List of Japanese television dramas

This is a list of Japanese television dramas often called dorama (ドラマ) by fans.

The list is not complete, and aims to include all those Japanese television dramas that are somehow of interest for Wikipedia contents.

By decades

1980s

1980
  1. Covert Journal of Yukihime's Journey (TBS)

1981
  1. Father's kitchen (おやじの台所) (TV Asahi)

1982
  1. Hiatari Ryōkō!, based on the manga series of the same name by Mitsuru Adachi

1983
  1. Oshin, created by Sugako Hashida, starring Ayako Kobayashi and Yūko Tanaka. It is based on the fictional biography of a Japanese woman.

1984
  1. Sanga Moyu, starring Matsumoto Hakuō II and Kenji Sawada. (NHK)

1985
  1. Sukeban Deka, based on the manga series of the same name by Shinji Wada
  2. Sukeban Deka II: Shōjo Tekkamen Densetsu
  3. Ponytail wa Furimukanai

1986
  1. Abunai Deka
  2. Sukeban Deka 3: Shōjo Ninpōjō Denki
  3. Danjo Shichinin Natsu Monogatari (男女7人夏物語) (TBS)

1987
  1. Kamen Rider Black
  2. Danjo Shichinin Akimonogatari (男女7人秋物語) (TBS)

1989
  1. Don't let me down! (こまらせないで!) (Fuji TV)

1990s

1990
  1. Tobuga Gotoku, starring Toshiyuki Nishida and Takeshi Kaga. (NHK)

1991
  1. Tokyo Love Story (東京ラブストーリー) starring Yūji Oda, Honami Suzuki

1992
  1. Sono toki Heartwa Nusumareta (その時ハ-トは盜まれた) - starring Sae Isshiki, Takuya Kimura and Yuki Uchida

1993
  1. Kou Kou Kyoushi (高校教師) - starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Sachiko Sakurai

1995
  1. Aishiteiru to Itte Kure (愛していると言ってくれ)
  2. Koibito Yo (恋人よ)

1996
  1. Long Vacation – starring Takuya Kimura, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Takako Matsu, Yutaka Takenouchi, Ryō, and Ryōko Hirosue
  2. Furuhata Ninzaburo - by Kōki Mitani starring Masakazu Tamura, and Masahiko Nishimura.
  3. Iguana Girl
  4. Itazura Na Kiss - starring Aiko Sato and Takashi Kashiwabara
  5. Mahiru No Tsuki - starring Oda Yuji

1997
  1. Bayside Shakedown (踊る大捜査線) - starring Yūji Oda.
  2. Sore Ga Kotae Da! (それが答えだ！) - starring Hiroshi Mikami, Masato Hagiwara, Michiko Hada, Miki Sakai, Kyoko Fukada, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Oguri Shun, and Norika Fujiwara
  3. Glass Mask (Series 1) (ガラスの仮面) - starring Yumi Adachi, Megumi Matsumoto, Seiichi Tanabe, and Hinako Saeki
  4. Mokuyo no Kaidan Final:Time Keepers (木曜の怪談 ファイナル:タイムキーパーズ) - starring Hideaki Takizawa
  5. Five Spies (FiVE:ファイブ) - starring Rie Tomosaka, Sarina Suzuki, Tomoe Shinohara, Kyoko Fukada, Rina Chinen, and Kanako Enomoto
  6. Bokura no Yuuki (ぼくらの勇気 未満都市) - starring Koichi Domoto, Tsuyoshi Domoto, Akiko Yada, Matsumoto Jun, Yuki Kohara, Masaki Aiba, and Hakuryu
  7. L'oiseau Bleu (青い鳥) - starring Etsushi Toyokawa, Yui Natsukawa, Hiromi Nagasaku, Suzuki Anne, Shirō Sano, and Gin Maeda
  8. Love Generation (ラブ ジェネレーション)
  9. Beach Boys

