Living with a Disability
Help each other out and add titles where one of the leads is known to live with some type of disability be it physical, intellectual, and/or mental. For this essential it is enough that either the actor or the role shows a person who is known to live with a disability. Feel free to send us a link of your own to a list with titles that fit the description to this Essential.
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You may also want to check out AthenaTheStorierX list: ELEMENT: Disabilities, Disorders, and Conditions However not all leads, so be cautious.
MDL Watch Challenge 2025 Dec 12, 2022
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![Silent]()
Tsumugi Aoba fell in love with So Sakura, who attended the same high school. They both shared an interest in music. Their relationship got deeper and deeper, but, suddenly, Sakura said goodbye ...more -
![Two Lights: Relumino]()
A sweet, mellow romance about a woman with a visual impairment and the man who grows to love her after they meet in a photography club. (Source: Letterboxd] -
![1 Litre no Namida]()
15-year-old Ikeuchi Aya is an ordinary girl, the daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop, and a soon-to-be high schooler. However, odd things have been happening to Aya lately. ...more -
![Your Eyes Tell]()
Akari lost her eyesight and family in an accident. While trying to enjoy the small things in her life, Akari struggles to live happily. Akari mistakes Rui for someone else and begins ...more -
![Extraordinary Attorney Woo]()
Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, 27-year-old Woo Young Woo graduated at the top of her class from the prestigious Seoul National University for both college and law school due to her high ...more -
![Angel's Last Mission: Love]()
Lee Yeon Seo, is a cynical and arrogant ballerina. She is the prima ballerina, but after an accident she has to give up her dream. After her parents' sudden death, she doesn’t ...more -
![Crush]()
Sang Wu Yan, a college senior aspiring to be a broadcaster, works as an assistant at a radio station and falls for the mysterious songwriter "Yi Jin." She later meets and falls ...more -
![Lovers of the Red Sky]()
During the Joseon Dynasty, Hong Chun Ki, a blind woman who miraculously gained sight, becomes a rare female painter and is accepted to the top art college. She meets Ha Ram, a ...more -
![Move to Heaven]()
Han Geu Roo is an autistic 20-year-old. He works for his father’s business “Move To Heaven,” a company that specializes in crime scene cleanup, where they also collect and arrange items left ...more -
![Twinkling Watermelon]()
In 2023, high school student Eun Gyeol, a CODA with a passion for music, leads a double life as a model pupil by day and a guitarist by night. When he discovers ...more -
![Perfect World]()
Architect Ayukawa Itsuki is paralyzed from the waist down. Although he was the ace of the basketball team back in high school, he injured his spinal cord in an accident while in ...more -
![Where Stars Land]()
Where Stars Land follows the lives of workers at Incheon Airport, and in particular, the interactions between a clumsy, yet bubbly, woman named Han Yeo Reum and a prickly and mysterious man ...more -
![Midnight]()
A life-threatening hide-and-seek between a psychopathic killer and a deaf woman Kyeong Mi, a girl with hearing impairment lives with her mother. Working at the customer call center, one day she storms ...more -
![Good Doctor]()
Although Park Si On is an autistic savant who lacks mental maturity and empathy, he graduates from medical school with distinction. His medical skills are exceptional, but he struggles to deal with ...more -
![1 Litre of Tears]()
One day, on her way to school, middle school student Aya suddenly falls to the ground. The doctor diagnoses her with spinocerebellar degeneration, a rare and incurable neurological disease. Entering high school, ...more -
![Isa Pa with Feelings]()
Two strangers, Mara and Gali, discover they are neighbors and a love story begins. A young deaf man teaches a girl basic sign language. He hears nothing. Feelings are all they've got. ...more -
![Koi Desu: Yankee-kun to Hakujou Garu]()
Akaza Yukiko attends a high school for blind. She has amblyopia, which causes her to recognize colors only vaguely and she can recognize large letters with a magnifying glass. When she walks ...more -
