Japanese TV Series on Netflix

Set on solitude after an accident changes his life, an architect reunites with an old classmate. She's determined to teach him how to love once more.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81248056 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A timid salesman is introduced to a secret club where cosplaying Weekly Shonen Jump superfans awaken their inner-heroes to overcome life’s challenges.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix ID: 81410464 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

She’s a popular girl hiding her homebody ways. He’s a gloomy loner with a secret. They vow to conceal their connection, even as it deepens by the day.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix ID: 81474694 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two boys cross paths on the way home from high school. Their relationship blossoms, growing with the changes and challenges of adulthood.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81453899 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Unsatisfied with her seemingly happy marriage, successful scriptwriter Natsu leaves her husband to live alone in the city and pursue her true desires.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81317009 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Nadeshiko joins her new school’s Outdoor Activities Club after a memorable encounter with solo camper Rin. Let the camping adventures begin!

Year: 2020
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81446790 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Cerebral Keishi and his freewheeling partner Yutaro scrub their clients' digital data when they die, no questions asked -- unless they need answers.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81154006 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young man who survived a childhood kidnapping that left his mother dead becomes the prime suspect in a recent string of gruesome femicides.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81367819 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The arrogant son of a locksmith uses his genius lock-picking skills to solve mysteries and crimes and to get the ladies. Or so he hopes.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81253399 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Lawyer Shiro pours his heart into home-cooked meals for his partner, hairstylist Kenji, as they navigate life as a middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 81199260 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Failed magician Yamada and stern physicist Ueda work together and with others to solve more supernatural mysteries and spiritual frauds.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 81260165 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yuriko returns home to Tokyo to live with her widowed father — much to his surprise. Unbeknownst to him, she’s living with a terminal illness.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:30:51
Netflix ID: 81446804 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a weird young woman saves his life, a cold young man is thrust into a nonsensical life with the bizarre people who live under a nearby bridge.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81260170 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A childish 28-year-old man determined to never get a job moves in with his hardworking girlfriend. Although she loves him, something has to change.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81259832 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A naive and passive woman's engagement to a man she meets through a matchmaking service goes awry, leading her down a spiral of confusion.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 80244921 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kindaichi travels to a remote island to bring the news of a fellow soldier’s death to his family. As soon as he arrives, crimes start stacking up.

Year: 1978
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81402139 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two women navigate their friendship while dealing with their own relationship issues — one has a cheating husband, the other one’s having an affair.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81446916 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a single father’s daughter is taken, he follows the abductor’s orders and seeks out his ex-wife, discovering a twisted world of lies and secrets.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 81278684 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Tokyo police create a new dedicated unit to combat “keyboard murders” and other social media transgressions committed behind a wall of anonymity.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix ID: 81446758 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High school freshman and total geek Onoda learns about friendship, competition and the value of hard training after joining the school's cycling club.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix ID: 80172137 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two businesspeople get married as soon as they meet — only to find they work at the same company and that they’re developing feelings for each other.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix ID: 81453746 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In these creatively diverse standalone episodes, eight acclaimed directors envision a fictional day off for film star Kasumi Arimura.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix ID: 81367787 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Ginzo tries to take his deceased friend’s daughter under his wing, he’s warned to stay away. They say that wherever she goes, death follows.

Year: 1978
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix ID: 81402162 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a lifetime of prioritizing her family over her own happiness, Sumi gets to relive her lost youth when she’s turned back into her 20-year-old self.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix ID: 81440909 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Successful and wealthy, Toshimi Nito had a wonderful life. But while on trial for murdering his wife and daughter, a darker side is revealed.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:41:00
Netflix ID: 81440920 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Hiroshi Tanaka is a young man with an Afro and a mighty need for a girlfriend. With help from his friends, he's on a quest for a relationship!

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix ID: 81367797 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A paranormal researcher searches obsessively for a cursed home where something terrible happened to a mother and her child long ago.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix ID: 81059942 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kindaichi investigates the case of a man who dies by suicide while being investigated for robbery and murder, but his victims don't believe he's dead.

