Best Japanese Drama Movies of 2019

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Best Japanese Drama Movies of 2019
Best Japanese Drama Movies of 2019
TOP Movies: 37 Seconds (2019), Frozen II (2019), Whistleblower (2019), Blue Hour (2019), Mio on the Shore (2019), Iwane: Sword of Serenity (2019), Athlete (2019), Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy (2019), Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre (2019), We Are Little Zombies (2019), In Full Bloom (2019), It Feels So Good (2019), Hit Me Anyone One More Time! (2019), Abominable (2019), Weathering with You (2019), A Long Goodbye (2019), Family of Strangers (2019), Little Nights, Little Love (2019), You Shine in the Moonlight (2019), Under Your Bed (2019).

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37 Seconds (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 37 Seconds, 23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protective mother, forges her own unusual path to sexual awakening and independence while at ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, manga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, artist, coming of age, japanese woman, virgin, exploring sexuality, character study, life is a bitch, adaptation, rivalry, love affair ...
Place: japan, tokyo, thailand
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 6.8
 193K
Frozen II (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf are going far in the forest to know the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom.
Style: fairy tale, 3d animation, feel good, touching, anime ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot: disney princess, princess, magic, female protagonist, autumn, magical, kingdom, castle, ice, good versus evil, giant, sister ...
Time: year 2019, 1840s, 19th century
Place: scandinavia
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must ...
Style: 3d animation, computer animated, feel good, captivating, saga ...
Audience: family friendly, kids, teen fantasy, teens, toddlers
Plot: dragon, viking, love, flying, friends, heroine, sword fight, fight, team, animal, heroes, battles ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
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 6.9
 580
Whistleblower (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.
Plot: company, hierarchy, corporation, ceo, scandal, corporate corruption, man with glasses, factory, japanese woman, customer, donut, cover up ...
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Blue Hour (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: japanese woman, relationship vs career, thirty something, problem, changing lives, career, life is a bitch, female protagonist, lifestyle change, relationship problems, family relations
Place: japan, tokyo
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Mio on the Shore (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: family business, female protagonist, problem, loss of job, hotel manager, bathhouse, hotel owner, life is a bitch, social problems, hotel, poem, japanese schoolgirl ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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Iwane: Sword of Serenity (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao, and becomes a vagrant ...
Plot: samurai, harlot, easy woman, loose woman, affair, revenge, unfaithfulness, cheating, japanese wife, con artists, getting home, japanese woman ...
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 6.0
 201
Athlete (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kōhei is a former competitive swimmer who lives an ordinary life with his wife and high school daughter. One day, his wife suddenly asks him for a divorce. He then has a fateful encounter in Tokyo’s gay district, Shinjuku Ni-chōme, with a ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, sentimental, unusual plot structure, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, love and romance, gay relationship, love affair, homosexual, love, couples, youth, fall in love, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Isabella, the daughter of the noble York family, is enrolled in an all-girls academy to be groomed into a dame worthy of nobility. However, she has given up on her future, seeing the prestigious school as nothing more than a prison from the outside ...
Style: anime, tear jerker, melancholic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: working life, slice of life, cyborgs, steampunk, female protagonist, war veteran, letter, sister sister relationship, female friendship, teaching the ways of the world, doll, aristocracy ...
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Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A quiet teen's life is shaken up when she's forced to be her arrogant neighbor's slave. He loves her, but they both have a lot to learn about trust.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: japanese teenager, bullying, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, japanese girl, girlfriend boyfriend relationship, relationships, love affair, life is a bitch, love interest, relationship problems, couple relations, apartment
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Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: japanese man, baseball, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, fighting illness, guilty conscience, cancer, illness, problem, terminal illness, student athlete
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We Are Little Zombies (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
Style: captivating, sincere
Plot: musician's life, teenage life, music band, group of friends, teenager, friendship, youth, friends, musician, team, lifestyle, rock music ...
Place: japan
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In Full Bloom (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set shortly after the end of World War II, IN FULL BLOOM is a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a questionable fight arranged by their unscrupulous managers and the Yakuza.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, suspense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, athlete's life, family relations, rivalry, graphic violence, corruption, redemption, rage, vengeance, violence, gym, courage ...
Time: 21st century
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It Feels So Good (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there in order to attend her wedding. Naoko surprises him by proposing that ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, romantic ...
Plot: infidelity, ex boyfriend, true love, friendship, love and romance, best friend, rivalry, wedding, lifestyle, love triangle, erotica, sex ...
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Hit Me Anyone One More Time! (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes that he is the Prime Minister of Japan. His approval rating was the lowest in the history of ...