![Josee]()
A small city on the outskirts of Seoul. Young Seok, a university student nearing graduation, comes across a woman in the street who has fallen from her wheelchair and helps her back ...more -
![It's Okay, That's Love]()
Despite being a bit of a prickly pear, Jang Jae Yeol has become famous for authoring mystery novels and for hosting a popular radio show. While sitting on a talk show panel ...more -
![Will Love in Spring]()
Chen Mai Dong, a former rebellious youth turned funeral makeup artist, and Zhuang Jie, a disabled but successful medical salesperson, find healing and mutual respect through their struggles. Despite their emotional and ...more -
![The Secret Life of My Secretary]()
Do Min Ik is an intelligent, perfectionist man with a heart of stone and the Chief of Team 1 at T&T Mobile Media who always relies on his secretary, the hot-tempered Jung ...more -
![Lie to Love]()
Li Ze Liang, a carefree heir, falls for the cheerful Su Hsieh Yi, and their romance blossoms. However, Su Hsieh Yi's world falls apart when her family is ruined, with all evidence ...more -
![My Bossy Girl]()
It's a university festival day, where anybody can meet someone new. There are three men in the robot club, self-claimed Smart Avengers of the Engineering College. At this time, a straightforward girl, ...more -
![Blind]()
A missing person case involving a female university student and the victim in a hit-and-run case appears to be the same person. Detectives look for a witness. The witness, Min Su A, ...more -
![While You Were Sleeping]()
Nam Hong Ju, endowed with the ability to foresee events, resides with her widowed mother who runs a small restaurant. Despite her gift, she often finds herself powerless to change the outcomes. ...more -
![Always]()
Having closed himself away from the world, former boxer Cheol Min starts a new job as a parking lot attendant. One night, a visually impaired young woman, Jeong Hwa, walks into his ...more -
![Romance with Blind Master]()
Ren Hao Ming is the respected eldest son of the Ren Family. He has the life everyone envies until he gets hit by a car and loses his eyesight. Now blind, Hao ...more -
![The Beauty Inside]()
Han Se Gye is a top actress, also known as a troublemaker, with many rumors around her. To others, her life appears as a mystery, when in fact she is faced with ...more -
![The Uncanny Counter]()
A group of demon hunters called Counters work undercover at a noodle restaurant to capture evil spirits seeking eternal life. So Mun, the youngest Counter, becomes a central figure after a mysterious ...more -
![The Good Bad Mother]()
Young Soon is a single mother and pig farmer who raised her son Kang Ho alone. Despite her love for him, her strict parenting caused Kang Ho to view her as a ...more -
![37 Seconds]()
Manga artist Yuma has cerebral palsy and sits in a wheelchair. At home her overly protective mother awaits her and when she tries to make it by herself as a manga author ...more -
![Perfect World]()
Architect Ayukawa Itsuki is left paralyzed from the waist down by a sudden accident and is confined to using a wheelchair. Kawana Tsugumi works at an interior design company and one day ...more -
![Sleep with Me]()
Harry DJs at the radio station, offering relationship advice "because all broken hearts deserve to be heard." Living in a wheelchair, she has learned to let microaggressions take over and uses her ...more -
![Hear Me]()
Two sisters support each other, while the older sister, Xiao Peng(who is deaf), attempts to become a swimmer for the Deaflympics, the younger sister, Yang Yang, stands nearby ready to support her ...more -
![You're So Precious to Me]()
A life-changing story of a man who is haunted by debt and has lived as a loner his entire life. As a result of some very tragic circumstances and a plot to ...more -
![Innocent Witness]()
An old man suffering from depression is found dead, and his housekeeper, Mi Ran, is charged with murder. Mi Ran's defense attorney, Soon Ho, is surprised to learn the only witness to ...more -
![Snowfall]()
During the Republican Era, Shen Zhi Heng, a famous vampire who lived for over a century, was almost assassinated by a group of corrupt soldiers and was saved by a blind girl ...more -
![Forever Love]()
Lin Xin Tong, a rich and beautiful young heiress, faces family turmoil and the betrayal of her boyfriend, Chi Shan, and her best friend, Xia Yu Wei, who secretly envies her. As ...more -
