Japanese Dramas

Chiyomi Horikiri (Maika Yamamoto), a high school girl with a crush on Shunichi Minami (Taishi Nakagawa), mysteriously shrinks to 15 cm tall after a heated argument with her parents. Shunichi, her childhood first love who became distant after his father's disappearance, discovers her tiny form and takes her home. As they navigate this unusual situation, Chiyomi hopes Shunichi can help her return to her normal size. Their rekindled connection challenges them to confront their past and potentially reestablish their lost relationship. This is a 2015 Japanese romantic comedy drama based on the manga "Minami Kun No Koibito" and directed by Kazuya Konaka.

My Little Lover - Minami Kun No Koibito

Little Lover Team

Fuji TV

In this compelling drama, Aoi Miura (Sota Fukushi), once a promising high school swimmer with architectural dreams, now struggles with shyness and indecision as a mere office assistant in Tokyo. When he reconnects with his high school crush Akari Serizawa (Tsubasa Honda), he discovers another Aoi, Shouta Aoi (Shuhei Nomura), who has transformed from a nerdy student into a successful doctor-to-be. As their intertwined stories unfold, the narrative builds suspense around which Aoi will ultimately win Akari's heart and marry her.

Koinaka

A brilliant brain surgeon is tormented in his own time period and then thrust into the past. Jin Minakata (Takao Osawa) is a brain surgeon who has been grieving for the past two years because his fiancée has been in a coma after a surgery that he performed to try to save her. But his life is turned upside down one day when he tries to catch a runaway patient and is accidentally transported back to the Edo Period. There, a samurai attacks Jin, but a man named Kyotaro Tachibana (Keisuke Koide) saves Jin’s life. When Kyotaro suffers a head injury in the process, Jin in turn saves his life despite the rudimentary equipment he has to work with. Kyotaro’s sister, Saki Tachibana (Haruka Ayase), is drawn to the mysterious Jin and becomes his assistant in the Edo time period. But can Jin survive in this dangerous era and figure out a way to return to his former life? “Jin” is a 2009 Japanese drama series based on a manga by Motoka Murakami.

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