# List of Japanese television dramas

This is a list of Japanese television dramas, which are often referred to as dorama (ドラマ). The list includes notable dramas.

## 1970s
### 1979

* Ore wa Abare Hatchaku, First aired on TV Asahi.

## 1980s
### 1980

* Covert Journal of Yukihime's Journey (TBS)
* 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Sensei (3年B組金八先生) (TBS)
* Hadaka no Taisho Horoki (裸の大将放浪記) (Fuji TV)

### 1981

* Father's kitchen (おやじの台所) (TV Asahi)
* Jikans Season 4 (事件) (NHK)
* Kita no Kuni Kara (北の国から) (Fuji TV)

### 1982

* Hiatari Ryōkō!, based on the manga series of the same name by Mitsuru Adachi

### 1983

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

### 1984

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

### 1985

* Sukeban Deka, based on the manga series of the same name by Shinji Wada
* Sukeban Deka II: Shōjo Tekkamen Densetsu
* Ponytail wa Furimukanai

### 1986

* Abunai Deka
* Sukeban Deka 3: Shōjo Ninpōjō Denki

### 1987

* Kamen Rider Black

## 1990s
### 1991

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

### 1992

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

### 1995

* Aishiteiru to Itte Kure (愛していると言ってくれ)

### 1996

* Long Vacation – starring Takuya Kimura, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Takako Matsu, Yutaka Takenouchi, Ryō, and Ryōko Hirosue
* Furuhata Ninzaburo - by Kōki Mitani starring Masakazu Tamura, and Masahiko Nishimura.
* Iguana Girl
* Itazura Na Kiss - starring Aiko Sato and Takashi Kashiwabara

### 1997

* Bayside Shakedown (踊る大捜査線) - starring Yūji Oda.
* Glass Mask (Series 1) (ガラスの仮面) - starring Yumi Adachi, Megumi Matsumoto, Seiichi Tanabe, and Hinako Saeki
* Love Generation (ラブ ジェネレーション)

### 1998

* Glass Mask (Series 2) (ガラスの仮面2) - starring Yumi Adachi, Megumi Matsumoto, Seiichi Tanabe, and Hinako Saeki
* Great Teacher Onizuka - starring Takashi Sorimachi, Nanako Matsushima, Oguri Shun, and Yōsuke Kubozuka
* Shomuni, an office lady comedy starring Makiko Esumi
* 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

* Forbidden Love (魔女の条件, Majo no Jōken) - starring Nanako Matsushima and Hideaki Takizawa
* Ringu- Saishūshō-

## 2000s
### 2000

* Beautiful Life - starring Takuya Kimura, Takako Tokiwa, and Koyuki
* Food Fight - starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kyoko Fukada, Rie Miyazawa, and Takuya Kimura
* The 6th Sayoko (六番目の小夜子) - starring Suzuki Anne, Chiaki Kuriyama, Takayuki Yamada, Ryo Katsuji, and Marika Matsumoto
* Summer Snow - starring Tsuyoshi Domoto, Ryōko Hirosue, Tsubasa Imai, Ikewaki Chizuru, and Oguri Shun
* Aikotoba wa Yūki - starring Kōji Yakusho, Shingo Katori, Kyōka Suzuki, Akira Terao, Jun Kunimura, Kōichi Yamadera, and Zen Kajiwara
* 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
* Trick (トリック)- starring Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe

### 2001

* Ashita ga Arusa - starring Masatoshi Hamada, Izumi Inamori, Takashi Fujii, Shozo Endo and Naoki Tanaka, and Hitoshi Matsumoto
* Hero - starring Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu, and Hiroshi Abe
* 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
* 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
* San nen B-gumi Kinpachi Sensei (Series 6) - starring Tetsuya Takeda, Aya Ueto, Mari Hoshino, Takahisa Masuda, and Shigeaki Kato

### 2002

* Artificial Beauty
* Leave It to the Nurses 4 (ナースのお仕事 4) - starring Arisa Mizuki, Yuki Matsushita, Kazue Itō, Naohito Fujiki, and Yumi Adachi
* 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)
* Morning Musume: Shinshun! Love Stories (モーニング娘。新春! LOVEストーリーズ) - starring Natsumi Abe, Rika Ishikawa, Maki Goto, Ai Takahashi, Risa Niigaki, Makoto Ogawa and Asami Konno
* 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
* 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
* Sakura (さくら) - starring Shiho Takano, Hiromi Ōta, Asei Kobayashi, Miyoko Asada, and Masami Nagasawa
* The Long Love Letter - starring Takako Tokiwa, Yōsuke Kubozuka, Takayuki Yamada, Yamashita Tomohisa, and Ren Osugi
* 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
* Trick 2 (トリック2)- starring Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe

### 2003

* Good Luck!! (グッドラック!!) - starring Kimura Takuya and Shibasaki Kou
* Kimi wa Petto (きみはペット) - starring Koyuki and Matsumoto Jun
* Boku dake no Madonna (僕だけのマドンナ) - starring Takizawa Hideaki and Hasegawa Kyoko
* Ōoku (大奥) - starring Miho Kanno, Yuko Asano, Ikewaki Chizuru, Yumi Adachi, Kazuki Kitamura, and Shingo Katsurayama
* Stand Up!! (スタンドアップ！！) - starring Ninomiya Kazunari, Yamashita Tomohisa, Oguri Shun, Narimiya Hiroki, and Suzuki Anne
* 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
* Water Boys (ウォーターボーイズ) - starring Yamada Takayuki
* Shiroi Kyotō（白い巨塔）- starring Toshiaki Karasawa and Yōsuke Eguchi
* Hotman (ホットマン, Hottoman)- starring Takashi Sorimachi, Akiko Yada, Manami Konishi & Nana Yamauchi
* Trick 3 (トリック3) - starring Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe

### 2004

* Ace wo Nerae! (エースをねらえ!) - starring Aya Ueto and Natsuki Kato
* 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
* Itoshi Kimi e (愛し君へ) – starring Miho Kanno, Naohito Fujiki, Misaki Ito, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Mirai Moriyama
* Minami-kun no Koibito (南くんの恋人) – starring Ninomiya Kazunari, Kyoko Fukada, Mao Miyaji, and Seiichi Tanabe
* Orange Days (オレンジデイズ) - starring Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kou Shibasaki, and Eita
* Pride (プライド) - starring Takuya Kimura and Yūko Takeuchi

### 2009
## 2010s
### 2010

* Q1 2010
* Magerarenai Onna - starring Miho Kanno, Hiromi Nagasaku, Shosuke Tanihara and Mayumi Asaka
* Perfect Girl Evolution - starring Kazuya Kamenashi, Aya Ōmasa, Seishiro Kato and Ranko Kanbe
* Code Blue 2 - starring Tomohisa Yamashita, Yui Aragaki, Yosuke Asari and Erika Toda
* Q2 - Q3 2020
* Asu no Hikari o Tsukame
* Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
* Mother

### 2014

* Saigo Kara Nibanme no Koi
* Yowakutemo Katemasu
* Dear Sister
* Water Polo Yankees
* Massan

### 2016

* Specialist, starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Natsuna Watanabe
* Never Let Me Go, starring Haruka Ayase, Haruma Miura, Asami Mizukawa
* Love Song, starring Masaharu Fukuyama, Sakura Fujiwara, Masaki Suda
* Kazoku no Katachi, starring Shingo Katori, Kiko Mizuhara, and Juri Ueno
* Love That Makes You Cry, starring Kasumi Arimura, Mitsuki Takahata, Takahiro Nishijima and Kentaro Sakaguchi
* Summer（July）
* House Selling Lady, starring Keiko Kitagawa, Tōru Nakamura and Yuko Araki
* Girl Who Takes Time, starring Yuina Kuroshima, Fuma Kikuchi and Ryoma Takeuchi
* Hope: Kitai Zero no Shinnyu Shain, starring Yuto Nakajima, Mizuki Yamamoto and Masaki Kaji
* And, There Were None
* Suki na Hito ga Iru Koto, starring Mirei Kiritani, Kento Yamazaki, Shohei Miura, and Shūhei Nomura

### 2017

* January
* Tokyo Tarareba Musume
* October
* Kounodori

### 2018

* City Hunter
* January
* Kuragehime
* April
* Hana Nochi Hare ~HanaDan Next Season~
* Black Forceps (Season 1, 2018)
* October
* Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

### 2019

* January
* Return of House Selling Lady - starring Keiko Kitagawa, Tōru Nakamura
* Good Wife - starring Takako Tokiwa, Kotaro Koizumi, Toshiaki Karasawa
* Summer（July）
* Voice 110 HQ - starring Toshiaki Karasawa, Yoko Maki
* October
* Sherlock: Untold Stories - starring Dean Fujioka, Takanori Iwata, Kuranosuke Sasaki

## 2020s
### 2020

* January
* Absolute Zero-Criminal Undercover Investigation (S4)
* June
* 2020 May's Love
* Summer（July）
* Detective Novice - starring Kento Nakajima, Sho Hirano, Michiko Kichise, Yusuke Iseya, and Taizo Harada
* Hanzawa Naoki 2020 - starring Masato Sakai, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Kento Kaku, Teruyuki Kagawa, Arata Furuta and Akira Emoto
* Suits Season 2 - starring Yuji Oda, Yuto Nakajima, Yuko Araki, Anne Nakamura, Shinya Kote, Honami Suzuki, and Kōtarō Yoshida

### 2021

* April
* Nemesis (TV Series) [ja]
* October
* The Men of the Wada Family [ja]

### 2022

* January
* My Neighbor, Chikara [ja]
* The 13 Lords of the Shogun
* April
* My family [ja]

### 2023

* January
* Romance 101
* Captured Hospital
* What Will You Do, Ieyasu?
* July
* Vivant
* October
* Kyō Kara Hitman
* One Day: Wonderful Christmas Ado [ja]

### 2024

* January
* Captured New Airport
* July
* Laughing Matryoshka
* Black Forceps (Season 2, 2024)
* October
* Light of my Lion