![Kimi ni Sasageru Emblem]()
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with his fiancé Miki ...more -
![Crash Course in Romance]()
After retiring from her career as a national athlete, Nam Haeng Sun now owns a humble side dish store. Her cheerful personality and boundless energy catch the attention of Choi Chi Yeol, ...more -
![Unspeakable Love]()
It tells the story of a pair of deaf-mute people who met through the Internet and became a couple. ~~ Based on the true story of Li Yong Gan and Ma Hao ...more -
![Until Rainbow Dawn]()
When Hana falls in love with Ayumi, a girl she meets in her sign language group, she comes out to her parents who swiftly reject her. In an effort to cheer her ...more -
![Mad for Each Other]()
Two individuals with painful pasts navigate a complex journey of hurt and healing while falling in love. No Hwi O, a detective in Gangnam’s violent crimes division, faces a sudden breakdown, becoming ...more -
![Page Turner]()
Yoo Seul is a student at an art high school. She is a talented pianist prodigy, who has won numerous contests, but she only plays because of her mother since Yoo Seul's ...more -
![Home School]()
Home School is a boarding school in the middle of a remote forest. Every three years, the school selects new students who meet their criteria, each generation comprising no more than thirteen ...more -
![New Year Blues]()
Four couples with unique challenges face their issues at the start of a new year. Ji Ho, a divorcee police detective, meets Hyo Young, a rehab trainer seeking protection during her divorce. ...more -
![Revenant]()
When a portal to another world opens, demons are unleashed. Ku San Young becomes possessed by one of them, and Yeom Hae Sang, who can see the demons, joins her in uncovering ...more -
![The School Nurse Files]()
An Eun Young is a new nurse teacher at school. She has a special ability to see jelly like monsters that are made from residue of human desire and she can also ...more -
![Officer Black Belt]()
Lee Jung Do, a seemingly ordinary guy working at his father's chicken restaurant, is a martial arts prodigy with expertise in taekwondo, kendo, and judo. One day, he saves a martial arts ...more -
![The Victims' Game Season 2]()
After discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Autism Spectrum Disorder risks everything to solve the case. (Source: Netflix) -
![Faceless Love]()
Veekij is a stoic young CEO with prosopagnosia or "face blindness," meaning he cannot distinguish people's faces. For this reason, he decides to hire an assistant to help connect him with the ...more -
![It's Okay to Not Be Okay]()
Moon Gang Tae is a community health worker at a psychiatric ward who was blessed with everything including a great body, smarts, ability to sympathize with others, patience, ability to react quickly, ...more -
![The Victims' Game]()
After discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Autism Spectrum Disorder risks everything to solve the case. (Source: Netflix) -
![Dear Hyeri]()
Joo Eun Ho is an unknown announcer with 14 years of experience. She struggles to get the chance to have her name recognized by the public. She also has another personality, Joo ...more -
![See You in My 19th Life]()
Ban Ji Eum has the ability to remember all her past lives, living through countless reincarnations for nearly a thousand years. After a tragic accident ends her previous life, she seeks to ...more -
![Good Doctor]()
Shindo Minato has savant syndrome. His memory is amazing, but he has difficulty communicating with other people. When Shindo Minato was little, he dreamed of becoming a doctor. He met Doctor Shiga ...more -
![Keys to the Heart]()
A washed-up boxer, Jo Ha, has lived his life relying on nothing but his physical strength. His champion glory lasted only a moment, and now pride is all Jo Ha has. He ...more -
![Rich Man]()
Lee Yoo Chan, CEO of IT company "Next In," struggles with prosopagnosia, making him distrustful of others. Kim Bo Ra, a top student from Jeju Island, dreams of working at Next In. ...more -
![Color Rush]()
Monochromatic people (known as 'Mono's) live in a world where they are not able to see colours and, therefore, view their surroundings through varying shades of grey, black and white. However, every ...more -
![Kill Me Love Me]()
