Help me clean my PTW list (Jdrama edition)
I have more things on my PTW list than I’ll realistically ever get around to watching. I also no longer remember what some of these dramas are or why I added them. If you want to help me prioritize and prune my list, you can vote for the dramas you think I should definitely absolutely keep. In other words, vote for the dramas you consider a "must watch" or at least very worth watching. If you came away thinking, “it was fine” or “I enjoyed it but won’t remember it in two months” don’t vote for those dramas. I added the dramas in order of airing date (newest to oldest), but obviously that will change if people vote.
xinya 9 hours ago
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![Glass Heart]()
Saijo Akane, a drummer who was ousted from her previous band just before her debut, is unexpectedly chosen by Fujitani Naoki, a reclusive and brilliant musician, to join his new band, TENBLANK. ...more -
![Don't Call it Mystery]()
Totono Kuno is a university student. He has curly hair, which he has a complex about. He doesn't have any friends or a girlfriend. His memory and observation skills are very good, ...more -
![Passing the Reins]()
Kurisu Eiji is a certified tax accountant. He respects his father, who runs a tax accountant's office. Dreaming to work with his father, Eiji has worked at a major tax accounting firm ...more -
![A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days with You]()
In 1936, Natsumi is the third of four daughters from the Sekiya family. One day, Natsumi’s father suddenly tells her that her marriage has been decided and her husband will be Takimasa ...more -
![Why Didn’t I Tell You a Million Times?]()
Soma Yui and Torino Naoki were childhood friends, but they met again as adults. Just as he decides to propose to Yui, Naoki suddenly disappears from Yui's sight after being embroiled in ...more -
![Double]()
Takarada Takara works for a company. On a rainy day, he walks helplessly without an umbrella. Somehow, he watches a stage play performed by theatrical troupe Eiyu. Takarada Takara becomes touched by ...more -
![Nagatan and Aoto: Ichika's Cook Book]()
In Kyoto, soon after the war, Ichika strives to save her family's long-established ryoten restaurant from financial crisis. In order to do so, she marries Yamaguchi Amane, who is 15 years younger, ...more -
![Unmet: A Neurosurgeon's Diary]()
Kawauchi Miyabi, a former neurosurgeon, suffers from memory loss, unable to recall the past two years or retain daily memories. Now working as an assistant nurse, her life changes when eccentric neurosurgeon ...more -
![Life's Punchline]()
The story of five young people in their late 20s who try to overcome their great failures in life. Haruto Takaiwa, Shunta Asabuki and Junpei Minowa are members of the unpopular comedy ...more -
![Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom]()
With graduation 10 days away, homeroom teacher Hiiragi gathers all 29 students of class 3-A and proclaims them as his hostages. His last lesson regards the death of a student that passed ...more -
![Miracles]()
Aikawa Kazuki is a university lecturer who teaches ethology, which is the study of animal behaviour. He has just started work as a lecturer at the recommendation of Professor Samejima Shun whom ...more -
![Erased]()
Fujinuma Satoru is an aspiring manga artist who has the ability to travel back in time moments before a life-threatening incident, in which he is able to prevent those from happening. When ...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 -
![Liar Game]()
College student Kanzaki Nao, known for her honesty, receives 100 million yen and an invitation to join the "Liar Game", where players deceive each other for the prize money: losers end up ...more -
![Boys over Flowers Season 2]()
The story picks up right after Domyoji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyoji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try ...more -
![Tiger and Dragon]()
A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic rakugo performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the Harajuku backstreets. (Source: Netflix) -
![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 -
![Asura]()
One winter day, the four Takezawa sisters — ikebana teacher Tsunako, housewife Makiko, librarian Takiko and waitress Sakiko — get together for the first time in a while. Takiko suspects that their ...more -
![Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love]()
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 ...more -
![Beyond Goodbye]()
Sugawara Saeko works at a coffee manufacturing company in Hokkaido. Through coffee, she was able to meet her boyfriend, Yusuke, who co-owned a coffee shop with his best friend. Her love story ...more -
![Chastity High]()
Arisawa Ichika enrolls in an elite girls' high school attended by the children of wealthy families. Thinking of her daughter's future, her mother Chihiro tries her best to scrape together the school ...more -
![Kissing the Ring Finger]()
Haneda Ayaka is a young lady whose doll-like beauty has unfortunately caused problems for her in every workplace she lands herself into. Even in her latest job as a marriage planner in ...more -
![Hold My Hand at Twilight]()
Asagi Soramame, a 23-year-old energetic woman from rural Kyushu, follows her childhood friend and fiancé to Tokyo. Fate keeps pulling her closer to a stranger—Umino Oto, also 23, a struggling musician who ...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 -
![The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House]()
25. The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Japanese Drama - 2023, 9 episodes94 points by 1 votersKiyo and Sumire are childhood friends from Aomori Prefecture who move to Kyoto to become a Maiko (apprentice geisha). During their training, Sumire is praised for her talent and diligence. Kiyo, meanwhile, has difficulty learning the basic ...more -
![Rebooting]()
A comedy focusing on Kondo Asami, a 33-year-old single woman who lives with her parents and works at the local city hall, and suddenly finds herself starting her life over from scratch. ...more -
![Jitenshaya-san no Takahashi-kun]()
It is a love story between Takahashi Ryohei, a caring, young yankee who runs a bicycle shop, and Hanno Tomoko, a shy 30-year-old office worker. (Source: Japanese = Natalie.mu || Translation = ...more -
![Prism]()
Maejima Satsuki works part-time at a garden centre in Tokyo. While her aspiration is to be a voice talent, she is on the verge of giving up. Satsuki has never been serious ...more -
![Animals]()
Shikamori Umi is an overwhelmed office worker. Her boss always pushes Umi to the limits saying that she is essential to the company, and makes her not able to get enough sleep ...more -
![A Song for Aliens]()
When we were 17 we looked at our teacher who was 27 with arrogance but time flies and before we knew it, we were 27 too. We didn't know how hard life ...more -
![Shizuka-chan to Papa]()
Shizuka lives with her deaf father, Junsuke, who owns a photo studio in a local shopping district. Her mother, also deaf, passed away when she was young, making Shizuka her father's communication ...more -
![Fishbowl Wives]()
Due to an accident, Sakura Hiraga gave up on her dream. She is now married and her husband runs a hair salon. They live in a luxurious penthouse apartment. Her life seems ...more -
![Shijukara]()
Watanuki Shinobu has been a manga artist for the past 20 years. Despite being married and having a son, Shinobu lives her life unsatisfactorily. When Shinobu was about to give up her ...more -
![Iribito]()
Naho is the deputy curator of the art gallery established by her grandfather, an avid art collector. Naho's husband is the managing director at a different art gallery in Ginza which his ...more -
![Only Just Married]()
27-year-old Ookado Akiha who vows to stay single, gets a proposal to enter into a fake marriage from 30-year-old Momose Shuu who wants to get the status of a married man for ...more -
![Dearest]()
A suspense love story centered around Sanada Rio, a businesswoman who suddenly became an important reference for a murder case; a detective who is Rio's first love and is trying to pursue ...more -
![Super Rich]()
Hyoga Mamoru, CEO of Three Star Books, comes from a wealthy family but struggles with loneliness and grief from her parents' death in childhood. She is close to her longtime friend, Ichinose ...more -
![Mukou no Hate]()
In 1985 Tokyo, novelist Kohei Kimizuka is murdered in an arson case, and childhood friend Ritsuko Ikematsu is arrested. Prosecutor Tsutaguchi investigates Ritsuko’s past and the men in her life, uncovering varying ...more -
![Iki wo Hisomete]()
The Tama River, where the water flows along the border between Tokyo and Kanagawa, pours into Tokyo Bay and the large sky spreads out. People who enjoy sports, lovers who are close ...more -
![Love Deeply!]()
Nagisa Mio, an oceanographer at Shibaura University of Marine Science and Technology, loves the sea but is secretive about her past. Hasuda Rintaro, the second son of a wealthy family, appears aloof ...more -
![Influence]()
Yuri confesses to a female novelist that she and two friends committed three murders and asks her to write their story. In high school, Yuri lived in a provincial apartment complex where ...more -
![NIZI Village Clinic]()
Kureno Masora is a young doctor who was working happily at a large hospital in Tokyo. However, she found out that she has an illness and decided to continue working as a ...more -
![Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange]()
Mochizuki Ayako is a 35-year-old detective who works hard to seek justice, but she lacks flexibility. While investigating a murder case, she targets Hidaka Haruto as a murder suspect from her collected ...more -
![Date My Daughter!]()
Minase Aoi is an accomplished author of popular romance novels. Now in her forties, she has a twenty year-old daughter, whom she raised on her own. Together they live in opulent high-rise, ...more -
![Neko]()
Mineko Kaneko learns that she has a brain tumour, leaving her with little time left to live. Koji Amane is a freeloader with few dreams or life goals. A cat brings them ...more -
![Our Sister's Soulmate]()
When Momoko Adachi was in high school, her parents died in an accident. She was left with her 3 younger siblings. To support her family, Momoko Adachi gave up on going to ...more -
![The Way of the Househusband]()
Immortal Tatsu, the feared yakuza who once took down a rival gang with a lead pipe, mysteriously disappears and reappears with a new life. Swapping his weapon for an apron, he’s now ...more -
![Okane no Kireme ga Koi no Hajimari]()
Kuki Reiko, a 27-year-old accountant, lives frugally due to a past incident. A year ago, she discovered small dishes at a secondhand store and, after much deliberation, decided to buy them. However, ...more -
![To Heal the Heart]()
An Kazutaka is a young, bashful psychiatrist whose jazz piano skills are as good as a pro. He also has a love for records and books. He searches for his place in ...more -
![La Grande Maison Tokyo]()
A talented Japanese chef in French cuisine has devoted his life to food. He opened his own restaurant in Paris and earned two Michelin stars. Hailed as a superstar chef, his confidence ...more -
![You, Me and Bach]()
Yaeko Kogure is a 27-year-old office lady. After she resigned from her company to get married, her fiancé informed her that he was in love with another woman and broke off their ...more -
![Nagi's Long Vacation]()
28-year-old Oshima Nagi works for a home appliance manufacturer in Tokyo. She conforms to her surroundings as she constantly gauges people’s moods. Because of that, her goal is to pass each day ...more -
![Two Weeks]()
Daichi served time in prison for attempted murder. After his release from prison, he spends his time doing nothing and he doesn't see any hope for himself. One day, Daichi hears that ...more -
![I Don't Love You Yet]()
Mitarai Yo is a successful career woman working for a shoemaker, but her love life is a mess. Her best friend, Ishida Ren, works for a developer and is the one person ...more -
![Behind the Door]()
Yamazaki Risako lives with her husband Yoichiro and 3-year-old daughter Ayaka. One day, she receives a notification from the court that she has been selected as an alternate member of the jury ...more -
![Weakest Beast]()
30-year-old Shinkai Akira always smiles and she is perfect at work. She cares about those around her too much. 33-year-old Nemoto Kosei works as an accountant. He is friendly and popular among ...more -
![Love and Fortune]()
Frustrated by life with her boyfriend, thirty-something Wako can't stop herself from being interested in high schooler Yumeaki, despite the age gap. (Source: Netflix) ~~ Adapted from the manga "Koi no Tsuki" ...more -
![In This Corner of the World]()
18-year-old Urano Suzu marries Hojo Shusaku and moves from Eba City to Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture in the middle of the Pacific War. As Japan slides into a war it cannot ...more -
![The Confidence Man JP]()
An exhilarating and entertaining comedy about a bizarre plan to steal a large sum of money from people consumed by desire. The main character, Dako and her partners in crime, a serious ...more -
![Residential Complex]()
A scuba diving instructor, Nana and an ordinary salaryman, Daiki live together in a small apartment. After purchasing a 'corporative' house together in a residential complex, they soon decide that they want ...more -
![You Always Haunt My Heart]()
Kyoko, a woman with low self-esteem, joins a company and attends a speed dating event where she meets a blunt manga editor, Yoshizaki. Initially embarrassed by his harsh critique, she decides to ...more -
![Frankenstein's Love]()
A century after his creation, a compassionate, immortal monster hides in the forest, dreaming of living as a human. When he meets a terminally ill young woman named Tsugaru-san, he falls in ...more -
![Hokuto]()
20-year-old Hokuto is being detained as a murderer and tells his court-appointed lawyer Takai Soichi to get him the death penalty. Hokuto was actually severely abused by his parents in his childhood ...more -
![Quartet]()
Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa, and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big ...more -
![Kenja no Ai]()
A psychological drama about unhealthy interpersonal relationships explained often through elaborate flashbacks. Takanako Mayuko, who grew up in an idyllic mansion with the perfect loving family, blames her childhood best friend for ...more -
![My Dangerous Wife]()
Mochizuki Kohei, married to the beautiful and talented Maria, seems to have it all—a successful café and a perfect marriage. However, feeling suffocated by her, he plans her murder with the help ...more -
![Love That Makes You Cry]()
After Sugihara Oto’s mother passed away when she was young, she was raised by adoptive parents in the Hokkaido countryside. Although she gave up having dreams, she lives cheerfully and bravely. But ...more -
![Koinaka: Best Friends in Love]()
Aoi Miura was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but ...more -
![Flowers for Algernon]()
Shiratori Sakuto is 28, but has the intelligence of a 6-year-old boy. He works for Dream Flower Service, a flower distribution centre which provides employment for problem youth. One day, he and ...more -
![Ouroboros]()
Ryuzaki Ikuo and Danno Tatsuya, orphans from Mahoroba no Ie, witnessed the murder of a beloved staff member during their childhood, but their statements were suppressed by a corrupt officer. Fifteen years ...more -
![Testimony of N]()
University students Sugishita Nozomi, Naruse Shinji, Ando Nozomi and Nishizaki Masato end up coming upon the scene of the murder of the Noguchi couple, because of a plan they had devised. Nishizaki ...more -
![Nobunaga Concerto]()
Saburo, a high school student from modern times, is transported back to the Sengoku era (1549), where he meets a young Oda Nobunaga. Mistaken for Nobunaga, Saburo is taken to the Oda ...more -
![Long Goodbye]()
Set in Tokyo, Japan during the 1950's. Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife, Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private ...more -
![Bitter Blood]()
Rookie detective, Sahara Natsuki, is assigned to the Investigation Division of the Ginza police station. Here he has an unexpected reunion with his father and veteran detective, Akimura Shimao, from whom he ...more -
![Naoki Hanzawa]()
An idealistic banker takes on corruption and wrongdoing at his large corporate bank. While forging ties with some unlikely allies, he must use his financial expertise, his instincts about human nature, and ...more -
![The Family Game]()
The story revolves around an eccentric home tutor named Yoshimoto, who is hired to teach the second son of the Numata family. While being tossed around by the weird and unconventional home ...more -
![Tonbi]()
Ichikawa Yasuo, who goes by the nickname Yasu, is a ‘dumb’ man unequalled anywhere in the world. He has not had schooling, is boorish and would immediately let his fists fly if ...more -
![Antarctica]()
A drama commemorating TBS's 60th anniversary, the story is about 11 members who were sent to the South Pole for the first time in February 1957 in a national project to explore ...more -
![I Am Mita, Your Housekeeper.]()
Can a family hope to recover after losing their mother to suicide? Keiichi Asuda serves his wife, Nagiko, divorce papers after he tells her that he intends to marry his mistress. The ...more -
