When Matsuda Ayumi worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Fan Xiao Xuan, who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employers went bankrupt, Fan Xiao Xuan and Matsuda Ayumi moved to Ishigaki Island. Fan Xiao Xuan also decided to apply for naturalization as a Japanese citizen. To prove they are a real married couple they have an interview at a local Bureau of Judicial Affairs branch. As the interview goes along, they find it more difficult than expected...
On a spring day Munakata Ikujou visited an old temple to view a 1000 years old sakura tree. There Ikujou discovered a 3-year-old girl and adopted her as his own daughter. 16 years later, Sakurako has grown up to become a beautiful woman. Sakurako then has a fateful meeting with Takanashi Hiroto. Their pure love begin.
After an accident, Motomiya Yuri can hear other people's inner voices when she looks into their eyes. Due to these telepathic abilities, Yuri hears people's true feelings that she does not want to know, and she often gets hurt in secret. She becomes afraid of knowing other people's true feelings, and she becomes afraid of showing her true feelings to others as well. She does not get close to people if not necessary and gave up on falling in love. One day, Yuri meets Yoon Tae Oh, a younger Korean student. Tae Oh has a bright and friendly personality and is loved by everyone around him due to his innocence. He is straightforward and extremely pure when it comes to love. When she happens to make eye contact with him, she hears his inner thoughts and voice, but in Korean! With Tae Oh she starts to think that the love she had given up on might still be possible. Will Tae Oh's bright and straightforward presence melt Yuri's closed heart, which is unable to reveal her true feelings?
Left alone on a trip to Hong Kong, Tomoko, a sales woman from Japan finds herself the victim of a purse-snatching. The police arrest the man she points out, but it turns out to be the wrong person: a young Korean man named Ji Hoon. Despite his anger and humiliation, he takes her out to dinner since she has lost all her money, and in return, she agrees to model for his amateur film. What follows is a magical and romantic two days. Upon returning to their respective countries, Tomoko must return to her nine-to-five job and Ji Hoon must resume studying to join the family business rather than pursuing his dream of becoming a film director. But soon the two begin to email each other and rekindle their relationship despite the distance and obstacles between them. Marking the very first time in television history that a drama has been co-produced between Japan and South Korea, the story shows us that love has no borders.
When his boss, Dae Jung, goes missing in a ship accident, the company sends Woo Joo to Osaka to finish his business. On his last day in the city, Woo Joo chases someone looking exactly like Dae Jung to Taisho, an area in Osaka. He ends up losing him, but the sound of a guitar draws Woo Joo to a small bar, Pier 34. Its owner, Snow, somehow reminds him of Dae Jung, and listening to his music brings back memories. After passing out right there, Woo Joo ends up missing his flight back to Korea. He quits his job on a whim and soon meets Haruna, who is learning how to play the guitar from Snow. Woo Joo decides to stay at Pier 34 until he finds Dae Jung and so begins an unlikely vacation for him.
Miyuki sees a dying puppy in the park. Both of her parents died in an accident, and she believes something that her grandmother told her. Her grandmother said if you make a wish during the last snowfall in winter that wish will come true. Miyuki then makes a wish for the puppy's recovery. At this time, Tae Oh passes by and sees Miyuki and the puppy. Tae Oh wants to study in South Korea to become a veterinarian. He treats the puppy and the puppy's health improves. Meanwhile, Miyuki and Tae Oh become attracted to each other by a mysterious power, but Miyuki's uncle sends her to Kyoto.
7 years later, Miyuki arrives back in Tokyo and meets Tae Oh. He is now a veterinarian. A conspiracy is hidden behind them.
7 years later, Miyuki arrives back in Tokyo and meets Tae Oh. He is now a veterinarian. A conspiracy is hidden behind them.
When Ayumi Mastuda (Eiko Koike) worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Xiaoxuan Fan (Kingone Wang), who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employer's went bankrupt, Xiaoxuan Fan and Ayumi Matsuda moved to Ishigaki Island. Xiaoxuan Fan also decided to apply for naturalization as a Japanese citizen. In order to prove they are real married couple they have an interview at a local Bureau of Judicial Affiars branch. As the interview goes along, they find it more difficult than expected ...
Ami, a backpacker from Japan who is four years older than high school student Jimmy, shows up at his part-time job. The two end up spending the summer working at the same store, but Jimmy gradually develops a faint crush on Ami. The two of them grew closer as they rode motorcycles together at night and went to the movies, but suddenly, Ami decided to return to Japan. Ami proposes her "one promise" to Jimmy, who can't sort out his feelings. As time passes, Jimmy visits his parents' house for the first time in a while and finds a postcard that Ami sent him 18 years ago when she returned to Japan. Jimmy's memories of his first love come back to him, and he takes his first solo trip to Japan to confront his past and examine his present. Jimmy rides the train while listening to songs that remind him of his memories with Ami, and he heads to her hometown. Will Jimmy be able to reunite with Ami?
When Matsuda Ayumi worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Fan Xiao Xuan, who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employers went bankrupt, Fan Xiao Xuan and Matsuda Ayumi moved to Ishigaki Island. Fan Xiao Xuan also decided to apply for naturalization as a Japanese citizen. To prove they are a real married couple they have an interview at a local Bureau of Judicial Affairs branch. As the interview goes along, they find it more difficult than expected...
Love comes in all flavors. Secret Ingredient is the story of a Korean man who gives up his entire luxurious life in Seoul in search of his childhood girlfriend, someone he’s never forgotten all these years, in the hopes that she would fall in love with him, not for who they were back then or who they are now, but for what they can aspire to be: happy, fulfilled and blissfully in love with one another.
When Matsuda Ayumi worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Fan Xiao Xuan, who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employers went bankrupt, Fan Xiao Xuan and Matsuda Ayumi moved to Ishigaki Island. Fan Xiao Xuan also decided to apply for naturalization as a Japanese citizen. To prove they are a real married couple they have an interview at a local Bureau of Judicial Affairs branch. As the interview goes along, they find it more difficult than expected...
When Matsuda Ayumi worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Fan Xiao Xuan, who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employers went bankrupt, Fan Xiao Xuan and Matsuda Ayumi moved to Ishigaki Island. Fan Xiao Xuan also decided to apply for naturalization as a Japanese citizen. To prove they are a real married couple they have an interview at a local Bureau of Judicial Affairs branch. As the interview goes along, they find it more difficult than expected...
When Matsuda Ayumi worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Fan Xiao Xuan, who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employers went bankrupt, Fan Xiao Xuan and Matsuda Ayumi moved to Ishigaki Island. Fan Xiao Xuan also decided to apply for naturalization as a Japanese citizen. To prove they are a real married couple they have an interview at a local Bureau of Judicial Affairs branch. As the interview goes along, they find it more difficult than expected...