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Relocate for Love 『ナイナイのお見合い大作戦!』/Relocate for Love   리로케이트 포 러브   愛換個地方

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A Matchmaking Show Where Romance Meets Regional Revival

City women and men from the countryside meet for a chance at love in just two days. Set in the countryside facing depopulation and declining birth rates, singles eager to get married compete for each other’s attention through a series of matching rounds. In the end, bold confessions can spark love—or heartbreak.
The show celebrates romance, community, and family life.
로맨스와 지역 부흥이 만나는 리얼 결혼 매칭 프로그램.
도시 여성과 시골 남성이 단 이틀 동안 진짜 사랑을 찾아 나선다.
인구 감소와 저출산 문제로 활기를 잃어가는 시골 마을에서, 결혼을 꿈꾸는 싱글들이 다양한 매칭 게임을 통해 서로의 마음을 얻기 위해 경쟁한다.
과감한 고백이 달콤한 사랑으로 이어질지, 혹은 아픈 상처로 남을지—
로맨스, 공동체, 그리고 가족 생활을 다시 생각하게 하는 프로그램.
相親秀降臨鄉間
來自城市的女性與鄉村男性,在短短兩天內尋找彼此的緣分。舞台設在面臨人口流失與少子化的地方城鎮,單身並渴望結婚的參加者必須在多輪配對與互動中,爭取彼此的目光與心意。在最後時刻,鼓起勇氣告白,可能迎來戀情的誕生,也可能留下心碎的瞬間。
這是一個關於愛情、社區與家庭未來的節目。

A Warmed Up Love

この恋あたためますか   이 사랑 데워드릴까요   愛情加温

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps|Eps 10

Kiki Inoue has lost her bearings in life and works a part-time job in a convenience store. But thanks to an incredible passion for conveniences store sweets, she encounters the manager of a major convenience store with whom she forms a partnership to develop the next big convenience store dessert! The manager, however, is only concerned with winning and views Kiki as nothing more than a pawn for achieving his own success. Feigning to be an angel, he is in fact a devil in disguise preying upon Kiki’s dreams and using her. Against this cutthroat corporate backdrop, Kiki is a symbol for many despairing from life’s many disappointments and failures and asking themselves the question “What is most important in life? Here is a Cinderella love story for them and for everyone.

Aim for the Bouquet

ブーケをねらえ!   부케를 노려라   瞄準!! 新娘捧花大搶奪!

Aim for the Bouquet asks the question "would you want to marry the mystery celebrity?" This format's unique feature is a "voice audience" made up of 100 single men when the guest celebrity is female, or single women when the guest is a man. After each question, the voting audience decides whether they approve of the celebrity's answer. While the viewer can see and hear the celebrity guest, the celebrity's identity is electronically hidden from the voting audience who, uninfluenced by any preconception, form their opinions based only on the answers given. Conflict, humor and surprising results build to the dramatic conclusion.

Around 40

Around 40 -注文の多いオンナたち-

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 10 eps|11 episodes

Satoko Ogata is a brilliant psychiatrist, 39 and single. She loves her work and has a good social life with her friends, but as she nears 40 her best friend of many years tells her, “If you want children you have to get married soon” prodding her to actively seek “happiness as a woman.” One day, Satoko meets Keitaro Okamura, a man whose devotion to ecology borders on the eccentric. As one of the “around 40 generation” who blazed a trail for the women of today, how will she deal with the situation?

Door of Time

時の扉   시간의 문   時限關卡

“Door of Time” is a quiz program that appeals to modern viewers who seek fast paced and visual entertainment. Contestants have very little time to answer a series of questions. Each time the contestant is successful, they face a new door with a more difficult challenge. There are 5 doors to victory. The pacing and structure are exhausting for the contestants and exhilarating for the viewer.

Monster Stairs

モンスターステアーズ   몬스터 계단   恐怖階梯

The Quiz Show with comic consequences. Each step of the Monster Stairs represents a possible answer. The contestant tries to climb to the step with the correct answer to win a point for their team. Those who stop on the wrong step are sent tumbling by the Monster Stairs.

