Japanese TV Dramas on Netflix

In this post-TV-series special, Onizuka finds himself in over his head when he's hired as a substitute teacher at a private girls' school.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 9
Runtime: 01:31:29
Netflix ID: 80195635 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One-time juvenile delinquent Onizuka finds his old tricks give him an edge when he starts teaching a class of unruly high school students.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80066010 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A lonely bachelor practices single life like a religion, but one encounter triggers a search for his version of the ultimate happy ending.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80062012 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Love and marriage are the issues when one bickering couple can't quite split up, but another seemingly happy couple wonders if they really are.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80073771 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A traveling salesman visits a variety of neighborhoods on business, then eats alone in restaurants where he samples an array of Japanese delicacies.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80075402 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a hard day at work, businesswoman Wakako relishes the moment she can finally treat herself to the best food and drink she can find.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80166210 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When herbalist Shirayuki's unusual hair attracts unwanted attention, she cuts it off and escapes to neighboring Clarines, where she meets Prince Zen.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 80220658 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A no-nonsense detective with a reputation for pushing limits investigates a rash of brutal murders connected by a series of cryptic short stories.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80063391 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young 'fabric geek' lands a job at an upscale Japanese lingerie company -- and quickly discovers she'll need help to survive.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80067618 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fifteen years apart, two driven detectives work together to crack an unsolved kidnapping case and rewrite history.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 81004042 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A scarred man operates a midnight diner in the backstreets of Shinjuku. No one knows his name or his story, but his customers each bring him theirs.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Netflix ID: 80113541 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kaoru Ushijima's Kaukau Finance is the lender of last resort for many of the poorest people in the area: He collects without mercy and without fail.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80132827 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A father and son rekindle their bond through the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV in this live-action series based on a true story.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80178543 · 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

A successful publisher with a grown son falls in love with a much younger, unhappily married man. Their intense affair will leave no one unscathed.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 6
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:45:38
Netflix ID: 80076980 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After losing his job as a stockbroker in Tokyo, straitlaced Riichi gets wrapped up in the porn industry that's taken over his sleepy hometown.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.5
Netflix ID: 81040077 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tamotsu Daidoji has found love at the mature age of 51, the same age as his fiancee's father, who's not happy with a son-in-law his own age.

Year: 2016
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80118018 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage mahjong prodigy Akagi faces off against twisted underground kingpin Washizu in a death match where each is literally playing for blood.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80142092 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a near-death experience, a stoic cop is suddenly able to see the dead, adding a new dimension to his investigations.

Year: 2014
Netflix ID: 80200155 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of regular high school boys become inadvertent fugitives when a deadly bomb goes off in a neighboring school they'd jokingly vowed revenge on.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80217042 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A sweet man without much backbone submits to the whims of his domineering wife, whose strong positive attitude rubs off on two other married women.

Year: 2007
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80067280 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Suave, quick-witted Ginjiro Manda puts his considerable knowledge to work in legal and financial matters amid an uncertain economy.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80065406 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A magical taxi with a chatty and very nosy driver takes passengers back in time in order to remake their choices and restore order in their lives.

Year: 2014
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80062014 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two problem-solving handymen tackle all manner of assignments among a host of odd characters played by well-known actors.

Year: 2013
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80077654 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A dissatisfied husband decides to kill his wife but returns home to find she's been kidnapped ... and that there's more to her than he realized.

Year: 2016
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80118114 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Goro Inogashira's business takes him all over the country and he makes a point to eat the best food wherever he goes, stopping at various restaurants.

Year: 2016
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80119250 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Akira Mochizuki survived a kidnapping as a child. Now, she's a detective, and there are signs that the kidnapper may be back again after 20 years.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:49:19
Netflix ID: 80118019 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Feared loan shark Ginjiro Manda investigates a group of fraudsters when a struggling student and a widow with links to the group ask him for money.

Year: 2016
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:10:26
Netflix ID: 80118116 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A construction consultant who uses yakuza to fend off yakuza reluctantly teams with a mob enforcer when they're dragged into a dangerous predicament.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80142226 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Five beautiful but mysterious women move in with unsuccessful novelist Shin, who manages their odd household in exchange for a tidy monthly sum.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80170687 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A jaded rom-com screenwriter in her 30s mines four love-sick women for their stories under the guise of providing them with romantic advice.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80199051 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his brother is taken hostage, loan shark Ginjiro must face his heartless past while attempting to shake the shadowy force threatening his life.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:07:09
Netflix ID: 80195466 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Loan shark Ginjiro meets two people from his past: Harumi, who runs a kids restaurant; and Shimamoto, a human rights lawyer who isn't what he seems.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:11:43
Netflix ID: 80195518 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The actors starring in the original high school drama series look back on show highlights and share behind-the-scenes anecdotes and outtakes.

Year: 1998
Runtime: 01:53:44
Netflix ID: 80195636 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When teenager Sora Suzuki and her two dads move in down the street, high schooler Takumi Sato realizes his two mothers are keeping secrets from him.

Year: 2013
Runtime: 01:42:06
Netflix ID: 80191936 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Eleven high school classmates awaken, restrained to a large dining room. While fearing for their lives, they question a motive to this bizarre act.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80198794 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The lives of five strangers become intertwined forever when a starlet filming a documentary is kidnapped on the streets of Hong Kong.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80216146 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tough guy Kuwahara is back with his old partner Ninomiya, and this time they're working a swindle involving a priceless Buddhist scroll.

Year: 2016
Netflix ID: 80233961 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yumeko Jabami enrolls at Hyakkaou Private Academy, where students are ranked by their gambling winnings and fame and fortune awaits those on top.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 80233218 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

People bring their stories of missed lust connections to an objective panel of experts who then judge whether they could have gone all the way or not.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 80242916 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sachi's life is so horrible that she's happy to be kidnapped by a young man she calls 'Older Brother,' and living with him changes her perspective.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81013959 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Towa, the most popular kid in school, and his buddies help solve their classmates' relationship woes while finding time to goof off.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 81011928 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Wrongly convicted of a grisly murder, a former geisha from Kyoto must learn to coexist with six other colorful inmates inside a women's prison.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 81010988 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the prime minister and his carefree son find their bodies switched, each must learn to live as the other, taking the country along for a ride.

Year: 2015
Netflix ID: 81011008 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb