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The Japanese Dramas category on Netflix is identified by the secret code 2893 . Below are 100 Japanese Dramas titles currently traceable on Netflix, sorted by rating. Top picks include Her Father, My Lover (2015), Rashomon (1950), Usagi Drop (2011).
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Last updated: 28 Sep 2021. Independent reference, not affiliated with Netflix.
Her Father, My Lover (2015) Maya's reckless romantic pursuit of her friend Taeko’s father spirals out of control, creating rifts between everyone involved.
Year: 201580200446 · IMDb
Rashomon (1950) What is true? What is false? Several witnesses see an event differently in Akira Kurosawa's Oscar-winning masterpiece.
Year: 195060010815 · IMDb
Usagi Drop (2011) 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.
Year: 201180098492 · IMDb
An Autumn Afternoon (1962) In director Ozu's last film, an aging widower struggles with modernity and loneliness as he searches for a suitable husband for his daughter.
Year: 196270104401 · IMDb
Tokyo Story (1953) An elderly couple in post-World War II Japan travel to Tokyo to visit their children but are received rather coldly by their offspring.
Year: 195360031727 · IMDb
Hachi-Ko (1987) 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.
Year: 198780068148 · IMDb
Love Exposure (2008) 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.
Year: 200870122132 · IMDb
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) 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.
Year: 195470105681 · IMDb
Be with You (2004) 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.
Year: 200480061840 · IMDb
Doro no Kawa (1981) 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.
Year: 198180103562 · IMDb
Vengeance Is Mine (1979) Legendary Japanese director Shohei Imamura (The Eel) helms this chilling tale of horror and revenge based on actual events about a seemingly harmless young man who blossomed into a cold-blooded, remorseless murderer.
Year: 197970067850 · IMDb
犬神家の一族（1976年版） (1976) Det. Kosuke Kimdaichi tries to solve the eerie and bizarre murders of the members of a wealthy, prominent family with a closet full of skeletons.
Year: 197680081320 · IMDb
Little Forest (2015) Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to her rural hometown to live self-sufficiently, farming and cooking everything she eats herself.
Year: 201580107386 · IMDb
Confessions (2010) A young schoolteacher seeks revenge against the adolescent students she believes to be responsible for her daughter's death.
Year: 201070153638 · IMDb
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) An orphaned teenage girl is raised by a prostitute and the surrounding neighborhood of immigrants, petty thieves and scavengers.
Year: 199680065599 · IMDb
Memories of Tomorrow (2006) Diagnosed at age 49 with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, successful advertising executive Masayuki Saeki sees his near-perfect world turn upside down as he and his wife reel from the unexpected blow.
Year: 200670070351 · IMDb
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974) In the final film of the series, yakuza clans have learned to disguise their activities behind legitimate businesses, but war and bloodshed continue.
Year: 197480117119 · IMDb
Shiawase no Kiiroi Hankachi (1977) A man who's just been dumped quits his job to take a road trip. Along the way he picks up a brokenhearted young woman and a man with a secret past.
Year: 197780073173 · IMDb
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003) A typical university student meets a disabled girl being wheeled around town in a baby carriage. Despite the odds, the two soon begin to fall in love.
Year: 200380073502 · IMDb
Our Little Sister (2015) Three sisters who live together meet their recently orphaned 14-year-old half sister at their estranged father's funeral and decide to take her in.
Year: 201580057568 · IMDb
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) A former Japanese soldier goes to prison for murder and becomes sworn brothers with a yakuza inmate. Soon, he's swept into a violent street war.
Year: 197380117121 · IMDb
Go (2001) As he comes of age, a Japanese-born Korean boy struggles with the future, love, cultural identity and Japan's ubiquitous racism.
Year: 200180117150 · IMDb
Heavenly Forest (2006) 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: 200680127826 · IMDb
Yokame no semi (2011) A young woman who was abducted as a baby, then raised for years by her kidnapper, is determined to find out what really happened all those years ago.
Year: 201180073172 · IMDb
Blue Spring Ride (2014) 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: 201480134574 · IMDb
Castle of Sand (1974) A nameless man is found murdered in a rail yard, stumping a pair of detectives as they try to unravel the identity of both the killer and the victim.
Year: 197470049044 · IMDb
Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3 (2016) A struggling part-timer, desperate to strike it rich on a multi-level marketing business, seeks a short term loan from predatory lender Ushijima.
Year: 201680216725 · IMDb
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004) When his fiancée stumbles on an old tape he made during high school, Sakutaro becomes consumed by memories of young romance, adventure and tragedy.
Year: 200480061839 · IMDb
The Little House (2014) A humble young maid observes rising tensions in the household after her employer embarks on an affair with her husband's work colleague.
Year: 201470301539 · IMDb
A Song to the Sun (2006) A teen with a disease requiring her to avoid the sun plays her guitar nightly at a train station, where she meets a boy she's been secretly watching.
Year: 200680076993 · IMDb
Rhapsody in August (1991) Four Japanese youths visit their elderly grandmother, a woman who's never forgotten the horrors caused by the bombing of Nagasaki during World War II.
Year: 199160028523 · IMDb
Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010) Nao Kanzaki and Shinichi Akiyama return to the Liar Game's final round, which everyone can win if they trust each other. But 'Player X' may doom them.
Year: 201080108339 · IMDb
Sunk Into the Womb (2013) Stressed by recent circumstances, a newly single working mother of two small children crumbles tragically under the weight of her responsibilities.
Year: 201380191891 · IMDb
10 Promises to My Dog (2008) When a young girl wants to adopt a puppy, her mother insists she make promises to her new pet that help carry her through life's twists and turns.
Year: 200880071139 · IMDb
The Great Passage (2013) Shy Mitsuya works on a project with a woman who's his polar opposite -- a collaboration that gives him the courage to pursue the object of his desire.
Year: 201370298943 · IMDb
Ping Pong (2002) Two completely opposite high school students who were once childhood pals, 'Peco' Hoshino and 'Smile' Tsukimoto, find themselves pitted against one another in an extreme sports version of ping pong.
Year: 200270028595 · IMDb
Villain (2010) When a woman is murdered after humiliating an online date, the case shines a light on the morality of everyone involved, including the victim.
Year: 201080061841 · IMDb
One Million Yen Girl (2008) A young woman who has done some time in jail works a series of odd jobs, continually picking up and starting over somewhere else.
Year: 200880094512 · IMDb
Gakko (1993) Sad about their classmate Ino, night school teacher Kuroi and students Zhang, Eriko, Midori and Kazu look back on their experiences at the school.
Year: 199380103329 · IMDb
100 Yen Love (2014) A dispirited 32-year-old slacker living with her parents sinks into deep despair, until an aging boxer teaches her to fight for her life.
Year: 201480075656 · IMDb
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God (2007) Nervous college student Shiina's new neighbor Kawasaki asks for his help robbing a bookstore. Intrigued, Shiina attempts to unravel Kawasaki's past.
Year: 200780114321 · IMDb
Ushijima The Loan Shark Part 2 (2014) Ushijima is called the loan shark, but his underlings Takada and Ezaki are hyenas: They fight among themselves over collecting debtors' money.
Year: 201480134573 · IMDb
Survival Family (2017) When Tokyo's electrical grid fails, a father must lead his family to safety while facing the devastating reality of an emerging dystopian society.
Year: 201780192009 · IMDb
Midnight Diner 2 (2016) The Master's late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
Year: 201680197639 · IMDb
The Chef of South Polar (2009) When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
Year: 200980061891 · IMDb
Fall Guy (1982) A fading star convinces a loyal underling to marry his pregnant girlfriend to avoid a scandal, then insists he act as his double in a dangerous stunt.
Year: 198270020769 · IMDb
Hula Girls (2006) When a Japanese mining company announces the closure of a coal mine in Iwaki, a group of brave young women defies their community by signing up to become hula dancers at the company's new Hawaiian tourist center in this heartwarming dramedy.
Year: 200670075009 · IMDb
Writhing Tongue (1980) Five-year-old Masako falls mysteriously ill after scratching her finger in a muddy swamp, and her ailment causes heartache for her devoted parents.
Year: 198080076989 · IMDb
The Woodsman and the Rain (2012) A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
Year: 201280081094 · IMDb
Himizu (2011) Sumida (Shometani) and his schoolmate Keiko (Nikaido) are 15 year old school kids living a dystopian existence where each of their parents hope and encourage them to die. Set in tsunami-hit areas of Japan, which are used as a backdrop.
