My Liberation Notes

Both dramas are about a man and a woman who feel they've reached a point of no return in their lives, but the walk together positively influences them when they meet the road. Lost depicts a woman in her 40's and a man in his 20's while My Mister is about a man in his 40's and a woman in her 20's; when they get together, their experiences help heal them.

The Japanese version of Second to Last Love -- about a 45-year-old single woman who works as a TV drama producer. Starting to feel anxious about her health and her future, she visits an old house in Kamakura where she intends to live with her friend when they reach old age. Nakai plays a 50-year-old government worker at Kamakura’s city hall whose wife has passed away. With both of them at a crossroads in their lives, their fateful encounter leads to romance.

Second to Last is about an adult romance about a forty-something woman finding love and who works as a television producer. She has no interest in romance and just concerns herself with preparing for retirement, but when she moves to a new town, she meets a 46-year-old man who’s widowed and has one child, and a romance begins.

Twenty again is about a 38-year-old woman who dreamt of becoming a dancer in her high school years but gets pregnant, marries, and foregoes her dreams, twenty years later her husband wants a divorce, she runs into her first love again with a second and last chance at love.

Fix You explores how one deals with anger and where does happiness actually come from; it asks these questions through a quirky psychiatrist on a mission to help people heal and a rising star whose emotional wounds run deep. It mainly deals with Lee Si Joon, the eccentric but passionate psychiatrist, and Han Woo Joo, a patient who struggles with anger issues and recurring mental breakdowns that threaten to derail her career and her -- the drama takes the viewer on a journey through Lee Si Joon and how he helps mend Han Woo Joo's soul while finding his healing too.

It's Okay, That's Love is the story of Jang Jae-yeol, a successful tv host and author with an obsessive-compulsive disorder who suffers from major childhood trauma. Ji Hae-soo is a psychiatrist in driven, compassionate, and ambitious psychiatrist but has a negative outlook on love and relationships. They bicker when they first meet but slowly realize their love for each other and try to begin to heal each other's deep-seated wounds, despite Jae-yeol's deep mental health issues.

Night Doctor is similar to Tokyo MER in that it too is a specially formed emergency care unit. They also go to emergency and accident sites, something the day duty doctors could never do. The program's advantage is that it eliminates the shift system, making it possible to provide appropriate care 24 hours a day. Additionally, their policy is no case is ever rejected -- they too have a leader with a similar conviction as Toyko MER's who believes that every life is worth saving regardless of the complexity of the medical case.

On the Verge of Insanity
It follows the story of middle-aged office workers struggling to survive in a turbulent workplace

Misaeng:
It is about employees who fight to get out of the cruel corporate world they feel they've become trapped in.

A husband works as a successful prosecutor and his future appears bright, but he gets arrested for corruption in a political scandal. His wife who worked as an attorney prior to their marriage, now resumes her career after a 13 year hiatus. She begins to find her true identity.