Prince Murong Jing He of the Great Yan Dynasty reclaims Qingzhou, but after his victory, a fire destroys the city. Accusations spread that he ordered the destruction in retaliation for a perceived ...more -
![Mr. Bad]()
Nan Xing is an online novel writer whose main character is based on her idol, Lu Zi Chen. The main antagonist is Xiao Wu Di, a cunning and manipulative martial artist. One ...more -
![Follow Your Heart]()
A face-blind prince, Jiang Xin Bai, and a cursed traveling doctor, Yan Nan Xing, embark on a journey through the martial world. As they face challenges and uphold justice, their fated love ...more -
![The Beauty Inside]()
What would you do if you woke up with a new face every day? Kim U Jin, a man who designs furniture for a living, is used to this. An elderly man, ...more -
![Dreamers]()
Love is an understanding each other or a lovers dream fulfilment. Love always plays a trick, like as a love story of Pim. She's determined to be the greatest superstar and Thana, ...more -
![The Hours of My Life]()
Sawada Takuto is an ordinary university student, who one day learns that he has A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig’s disease) with not much time left to live. Instead of wallowing in despair, Takuto tries ...more -
![Light Shop]()
The series follows the story of a group of strangers who are all having a hard time processing a horrible experience from their past. Each of them is going about their normal ...more -
![When I Was the Most Beautiful]()
Oh Ye Ji is a ceramic artist. She has a pure heart and relentless optimism and refuses to give up no matter the situation. She dreams of finding ordinary happiness but in ...more -
![Khun Mae Suam Roy]()
Sina, a professional stunt woman, returns from America to find her identical twin sister, Siriya, a mother of a child from her already-married lover Pipop and disabled from her waist below after ...more -
![Adoring]()
Vivienne, a skilled veterinarian, excels at caring for pets but faces challenges with their owners. Jiang Nan struggles to support his blind best friend, Chen Yue Yun, while trying to help his ...more -
![The Devil Judge]()
In a dystopian Korea where society has collapsed and distrust in leaders runs deep, Head Trial Judge Kang, known as the "Devil Judge," runs a brutal courtroom reality show, punishing the guilty ...more -
![Drama for All: Journey of Memories]()
Pran is a photographer who knew he was losing his sight. Therefore, he wanted to travel to photograph and exhibit his works for the last time. With Wirin, a girl who has ...more -
![The Long Season]()
In the birch forest of a small town at this time, Wang Xiang, a taxi driver, could never expect to meet the person that he most wants or fears to meet in ...more -
![Moonlight Chicken]()
Jim is an ordinary guy running a Hainanese chicken rice diner. One night, he meets breezy Wen when he stays past closing, drunk. Brought together by fate that night, intangible feelings arise. ...more -
![Silhouette of Your Voice]()
Sugihara Kohei is a college student who has distanced himself from others unconsciously because he is hard of hearing and it keeps causing one misunderstanding after another. One day, his classmate Taiichi ...more -
![Love Beyond Words]()
~~ Adapted from the web novel "Qin Ye De Xiao Ya Ba" (秦爷的小哑巴). -
![1 Litre no Namida Special]()
The Story of the 1 Litre of Tears special takes place after the events in the main drama. The Special takes the view of Asou Haruto who is remembering life the way ...more -
![Lethal Perfume]()
On the road of revenge, the genius perfumer Gu Ying Ying encounters Han Yi Chen, the only son of the president of the Han Group. He gets into a car accident and ...more -
![See Hear Love: Mienakute mo Kikoenakute mo Aishiteru]()
78. See Hear Love: Mienakute mo Kikoenakute mo Aishiteru
Japanese Movie - 2023100 points by 1 votersIt depicts the sad but warm love story between a manga artist who is suffering from a disease that makes him lose his sight and a woman who is hearing impaired. (Source: ...more -
![We're Not Trash]()
Shin Jo Hee grew up without being loved by her mother. She is easily excited about trivial things, sometimes aggressive and spontaneous. People around her worry about her because of her bipolar ...more -
![Why Try to Change Me Now]()
