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- Kenji Sakuragi is a lawyer and former member of a motorcycle gang. He takes on the challenge of preparing a special class for a famous stupid school, Ryuuzan to enter the prestigious Toudai University.
- When Ninon found out that her neighbor and popular classmate Yuji only has one year to live. She decided to go out of her way and help him attain happiness on his remaining time.
- Takechi Hanpeita, a samurai of Tosa domain who campaigned for the expulsion of foreigners, unwittingly travels 150 years in time from the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate to present day Japan. He becomes a teacher at a private school run by Saeki Makoto in a village in the remote countryside through an unexpected turn of events, and solves all kinds of problems in the village with methods unique to a samurai.
- Hana (Kawashima Umika) and Mizuki (Asakawa Nana) are lifelong best friends and have been like two peas in a pod ever since elementary school. Hana, 25, works in the product development department of a major retailer. She longs to be loved, but her expressions often show when she looks at other people - leading to complications. Mizuki, meanwhile, is very protective of Hana - but is secretly quite jealous of Hana...mainly because men seem to always prefer Hana over her. When Hana's heart is broken by a cheating boyfriend, the duo travels to a hot spring to recover. And this is where they meet two handsome young men named Yosuke (Jin Shirasu) and Ayumu (Akihisa Shiono). While they are chatting, Yosuke chastises Hana for always taking a back seat in the conversation. This gets Hana thinking about the way she behaves. Love is about to spark between these lonely hearts - but who will end up with who? And could the balance of love be disrupted when Ayumu's brother arrives on the scene - with love plans of his own? This drama was based on a manga series of the same name by Eiko Tachibana, which debuted in 2019. "We Are Too Clumsy About Love" is a 2020 Japanese drama series that was directed by Koji Ono and Hidetaka Sakamoto.
- Yoichi plays basketball at his junior high and is capable. He is granted a scholarship and attends a high school with a superlative basket team. Instead of welcoming the boy the students there decide to bully and harass the new player leading Yoichi to a new high school and basketball team. Expectedly, the basketball team is not the best. The team will have to soon play against the team from the school Yoichi was in before.
- An omnibus style pinku drama that focuses on the sexual concerns of modern women.
- Ritsu was abandoned by his mother Reiko when he was little, so now he belongs in the lower social strata. One day, Ritsu gets involved in a case and his head is severely injured, so he can die at anytime. Convinced she abandoned him due to poverty, Ritsu attempts to find his mother and be good to her before his death. But when he learns that she is leading a happy life instead, with her pianist son Satoru, he decides to take revenge on his mother. Ritsu then meets Rinka, a girl whom he happened to help in the past, and discovers she is Satoru's childhood friend.
- On May 2, 1998, Hide, a leading Japanese rock musician who had been active as a guitarist for X JAPAN and as a solo artist (hide with Spread Beaver/zilch), suddenly passed away. His funeral was attended by about 50,000 people and became a social phenomenon as all of Japan wept at his untimely farewell. His younger brother, Hiroshi Matsumoto, who was Hide's manager, started to work with Hide's co-producer I.N.A., who had been working on a song with Hide, and his friends to make his brother's will come true. Yuji and I.N.A. struggle under the unusual circumstance that Hide himself is not present, but they are confronted with various difficulties.
- Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.
- A new counselor at an all-girls school in Japan finds that her new workplace is a disaster area: not only are the students suffering through bullying, sexual harrassment, drug addiction and other problems, the teachers are having nervous breakdowns and the administrators don't want to hear a word of it. Number one on her problem list is a vicious sadist who also happens to be the headmaster's daughter. Will she be able to help turn the school around, or will she be crushed and spat out like her predecessors?
- Edawakare is the driver of Sen Taxi. His taxi is able to take passengers back to the past to a time they request.
- Housewife Miyazawa Tomomi, her husband out of a job, loses her treasured home as her family is forced to do with less during the recession. Her one ray of sunshine is her upcoming middle school class reunion, where she hopes to meet old friends as well as old flames. The class reunion, however, turns out to be more of turning point not only for her but for the others as well. Just how will these four people's lives change after their class reunion.
- At the five star Forumonto Hotel, Toko Amano works as a rookie concierge. Her senior concierge is Kazuma Honjo and the general manager is Ryusuke Washio. They are friendly and restrained with the customers at the Forumonto Hotel. Whenever problems occur, the various departments at the hotel work together to place a smile on the customer's face.
