Romantic Japanese Films on Netflix

Kotoko is elated to start college with Irie, but their majors separate them, and there's a new rival for Irie's affections.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 9
Runtime: 01:44:39
Netflix ID: 80117076 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Alienated Tomoya goes through high school by rote until he meets Nagisa, who's been ill. When she decides to restart the Drama Club, his life changes.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:33:56
Netflix ID: 80245375 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One strange night in Kyoto seems to last a year. One hapless college student wants to confess his love to his classmate, but she's on her own journey.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:32:36
Netflix ID: 80990742 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shy college photography buff forms a bond with a cute classmate who abruptly disappears from his life when he develops feelings for another girl.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:56:49
Netflix ID: 80127826 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young man falls for a beautiful stranger. But as his love for her grows, he learns her secret and realizes that their time together is fleeting.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:50:29
Netflix ID: 80201634 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Futaba Yoshioka gets a second chance to win the heart of her crush when he transfers back to her school. He's changed, but so has she.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 02:01:34
Netflix ID: 80134574 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young conductor Chiaki and his girlfriend, student pianist Nodame, confront the challenges of their first professional gigs together.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 02:00:00
Netflix ID: 80114831 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young conductor Chiaki moves out of the apartment he shares with pianist Nodame to concentrate on his career, which may mean curtains for their love.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 02:02:40
Netflix ID: 80114832 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A famous songwriter begins a relationship with an aspiring young musician. He hides his fame, she hides her ambitions, and drama ensues.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:57:04
Netflix ID: 80114835 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kotoko confesses her feelings for her brainy classmate Naoki, only to be rejected. But his feelings change when her family moves in with his.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:43:42
Netflix ID: 80117075 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Naho Takemiya's high school life is disrupted by letters from her 25-year-old self in the future, begging her to act to save her classmate Kakeru.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:19:08
Netflix ID: 80142035 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yuki falls for the standoffish new girl in school and learns that she suffers from a form of amnesia -- she loses her memories every week.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 02:00:20
Netflix ID: 80225525 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After waking up from a fatal accident, Aoi’s longtime crush tells her a secret: He can turn back time. But there’s one crucial moment he can’t change.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:56:35
Netflix ID: 81006260 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A classical pianist is called to heaven early for reasons involving a late pianist he had admired and her niece, who is still on earth.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:51:11
Netflix ID: 80103556 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Struggling news writer Yukiyo has never been popular with women, until suddenly one day, Miyuki, Rumi, Ai and Motoko all set their sights on him.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:58:05
Netflix ID: 80142038 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Bored with her regimented life, high schooler Yukari falls in with a free-spirited group of fashion design students, including the alluring George.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:54:31
Netflix ID: 80179252 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shino Umemiya moves to a new location to get away from a bad relationship and develops a crush on her neighbor Kyoshiro, who's also her new manager.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 02:01:34
Netflix ID: 80139913 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Against a backdrop of growing imperialism, a Japanese businessman and his mistress give in to an all-consuming sexual and romantic obsession.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:48:19
Netflix ID: 70116706 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A curious girl caught up in the revolutionary spirit of 1969 meets a trio of bohemian friends and falls confusedly in love for the first time.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 02:12:08
Netflix ID: 80192041 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Pegged as a weirdo, loner high schooler Ninon forms a sudden and close relationship with her popular classmate when he reveals a tragic secret to her.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:49:40
Netflix ID: 81018798 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A once-promising young painter learns he has cancer and faces his final summer with the unlikely friendship of a sassy teenage girl.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 02:00:27
Netflix ID: 80125298 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High school romance is a dream come true for Hiro, until her boyfriend, Shu, reveals that he's planning to go away to college in Tokyo.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:24:51
Netflix ID: 80170194 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A lonely girl in Tokyo finds a young, handsome man with an affinity for weeds and herbs collapsed on her doorstep and agrees to take him in.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:52:15
Netflix ID: 80127649 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Wanting to finish high school in the same place, Aoi lives alone after her parents move, until popular boy Shusei moves into her apartment.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:52:53
Netflix ID: 80116995 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High-class courtesan Asagiri plans to finish her indenture and leave the Yoshiwara pleasure district of Edo, until she meets the handsome Hanjiro.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:42:27
Netflix ID: 80135212 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ninako begins to have feelings for her high school classmate Ren, despite the fact that he's dating Mayuka and Daiki has confessed his love for her.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:55:36
Netflix ID: 80142107 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tsukimi Kurashita's run-down apartment building is a haven for female nerds, but redevelopers and a cross-dressing boy threaten their paradise.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 02:06:44
Netflix ID: 80107257 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Despite all odds, two high school friends -- one in the brass band, the other on the baseball team -- fight for their dreams while growing closer.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 02:05:30
Netflix ID: 80187208 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With her friends growing skeptical, a high school freshman who has invented a fictional boyfriend convinces a handsome classmate to play the part.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:56:17
Netflix ID: 80216634 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Bored with her new life in the countryside, a popular teen model falls in love with a free-spirited local boy over a summer they will never forget.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6
Runtime: 01:51:41
Netflix ID: 80199076 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An obedient woman in a loveless arranged marriage falls in love for the first time. Devastatingly, it's with her husband's boss.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:35:11
Netflix ID: 80196042 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When high school student Emiko meets older student Yo, they begin a physical relationship. Emiko loses her heart, but Yo remains cold to her.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:59:03
Netflix ID: 80114364 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Perpetually daydreaming employee Kie Hirano falls for Mitsumasa, a direct descendent of British nobility and the eldest of the elite Kodai family.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:54:46
Netflix ID: 80187169 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Mixed-up model and bar hostess Kotoko sleeps with her coworker Genki, but can't seem to let herself sleep with the guy she really likes.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.5
Runtime: 01:25:02
Netflix ID: 80152738 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two factions struggle for control over the child shogun within Edo Castle, leaving senior attendant Ejima caught between friendship and true love.

Year: 2006
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 02:06:08
Netflix ID: 80114830 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Salaryman Yokado proposes becoming his beautiful but taken colleague Seiyu's 'replacement' lover, but soon their lies are inseparable from the truth.

Year: 2013
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:25:01
Netflix ID: 80170333 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this comedy of errors, high school teacher Mr. Tairaku is caught in a sticky web of hormonal students, hot co-workers and a frightening mob boss.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80236313 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 02:03:07
Netflix ID: 81019414 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Serious, inexperienced high schooler Tamio begins dating his sexy classmate Etsuko, but her tastes are intimidatingly more sophisticated than his.

Year: 2012
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:10:06
Netflix ID: 80155626 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teen romance is complicated for a boy who's secretly in love with a college girl but who's also captured the heart of a high school freshman.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:43:05
Netflix ID: 80117168 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

College student Tatsuhiko Kido discovers a hole in the wall of his apartment through which he spies on his neighbor Emiru Ikuno, who spies right back.

Year: 2014
Netflix ID: 80166081 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A disillusioned piano prodigy is lured back to music by a free-spirited violinist. But unbeknownst to him, she's hiding a devastating secret.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 02:01:11
Netflix ID: 80191845 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shy and timid Yuki finds herself caught between an unattainable love -- and a friendship that might be verging on something more.

Year: 2015
Runtime: 01:20:38
Netflix ID: 80196834 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yuna wakes up to find the dreamy boy she sees every morning on her commute to school lying next to her. And that's just the beginning of the mystery.

Year: 2015
Runtime: 01:19:26
Netflix ID: 80196835 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After years of marriage and the departure of their son, Yohei and Miyoko face life as a couple for the first time -- a relationship that may not last.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:56:51
Netflix ID: 81006638 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb