Best Japanese Dramas on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Japanese Dramas on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 2893. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Her Father, My Lover (2015)
Rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, from 2015, 1h 45m. Maya's reckless romantic pursuit of her friend Taeko’s father spirals out of control, creating rifts between everyone involved.
2. Rashomon (1950)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1950, 1h 28m. What is true? What is false? Several witnesses see an event differently in Akira Kurosawa's Oscar-winning masterpiece.
3. Usagi Drop (2011)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, from 2011, 1h 53m. Deciding to raise his dead grandfather's 6-year-old love child, bachelor Daikichi finds that the trials of fatherhood are not for the faint of heart.
4. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, from 1962, 1h 52m. In director Ozu's last film, an aging widower struggles with modernity and loneliness as he searches for a suitable husband for his daughter.
5. Tokyo Story (1953)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1953, 2h 15m. An elderly couple in post-World War II Japan travel to Tokyo to visit their children but are received rather coldly by their offspring.
6. Hachi-Ko (1987)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 1987, 1h 47m. A devoted dog waits for his master at the train station every day, even after the man falls ill, proving how deep the bond is between humans and pets.
7. Love Exposure (2008)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 2008, 3h 56m. Desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father, young Yu takes to sinning big time, becoming a master of up-skirt photography and perfecting the ninja moves required to get just the right angle on his subjects in this four-hour epic.
8. Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 1954, 2h 35m. Starting a decade before World War II, a young teacher works to give her 12 students hope, even as the growing shadow of global conflagration looms.
9. Be with You (2004)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2004, 1h 58m. While on a walk with his young son, a widower encounters a woman with no memory who looks exactly like his late wife, and they begin a life together.
10. Doro no Kawa (1981)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1981, 1h 45m. A young boy growing up in a poor neighborhood of postwar Osaka makes a new friend and slowly becomes aware of the ways the adults around him survive.