Set in China’s hardscrabble, industrial northeast, it tells the story of a young police officer investigating the murder of a taxi driver, only to find a childhood friend may be involved. To ...more -
![Anna]()
Yoo Mi is the woman who tells a small lie and ends up living someone else’s life. Hyun Joo is a woman who lives her life holding herself above everyone, treating them ...more -
![Remind]()
Noon, a former gangster who once worked as a ruthless debt collector, left that dark path behind after a life-changing incident. Now, she’s on the run from her old gang, led by ...more -
![Angels Fall Sometimes]()
In the prime of his youth, Lin Tuo crosses paths with An Zhi Que during a summer internship recruiting event in their junior year. Love blossoms at first sight. With graduation approaching, ...more -
![Orange Days]()
Yuuki Kai is in his senior year at university studying social welfare psychology. At present, he is in the middle of job-hunting season. He is finding it difficult with no job offers ...more -
![Garden of Life]()
Chen Shui He is a farmer from Zhongliao. He is injured during the 921 Earthquake, leaving him unable to walk, and changing his life forever. Hitting rock bottom, the love and care ...more -
![Born to Run]()
Xiu Fang, an optimistic widow running a fried chicken shop, and her pessimistic, controlling sister Xiu Li face a devastating tragedy after Xiu Fang's 60th birthday: a car accident leaves Xiu Fang's ...more -
![dele]()
Freelance programmer Sakagami Keishi is paralysed in the lower half of his body because of an unknown illness and uses a wheelchair. He sets up a company called dele. LIFE in partnership ...more -
![Marathon]()
Kyung Sook finds out that her son Cho Won is autistic and feels devastated. But she firmly believes that there is something Cho Won can do very well. Kyung Sook and a ...more -
![Oh My Geum Bi]()
Geum Bi, an 8-year-old girl with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC), faces rapid mental and physical decline due to her rare condition. Her single father, Hwi Cheol, a swindler, learns to appreciate ...more -
![Anna: Extended Version]()
A small lie sets off a chain of events that drastically changes Yu Mi’s life. Married to Ji Hun, an ambitious man driven by his goals, Yu Mi finds herself living in ...more -
![Rich Man, Poor Woman]()
29-year-old Hyuga Toru is a wealthy man. He first started to run an internet website in his small room, and his hobby began to make a lot of money. Nowadays, he doesn't ...more -
![South Wind Knows]()
Fu Yun Shen, a pharmaceutical researcher, and surgeon Zhu Jiu team up for a humanitarian medical mission in a poverty-stricken area, but a misunderstanding creates tension between them. Despite this, attraction grows. ...more -
![Inseparable Bros]()
Se Ha has a brilliant mind and an impressive way with words, which he uses to fight back against the prejudices of society and Dong Goo, a man with outstanding athletic abilities ...more -
![The Witness]()
Lu Xiao Xing, a rookie cop, abandons her post to find her rebellious brother, leading to a car crash that kills him and leaves her blind. Three years later, struggling with his ...more -
![Our Blues]()
"Our Blues" takes on an omnibus-style drama, which tells the story of diverse characters that are somewhat interconnected, in one way or the other. Lee Dong Suk, a guy born on the ...more -
![Stand Up]()
Song Xue Wen, after picking up and keeping a keychain unknowingly imbued with industrial radiation, has had a multitude of operations - ultimately amputating both of his legs and his left arm, ...more -
![Bori]()
Bo Ri, an 11-year-old girl in a seaside village, is the only family member who can hear. As an elementary school student, Bo Ri becomes more and more accustomed to talking with ...more -
![On a Starry Night]()
Yukimiya Suzu, a 35-year-old gynecologist, feels emotionally drained by her life in a peaceful seaside town. The demanding and stifling society has left her unable to open up to anyone, despite her ...more -
![That Winter, the Wind Blows]()
Abandoned by his mother as a child and raised by the Park family, Oh Soo is a notorious gambler in the neighborhood of Cheongdam. After the death of his first love, he ...more -
![Herb]()
Sang Eun, a kind-hearted 20-year-old with the intelligence of a 7-year-old, has a special talent for paper folding. Though surrounded by a loving family and friends, she struggles with understanding the world ...more