Style: humorous, captivating, satirical
Plot: amnesiac, politician, prime minister, memory loss, political satire, memory lapse, political candidate, satire, political intrigue, amnesia, politics, corrupt politician ...
Place: japan
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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.
Style: anime, sincere, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex couple relations, love and romance, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, couple relations, teenage love, love triangle, love affair, love story, love interest ...
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Abominable (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of misfits encounter a young Yeti named Everest, and they set off to reunite the magical creature with his family on the mountain of his namesake.
Style: captivating, sincere, exciting, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: friendship, zoologist, yeti, family relations, creature, teenager, travel, snow, capture, quest, friends, teamwork ...
Time: year 2019
Place: mount everest, himalaya
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Weathering with You (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, China
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Hodaka, a high school boy who moves from his isolated island home to the city of Tokyo, who immediately becomes broke! After finally finding work at a shady occult magazine, the sky rains every day until amidst the hustle and bustle of the big city, ...
Style: anime, touching, exciting, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: weather, friendship, fall in love, teenager, love, magic, couples, girl, climate change, magical girl, magical power, summer ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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A Long Goodbye (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer's disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father ...
Style: crying, emotional
Plot: cheerleader, alzheimer's disease, cooking, husband, family relations, photograph, train, mother, father, husband wife relationship, man with glasses, divorce ...
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Family of Strangers (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a ...
Plot: unfaithful wife, security guard, murder of wife, brother sister relationship, hanging, elevator, matricide, fornication, man with glasses, schoolgirl, wheelchair bound, obituary ...
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Little Nights, Little Love (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Sato is 27-year-old single man. He is waiting for a dramatic moment in his life that will lead to love. He works at a market research company. One day, he asks random passersby in front of Sendai Station to fill out a questionnaire. He has a hard ...
Style: romantic, captivating, light
Plot: looking for love, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, in love, male female relationship, job seeking, japanese girl, japanese woman ...
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You Shine in the Moonlight (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Takuya Okada (Takumi Kitamura) is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase (Mei Nagano) in the hospital. Mamizu Watarase suffers from the mysterious ailment “Luminescence disease.” People who have the disease show a faint ...
Style: psychological, touching, sincere, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: love, terminal illness, teenage girl, hospitalized person, bucket list, high school friend, hospitalization, girl, japanese teenager, teenager, hospital, japanese schoolgirl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 6.0
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Under Your Bed (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Naoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and tries to find her. Finally, after 11 years, he locates her, but she is a totally different person now. ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, crying
Plot: peeping tom, obsession, husband rapes wife, rape, violent husband, following someone, awkward situation, possessed human, uninvited guest, visitor, socially awkward, social problems ...
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Masquerade Hotel (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Three murder cases take place in Tokyo. Numbers are left at the murder scenes, possibly hinting at where the next murder will take place. An investigation begins of the serial killer and Detective Kosuke Nitta (Takuya Kimura) works on the case. He ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: japanese woman, hotel, riddles and clues, workplace situations, evidence, danger, investigation, murder, police detective, police investigation, murder investigation, law enforcement ...
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Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II. lost butterfly (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Theatrical-release adaptation of the visual novel "Fate/stay night", following the third and final route. (Part 2 of a trilogy.)
Style: anime, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: erotica, supernatural, fight, danger, fight scenes, twists and turns, relationships, showdown, teenager, battles, brutality, transformation ...
Place: japan
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Chiwawa (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
Style: contemplative, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, murder investigation, graphic violence, friends, murderer, society, suspicion, murder mystery, escapades, young girl, mysterious girl, murder of a woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Fly Me To The Saitama (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: People from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they are from there. In Tokyo, Momomi Hakuhodo (Fumi Nikaido) is a male high school student and the son of the Tokyo governor. Physically, Momomi Hakuhodo ...
Style: disturbing, humorous, captivating
Plot: discrimination, student, japanese school, class conflict, class differences, revolution, classism, social activist, social problems, social class, high society, school ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kumiko is now a second year and one of the senior players of the euphonium section. With new underclassmen joining the concert band, Kumiko will have to learn new things in order to deal with awkward and difficult underclassmen. She and third-year ...
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, yuri, yaoi
Plot: orchestra, high school, school club, high school life, competition, classical music, tournament, female protagonist, musician, music band, music, teenage life ...
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The Promised Land (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, suspect, framed for a crime, crime investigation, investigation, suspicion, abduction, prime suspect, kidnapped, female nudity, kidnapped woman, female full frontal nudity
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Ride Your Wave (2019)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become ...
Style: anime, touching, feel good, romantic, sweet ...
Plot: beach, slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, tragedy, love and romance, friendship, surfing, fire, fall in love, firefighter, loss ...
Time: 2010s
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