![Mother]()
Elementary school teacher Suzuhara Nao decides to abduct Michiki Rena, one of her female students, after discovering that she is being abused by her mother. Fleeing Hokkaido to Tokyo, the two experience ...more -
![Jin]()
Minakata Jin, a brain surgeon, has been tormented for two years after his fiancée falls into a vegetative state following an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and ...more -
![Buzzer Beat]()
Kamiya Naoki is a basketball player from a professional basketball team, JC Arcs. However, due to his relatively smaller size and his tendency to crack under pressure, he has been unable to ...more -
![Last Friends]()
Michiru, bullied at work and struggling with her mother's new relationship, finds emotional support in her boyfriend, a child welfare worker. However, she becomes a victim of domestic violence, causing her fear ...more -
![The Family]()
Set in the 1960s, it depicts the inside story between bureaucrats, politicians and big businesses over a bank merger revolving around the family discord between Manpyo Daisuke, the owner and president of ...more -
![Nodame Cantabile]()
Megumi Noda or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a kindergarten teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading ...more -
![He Who Can't Marry]()
Kuwano Shinsuke, a successful architect at 40, enjoys living by himself. He doesn't like people, but somehow is able to design wonderful houses for them. He has a routine of making himself ...more -
![One Liter of Tears]()
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 -
![Ima Ai ni Yukimasu]()
Yuuji is still a first-grade student. He is having a tough time understanding what has happened to his mother and the fact that she won't be coming back. At the very beginning ...more -
![Engine]()
Jiro Kanzaki is an F3000 driver blessed with acute sensitivity and breathtaking driving techniques. He's a daredevil who feels no fear driving at speeds that even top racers dare not attempt. But ...more -
![Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World]()
90. Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World
Japanese Drama - 2004, 11 episodes56 points by 1 voters"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy, and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under ...more -
![Home Drama]()
In a house in the outskirts of Tokyo, there lives a family of eight. Such a large family is rare these days; however, not one is related by blood. They all lost ...more -
![Hikari to Tomo ni... ~ Jiheishou-ji wo Kakaete ~]()
92. Hikari to Tomo ni... ~ Jiheishou-ji wo Kakaete ~
Japanese Drama - 2004, 11 episodes55 points by 1 votersSachiko and Masato Azuma, in their 4th year of marriage, had been so excited about the birth of their long-waited first child. They named their baby boy "Hikaru" (meaning light in Japanese). ...more -
![Sore wa, Totsuzen, Arashi no you ni..]()
Kozue Ogawa is a housewife and has been married to Hideo for seven years. They don't have any children, but as they live with her parents at their flower shop, every day ...more -
![The Great White Tower]()
A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save ...more -
![Good Luck!!]()
Having achieved his life-long dream of being a pilot, Hajime is first officer on an international jetliner and is now working to become a captain. He can't seem to please Captain Koda, ...more -
![Friends]()
Left alone on a trip to Hong Kong, Tomoko, a sales woman from Japan finds herself the victim of a purse-snatching. The police arrest the man she points out, but it turns ...more -
![Long Love Letter]()
Yuka Misaki, whose parents run a flower shop, casually begins dating college student Akio Asami, and later falls for him. But due to some type of accident, the two lose contact with ...more -
![Mukashi no Otoko]()
Akari is a jewelry clerk who doubles as the store’s catalog model. She does not appreciate only being valued for just her beauty. She is eager to marry her boyfriend Hayato who ...more -
![Yamato Nadeshiko]()
Jinno Sakurako grew up in a very poor family and is thus determined to marry a rich man so that she will never have to go through poverty ever again, and is ...more -
![Summer Snow]()
A love story between a young man who has been forced to grow up too quickly and a young woman with an ailment that has placed restrictions on her life. Natsuo has ...more