1998
  1. News no Onna (ニュースの女) - starring Honami Suzuki, Hideaki Takizawa, Kyoko Fukada, Hiroshi Abe, and Mamoru Miyano and features music by Judy and Mary (Theme song - Sanpomichi)
  2. Glass Mask (Series 2) (ガラスの仮面2) - starring Yumi Adachi, Megumi Matsumoto, Seiichi Tanabe, and Hinako Saeki
  3. Hitoribocchi no Kimi ni (ひとりぼっちの君に) - starring Masatoshi Hamada, Hiromi Nagasaku, Gaku Hamada, Keizō Kanie, Mariko Kaga, and Aki Maeda
  4. God, Please Give Me More Time (神様、もう少しだけ) - starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Kyoko Fukada
  5. Great Teacher Onizuka - starring Takashi Sorimachi, Nanako Matsushima, Oguri Shun, and Yōsuke Kubozuka
  6. Shomuni, an office lady comedy starring Makiko Esumi
  7. Nemureru Mori (A Sleeping Forest), It is written by Nozawa Hisashi, starring Miho Nakayama and Takuya Kimura, and features music by Mariya Takeuchi (Theme song - Camouflage) and U2 (With or Without You).

1999
  1. Heaven Cannot Wait (天国に一番近い男) - starring Ai Kato
  2. Kasoken no Onna (Investigator Mariko) - starring Yasuko Sawaguchi
  3. Forbidden Love (魔女の条件, Majo no Jōken) - starring Nanako Matsushima and Hideaki Takizawa
  4. Don't Be a Cry Baby (鬼の棲家) - starring Kyoko Fukada, Kelly Chen, Naohito Fujiki, and Mari Hoshino
  5. Ringu- Saishūshō-
  6. Out

2000s

2000
  1. Beautiful Life - starring Takuya Kimura, Takako Tokiwa, and Koyuki
  2. Food Fight - starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kyoko Fukada, Rie Miyazawa, and Takuya Kimura
  3. The 6th Sayoko (六番目の小夜子) - starring Suzuki Anne, Chiaki Kuriyama, Takayuki Yamada, Ryo Katsuji, and Marika Matsumoto
  4. Renai Chudoku (恋愛中毒) - starring Hiroko Yakushimaru, Takeshi Kaga, Yasufumi Terawaki, and Maho Nonami
  5. Lawyer Mariko Sakono 3 - starring Keiko Saito, Masami Nagasawa, Kyōko Kishida, Kiriko Isono, Eriko Tamura, Kaori Momoi, and Kenichi Endō
  6. Cinderella Never Sleeps - starring Sachie Hara, Yumi Adachi, Takaya Kamikawa, Jinpachi Nezu, Kumiko Akiyoshi, and Kazuki Kitamura
  7. Manatsu no Merry Christmas (真夏のメリークリスマス) - starring Yutaka Takenouchi, Miki Nakatani, Ai Kato, Haruma Miura, and Reina Asami
  8. Friends (フレンズ) - starring Masatoshi Hamada, Emi Wakui, Yūko Takeuchi, and Sawa Suzuki
  9. Summer Snow - starring Tsuyoshi Domoto, Ryōko Hirosue, Tsubasa Imai, Ikewaki Chizuru, and Oguri Shun
  10. Aikotoba wa Yūki - starring Kōji Yakusho, Shingo Katori, Kyōka Suzuki, Akira Terao, Jun Kunimura, Kōichi Yamadera, and Zen Kajiwara
  11. Ikebukuro West Gate Park (池袋ウエストゲートパーク) - starring Tomoya Nagase, Ai Kato, Yamashita Tomohisa, Ken Watanabe, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yōsuke Kubozuka, Shun Oguri, and Koyuki
  12. Nisennen no Koi - starring Nakayama Miho, Takeshi Kaneshiro
  13. Trick (トリック)- starring Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe

2001
  1. Ashita ga Arusa - starring Masatoshi Hamada, Izumi Inamori, Takashi Fujii, Shozo Endo and Naoki Tanaka, and Hitoshi Matsumoto
  2. Hero - starring Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu, and Hiroshi Abe
  3. Mukodono! (ムコ殿/女婿大人) - starring Tomoya Nagase, Yūko Takeuchi Ryoko Shinohara, Anju Suzuki, Masaki Aiba, Koyuki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, and Shōsuke Tanihara
  4. Shotgun Marriage (できちゃった結婚) - starring Yutaka Takenouchi, Ryōko Hirosue, Yuriko Ishida, Hiroshi Abe, Nana Katase, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sonny Chiba, and Yūsuke Santamaria
  5. Kochira Dai San Shakaibu (ナショナル劇場:こちら第三社会部) - starring Masato Hagiwara, Ken Watanabe, Miki Sakai, Kenji Sakaguchi, Keiko Toda, Masaki Kyomoto, Yumi Asō, Shigeki Hosokawa, Aki Maeda, and Daiki Arioka
  6. Mukai Arata's Animal Diary: The Disaster of My Dog Rosinante (向井荒太の動物日記) - starring Tsuyoshi Domoto, Natsumi Abe, Maki Mizuno, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, and Masato Furuoya
  7. Good Combination (グッド☆コンビネーション) - starring Jun Toba, Ittoku Kishibe, Akiko Kinouchi, Yumi Adachi, and Yoshihiko Hakamada
  8. Strawberry on the Shortcake (ストロベリー・オンザ・ショートケーキ) - starring Hideaki Takizawa, Kyoko Fukada, Yōsuke Kubozuka, and Rina Uchiyama
  9. The Files of Young Kindaichi (Series 3) (金田一少年の事件簿 thirdseason) - starring Matsumoto Jun, Suzuki Anne, Kazue Fukiishi, and Haruka Ayase
  10. Pure Soul (Pure Soul〜君が僕を忘れても〜) - starring Hiromi Nagasaku, Naoto Ogata, Shun Oguri, Masami Nagasawa, and Shigeru Muroi
  11. Kabachitare (カバチタレ) - starring Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Yamashita Tomohisa, Shinohara Ryoko, Karina Nose, and Satoshi Tsumabuki
  12. San nen B-gumi Kinpachi Sensei (Series 6) - starring Tetsuya Takeda, Aya Ueto, Mari Hoshino, Takahisa Masuda, and Shigeaki Kato

2002
  1. Artificial Beauty
  2. Mama no Idenshi (ママの遺伝子) - starring Hiroko Yakushimaru, and Takaya Kamikawa
  3. The Other Side of Midnight (真夜中は別の顔) - starring Asaka Seto, Kōji Kikkawa, Koyuki, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, and Tetsuji Tamayama and features music by Miki Imai (Theme song - Hohoemi no hito) and Maaya Sakamoto (Danieru)
  4. Nurseman (ナースマン) - starring Masahiro Matsuoka, Natsumi Abe, Takako Uehara, Kotaro Koizumi, Keiichi Yamamoto, and Jun Kunimura
  5. Leave It to the Nurses 4 (ナースのお仕事 4) - starring Arisa Mizuki, Naohito Fujiki, Yumi Adachi, Kazue Itoh, and Yuki Matsushita
  6. Season of the Sun (太陽の季節) - starring Hideaki Takizawa, Ikewaki Chizuru, Yoshinori Okada, Rio Matsumoto, Sousuke Takaoka, Marika Matsumoto, Shugo Oshinari, and Kota Yabu
  7. Otosan (おとうさん) - starring Masakazu Tamura, Naoko Iijima, Miki Nakatani, Ryōko Hirosue, Kyoko Fukada, Shōsuke Tanihara, Takashi Tsukamoto, and Taichi Kokubun
  8. Gokusen (ごくせん) - starring Yukie Nakama, Oguri Shun, and Jun Matsumoto
  9. Kids War 4: Zaken na yo (キッズ・ウォー4 〜ざけんなよ〜) - starring Akiko Ikuina, Yosuke Asari, Mao Inoue, Shota Saito, and Keita Saito
  10. Sakura (さくら) - starring Shiho Takano, Hiromi Ōta, Asei Kobayashi, Miyoko Asada, and Masami Nagasawa
  11. Lovely Complex - starring Takashi Sorimachi and Ryō
  12. Lunch no Joou (ランチの女王) - starring Yūko Takeuchi, Yōsuke Eguchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yamashita Tomohisa, Takayuki Yamada, Eita, and Shinichi Tsutsumi
  13. The Long Love Letter - starring Takako Tokiwa, Yōsuke Kubozuka, Takayuki Yamada, Yamashita Tomohisa, and Ren Osugi
  14. Bara no Jujika (薔薇の十字架) - starring Hiroshi Mikami and Yūki Amami
  15. Wedding Planner (ウエディングプランナー) - starring Naoko Iijima, Yūsuke Santamaria, Yoshino Kimura, Hiroshi Abe, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ayumi Ito, and Ryunosuke Kamiki
  16. Kisarazu Cat's Eye (木更津キャッツアイ) - starring Okada Junichi, Sakurai Sho, Okada Yoshinori, Sato Ryuta, and Tsukamoto Takashi
  17. Trick 2 (トリック2)- starring Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe

2003
  1. Egao no Hosoku (笑顔の法則) - starring Yūko Takeuchi and Abe Hiroshi
  2. Good Luck!! (グッドラック!!) - starring Kimura Takuya and Shibasaki Kou
  3. Koukou Kyoushi 2003 (高校教師 2003) - starring Ueto Aya and Fujiki Naohito
  4. Moto Kare (元カレ) - starring Ryōko Hirosue, Domoto Tsuyoshi, and Uchiyama Rina
  5. Kimi wa Petto (きみはペット) - starring Koyuki and Matsumoto Jun
  6. Boku dake no Madonna (僕だけのマドンナ) - starring Takizawa Hideaki and Hasegawa Kyoko
  7. Ōoku (大奥) - starring Miho Kanno, Yuko Asano, Ikewaki Chizuru, Yumi Adachi, Kazuki Kitamura, and Shingo Katsurayama
  8. The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters (末っ子長男姉三人) - starring Junichi Okada, Eri Fukatsu, Tomoyo Harada, Koyuki, Keiko Kishi, Ryo Katsuji, and Maaya Sakamoto
  9. Stand Up!! (スタンドアップ！！) - starring Ninomiya Kazunari, Yamashita Tomohisa, Oguri Shun, Narimiya Hiroki, and Suzuki Anne
  10. Innocence in Bloom (ハコイリムスメ！) - starring Naoko Iijima, Kyoko Fukada, Tetsuji Tamayama, Arata Furuta, and Kuranosuke Sasaki
  11. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン) - starring Miyuu Sawai, Rika Izumi, Keiko Kitagawa, Mew Azama, and Ayaka Komatsu
  12. Water Boys (ウォーターボーイズ) - starring Yamada Takayuki
  13. Young Father (やんパパ) – starring Goto Maki and Kato Ai
  14. Shiroi Kyotō（白い巨塔）- starring Toshiaki Karasawa and Yōsuke Eguchi
  15. Hotman (ホットマン, Hottoman)- starring Takashi Sorimachi, Akiko Yada, Manami Konishi & Nana Yamauchi
  16. Trick 3 (トリック3) - starring Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe

2004
  1. Ace wo Nerae! (エースをねらえ!) - starring Aya Ueto and Natsuki Kato
  2. Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World (Sekai no Chūshin de Ai wo Sakebu – 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ) – starring Takayuki Yamada and Haruka Ayase
  3. Itoshi Kimi e (愛し君へ) – starring Miho Kanno, Naohito Fujiki, Misaki Ito, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Mirai Moriyama
  4. Summer with Grandpa (ジイジ〜孫といた夏) – starring Toshiyuki Nishida, Nana Eikura, Yūko Kotegawa, Motoki Ochiai, Yōko Ishino, and Hironobu Nomura
  5. Minami-kun no Koibito (南くんの恋人) – starring Ninomiya Kazunari, Kyoko Fukada, Mao Miyaji, and Seiichi Tanabe
  6. Tobosha (逃亡者) - starring Yōsuke Eguchi, Hiroshi Abe, Masami Nagasawa, Miki Mizuno, and Mieko Harada, and features music by Takako Matsu (Theme song - Toki no Fune)
  7. My Life After Her Death (彼女が死んじゃった) - starring Tomoya Nagase, Kyoko Fukada, Teruyuki Kagawa, Takanori Jinnai, Keiko Toda, Kaho, and Yoshino Kimura
  8. It was sudden, like a storm... (それは、突然、嵐のように…) - starring Makiko Esumi, Yamashita Tomohisa, Toshirō Yanagiba, Mao Miyaji, Tae Kimura, Takako Katou, and Haruka Ayase
  9. Home Drama (ホームドラマ!) - starring Tsuyoshi Domoto, Yūsuke Santamaria, Mao Inoue, Wakana Sakai, and Mahiru Konno
  10. Orange Days (オレンジデイズ) - starring Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kou Shibasaki, and Eita
  11. Pride (プライド) - starring Takuya Kimura and Yūko Takeuchi

