Duty First, Kiss Later (Season 1)

Duty First, Kiss Later (2026) is a Japanese drama-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Ryu Saito and Toshihiro Yashiba lead the cast.

The story is set in a quiet rural town. Heisuke Takii is a gentle, soft-spoken police captain who solves things by talking people down rather than pulling rank. His new neighbor at the bachelor dormitory is Hide Shiono, an elite Public Safety officer who treats Takii like an enemy on sight. Under that frost, Shiono is hiding feelings he barely admits to himself — feelings that boil over the moment Takii gets introduced to a woman.

Takii is old-fashioned enough to have quietly given up on romance altogether, and it's Shiono's odd, unguarded gestures that make him rethink who he can actually lean on. The show isn't built around a case-of-the-week hook — it runs on the slow, awkward thaw between two guarded men, which is exactly what pulls in viewers tired of on-the-nose romances. Watch Duty First, Kiss Later online on iFILM.