Season 1

The Hours of My Life (僕のいた時間, 2014), Season 1 — an 11-episode Japanese drama you can watch online on iFILM. College student Takuto Sawada has an unremarkable life until a medical visit strips the unremarkable right out of it: ALS at twenty-four.

The show is not interested in bucket lists. It watches Takuto renegotiate every close relationship — with his parents, a long-standing rival, and Megumi Ono, a woman he meets at exactly the wrong moment to be falling for anyone. Eleven episodes that stay close to the question of what a person actually does with limited time, rather than what they say they will do.

Haruma Miura carries the lead with the kind of restraint that earns its weight by the final episode. Stream The Hours of My Life Season 1 online on iFILM.