2005
Main article: 2005 Japanese television dramas

2006
Main article: 2006 Japanese television dramas

2007
Main article: 2007 Japanese television dramas

2008
Main article: 2008 Japanese television dramas

2009
Main article: 2009 Japanese television dramas

2010s

2010
Main article: 2010 Japanese television dramas
  • Q1 2010
  1. Magerarenai Onna - starring Miho Kanno, Hiromi Nagasaku, Shosuke Tanihara and Mayumi Asaka
  2. Perfect Girl Evolution - starring Kazuya Kamenashi, Aya Ōmasa, Seishiro Kato and Ranko Kanbe
  3. Hidarime Tantei EYE - starring Ryosuke Yamada, You Yokoyama, Satomi Ishihara and Crystal Kay
  4. Special Kabachi!! - starring Sho Sakurai, Maki Horikita, Kenichi Endō and Yūko Asano
  5. Code Blue 2 - starring Tomohisa Yamashita, Yui Aragaki, Yosuke Asari and Erika Toda
  • Q2 - Q3 2020
  1. Asu no Hikari o Tsukame
  2. Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
  3. Mother

2011
Main article: 2011 Japanese television dramas

2012
Main article: 2012 Japanese television dramas

2013
Main article: 2013 Japanese television dramas

2014
  1. Villainy sickness
  2. What will be, will be.
  3. Mai Hanasaki isn't silent
  4. Saigo Kara Nibanme no Koi
  5. Alice's thorns
  6. Silent Poor
  7. Yowakutemo Katemasu
  8. Roosevelt Game
  9. Coffee shop people
  10. Dear Sister[1]
  11. Water Polo Yankees
  12. Massan

2015
Main article: 2015 Japanese television dramas
  1. Problematic restaurant
  2. Gakkō no Kaidan
  3. Date-I wonder what love is
  4. Love affairs between doctors
  5. Ms. Sadistic Detective
  6. Welcome to my home
  7. Detective versus Detectives
  8. The Gutsy Frog
  9. Hotel Concierge
  10. Lady Girls: Otona Joshi
  11. Memorandum of Okitegami Kyōko
  12. The day before the wedding

2016
  • January
  1. Higanbana-Metropolitan Police Department Investigation Department 7-, starring Maki Horikita and Rin Takanashi
  2. NAOMI & KANAKO, starring Ryōko Hirosue and Yuki Uchida
  3. Specialist, starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Natsuna Watanabe
  4. Never Let Me Go, starring Haruka Ayase, Haruma Miura, Asami Mizukawa
  5. Woman running away, starring Miki Mizuno, Riisa Naka and Kento Kaku
  6. Kazoku no Katachi, starring Shingo Katori, Kiko Mizuhara, and Juri Ueno
  7. Reluctant Woman, starring Hitomi Kuroki and Honami Suzuki
  8. Love That Makes You Cry, starring Kasumi Arimura, Mitsuki Takahata, Takahiro Nishijima and Kentaro Sakaguchi
  • Summer（July）
  1. House Selling Lady, starring Keiko Kitagawa, Tōru Nakamura and Yuko Araki
  2. Sales Manager Natsuko Kira, starring Nanako Matsushima, Ryuhei Matsuda and Yoshinori Okada
  3. The man with the God of the tongue, starring Osamu Mukai, Fumino Kimura and Jiro Sato
  4. Girl Who Takes Time, starring Yuina Kuroshima, Fuma Kikuchi and Ryoma Takeuchi
  5. Hope: Kitai Zero no Shinnyu Shain, starring Yuto Nakajima, Mizuki Yamamoto and Masaki Kaji
  6. If you look at it carefully
  7. And, There Were None
  8. Cinderella of the Exam
  9. Suki na Hito ga Iru Koto, starring Mirei Kiritani, Kento Yamazaki, Shohei Miura, and Shūhei Nomura

