If you want to read my review of Look Back, read this post. In ルックバック, Fujino was an aspiring manga artist who produced comic strips for the school newspaper. Full of herself, she is confronted with the reality that Kyomoto is on another artistic level.
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If you want to read my review of Night Flower, read this post. In ナイトフラワー, Driven by financial hardship, Natsuki, a single mother of two and Tamae, a promising MMA fighter, begins trafficking drugs on the streets of Tokyo to make a living.
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If you want to read my review of National Treasure, read this post. In 国宝, Kikuo, the son of a killed Yakuza boss, is adopted by a family of Kabuki actors and competes for decades with his adoptive brother for the title of National Treasure.
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If you want to read my review of Familia, read this post. In ラストマイル, Erena works for a distribution site. In the night before Black Friday, a bomb explodes in a delivered package and news of other packaged devices spreads terror across Japan.
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If you want to read my review of Familia, read this post. In ファミリア, Seiji is a lonely Japanese ceramicist who becomes fond of Marcos, a young Brazilian man trying to escape a local gang led by Kaito.
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If you want to read my review of Rental Family, read this post. In レンタル・ファミリー, Phillip is an American actor who lives in Tokyo and receives a job offer. He just didn’t know it would involve acting in people’s real lives and the impact those relationships would have on his own.
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If you want to read my review of White Lily, read this post. In ホワイトリリー, Tokiko at her husband’s request, took Haruka into her studio. After her husband’s death, the teacher-student relationship blossomed into something more, which was shaken by the emergence of Satoru.
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If you want to read my review of The Water Flows to the Sea, read this post. In 水は海に向かって流れる, Chisa Sakaki had been abandoned by her mother after she betrayed her father and swore never to fall in love, but when she met Naotatsu, things began to change.
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If you want to read my review of Desert of Namibia, read this post. In ナミビアの砂漠, Kana Miyama lives without great aspirations for the future, but is very well treated by her boyfriend. Even so, she falls in love and leaves everything behind.
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If you want to read my review of Missing, read this post. In ミッシング, Miu was only 6 years old when she went out with her uncle to play in the park, 300m from home, and never came back.
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