The best Japanese romance dramas
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: Long Vacation (1996) · Someday or One Day... I'll Remember This Love and Cry (2016) · Tokyo Love Story (1991). (Updated Sep 13, 2026.)
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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Top 10
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1
Long Vacation (1996)
Takuya Kimura and Tomoko Yamaguchi; streets emptied while it aired.
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2
Someday or One Day... I'll Remember This Love and Cry (2016)
Kasumi Arimura and Kengo Kora: a bittersweet love in Tokyo.
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3
Tokyo Love Story (1991)
Yuji Oda and Honami Suzuki: Rika's 'Kanchi!' and a pure-love boom.
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4
The 101st Proposal (1991)
Tetsuya Takeda and Atsuko Asano: 'I won't die!'.
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5
Boys Over Flowers (2005)
Mao Inoue and Jun Matsumoto: the F4 and an ordinary girl.
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6
Yamato Nadeshiko (2000)
Nanako Matsushima's flight attendant hunts for a rich husband but falls for a fishmonger.
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7
silent (2022)
Haruna Kawaguchi and Ren Meguro: reuniting with an ex who has lost his hearing.
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8
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)
Takayuki Yamada and Haruka Ayase: high-school love and leukaemia.
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9
Nodame Cantabile (2006)
Juri Ueno and Hiroshi Tamaki: a music-school romcom.
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10
Operation Love (2007)
Tomohisa Yamashita and Masami Nagasawa: going back in time to try the confession again.
Candidates
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11
Dai Renai: Love Never to End (2018)
Erika Toda and Tsuyoshi Muro: a doctor with early-onset Alzheimer's and a novelist.
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12
The Full-Time Wife Escapist (2016)
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.
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