Shima-shima (Striped Sheep)

シマシマ   시마시마   一起來數羊

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

By day, Shio manages an aromatherapy salon. But by night, she is the owner of “Striped Sheep”, a business that dispatches men to the homes of women who suffer from insomnia to lie next to them. These “Striped Sheep” in fact represent a brand new profession of so-called “co-sleepers,” whose sole mission is to provide a night of relaxation to restless women. Shio’s four “sheep” consist of Gai, her ex-husband’s brother, Ran, a man with a cool, soothing gaze, the glib Linda and a taciturn book worm named Matthew. As sleep-sharers, these four men find out a lot about what drives or plagues their women clients, and help them gradually discover themselves and the right life pathways. “There are nights when a woman just needs a man at her side.”

Stolen Identity

スマホを落としただけなのに   스마트폰을 떨어뜨렸을 뿐인데   雖然只是弄丟了手機

116 min

One day, Asami calls her boyfriend and hears unfamiliar male voice on the other end. The man informs her that he found the lost smartphone and makes arrangements to return it to Asami. It safely reaches her, and she gives it back to her boyfriend. But she has no idea that the man, a serial killer, has hacked the smartphone and stolen all its data.

Original Novel: Akira Shiga ”Stolen Identity"

Swimming in the Dark

わにとかげぎす   심해어   超級懦弱的男人的戀愛

40 min x 1 ep / 30 min x 9 eps|10 episodes

With a title inspired by “Stomiiformes”, an order of deep-sea ray-finned fish called, this story follows Tomioka, a late-night security guard at a supermarket who laments his drab and solitary life. Feeling it unnatural to exist alone, he wishes upon a shooting star one night for a true friend. Soon, a mysterious woman appears in his life. She is Azusa, a next door neighbor who instantly falls in love with him. But as the kind of social awkwardness, Tomioka is obtusely unaware of her feelings for him. Can love bloom between these two? Especially when compounded by the sudden emergence of a homeless guy, who calls himself a “life wanderer”, and then an enigmatic death threat in the form of a letter that reads: “You will lose your mind within a year and die”. Life is suddenly turned upside down.

Threads - Our Tapestry of Love

糸   실   線

130 min

This is a love story inspired by the song “Threads” by Miyuki Nakajima.
Nakajima’s song is about the miracle of meeting a loved one and the ties of love that bind them. The song, which imagines these ties as threads woven through life, was released in 1998 as a dedication at her friends’ wedding. Ever since, this song has been loved by millions and been covered by over 120 artists in Japan.

In 2019, the Heisei period has come to a close after 31 years. A boy and a girl, who were born in the 1st year of Heisei, meet each other in childhood, eventually fall in love, but become separated along life’s path. They live in totally different circumstances, but continue to keep each other in their thoughts.

Though life brings them together from time to time, it is difficult for them to re-establish their ties. Even so, they don’t forget to live their lives to the fullest and love those around them with everything they can. This film tells the story of thirty years in the lives of two people connected by a thread of destiny, and is sure to awaken in those who view it a new appreciation for meeting people.

Why I Dress Up for Love

着飾る恋には理由があって   꾸미는 사랑에는 이유가 있어   打扮的戀愛是有理由的

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps|Eps 10

Fashionista Kurumi Mashiba works as a publicist for a popular online home décor company. When she launches a social media account to promote the company, she ends up amassing 100,000 followers and becomes a fashion influencer in her own right. But she’s so wrapped up in work that she forgets to renew the lease on her apartment and finds herself thrown out onto the street! Help comes in the form of Kouko Saotome, an older female friend and successful food stylist who lives in a luxury apartment in the heart of trendy Omotesando. Kouko invites Kurumi to move in with her, but it turns out she doesn’t live alone. And so, the stylish Kurumi finds herself living with an eclectic group of men and women very different from her. Don’t miss this heartwarming series packed full of love in all its many forms!