Since Filesonic, MegaUpload, Fileserve, and (maybe soon) others are starting to delete files/not allow 3th parties to download from their site anymore, I have decided to slowly change all links into links to the actual DVD/Blueray boxes and OSTs where you can buy these for very decent prices.
Links will be to the sites Play-Asia and YESASIA, which are trusted sites for Asian items online shopping. These DVDs you can’t usually buy on Amazon and similar sites as they usually aren’t licensed outside of Asia.

I will only provide links to English-subtitled versions, as this was my intention in the first place: to provide Japanese movie & drama to an English-speaking (/understanding) audience even though it’s hard to get in Europe/America (or too expensive). I hope this will still boost your desire to watch them, as they are very often worthy of it!

Please continue to support Japanese movies & dramas!

Soup Opera

Summary:

In an old mansion a woman named Louie (Maki Sakai) starts to make chicken soup. The woman also lives with her aunt Toba-chan (Mariko Kaga). Toba-chan has raised Louie since her birth as Toba-chan’s sister died while giving birth to Louie.

Not long before Toba-chan’s 61st birth day , Toba-chan falls in love and suddenly leaves home. Louie is now all alone. Then a strange man Tony ([[Tatsuya Fuji]) appears in front of her house. The guy comes to her garden and spreads out a canvas. He then starts to draw. Louie kicks him out, but after several days he shows up again with a lunch box. What a surprise his lunch box tastes so delicious!

One day, Louie’s old classmate Nanako (Sawa Suzuki), who works for a magazine, takes Louie to dinner with popular writer Gou Inoue (Sei Hiraizumi) and others. During dinner, Louie becomes tired of the writer’s arrogant attitude, but she is surprised by the cold peach soup recommended by Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima) who sits next to her. After dinner, Kosuke takes Louie home and mistakes Tony as Louie’s father. Tony nonchalant invites Kosuke to stay over for the night.

The next day, Louie comes home after work and is surprised to find Tony and Kosuke cooking happily together in the kitchen. As dinner starts Kosuke raves about Louie’s chicken soup. Kosuke then states that he wants to live here. Tony then replies “then live here”. Now Louie has two men living with her …

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Keitai Kareshi

Summary:

High school student Ayumi kills herself and leaves behind a cryptic message that says “will be killed by boyfriend.” Ayumi’s classmates Satomi (Umika Kawashima) and Yuka (Aki Asakura) investigates her suicide and quickly links her death to a cellphone dating simulation game called “Keitai Kareshi.” The game distributed by popular mobile gaming site “Ice Cream” allows players to pick avatars and exchange messages with other players. A love gauge determines how well the player is faring.

Satomi then downloads cellphone boyfriend Riku, which her co-worker Eri downloads onto her cellphone. Soon after, Eri dies from electrocution – not long after the love gauge on her cellphone hit zero. Yuka also downloaded cellphone boyfriend Masaya, which Eri sends to her manager Ishikawa. The next day, Ishikawa dies from a mysterious accident. The mystery deepens as Satomi discovers the image of Naoto (Hideo Ishiguro), a senior student whom Satomi secretly admired, on her friend Hisami’s cellphone ….

Also check : Keitai Kanojo (2011)

Helldriver

Summary:

An alien-spawned, mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan, transforming those who inhale it into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies hell-bent on devouring the surviving human population. Plunged into chaos, Japan is torn in two—the southern half of the country, where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas, lives behind a heavily-fortified wall, while the northern half is a lawless, zombie-infected wasteland. Political forces are locked in a stalemate over whether the living dead should remain protected as family members or exterminated like a plague. The economy withers away, and all hope seems lost for the people and the nation of Japan.

Hope arrives in the form of Kika (Yumiko Hara), a beautiful high school girl armed with a chainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government, Kika leads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina) and put an end to the plague of the living dead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie culture that, with its own designs on the living half of Japan, refuses to lay down and die.