Year: 201170273700 · IMDb
Cold Fish (2010) A cunning psychopath befriends the downtrodden owner of a rival tropical fish store and lures him into a twisted world of depravity and murder.
Year: 201070151002 · IMDb
Rage (2016) Months after an unsolved brutal double murder, three drifters resembling the suspect surface in different locations across Japan.
Year: 201680156305 · IMDb
One Week Friends (2017) 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: 201780225525 · IMDb
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2017) 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: 201780244921 · IMDb
SOLANIN (2010) Tired of her office job, Meiko quits to live on savings and rethink her future. But will her wannabe rock star boyfriend step up and do the same?
Year: 201080072433 · IMDb
The Snow White Murder Case (2014) When a beautiful office worker is stabbed and set on fire, her murder casts suspicion on a colleague who is tried on television and in the rumor mill.
Year: 201480071140 · IMDb
Dive!! (2008) An aspiring diver and his two friends get a shot at sports glory when their coach commits to sending one athlete to the Japanese Olympic Games.
Year: 200880081303 · IMDb
Bakuman (2015) An aspiring comic artist haunted by the death of his overworked uncle is persuaded to follow his dreams and prepares to break into the industry.
Year: 201580142036 · IMDb
Strange Circus (2005) A suicidal teen is forced to watch her parents' lovemaking from a peephole, then is sexually abused by her father after her mother's suspicious death.
Year: 200570062527 · IMDb
If Cats Disappeared from the World (2016) A dying man who lives alone with his cat makes a deal with the devil to extend his life in exchange for making things disappear from the world.
Year: 201680187091 · IMDb
What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017) After a minor accident, a family intervention with patriarch Shuzo fails. Then an incident with an old friend forces him to reconsider his choices.
Year: 201780178468 · IMDb
Sakuran (2006) In 18th-century Japan, apprentice courtesan Kiyoha (portrayed by Japanese pop superstar Anna Tsuchiya) works in a brothel in the fashionable Yoshiwara district. Determined to gain her independence, Kiyoha refuses to be bought by a wealthy man.
Year: 200670084325 · IMDb
Ningen no shômei (1977) The murder of an American man in Japan leads a Tokyo detective to New York's fashion scene, where he works with local police to untangle a plot.
Year: 197780081319 · IMDb
Pale Moon (2014) Right after the burst of Japan's economic bubble, a lonely banker finds her embezzlement leading her to sexual awakening and financial peril.
Year: 201480107356 · IMDb
My SO Has Depression (2011) The marriage of a businessman and his artist wife changes when he develops clinical depression, forcing her to become their means of support.
Year: 201180065372 · IMDb
A Tale of Samurai Cooking: A True Love Story (2013) Talented cook Haru marries into a clan of famous chefs. But when she learns that her husband can't cook at all, she must save the family reputation.
Year: 201380015284 · IMDb
Child by Children (2008) After a sex ed lesson, fifth grader Haruna is convinced that the childish exploration she engaged in with a playmate has made her pregnant.
Year: 200880061896 · IMDb
Pacchigi! (2004) A musical boy proposes a karate match between his Japanese high school and a Korean school in an effort to make peace and falls in love along the way.
Year: 200480061887 · IMDb
Guilty of Romance (2011) A detective's investigation of a grisly murder leads her to a sexually frustrated housewife and a professor who moonlights as a prostitute.
Year: 201170273699 · IMDb
Heaven's Bookstore (2004) 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: 200480103556 · IMDb
Happily Ever After (2007) Waitress Yukie's ex-yakuza boyfriend has difficulty expressing his feelings in any way but overturning tables, putting their future in doubt.
Year: 200770111609 · IMDb
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012) Director Yuki Tanada paints a touching portrait of suffering souls whose interconnecting lives engender sorrow and a tenuous optimism for the future.
Year: 201270261049 · IMDb
Hankyu Railways: A 15-minute Miracle (2011) Small miracles of love affect the troubled passengers riding in one car of a beautiful vintage commuter train as their lives briefly overlap.
Year: 201180061864 · IMDb
Dear Friends (2007) A young woman's selfish attitude changes after she receives a cancer diagnosis and reconnects with a childhood friend in the hospital.
Year: 200780065374 · IMDb
Feel the Wind (2009) A friendship between two sidelined athletes helps them return to their beloved sport and build a team for a competitive long-distance relay race.
