# The best Japanese romance dramas

From Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacation to The Full-Time Wife Escapist and silent: the classics at the top of Rankingoo's romance drama poll and Kobe Shimbun's Getsuku ranking.

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- Sep 13, 2026 · 千尋
- https://even.best/en/l/4313/the-best-japanese-romance-dramas

## Top 10

1. **Long Vacation (1996)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Takuya Kimura and Tomoko Yamaguchi; streets emptied while it aired.
2. **Someday or One Day... I'll Remember This Love and Cry (2016)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Kasumi Arimura and Kengo Kora: a bittersweet love in Tokyo.
3. **Tokyo Love Story (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yuji Oda and Honami Suzuki: Rika's 'Kanchi!' and a pure-love boom.
4. **The 101st Proposal (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tetsuya Takeda and Atsuko Asano: 'I won't die!'.
5. **Boys Over Flowers (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mao Inoue and Jun Matsumoto: the F4 and an ordinary girl.
6. **Yamato Nadeshiko (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nanako Matsushima's flight attendant hunts for a rich husband but falls for a fishmonger.
7. **silent (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Haruna Kawaguchi and Ren Meguro: reuniting with an ex who has lost his hearing.
8. **Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Takayuki Yamada and Haruka Ayase: high-school love and leukaemia.
9. **Nodame Cantabile (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Juri Ueno and Hiroshi Tamaki: a music-school romcom.
10. **Operation Love (2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tomohisa Yamashita and Masami Nagasawa: going back in time to try the confession again.
11. **Dai Renai: Love Never to End (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Erika Toda and Tsuyoshi Muro: a doctor with early-onset Alzheimer's and a novelist.
12. **The Full-Time Wife Escapist (2016)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Yui Aragaki and Gen Hoshino in a contract marriage; the 'Koi Dance' went viral.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.