Series like Tokyo Dogs

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   Everyone's Getting Married

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   2017 · 55 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Ambitious banker Asuka Takanashi dreams of marriage and life as a housewife, but when she falls for popular newscaster Ryu Nanami—who vows never to wed—their romance turns into a clash of ideals, testing whether love can overcome their opposing views on marriage.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared network: Fuji TV

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   A Restaurant with Many Problems

   Shared cast

   2015 · 54 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Tamako works for a company in the restaurant business. She experiences betrayal from Makoto, a chef she recently hired. Rumors then spread at work about her. Tamako decides enough is enough and quits her job. She decides to open a restaurant and run it from a woman's perspective. Tamako soon learns that Makoto has opened a luxurious restaurant across the street from her modest restaurant.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a principal cast member
   • shared network: Fuji TV

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   Detective versus Detectives

   Shared cast

   2015 · 55 min · Crime · Mystery

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   Kitagawa Keiko plays Sasaki Rena, a detective who risks her life investigating detectives for her dead sister. Beautiful, intelligent, and with a great memory, the talented woman judges situations and chooses the most appropriate course of action. Her brutal past surrounding her sister's death inspires her to learn everything she can about detectives, leading her to visit the Suma Research Company. As the sole member of the Anti-Detective Department responsible for investigating and pursuing unethical detectives, she is a solitary lady detective.

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   • a principal cast member
   • shared network: Fuji TV

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   Absolute Zero

   Strong story similarity

   2010 · 49 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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   Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era
   • shared network: Fuji TV

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   Villiany Ganbo

   Shared cast

   2014 · Action & Adventure · Comedy · Crime · Drama

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   When Kanzaki Kaoru was young, her mother operated an Okonomiyaki restaurant. However, in just a day, her entire life as she knew it turned upside down. Her mother was declared a bankrupt, and they were plunged into a life of poverty. Moving from place to place, Kaoru started working the minute she graduated from middle high school. By scrimping and saving, today, Kaoru finally has 1 million yen in her savings account. Since she understood fully what it felt like to be poor, Kaoru lends her money to her colleague who is in financial trouble. She finds herself moneyless again, and under strange circumstances, she comes to know of someone who works for the company "Koshimizu Consultant"... and thus begins her journey into a world where betrayals are the norm, and everyone is trying to outwit the other; a world full of sly and cunning people. With her indomitable spirit, Kaoru claws her way.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • a principal cast member
   • shared network: Fuji TV

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   Siren

   Strong story similarity

   2015 · 49 min · Drama · Mystery

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   Satomi Shinobu works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The Mobile Investigation Unit conducts the initial investigation at all crime scenes. He works with Inokuma Yuki. They are a couple, but they keep their relationship a secret at work. They both hope to work at the #1 Investigation Station. One day, they meet beautiful Tachibana Kara at the site where a dead body was found. Kara appears at the other crime scenes involving grotesque murders. She shows an interest in Yuki. Satomi Shinobu thinks it's a bad sign for Yuki. To protect his girlfriend from danger, he struggles to find uncover the truth behind the serial murder cases and Kara’s identity.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared network: Fuji TV

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   Voice

   Same network

   2009 · 45 min · Mystery

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   A group of five medical students take on the task of conveying the "voices of the dead." Kaji Daiki fails to get into a popular heart surgery seminar but is somehow accepted into a seminar on forensic pathology. When he approaches professor Sagawa and asks him why he ended up in the seminar, Sagawa challenges him by asking why he wants to study heart surgery. Daiki replies that medicine is meaningless after the heart stops, but Sagawa counters that medicine also applies to the dead. And so, together with fellow students Ryosuke, Kanako, Teppei and Akira, Daiki begins to explore the mysteries of death.

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   • strong recommendation signals
   • shared network: Fuji TV

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   Legal High

   Strong story similarity

   2012 · 45 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A lawyer with a big personality works with an straightlaced recent law graduate on various law cases in Japan.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Ichikei's Crow

   Strong story similarity

   2021 · 54 min · Comedy · Drama · Mystery

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   Michio Iruma is a former lawyer. He now works as a judge in the first criminal court (commonly known as "Ichikei") of the Tokyo District Court. He is an unusual judge. To avoid issuing wrong judgements, Michio Iruma seeks out the truth in cases by performing on-site inspections by himself. Due to this, lawyers and prosecutors are afraid of him.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared network: Fuji TV

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    Wonderful Single Life

    Same network

    2012 · 54 min · Comedy

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    "Kekkon Shinai" follows the lives of single people in their 30's and 40's.

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    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
    • shared network: Fuji TV

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