Japanese Melodrama
Includes High School Dramas & Romance Dramas Tv Shows/Films.
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1. Renai Kakumei
Japanese Drama - 2025, 10 episodes
Himenomiya Rei is about to enter high school and start living alone. On the way to move in, he meets Ouji Rin, who looks exactly like the picture of a girl that he drew when he was young and has always treasured. On the day of the entrance ceremony, Rei is in trouble because he has no money for the bus fare, but Rin happens to be there and saves him. Rei feels a sense of “fate” when he finds out that he and Rin go to the same high school, and with the advice of his friend Ito Satoru, he tries to talk to her under the pretext of paying back the bus fare...
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2. Igarashi Fusai wa Giso Tanin
Japanese Drama - 2025, 12 episodes
Aizawa Masahiro was married to Igarashi Naoto and worked at the same company, but their marriage didn't go smoothly. They are currently living separately. Due to circumstances, Masahiro quit her job and began to work for another company. She does well her at her new job. One day, her husband Naoto appears in front of her. Her husband was unaware of where she was working for her new job and it happens that Naoto has started to work at the same company. Because they do not want to cause a stir at their new workplace, they hide the fact that they are married and pretend to be strangers. This lie unfortunately leads to a more problematic situation.
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3. Nobuta wo Produce
Japanese Drama - 2005, 10 episodes
Shuji Kiritani, a popular but reserved student, finds himself able to be his true self around eccentric classmate Akira Kusano. When a new girl, Nobuko Kotani, joins the class and faces severe bullying, Akira suggests a makeover to transform Nobuko into one of the school's most popular girls, ending the harassment. Together, Shuji and Akira embark on a journey to change Nobuko's life in this Cinderella-like story about Japanese teenage social dynamics. Will Nobuko really become popular?
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4. Romantics Anonymous
Japanese Drama - 2025, 8 episodes
The story kicks off with a chance encounter between a man and a woman sparked by their mutual love for chocolate. The catch? Both live with their own anxiety disorders. The man can’t physically touch others, while the woman can’t make eye contact, making their budding relationship both challenging and endearing.
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5. TEIICHI: Battle of Supreme High
Japanese Movie - 2017
At Kaitei High School, Japan’s top private institution, elite students aim for powerful futures. Ambitious freshman Akaba Teiichi, the top student of his class, dreams of becoming prime minister. To achieve this, he must first become student council president. Determined to rise to the top, Teiichi vows to defeat any rival by any means necessary. As the battle for the presidency begins, he faces conspiracies, betrayals, and challenges in a fierce competition that will shape his destiny.
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6. Kateikyoshi no Kishi Knight desu.
Japanese Drama - 2026, 10 episodes
The story is a heartwarming comedy about "sparkling prince" private tutor Kishi Naito and the hot-headed delinquent, Takasugi Toru. Toru's mother, worried about her son's constant fighting and terrible test scores, hires Kishi as his tutor. Though Toru is bewildered by Kishi's gentle and sweet teaching style, he soon finds himself drawn into Kishi's pace, setting the stage for a dramatic transformation in his life.
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7. TEIICHI: Battle of Supreme High
Japanese Drama - 2017, 5 episodes
In conjunction with the release of the movie "Teiichi no Kuni", FujiTV is showing a 5-part spin-off drama featuring the 5 main actors who play characters fighting for the post of student council chairman with Teiichi. The students are hosting strategy meetings for the student council elections at Kaitei, the coffee shop adjacent to their school. Each episode features one actor as the lead.
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8. Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love
Japanese Drama - 2024, 8 episodes
Kosaka Ren arrives in Japan to take up a special temporary lecturer position at an art university in Kamakura, Japan. He is a young and talented artist, who has a certain aura about him to make people want to get closer to him, but he also keeps a certain distance from everyone around him. Like butterflies that surround a flower, he is surrounded by other people. One day, he meets a certain woman and, because of her, his emotions begin to change. Even though he knows it will hurt ... nevertheless.
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9. Samurai High School
Japanese Drama - 2009, 9 episodes
Mochizuki Kotaro is a mild-mannered, unmanly high school student. One day, he visits a library and meets the mysterious librarian Himiko, who recommends to him an ancient book about a heroic general from the Sengoku period 400 years ago. Kotaro notices that he has the same name and age as the general described in the book, and he experiences a flashback... Kotaro later mentions the book to his father, who tells him that he may be the descendent of a powerful samurai. At that moment, Kotaro receives a message from his childhood friend Ai telling him that their classmate Nakamura Tsuyoshi is in trouble. He rushes to the scene but doesn't have the guts to help until another flashback transforms him into a samurai!
