Santa Claus Dreaming(1997)

Santa Claus Dreaming is a Japanese drama series that weaves psychiatry, gambling debts, and unexpected romance into a tangled emotional story. When Koshiba Seijuro approaches psychiatrist Koizumi Santa with a secret request to counsel an influential man's troubled daughter, Santa accepts despite his ethical misgivings—he needs money to cover his gambling losses. The catch: Santa recognizes her as the suicidal woman he'd rushed to hospital nine months earlier on Christmas Eve. She'd woken to find Santa's best friend Kusanagi Shunsuke, a surgeon, holding Santa's discarded Santa hat. Now, years later, the three are caught in a complicated love triangle where past trauma, professional boundaries, and genuine feeling collide. The series explores how one fateful night continues to shape their lives in unexpected ways.