I have a passion for Japanese culture
There are two other websites that I would recommend for finding Japanese movies and TV dramas on the internet:
This site usually has complete sets of fairly recent Japanese TV dramas. It is torrent based, but doesn't have any membership or download to upload ratio requirements that I know of. That is also the problem though, is that if there is no one seeding the files you want, it may take a long time to get the shows you want to watch.
This site has all sorts of asian movies, not just Japanese. You can usually find new Japanese movies posted here very regularly, though the newest ones out don't usually have any subtitles. There is a membership process, but I don't really know the details since I've been on there for so long. There are also download to upload ratios that you have to maintain to keep your access to the site.
I've actually been watching a lot of Japanese movies and TV shows lately. Sometimes I blog a little bit about them on my site at http://mlr.inktails.com/tag/japanese_movies/
Cheers,
Ben Cook
This site just went through a major overhaul, nothing is familiar to me
now. The last time I was there was maybe a month or so ago, so it was
pretty recent. Anyway, they do a lot of drama fan-subbing projects and
was the one of the main places that I would download j-dramas from.
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/
A great site for Asian dramas, not just J-dramas. Great place for forum
searching about good dramas to watch and such. Also, might find some
links to torrent some dramas.
I haven't gone here much but it seemed to be a good place to go to
stream dramas. Personally, I would rather have the dramas downloaded to
my computer, that's why I didn't travel to this site much. But still a
good site.
Oh, and if you are going to get into torrenting, there are a couple of
torrenting programs to research. When I was running Windows a couple of
years ago, I was using Bitcomet. It worked pretty well for me. My
roommate uses Mutorrent, he keeps pretty current with software trends
and such, so that's probably a pretty good one. But I have never used
it personally, so I don't know. Anyway, just some things to look up
if-and-when you decide to start torrent files.
I will say though, when torrenting, be very wary of zip, rar and any
other file that you have downloaded from a torrent that requires
unpacking. It's a good way to get viruses. Grab torrents from trusted
locations (like the above sites) or look at comments and try to download
stuff that is verified by the community.