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10. Crows Explode
Japanese Movie - 2014
A month has passed since Suzuran High's leader Takiya Genji graduated. New fights begin to see who will climb to the top at the school. Meanwhile, a battle against nearby Kurosaki Industrial High School begins.
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11. Crows Zero
Japanese Movie - 2007
Suzuran High School is also known as The School of Crows. The biggest clique, Serizawa Army and its boss Tamao Serizawa are challenged by a new student to the school, Genji Takiya. Takiya, son of a yakuza boss, wants to be the school's ace fighter. But at the advice of Ken Katagiri, a low-ranked start-out yakuza, Takiya starts to muster together a gang of his own. And as he grows into a true leader, he must face an ultimate battle with Serizawa's gang.
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12. Crows Zero 2
Japanese Movie - 2009
Several months after "Crows Zero" trouble brews again when thugs known as "The Army of Killers" from rival high school Hosen Academy threaten Suzuran High aka the School of Crows. The ruthless Hosen gang go after Suzuran alumni Sho Kawanishi after his release from the reformatory for killing a Hosen member two years back. Kawanishi turns to his younger Suzuran gang members for protection. The Housen gang then seeks outright revenge on the entire Suzuran school, while in-fighting at Suzuran High makes them even more susceptible to the Housen threat.
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13. Boys over Flowers
Japanese Drama - 2005, 9 episodes
Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, a school for the ridiculously rich and privileged. Eitoku Gakuen is ruled by the Flower 4, otherwise known as the F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families: Domyoji Tsukasa, the leader and heir of the Domyoji World Finance Group; Hanazawa Rui, the introverted son of a large company; Nishikado Sojiro, a player who is the heir of a tea ceremony school; and Mimasaka Akira, a madam killer with ties to the underground. If a student gets on the F4's bad side, he/she gets a red notice and is bullied and driven out of school. Makino hopes to pass her days quietly - without drawing any attention to herself - but one day, she stands up to Domyoji in defense of her friend. The next day, Makino receives the dreaded red notice. Even though she is harassed, Makino decides to keep going to school and declares war right back on the F4 because she is a "tough weed." Her resolve gets the attention of her crush, Hanazawa Rui, and oddly enough, rouses romantic feelings in her worst enemy, Domyoji Tsukasa.
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14. Drop
Japanese Movie - 2009
"Drop" tells the story of a boy named Shinanogawa Hiroshi, who grew up in the 1980s. He became inspired by the Be-Bop High School manga and decided to become a delinquent. Hiroshi dropped out of a private middle school and transferred to a public school. With his hair in a very shot hairstyle dyed to red, he attracts the attention of the schools gang lead by Iguchi Tatsuya. After a fight with Tatsuya, Hiroshi ends up joining their delinquent gang. What follows is the story of friendship and making the right choices.
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15. To Each His Own
Japanese Movie - 2017
Aoyama Takashi is a salesman who works in a company that exploits him. At first excited about finally gaining employment, he soon finds that his life as a salaryman is miserable. He is berated and hit by his superior, and forced to work unpaid overtime. Depressed and convinced that his joyless life is not worth living, Aoyama tries to throw himself in front of a train. However, he is saved by Yamamoto, a cheerful guy who claims to be Aoyama's childhood friend. Aoyama's life begins to change because of Yamamoto, but when he starts digging into Yamamoto's identity, he realizes that Yamamoto is not entirely what he seems
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16. Taste and Tears
Japanese Movie - 2025
Shinya lost his mother at a young age, and Shinya's classmate, Yuka, feels out of place in her own home. Perhaps grappling with their loneliness, the two form a close bond as they work on the school newspaper. But an unexpected incident leads to Yuka's sudden disappearance. Shinya, feeling lost and clinging to a promise, waits for Yuka's return. Thirty years later, the truth about Yuka's past finally comes to light.
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17. Hierarchy of Girls: A Girl at the Bottom
Japanese Movie - 2016
Momoko is a student at a high school. She's viewed as being stupid and sits at the bottom of her school's hierarchy. While her friends are asked out on dates and they have good times with their boyfriends, Momoko doesn't have a boyfriend. Momoko relieves her stress by dreaming of taking revenge upon those who look down on her.
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18. Soumatou Kabushikigaisha
Japanese Drama - 2012, 10 episodes
Soumato Corporation is an intriguing place where recorded images of one’s life can be viewed on DVD. A person who happens to stray into Soumato Corporation will be handed DVDs equivalent in number to his age by Kaminuma, the company’s mysterious guide. She will tell him to go back and watch his life to his heart’s content. What he will see on these DVDs is his own life through the eyes of other people. He will learn startling facts that are better left unsaid. What will he think after watching everything?

















