The Ingenuity of the House Husband

極工夫道 ‧ Drama ‧ 2021
The same story/character, just different actors, one is a longer drama and one is a short mini drama.
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Both are healing dramas with short episodes with the main characters doing household chores. They are both dedicated and good at doing chores, and watching them warms the viewers' hearts.
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Gangster Patisserie. The adaptation will involve a female Japanese college student who runs away to Taiwan and gets involved with a reformed young hoodlum who just got out of jail after five years. Turns out his old gangster boss lost his wife to an illness and has decided to turn over a new leaf and become a legit businessman by starting a bakery that employs all his former gang members. His beloved deceased wife's daughter from her previous marriage is the Japanese girl and she arrives in Taiwan looking for her mom, and ends up living with her step father, who dreams of being a master baker but sucks big time at baking. The entire gang of misfits all live and work together, and heartwarming hilarity ensues.
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When drug dealers attack feisty college student Yuri at a party, she’s saved by Toshiomi Oya, the young boss of a yakuza syndicate. Despite her obvious attraction to him, she convinces herself that she’s not in the market for a bad-boy type. But when they meet again, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to him—kicking off a steamy and dangerous love affair that threatens to consume her, body and soul.
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Makoto, 29, is a sales clerk at the advertising agency Adraisa, and dreams of a happy family. She is a hard worker and admired by her colleagues, but in her private life, she is devoted to her selfish and self-centered boyfriend, Hayato, with whom she has been living for three years.

One day, she finds out that he has been cheating on her with a junior colleague, Kawatani, and breaks up with him, but at the same time, she loses her home... The one who reaches out to her is Odagiri, the department manager who is known as the "Yakuza boss" at work because of his cold-heartedness.

Until they find a new place to live, Makoto ends up living with Odagiri at his house. Odagiri's face is unexpectedly sweet, toying with Makoto. However, he has a hidden side as the young boss of a yakuza gang...
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