1. One Litre No Namida
1 Litre no Namida (1, lit. "1 Liter of Tears"; also known as A Diary with Sorrow or A Diary of Weeping) is a 2005 Japanese drama series for Fuji Television based on the actual tale of the 15-year-old girl by the name Aki Kit, who died when she was 25 from a degenerative condition. The script is inspired by Aya's diary, which she continued writing until she couldn't wield a pen anymore. The journal was ultimately named One Liter of Tears, and it sold more than 1.1 million copies in Japan. Aya Ikeuchi, fifteen, is a regular girl, a soon-to-be high school student, and the oldest daughter of a tofu shop-owning family. Aya begins to experience strange occurrences as time passes. She starts falling down a lot and walks awkwardly. Aya's mother, Shioka, brings her to the doctor, who diagnoses her with spinocerebellar degeneration, a rare condition in which the brain's cerebellum rapidly deteriorates to the extent the sufferer cannot walk, talk, write, or eat. The sickness, as horrible as it is, does not affect the intellect. The plot centred around Aya's ages 14 to 20 before a significant time jump. Her body was donated for medical research by her family.
2. Tenno No Ryoriban
Tokuzo Akiyama is just a young man from the countryside who is married and has a child on the way. He eats a superb breaded cutlet one day, which motivates him to pursue a career as a chef specialising in Parisian cuisine. He flies to Tokyo, Japan, and subsequently to Paris, France, to study the culinary arts. He has become a chef at Paris's Hotel Ritz despite prejudice and discrimination. He has now become the Emperor of Japan's chef at the age of 26.
3. Kurokouchi
Kanagawa Police Prefecture's one and only black sheep. On the exterior, Kurokôchi is a dishonest police officer assigned to the prefecture's second brigade in charge of investigating organised me. He utilises the information he obtains to obtain bribes from nearly all the politicians and enjoys a lavish lifestyle. However, under this mask, Kurokôchi investigates situations whose perpetrators are ordinarily beyond the reach of the law and attempts to bring little justice to them by cunning, manipulations, and insane antics. Kurokôchi, together with Seike, gradually reveals the myriad plots buried inside the National Police Department.
4. Byouin No Naoshikata
Based on the actual incident of Aizawa Clinic in Matsumoto Town, Nagano, a facility in financial distress risks bankruptcy due to mismanagement and massive debt. Dr Shuhei Arihara steps down from a brilliant job in Tokyo to preserve his hometown's hospital. Ryosuke Kurashima, Deputy Commander of Shinkai Bank & Lending Division, assists him in pushing reforms to rescue the hospital and avert a financial institution sale behind the scenes.
5. The Naked Director
Masaharu Take co-directs the Japanese semi-biographical humour streaming television series The Naked Director (Japanese: Hepburn: Zenra Kantoku). It is based on Nobuhiro Motohashi's non-fiction work Zenra Kantoku Muranishi Tru Den ( ), which relates to the tale of Japanese adult video creator Toru Muranishi. The narrative of "Muranishi's strange and dramatic existence packed with enormous dreams as well as stunning defeats in his endeavour to flip Japan's porn business on its head" is told in The Naked Director. The show debuted on Netflix around August 8, 2019. Takayuki Yamada plays Muranishi, and Shinnosuke Mitsushima & Tetsuji Tamayama co-star. Netflix renewed the show for a second season on August 15, 2019, which will release on June 24, 2021.
6. Kokoro No Kizu Wo Iyasu To Iu Koto
Kokoro no Kizu wo Iyasu to Iu Koto is a 2020 Japanese sitcom about a psychiatrist who heals earthquake victims. A Kazutaka (Emoto Tasuku) is a youthful, shy doctor with pro-level jazz piano talents. He also enjoys albums and literature. In his youth, he strives for his position in the world. He ultimately finds peace with himself after meeting the cheery Shuko (Ono Machiko), who would become his wife. The Grand Hanshin Earthquake occurs shortly after they conceive their first child. Even though the calamity has harmed his family, he begins considering what he can accomplish as a psychiatrist. As he listened to the experiences of catastrophe victims, he understood that he could assist them by restoring their ability to heal rather than treating them. Later, as a psychiatrist, he combines his observations on the disaster-stricken area into a book and gets an award for social sciences. He considers this a good indication. However, at the age of 39, he realises that he has cancer.
7. Alice In Borderland
It features Kento Yamazaki as the video-game fanatic Ryohei Arisu, based on Haro Aso's hit sci-fi manga. "I recalled how I was approximately 20 years old and built Arisu depending on my indecision," Aso explains. Yuzuha Usagi, a brilliant mountaineer played by Tao Tsuchiya, allies with Arisu throughout the plot. They are in a mirror of Tokyo, where they have to live by playing a series of horrific games. Arisu and his two buddies flee to a public restroom to avoid the cops in the first episode. When they return, the streets of Japan's capital, including the renowned Shibuya Scramble Crossing, are entirely vacant. That scene was shot in Tochigi Prefecture's Ashikaga Scramble City Studio. Now the drama revolves around them getting out of the trap.
8. Dawning On Us
The epidemic acts as the primary motor in Kenji Yamauchi's "Dawning on Us" rather than merely as a backdrop. It considers the effects of excessive time spent with your closest and dearest in the aftermath of a shutdown more burdensome than any Japan has had to face. Sara (Ami Chong) lives with her partner Kosuke (Takuma Izumi) with his folks, Akiko (Akiko Ishikawa) & Takanobu (Kenji Iwaya), whose family she addresses with the reverence that was fashionable in the 1960s. Even if Akiko, a former teacher with solid communist credentials, would vigorously dispute it, the fact that she is ethnically Korean places her on an uneven footing with her in-laws.
9. Amachan
Amachan is a Japanese drama television series. It premiered on April 1, 2013, & lasted till September 28, 2013. Kanker Kud wrote the story, and Rena Nnen played Aki Amano, a Tokyo high school girl who goes to the Sanriku Beach in the Tohoku area to train as a female explorer. She has become a local idol, then travels to Tokyo to attempt to become a true idol, and then returns to Tohoku to assist in revitalising the area following the East Japan earthquake. The 88th Asadora has arrived. Amachan was a rating triumph that offered economic advantages to the Tohoku area and was seen as a social phenomenon. It was also nominated for a Galaxy Award for a best television show in 2013.
10. Atelier
Atelier (, Andwea, meaning Underwear) is just a 2015 Japanese Netflix streaming television drama created by Fuji Television. It is a coming-of-age story set in the Ginza neighbourhood of Tokyo at a small high-class underwear design firm named Emotion. Mayuko Tokita, an employee, is the focus of the drama, and she is struggling to find her position at Emotion. Her connection with Mayumi Nanjo, the originator and proprietor of Emotion, has been likened to Anna Wintour, the director of American Vogue.