2017
  • January
  1. Tokyo Tarareba Musume
  2. Courage to be hated
  3. Lower-class entrance examination
  4. Super Salaryman Saigaeuchi
  5. ALIFE ~A lovely person~
  6. It's sudden, but I'm getting married tomorrow
  • October
  1. Be careful when handling your wife
  2. Keiji Yugami
  3. Kounodori
  4. Me who was born in the first place
  5. Riku-oh
  6. The people’s enemy~ Isn't this strange in the world!?

2018
  1. Kuragehime
  2. Cell of justice
  3. Count Monte Cristo -Bright Revenge-
  4. You have a home to go return
  5. Daisy's Fortune
  6. Miss Devil Human Resources Devil Makoto Tsubaki
  7. Stupid daddy than Bakabon's daddy
  8. Black Sissors
  9. Confidenceman JP
  10. Hana Nochi Hare ~HanaDan Next Season~
  11. City Hunter
  12. Great love-with you who forget me
  13. Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

2019
  • January
  1. Return of House Selling Lady - starring Keiko Kitagawa, Tōru Nakamura
  2. Scandal-related Lawyer QUEEN - starring Yūko Takeuchi, Asami Mizukawa
  3. Maison de Police - starring Mitsuki Takahata, Hidetoshi Nishijima
  4. Innocence False accusation lawyer - starring Kentaro Sakaguchi, Haruna Kawaguchi
  5. Good Wife - starring Takako Tokiwa, Kotaro Koizumi, Toshiaki Karasawa
  6. Trace ~ man of Kasoken - - starring Ryo Nishikido, Yuko Araki, Eiichiro Funakoshi
  • Summer（July）
  1. Fake Affair - starring Anne Watanabe, Yukie Nakama
  2. Lupin on Musume - starring Kyoko Fukada, Atsuro Watabe
  3. Nagi's rest - starring Haru Kuroki, Yō Yoshida
  4. Voice 110 HQ - starring Toshiaki Karasawa, Yoko Maki
  5. No Side Game - starring Yo Oizumi, Ryohei Otani, Takaya Kamikawa
  6. Inspector morning glory - starring Juri Ueno, Mirai Shida, Tomoko Yamaguchi
  • October
  1. Teammate's Sakura - starring Mitsuki Takahata, Ai Hashimoto, Ryo Ryusei
  2. Motokare Mania - starring Yuko Araki, Kengo Kora, Minami Tanaka
  3. 4 minutes of marigold - starring Sota Fukushi, Ryusei Yokohama, Kenta Kiritani
  4. My story is long - starring Toma Ikuta, Eiko Koike, Kana Kurashina
  5. Grand Maison Tokyo - starring Takuya Kimura, Kyōka Suzuki, Yuta Tamamori
  6. Sherlock: Untold Stories - starring Dean Fujioka, Takanori Iwata, Kuranosuke Sasaki

2020s

2020
  • January
  1. Shiranakute Iikoto
  2. Alive Oncologist medical record
  3. Lunch Joint Party Detective
  4. Do not recite Nembutsu in the hospital room
  5. Akira Hamura ~The World's Most Unlucky Detective
  6. Top Knife-Conditions for Genius Brain Surgeon-
  7. Ship of Theseus
  8. Absolute Zero-Criminal Undercover Investigation (S4)
  • Summer（July）
  • October

References
  1. "Che'Nelle to sing the theme song for drama 'Dear Sister'". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. October 7, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
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