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Despite having sworn never to play baseball again, Jubeh is presented with an ultimatum by governor Mifune: join the reformatory team, The Gauntlets, in the national tournament for juvenile inmates, or witness the death of his innocent cellmate Four Eyes (Mari Hoshino). With the knowledge that the death of his brother is somehow connected to the team, Jubeh agrees, and Gauntlet training begins. Their first opponents: the sexy but deadly “psycho butcher girls” of the St. Black Dahlia High School, a team of literal man-killers. And so the splatterific baseball tournament begins, but Jubeh soon learns that he is not only fighting to win the game, but also to save his own life!

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Zettai Kareshi

Title: 絶対彼氏。
Title (romaji): Zettai Kareshi
Also known as: Absolute Boyfriend
Tagline: Kanzen Muketsu no Koibito Robot / The Completely Perfect Boyfriend Robot
Genre: Romance, comedy
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Theme song: Okaeri by ayaka
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 13.2 (Kanto)
Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-15 to 2008-Jun-24
Air time: Tuesday 21:00

Synopsis

Robot maker, Kronos Heaven, finally develops “Night Tenjo”, the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover. The company chooses temp worker Izawa Riko to take part in a 5-day free trial. At first, Riko only sees Night as a household appliance. But when she finds out how deep Night’s devotion to herself is, Riko finds herself falling in love with him. Joining the love triangle is Asamoto Soshi, a distinguished young executive at her company who has feelings for her. –Fuji TV

Cast
Hayami Mokomichi as Tenjo Night
Mizushima Hiro as Asamoto Soshi
Aibu Saki as Izawa Riiko
Sasai Eisuke as Shirasagi Yuki
Ueno Natsuhi as Ito Mika

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After the Flowers – Hana no Ato

Summary:

Yukari Hayasaka (Keiko Kitagawa) is a high school student who has become tired of her life of constant schooling. She then comes across a group of student fashion designers in need of a model for their “Paradise Kiss” clothing label. Yukari knows nothing about the fashion world and is taken back by the group’s eccentric ways, but she soon comes to admire their free thinking ways and ability to pursue their dreams with a one track mind …

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Keitai Kanojo

Summary:

“Keitai Kanojo” is based on the popular mobile phone novel of the same name. It is the sequel to “Keitai Kareshi,” which was turned into a movie last year starring 9nine’s Umika Kawashima (16).
In “Keitai Kanojo,” Suzuki plays a high school student investigating the mystery behind a mobile phone dating simulation game.
Taketomi plays a girl who appears within the game, somehow killing the male players one by one.

Also check: Keitai Kareshi (2009)

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Paradise Kiss

Summary:

Yukari Hayasaka (Keiko Kitagawa) is a high school student who has become tired of her life of constant schooling. She then comes across a group of student fashion designers in need of a model for their “Paradise Kiss” clothing label. Yukari knows nothing about the fashion world and is taken back by the group’s eccentric ways, but she soon comes to admire their free thinking ways and ability to pursue their dreams with a one track mind …

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Space Battleship Yamato

Summary:

In the year 2194, mysterious beings, known as the Gamilons, suddenly appear from outer space. The Gamilons drops meteor bombs upon Earth and kill most of the inhabitants.

Five years later, in 2199, the Earth is still contaminated by radiation from the meteor bombs. Those that remain live underground.

Susumu Kodai (Takuya Kimura) is a former army pilot now retired. One day, while exploring the surface, he comes across a communication capsule from planet Iscandar, which resides 148,000 light years away from Earth. Susumu Kodai is able to ascertain that on Iscandar they have a substance to remove the radioactive material plaguing the surface of Earth.

In order to retrieve the substance from Iscandar, the Defense Force of Earth builds Space Battleship Yamato. Susume Kodai comes out of retirement and leads the crew that will man Space Battleship Yamato. With only one year left before the radiation drives Earth to complete extinction, Susume Kodai and his crew begins their great battle …

Notes:
1. Actress Erika Sawajiri was originally picked to play the character of Yuki Mori, but was later replaced by actress Meisa Kuroki.
2. Filming began October 12, 2009 with a budget slated for 22 million $USD.

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