- Matsumoto Mao is suppose to become the new medical examiner and visit the USA at the age of 10. While there she is to study advanced placement 3rd year Forensics. she has an IQ of over 150. Suddenly she becomes like an ordinary person confusing everybody, except Kyoko. A rush of bodies come in for autopsy. A middle aged man who apparently fell for a scaffolding at a construction site comes in. Mao begins the autopsy without a speck of the days exhaustion showing. She discoveries that he did not simply head his head while falling.
- Kotone Kamiwatari, a Kyoto geisha of many mysteries, gets drunk one night and finds herself framed for the murder of a fellow geisha. She ends up in a women's prison, where she gets bullied and even has her life targeted by female inmates including a cross-dressing political secretary who has committed crime, a single mother who murdered her abusive husband, a wife who committed a series of murders for inheritance, a nurse who underwent plastic surgery from head to toe and killed patients after an affair, an older woman who snapped under the weight of caring for her husband; and the prison's number one informant. Kotone survives this through her wiles. But why was she set up?
- Shiho Tachibana is a genius neurosurgeon. However, after being in an accident, she started having visual hallucinations while performing surgeries. Due to this symptom, Shiho decides to quit her profession. Then, Masayuki Kitabatake, her former professor who is currently the Director of Toko University Hospital, persuades her to join the Department of Analysis and Diagnosis, also known as "Lady da Vinci," at his university hospital. Lady da Vinci is a team of seven female diagnosticians who are all extremely talented in their expertise, yet they each seem to have a very distinct personality all their own.
- Shingo Okazaki is a young man devoted to his mother to a degree that's rare in Japan. He's a young fellow who treats his mother with respect, but his tendency to overdo it makes his filial devotion look more like a little fault to those around him. Then, a young woman falls in love with him. She finds it very admirable that he takes such good care of his mother, but is also a bit confused by this fellow who seems to care more for his mother than for his girlfriend. She's wondering all the time if she can really marry such a guy. Then the mother herself would like to break these overly strong ties of affection that bind her son to her. They get along like two lovebirds and she loves her son, but after all, it's about time he got on with his own life. Here's a heartwarming drama depicting the sorrows and joys of these three protagonists.
- Although he is not a formal private detective, the main character takes various investigating jobs (mostly in strip clubs). His customers are generally women and he constantly gets into trouble because of them.
- A drama about a man and woman who come to know true love after unexpected circumstances cause them to live under the same roof. Singer/songwriter Tamaki Koji returns to acting after a 8-year hiatus to star opposite Kanno Miho in this drama. Koji plays a very kind policeman, a pacifist and a champion of the weak. Having lost his wife 4 years earlier, he has been saddled with the arduous task of raising 3 children single-handedly. Kanno stars as the unfortunate heroine with an ugly personality who grows through her encounters with this good-natured middle-aged man.
- Zenzo Shinozaki made a fortune in his lifetime working as a company president. Due to his bad temper, he has been isolated from people. Saori Yamane works as a hostess at a bar. In her past, she killed her mother to protect her younger sibling. Zenzo Shinozaki then proposes to pay Saori 1 million yen for 100 hours of her time. Their lonely trip begins.
- A press conference is held by a large electrical manufacturer. The press conference discusses improper accounting by the company of 150 billion yen. Finance Consultant Ryo Koga manipulates the CEO of the electrical manufacturer. Yumiko Kobori of investigation unit 2 suspects fraud and feels it's not right that the company was able to avoid delisting on the stock market exchange. At that time, the head of the management audit department commits suicide. Shortly afterwards, Ryo Koga secretly meets with Shozo Higashida. Yumiko Kobori doubts whether the man committed suicide. Who is Ryo Koga?
- Akira Ogawa prepares to take an entrance exam for medical school. He has already failed twice, but doesn't give up because of his father who is a doctor. Akira then meets Kyoko, who works as a hostess at the cabaret club Juliet. Akira soon begins to work at Juliet.
- Haruko Abe (Emi Takei) received her meteorologist license at the age of 11. She is a genius weather-woman. Haruko now works as a meteorologist on a morning information program. Due to her incredibly blunt personality, a lot of people at her workplace dislikes her. Meanwhile, Haruko tries to solve cases with Detective Gota Aoki (Tadayoshi Okura), using her extensive knowledge of the weather.
- A secret agent (Katsunori Takahashi) must protect a model.
- Gajiroo does not pose or pretend and instead is honest that he is an average guy who only cares about cash and how pretty the girl is. He is hit by a car one day, but luckily survives it. The driver and passengers of the car are not as lucky as he however. even more amazingly, the spirits' of the four appear in front manifest in front of him and ask him for help in exchange for a considerable sum of money they left behind in the material world.