Year: 200980071141 · IMDb
Carmen Comes Home (1951) Lovely Okin and her friend leave their burlesque act in the city and return to Okin's rural hometown, where their colorful antics turn a few heads.
Year: 195180077855 · IMDb
Midsummer's Equation (2013) When the body of an ex-cop turns up in small seaside town, Dr. Manabu Yukawa sets his meticulously logical mind on finding the killer.
Year: 201380041091 · IMDb
Space Brothers (2012) As kids, brothers Mutta and Hibito dreamed of becoming astronauts. Now Hibito preps for a moon launch, while Mutta is fired from his mundane job.
Year: 201280065831 · IMDb
Paradise Kiss (2011) Bored with her regimented life, high schooler Yukari falls in with a free-spirited group of fashion design students, including the alluring George.
Year: 201180179252 · IMDb
Bayside Shakedown (1998) Detectives take on a shocking case when a corpse is discovered with surgical scars sewn shut with embroidery thread, and a teddy bear in the stomach.
Year: 199880065841 · IMDb
Yakuza Wives (1986) While her husband is in prison, Tamaki successfully runs his gang but is tested when a brutal yakuza war erupts and her sister marries a rival leader.
Year: 198680065339 · IMDb
The Vulture (2009) On the eve of a financial crisis, a brilliant fund manager known for his aggressive style swoops in to buy up and rebuild a string of companies.
Year: 200980061851 · IMDb
Shitsurakuen (1997) An aging editor and a pretty calligraphy teacher, both trapped in dead-end marriages, find passion in each other's arms, but with tragic consequences.
Year: 199780075256 · IMDb
Bokura no nanoka-kan sensô (1988) A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers.
Year: 198880081310 · IMDb
Liar Game: Reborn (2012) Shinichi Akiyama escaped the Liar Game, but its office restarts to get revenge on him by coercing a new group of players, including naive student Yu.
Year: 201280114833 · IMDb
One Third (2014) A cabaret club manager, worker and patron pull off a bank heist, but greed drives each of them to attempt to cheat the others out of their share.
Year: 201480135473 · IMDb
A Cappella (2016) 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: 201680192041 · IMDb
Demon Covered in Scars (2017) In middle school, Mai's group of friends bullied Shino relentlessly. When Mai transfers into her high school, Shino takes the chance to get revenge.
Year: 201781017026 · IMDb
We Can't Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia. (2011) A bored medical student and his friends vow to build a school for Cambodian children, but their plans are threatened when harsh reality intrudes.
Year: 201180065364 · IMDb
Blindly in Love (2013) A shy social misfit with only a pet frog for a companion is matched up by his parents with a blind woman, with whom he quickly falls in love.
Year: 201380062002 · IMDb
Yamato (2005) As an elderly Japanese World War II veteran sees the final resting place of the battleship “Yamato,” he thinks back to his to time as a young sailor.
Year: 200580065342 · IMDb
Love Collage (2003) Makoto receives a letter from his ex-girlfriend inviting him to an exhibit, but things take a strange turn when he learns she died a year earlier.
Year: 200370205156 · IMDb
Genome Hazard (2014) After finding his wife's body and dodging a kidnap attempt, a Japanese man begins to have memories of a separate life he's lived as a Korean.
Year: 201480039912 · IMDb
Madness in Bloom (2002) Three nationalistic youths who protect the sanctity of the streets with their fists become mixed up with gangsters and are drawn into a yakuza war.
Year: 200270017472 · IMDb
Pieta in the Toilet (2015) A once-promising young painter learns he has cancer and faces his final summer with the unlikely friendship of a sassy teenage girl.
Year: 201580125298 · IMDb
Halfway (2009) 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: 200980170194 · IMDb
The Magnificent Nine (2016) Residents of an impoverished and overtaxed town decide to fight back by outwitting their oppressors through a risky financial scheme.
Year: 201680097352 · IMDb
The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016) Years of mental abuse by an overbearing father sets off his son’s random killing spree, leading his family down a path of destruction.
Year: 201680200450 · IMDb
Neko Ninja (2017) After his father died, ninja Kagetaro grew up never learning what it means to love. But things change when he meets a tubby cat who resembles his dad.
Year: 201780165492 · IMDb
Helter Skelter (2012) A beautiful young starlet looks perfect in front of the camera, but she hides a dangerous secret and will do anything to maintain her image.
Year: 201280072441 · IMDb
