 35 years old. Of course, all of the students are very suspicious as to why this woman has joined their class, and we also quickly understand the complex dynamics of the class with popular and unpopular kids, others who are bullied and one who constantly sits silently in the corner. In each epis...
Train Man
Japanese Title: 電車男 (でんしゃおとこ) Year: 2005 Watch It On: n/a; DVD Only This particular drama is in the same league as “Housekeeper Mita.” It came from an extremely popular book that was pulled off from the apparently true story of an オタク, which was posted on a public forum. It spawned this drama and also a movie version. It follows the trials and tribulations of an オタク (someone with obsessive interests, often equated as a geek) who helps a girl being harassed by a drunk on the train and who star...
Sep 14, 2017 · Genres Anime, Suspense Kiyotaka Ayanokoji has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it's said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school's problem children.
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- Fullmetal Alchemist. Fullmetal Alchemist is a popular anime series set in a world where alchemy is a prevalent practice. The story revolves around two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who embark on a perilous journey to find the Philosopher's Stone to restore their bodies after a failed alchemical experiment.
- Homunculus. Homunculus is a psychological thriller movie based on the manga series of the same name. The story revolves around a young man who agrees to undergo an experimental procedure that awakens his sixth sense.
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