- To deal with the increasing violent crime rate in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, a special investigation team is formed at the Shinjuku Police Station. Detective Shunsuke Yamashita and Detective Keiichi Tashiro begin work at the special investigation team. Detective Shunsuke Yamashita doesn't care about details and says what he thinks. Meanwhile, Detective Keiichi Tashiro is diligent and enthusiastic with his investigative work. The two men frequently argue, but also cooperate to solve the cases.
- In the year 2141, Japan successfully builds a basic time machine that can send data to the past. However, an evil organization further develops the technology, making it possible to send objects back in time as well. The organization begins a plan to send 5 terrorists back to the year 2012 in order to assassinate the ancestor of an important person from their time. The future government, alerted to this fact, uses its time machine to notify the government of 2012 about the plot, telling them to recruit 5 people in order to seek out the terrorists.
- One year has past, Kiriyama works at the same police station and he is still interested in unsolved cases which belong to the statute of limitations. Together with his assistance Mizazuki, (who is actually in love with Kiriyama), Kiriyama solves those cases as his hobby. He still gives the "I won't tell anyone" card to the culprits.
- A female editor facing doubts about her career and personal life and what's ahead for her as she tries her best at coordinating with a mysterious comic artist in Japan.
- Nao fails entrance exams and enrolls at a technical high school. She's one of just 3 girls and the only girl in her class of 148 freshmen.
- The Time Taxi takes passengers to special points in their lives.
- Sakuragi works for a human rental company called Yujou Monogatari. The company specializes in supplying actors and actresses who act as friends or family for folks who have no one for the right occasion in Tokyo. As such, he often finds himself being either a sounding board or sympathetic ear or ersatz relation for all manners of customers. He is sympathetic for he was abandoned by his father at a young age. Although he himself has left his mother and sister behind.
- Yukio Mitamura is the founder and president of a rapidly growing apparel company. He places priority on the company's profits and overworks his employees. He justifies this with the belief that hard work is necessary to achieve results. He does not think his beloved company exploits its employees. Yukio enrolls in a university to study company management from the basics. This is where he meets a new lecturer Kyoko Akiyama . Although Yukio feels attracted to the intellectual Kyoko, the differences in their way of thinking results in frequent clashes. Within the company while Yukio is in college there is an attempt to oust him from his company. With the knowledge he has gained from attending university classes Yukio soon realizes that his company does indeed exploit its employees. A power struggle soon begins inside the company.
- Akemi Ninomiya is a hardcore mystery fan. Although she is only a college student, she is wealthy and owns a building. Private Detective Morio Ukai prefers tracking down lost pets for wealthy clients rather than murder cases which brings in little money. The duo join forces to solve various suspicious cases.
- Ikeuchi Hikaru works for a design company in Tokyo and has a fiancé Okugawa Kota. However, her life suddenly changes with the appearance of her ex-boyfriend Moriyama Shin. She had once loved him to death but he vanished all of a sudden after telling her that they are breaking up. The feelings that Hikaru has tried to suppress are rekindled when she is reunited with Shin, who is in Tokyo for three months, and her heart seeks him even though he is now married with a wife, Ran. As this happens, Kota's love and jealousy deepens and he gradually turns into someone he hates.
- Divorced, in need to pay child-support, and now a layoff candidate at his company, 34-year-old Keita Orimo was in the pits of despair. However, it all changes when his brain suddenly became a smartphone. Now his vision can see messages people send on their phones, which also means that he can learn their secrets. This new ability gets him intertwined with problems in and out of the office.
- Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share; the books. While keeping empty relationship with a man working at a major publishing house, Natsuki becomes closer to younger Koji trying to rebuild his dysfunctional family all alone.
- TamotsuDaidoji is a 51-year-old single man who works as a department manager at a mid-size trading company. Though is an honest man with a sincere heart, he has been so focused on his career that he has never had the chance or opportunity to meet a woman for marriage. However, things drastically change when Tamotsu meets Miran, a 23-year-old woman with a charming smile and warm personality. Despite their age gap, the two fell in love and hope to marry each other. Kiichiro Hanazawa, who is also a 51-year-old man, has a wife and three children. He has made his way to the top of the proverbial corporate ladder quicker than anyone else and now works as an executive at a leading trading company. One day, Kiichiro meets his daughter's boyfriend, who turns out to be Tamotsu. Now, the two 51-year-old men who have nothing in common except their age begin a merciless battle as "daughter's potential husband" and "potential future father-in-law".