Year: 1977
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix ID: 81402132 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While chasing down the mafia, a cop with a photographic memory sees a face he never thought he’d see again — his superior who died four years ago.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix ID: 81387259 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Hit hard by the Lehman shock, a well-meaning young man joins a phone scam operation and gets increasingly embroiled in the underworld.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6
Netflix ID: 81153751 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A naive college student and a self-made businessman fall in love at first sight, but his dark past threatens their happiness.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 5.7
Netflix ID: 81297349 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A jobless and broke kid with a tarnished heart of gold ventures into the dirty underworld of Kabukicho, talent scouting for the cutthroat sex trade.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 5.6
Netflix ID: 81440808 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A disbarred lawyer seeks to redeem her reputation as she leads a tiny misfit legal team to victory, no matter how hopeless the case may be.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.3
Netflix ID: 81259797 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the midst of serial murders, a literature scholar's niece stands to inherit a vast amount of money. The catch: she has to marry a man sight unseen.

Year: 1977
IMDb: 4.9
Netflix ID: 81402126 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Azu isn't totally happy with her marriage to Junpei, but she's shattered when he has an affair. Rebuilding their love may cost more than it's worth.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81153986 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A boy with a heart condition and his physician's daughter vow to get married when they grow up. But he may not live long enough to keep his promise.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81154030 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Nothing's as it seems when a charismatic conman and an aspiring film crew delve into the lives of two emotionally scarred women.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 80233251 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, Aki unwittingly becomes housemates with her old flame. Romantic lines immediately start getting crossed.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81297337 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Twin brothers walking very different paths in life come together to bring down the man and the corporation responsible for the death of their parents.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81338831 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Things get complicated when a closeted gay high school boy starts a relationship with a girl who secretly reads BL manga.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81333501 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When four women in their 20s decide to get serious about marriage, a secret government organization steps in to help guide them towards matrimony.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81297369 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

She's the most unlikely candidate to ever stumble into the role of a reporter, and she’s keeping everyone on their toes with her eccentric ways.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 80220655 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With his parents broke, eldest son Kazuo works hard to support their family of 10. Then, a visit from an 11th mystery member stirs things up.

Year: 2011
Netflix ID: 81153966 · Watch on Netflix

Tired of counting other people's money, bank teller Motoko Harada embezzles funds from illegal accounts to open up her own upscale Ginza nightclub.

Year: 2004
Netflix ID: 81153977 · Watch on Netflix

Following the showdown with his arch nemesis Ando, Detective Ango Ishikawa takes on a new case with his uncanny ability to communicate with the dead.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:34:20
Netflix ID: 81154669 · Watch on Netflix

Before becoming a coroner for the Metropolitan Police, Mika Higa was an undervalued university forensic assistant investigating a series of murders.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 81154652 · Watch on Netflix

After entering veterinary college, Masaki and his best friend Nikaido find that their professors are way weirder than their animal patients.

Year: 2003
Netflix ID: 81154017 · Watch on Netflix

Four people who aren't looking for love, or who are finding it in the wrong places. When their paths cross, secrets are uncovered and lives change.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81153996 · Watch on Netflix

Unwilling to work within the hierarchical healthcare system, freelance surgeon Michiko Daimon treats her patients with unrivaled skill and accuracy.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 81166179 · Watch on Netflix

A dentist, a lawyer and a banker. These three unmarried friends have a change of heart about love when their successful lives take an unexpected turn.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81154039 · Watch on Netflix

When his employer goes bankrupt, Sakita returns to his hometown, where he winds up managing an escort agency masquerading as a produce company.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81199246 · Watch on Netflix

At the height of the bubble economy, two bank employees compete to reach the top in a 10-year rivalry. It doesn't help that they share the same name.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 81189784 · Watch on Netflix

One billion yen vanishes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two police inspectors work to discover the culprit, but politics may obstruct justice.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 81189824 · Watch on Netflix

