No romance!

Drama. crime/detective genre, comedy, eccentric main character, food, puns

My review

Film. business, intrigues and plot twists, fast-paced, interesting female characters.

My review.

Film. gentle, death, cello music

Main character has been married for a while, and they do have troubles, but it's neither a "romance" nor is the marriage the focus of the film.

My review.

Drama. crime drama, winter setting, interesting female characters, chinese province, police

My review.

Film. Aro-ace main female character and her journey in a hetero-romantic society.

[No review, as this hit too close for me.]

Film. business, anime, female leads, fast-paced.

My review.

Film. comedy, always one mis-step away from catastrophy, gives insight about the behind-the-scenes of the work at airports and in airplanes

[No review from me, this one says it all.]

Drama. baseball off-season, business (managing a team)

My review.

Drama. Isekai, comedy, food

Season 2 is similar, but has a stronger romance subplot between side characters.

My review.

Drama. manga publishing business, ganbarimasu!, female lead, mixing comedy and serious issues

Once, there's an interested glance from one character towards the female lead, but nobody else ever notices it, and it's never spoken of.

My review.

Drama. Crime/detctive drama, very classic main character & side kicks, a "Howtheydunnit"

My review.

Drama. supernatural, SF, theological themes this dramas tries to do it all

"gives censored Chinese BL vibes" as someone said, but it's really all the viewers ecision to see something or not.

[no review yet, need to rewatch]

Drama. super-natural and SF, also theological themes -- this drama tries to do it all, "gives censored Chinese-BL vibes" as someone once said but nothing even remotely explicit

[No review yet, need to rewatch it first]

Film. check the TW in my review! not for the faint-hearted, still very sweet between the main protagonist and the boy.

A 5 minute tragic love story in the middle of the film, no tropey romance.

My review.

Drama. convenience store, plot what plot comedy, absurd conversations at 3 a.m.

My review.

Drama. teenagers, weird weird weird, in this world we mix and connect

My review.

Drama. bar setting, alcohol and canned food, melancholic, hopeful

My review.

Drama.  sweet sweet sweet, found family, food, comedy, mention of the covid pandemic in the last episode.

My review.

Film. school-setting, food, comedy, 1980s Japanese province, food as metaphor for education

My review.

Drama. slice-of-life, coffee making and coffee drinking, gentle, mention of the Covid pandemic at the end.

My review.

Drama. Xianxia, bromance, time travel / alternate universe, supernatural. 

short love-stories between side characters in some episodes.

My review.

Drama. comedy, school-setting, 1970s Thailand-Laos border town, some corporal punishment shown

Two blink-and-you-miss-it maybe-romance scenes between the male lead and his colleague.

My review.

Film. inter-generational friendship between two women over BL manga

[No review, as this did not speak to me personally, and I couldn't give an appropriate rating.]

Film. comedy, ghost marriage between a homophobic cop and a gay ghost, redemption arc, coedy violence

[No review yet, need to rewatch]

Drama.  Wuxia, bromance, detective cases, intrigue

Some time is spent saying good-bye to a past love.

My review.

Drama. fast-paced, business but in a very superficial sense, playing the late-stage-capitalist game, female opponent

My review.

Film. World War 2, Japanese Ultra-nationalism, school setting, female lead. Slow and sad.

From 1954.

My review.

Film. main autistic character, slice-of-life, societal commentary

My review.

Drama. pathologists, no gore!, crime drama, strong female characters

Some interest from one character towards the main protagonists for a short while, but never acted upon.

My review.

Drama. detective story with wuxia elements, comedy, bromance and friendship, palace intrigue in the later episodes

My review.

Drama. some gore (zombie!) but no people eating, comedy, sometimes slapstick, detective cases

The female lead's sister seems to be push the female lead towards the male lead, but he doesn't even notice.

My review.