Hiyori’s dreams of living alone after entering high school end prematurely when her childhood friend Soshi suddenly moves in with her.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81243400 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An upset office worker angrily trips a man in public. She learns he's her boss and fears the worst, but he's got a more submissive request in mind.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81221524 · Watch on Netflix

They're adults, but that doesn't mean they know anything about love. Four young people attempt to find happiness as they navigate their relationships.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 81253385 · Watch on Netflix

A single mother with a great career in the US accepts a position with a conservative corporation back in Japan, bringing her unorthodox ways with her.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81287320 · Watch on Netflix

A mother, daughter, and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secrets are revealed, they face challenges together.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:46:17
Netflix ID: 81287373 · Watch on Netflix

After getting jilted at her wedding, a diligent magazine editor discovers that she can forget all about her heartbreak when devouring delicious food.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81287296 · Watch on Netflix

In the office where the dead get processed for the afterlife, a young woman disputing her paperwork uncovers a stoic administrative clerk’s dark past.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81287330 · Watch on Netflix

A romance manga artist frazzled by deadlines and ironically inexperienced in love captures the heart of a handsome, charismatic hair stylist.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81297361 · Watch on Netflix

A police officer turned criminal psychologist partners with a young aspiring mystery novelist to aid the Kyoto police in solving confounding crimes.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81338824 · Watch on Netflix

In post-bubble Japan, an employee for a major bank is promoted to the position of corporate auditor, bringing his unwavering sense of justice with him.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81316999 · Watch on Netflix

An ex-con goes on the run when he’s framed for murder just two weeks before he’s scheduled to donate his bone marrow to save his daughter’s life.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81278672 · Watch on Netflix

Three colorful girls with big anime dreams form a film club at their chaotic school and strive to make their ultimate animated project a reality.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81345663 · Watch on Netflix

A hotshot detective puts a target on the police force’s back when he stops an illegal arms deal, but lets a dangerous fugitive slip through his fingers.

Year: 1998
Runtime: 01:31:05
Netflix ID: 81343386 · Watch on Netflix

Miki Ogawa left the countryside to work for a fashion company in Kobe. When a guy who knew her as a boy moves in, it’s awkward, but she’s unfazed.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81333494 · Watch on Netflix

Renowned directors and screenwriters present a series of fictitious scenarios imagining what actor and star Ryoma Takeuchi would do on his day off.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81367777 · Watch on Netflix

In a future where humans and AI are allowed to marry, Kenichi seeks help from the manufacturers when he’s rejected by his newly-purchased robot wife.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81367809 · Watch on Netflix

In a busy world, Shota puts himself up for rent as a person who'll do nothing except be there for a little while. To his surprise, business is booming.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81287347 · Watch on Netflix

In the suburban city of Urayasu, the over-the-top Osawagi family manages to turn mundane affairs into extraordinary calamities of epic proportion.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81410491 · Watch on Netflix

An emotionless young man gets recruited to work for an unscrupulous revenge-for-hire organization run by a mysterious woman known as Taker.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81410477 · Watch on Netflix

When a husband and wife admit that they've both been having affairs with mutual acquaintances, a strange four-sided relationship grows between them.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81387266 · Watch on Netflix

Earlier exploits of crime boss Yuichi Kawatani and the top brass of Kyowakai come to light in this prequel spinoff of the Nihontoitsu yakuza saga.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81403544 · Watch on Netflix

While Momoe’s love addiction leaves her feeling a little lonely, she shrugs it off by telling herself she’ll live more responsibly in her next life.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81410505 · Watch on Netflix

The Pacific War shatters one Japanese American man's life: while his family are incarcerated in Manzanar, he faces his own brother on the battlefield.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81410519 · Watch on Netflix

While traveling the Seto Inland Sea, Kindaichi befriends a widow who takes in a mysterious young man. Soon, multiple murders begin to occur around her.

Year: 1978
Netflix ID: 81402156 · Watch on Netflix

Kindaichi becomes involved in the case of an actress whose husbands keep dying mysteriously — and her new fiancé has just received a threatening letter.

Year: 1978
Netflix ID: 81402145 · Watch on Netflix

A stranger arrives at a gathering in a labyrinthine manor. The other guests fear he may be a missing murder suspect. It’s up to Kindaichi to find out.

Year: 1978
Netflix ID: 81402167 · Watch on Netflix

Kindaichi finds himself in the midst of a feuding family, when the patriarch and an unwelcome fiancé are both found dead.

Year: 1978
Netflix ID: 81402151 · Watch on Netflix

A fiery detective and an icy public prosecutor — who also happen to be estranged brothers — clash over how to handle a murder case.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:41:00
Netflix ID: 81440919 · Watch on Netflix

This dramatized series tells the story of pop icon Ayumi Hamasaki’s rise to stardom and her intense relationship with industry heavyweight Max Matsuura.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81440933 · Watch on Netflix

Five high school kids who grew up together in the same apartment complex navigate unrequited love, friendship and other intricacies of adolescence.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81440830 · Watch on Netflix

With her disabled brother wrongly accused of murder and no money to their name, Kiriko pleads with a star attorney to take up his case pro bono.

Year: 2014
Runtime: 01:48:47
Netflix ID: 81440817 · Watch on Netflix

Warlord Oda Nobunaga is unimpressed when he time warps onto the set of a biopic about himself and causes a stir when he takes control of the script.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 00:56:59
Netflix ID: 81443436 · Watch on Netflix

A clever clock shop owner with the uncanny ability to break even the most rock solid of false alibis helps an uptight detective solve difficult cases.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81440923 · Watch on Netflix

A kid willing to do anything for a laugh forms a manzai duo with a transfer student with professional comedy experience. Can they hit the big time?

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81440899 · Watch on Netflix

Rejected by her school of choice, Nao must find ways to make the best of student life after she enrolls in a technical high school dominated by boys.

Year: 2011
Netflix ID: 81440819 · Watch on Netflix

Advertising designer Hikaru thought she found her soulmate in fiancé Kota, but her devotion to him wavers when an ex-lover suddenly resurfaces.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 81440864 · Watch on Netflix

Surrounded by underperforming colleagues, an IT systems employee moonlighting as a manga artist starts to question the state of his own mediocre life.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81446782 · Watch on Netflix

Falsely accused of murdering her husband, Sakiko goes on the run to track down the true killer. Her only lead is the distinct tattoo on his back.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81446888 · Watch on Netflix

Following her father’s disappearance, a principled corporate attorney takes over his practice located in Tokyo’s seedy red-light district of Kabukicho.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81446902 · Watch on Netflix

After three dates, Maiko marries Harumi, a divorcé 20 years older than her. Now that they're newlyweds, can their relationship survive the age gap?

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81453763 · Watch on Netflix

Two major stars who had a very public split 25 years ago must set aside their differences when they find themselves co-starring in a big-budget romance.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81446749 · Watch on Netflix

Every weekend, stressed out salaryman Suda recharges by driving around the country in search of restaurants on the verge of closing down.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81446716 · Watch on Netflix

Tokugawa Ieyasu time warps to the casting of his own biopic and inspires the esteemed actor portraying him to alter the script — and not for the better!

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81444740 · Watch on Netflix

A quaint bar run by three close friends offers its patrons a place of momentary solace and rest from the struggles of the outside world.

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81453755 · Watch on Netflix

A detective drama plunges into confusion when reshoots are suddenly needed and the only actors available are big name stars who happen to be passing by.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81441333 · Watch on Netflix

After a bartender loses his memory from an attack on the street by a stranger, he slowly realizes he's caught in a growing web of deceptions and lies.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81441317 · Watch on Netflix

Sakamoto Ryoma fan Takeda Tetsuya’s elated to play the lauded samurai one last time, but when the real Ryoma time warps into his life, all bets are off!

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81444734 · Watch on Netflix