Kuitan 2

Alternative Title: 喰いタン / Eating Detective / Kuitan
Genre: Comedy, Detective , Food
Film Date: April, 2007
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Higashiyama Noriyuki, Ichikawa Mikako, Kyono Kotomi, Morita Go

Description:
This story about a detective who has a huge appetite is adapted from a manga by Terasawa Daisuke and will be Higashiyama' first drama in 4 years.

Kuitan

Alternative Title: 喰いタン / Eating Detective
Genre: Comedy, Detective , Food
Film Date: January, 2006
Total Episodes: 9
Japan Casts: Higashiyama Noriyuki, Ito Shiro, Morita Go, Sano Shiro

Description:
This story about a detective who has a huge appetite is adapted from a manga by Terasawa Daisuke and will be Higashiyama' first drama in 4 years.

Kekkon Dekinai Otoko

Alternative Title: Kekkon Dekinai Otoko / The Man Who Can't Get Married / He Who Can't Marry
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: June, 2006
Total Episodes: 12
Korea Casts: Nah Eun Kyeong, Nah Young Hee, Nam Goong Min, Nam Sang Mi, No Hyun Hee, Now, Oh Ji Ho, Oh Joo Eun, Oh Man Suk
Japan Casts: Abe Hiroshi, Kuninaka Ryoko, Natsukawa Yui, Sheila , Tsukamoto Takashi

Description:
Shinsuke Kuwano, a successful architect at 40, enjoys living by himself. He doesn’t like people but somehow is able to design wonderful houses for them.

He has a routine of making himself a delicious dinner and then relaxing to classical music in his easy chair while pretending he is the conductor. One night, he plays the music loud enough to make his next door neighbor, Michiru Tamara knock on his door to complain. When Kuwano answers the door, he suffers a terrible stomach pain and collapses to the floor. Lucky for him, Michiru is nice enough to accompany him to the hospital, where he is treated by Dr. Natsumi Hayasake. He is really rude to Natsumi, but she is still determined to treat him.

Afterwards, Michiru and Natsumi become part of Kuwano’s life. They make friends with Kuwano’s colleagues Eiji and Maya Sawazaki. They all enjoy talking about how strange and eccentric Kuwano is. Is it possible that someone would ever want to marry him?

Jotei

Alternative Title: 女帝
Genre:Drama
Film Date: July, 2007
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Fukikoshi Mitsuru, Ihara Tsuyoshi, Kaneko Sayaka, Katase Rino, Kato Rosa, Ozawa Maju

Description:
Kato Rosa stars as Tachibana Ayaka, a young woman whose life has been ruined after she lost her boyfriend then her mother became gravely ill. Looking for revenge, she starts out as a hostess with the goal of rising to become the "empress" of the Osaka nightlife scene. Matsuda Shota plays a member of the underworld who becomes Ayaka's ally.

Joshi Deka

Alternative Title: Joshi Deka
Genre: Detective, Drama
Film Date: October, 2007
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Hakamada Yoshihiko, Izumi Pinko, Masuoka Toru, Ohkura Koj, Ryu Shi Won, Suzuki Kosuke, Yukie Nakama

Description:
Nakama plays an enthusiastic rookie cop whose only strong point is her marksmanship, while Izumi plays a veteran detective with the #1 arrest rate. The two work together to solve crimes, despite differences in their ways of thinking.

Jikou Keisatsu

Alternative Title: Time Limit Detective / Statute of Limitation Police
Genre: Mystery
Film Date: January, 2006
Total Episodes: 9
Japan Casts: Aso Kumiko, Fuse Eri, Odagiri Joe, Toyohara Kosuke

Description:
Odagiri plays Kiriyama Shuuichiro who works as an information management officer in the prefectural police station. As he is very observant and has interest in the unresolved cases which have gone past the legal time frame (statute of limitations) i.e. the culprit cannot be charged even if he/she is caught, he investigates the cases without permission with the aim of "confirming" the culprit only. Some charateristics of this character would be his dark green spectacles, his wallet containing 20,000 yen at all times and he likes udon and nyuumen.

Iryu Team Medical Dragon 2

Genre: Drama, Medical
Film Date: October, 2007
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Abe Sadayo, Inamori Izumi, Kishibe Ittoku, Kitamura Kazuki, Koike Teppei, Mizukawa Asami, Natsuki Mari, Sakaguchi Kenji, Sasaki Kuranosuke

Description:
In Iryu 2, Asada Ryutaro wages a new battle against the realities of Japan's medical care system. The government has drafted legislation to tackle the recent inflation of medical fees; hospitals have entered an era in which they will go bankrupt if they aren't independently run. At the same time, hospital mergers and takeovers are also taking place. Additionally, the obstetrics and pediatrics departments are being closed in succession, and there are inadequate doctors in the region - issues that are closely related to these hospital management problems. Now, hospitals, like the average corporation, face collapse if they are not profitable

Iryu Team Medical Dragon

Alternative Title: 医龍 / iryu / team medical dragon
Genre: Drama, Medical
Film Date: April, 2006
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Kitamura Kazuki, Koike Teppei, Mizukawa Asami, Natsuki Mari, Sakaguchi Kenji

Description:
Ryutaro Asada is enjoying his peaceful life in the countryside, when he is visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital.

Ryutaro is a genius surgeon who used to lead "Team Medical Dragon," a world-class NGO medical team. In harsh environments that lacked medicine and electricity, Ryutaro witnessed many lives pass away. At the same time, he saved many other lives, helping his matchless skill overwhelm other doctors.

As a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She has ambitions to be promoted to professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique — an extremely difficult type of heart surgery — and also by writing a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro's skills when he was an NGO doctor. That's why she recruits him and asks him to use the Batista technique. Since Ryutaro's arrival, urgent patients who would have been abandoned in the past, are miraculously saved by the "hands of God."

Hotelier (Japanese)

Alternative Title: ホテリアー / Hotelier
Genre: Business, Romance
Film Date: April, 2007
Total Episodes: 9
Japan Casts: Oikawa Mitsuhiro , Saeko, Tanabe Seiichi, Ueto Aya

Description:
An incident in the past causes Ogata Kouhei (Tanabe Seiichi) to resign his position and leave the country in shame. Now, at the hotel's 30th anniversary, the hotel is facing a crisis; the president has just been submitted to the hospital, and the hotel is facing a potential takeover. Under his request, assistant manager Odagiri Kyoko (Ueto Aya) goes to Korea in order to convince Kouhei to return. Kyoko is caught up in an incident when her purse is stolen when she meets Mizusawa Keigo (Oikawa Mitsuhiro), who tries to help her. Ultimately, Kyoko comes back to Japan unsuccessful. However, under the advice from Korean hotel manager Shin Dong Hyuk (Bae Yong Jun), Kouhei returns to Tokyo Ocean Hotel as the position of the new general manager. Upon his return however, Kyoko once again meets Mizusawa Keigo. Little does Kyoko know, not only does Keigo want to take over the Tokyo Ocean Hotel, but he also carries affections for her.

Himitsu no Hanazono

Alternative Title: ヒミツの花園
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: January, 2007
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Daito Shunsuke, Ikeda Tetsuhiro, Kato Yoshika, Tanaka Tetsushi, Terajima Susumu

Description:
A 28-year old female magazine editor who is tired of work and feels she doesn't have a life is assigned to be in charge of a very popular cartoonist with a most lovely name, Yuriko Hanazono. But as she goes to Hanazono's residence/office, she is met by four men who seem to be her assistants. Then it turns out those four men are brothers who form a team named Yuriko Hanazono by taking roles to create popular comics. In this heartwarming comedy, the exhausted editor may find out the key to be happy while she is being driven crazy by this unique gang of brothers.

Hataraki Man

Alternative Title: 働きマン
Genre: Romance, Work
Film Date: October, 2007
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Kanno Miho, Sada Mayumi, Sawamura Ikki, Yoshizawa Yu

Description:
The story revolves around Hiroko Matsukata, an editor of a weekly magazine. Hiroko is so focused on her work that she has no time for romance, and others refer to her by the nickname "hataraki man" ("working man")

Happy Boys

Alternative Title: ハッピィボーイズ / ハッピィ★ボーイズ
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: May, 2007
Total Episodes: 13
Japan Casts: Fujimura Shunji, Kamakari Kenta, Kato Keisuke, Nagashima Shugo, Seto Koji, Shindo Gaku, Sugawara Eiji, Tanaka Tetsushi

Description:
A comedy following five young men who work at Lady Braganza, a shitsuji kissa (butler café).

Hanayome wa Yakudoshi

Alternative Title: Hanayome wa Yakudoshi! / The Pretend Bride (KIKU)
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: July, 2006
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts: Koyama Keiichiro , Matsushima Nahomi , Ozawa Maju, Shinohara Ryoko, Yabe Hiroyuki

Description:
This year is the yakudoshi, or "unlucky year" for 32-year old Akiko (Shinohara Ryoko), a television announcer. She lost her position in a news program to a rookie announcer. What’s worse, she is assigned to go undercover and experience life as a farmer’s bride for a variety program. Akiko pretends to be the fiancée of Ichiro (Yabe Hiroyuki), her ex-boyfriend, and begins her "bridal training" at the peach farm of Ichiro’s parents. Awaiting Akiko is a family filled with extraordinary personalities, led by the stern mother-in-law, Yukie (Iwashita Shima)

Hana Kimi

Alternative Title: Hanazakari no Kimitachi e / 花ざかりの君たちへ
Genre: Comedy, Romance , School
Film Date: July, 2007
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts: Oguri Shun, Okada Yoshinori, Shirota Yu, Sugimoto Tetta, Tsutsui Mariko, Yamazaki Hajime

Description:
The drama is based on the popular manga of the same name by Nakajo Hisaya, which has already been dramatized in Taiwan. Horikita plays the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki, a Japanese girl in the U.S. who one day sees the young athlete Sano Izumi (Oguri) compete in the high jump on television. She begins to idolize him, and decides to move to Japan to attend the same school as him. However, Izumi goes to an all-boys school, so Mizuki disguises herself as a boy to achieve her dream of being with her idol.

Haken No Hinkaku

Alternative Title: ハケンの品格 / Haken's Dignity / The Pride of the Temp
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Film Date: January, 2007
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Kato Ai, Katsuji Ryo, Koizumi Koutaro , Ooizumi You , Shinohara Ryoko

Description:
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has something painful to hide. Satonaka Kensuke has just been promoted to head S&F’s new Marketing Division. Saddled with a rag-tag group of subordinates, he is struggling to lift his division off the ground. When Oomae is placed in Kensuke’s department, she finds herself doing more work than she’s ever done before.

This is a timely drama that examines the different attitudes toward temp workers and regular employees, and the ways to overcome frictions in interpersonal relationships. This follows an October report on labor conditions by the Labor Ministry, which showed that, after regulations were relaxed, the proportion of regular employees to Temps had doubled compared to that of eight years ago.

Haikei, Chichiue-sama

Alternative Title: Haikei, Chichiue-sama / Dear Father
Genre: Family, Human Drama
Film Date: January, 2007
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Fukuda Saki, Kuroki Meisa, Ninomiya Kazunari, Takashima Reiko , Yokoyama Yu

Description:
Set in an old prestigious Ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) in a small town in the center of Tokyo, a young Itamae (cook for Japanese dishes) struggles his life, love and work while the long-lasted ryotei and the beloved old town face the change to survive the time. This heartwarming drama shows the intimate relationship of the community that has been lost nowadays, asks what the most important things in your life is, and tells how difficult it is to make a decision. The story is told in the form of a letter to his unknown father with lots of humor and love. Fuji Creative

Galileo

Alternative Title: ガリレオ
Genre: Detective, Mystery
Film Date: October, 2007
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Aoi, Hayashi Tsuyoshi, Kitamura Kazuki, Shinagawa Hiroshi, Takayama Miyako, Watanabe Ikkei

Description:
In "Galileo," Fukuyama Masaharu plays a genius physicist and university associate professor, Yukawa Manabu, who solves difficult mysteries. Affectionately known as Tantei Galileo ("Detective Galileo"), Yukawa is brilliant, an all-round sportsman, tall and handsome but eccentric. Yukawa's partner is a rookie cop, Utsumi Kaoru (Shibasaki Kou), a hot-blooded woman with a strong sense of justice. -- jade_frost

Gal Circle

Alternative Title: ギャルサー / Galcir / Gal Circle
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: April, 2006
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Aragaki Yui, Fujiki Naohito, Iwasa Mayuko, Natsuko , Satsugawa Aimi, Suzuki Emi, Toda Erika, Yaguchi Mari

Description:
Kitajima Shinnosuke, a cowboy from the USA who goes to Shibuya to find a group of girls to dance Para-Para. Along the way, he becomes a new type of hero, helping to solve problems that afflict Shibuya-Gals.

Gachi Baka

Alternative Title: ガチバカ!
Genre: Drama, School
Film Date: January, 2006
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Inoue Waka, Kitamura Soichiro, Koizumi Kotaro, Takahashi Katsunori

Description:
Former pro boxer Gondo Tetta has come to Kaki-no-ki-zaka High School as a beginning teacher. The school hopes to restore finances by improving the students’ abilities and strengthening its baseball team. Tetta goes head-to-head with his class full of failing students who have no ability whatsoever in sports and studies. Everyday, he passionately encourages his students who have no drive at all. School is not just a place to study. It’s a place to learn how to live! If it means helping out his students, Tetta won’t hesitate to snap at the parents and school. Gondo Tetta’s slightly dangerous class is about to begin.

Fuma no Kojiro

Alternative Title: 風魔の小次郎
Genre: Fantasy
Film Date: October, 2007
Total Episodes: 13
Japan Casts: Ayumi, Kawahara Makoto, Sakamoto Kazuya, Sakamoto Naoya, Shindo Gaku, Suzuki Hiroki, Takahashi Tsuyoshi, Yashiro Shingo

Description:
Hakuo Gakuin, the academy renowned for martial arts, is decaying due to rival school Seishikan cowardly luring its best students. In order to face the crisis, the school's director seeks help in the Fuma ninja clan. Kojiro of the Fuma is sent to Hakuo, where he will face the Yasha clan, which fights for Seishikan lead by Asuka Musashi.

Fufudo

Alternative Title: 夫婦道/The Perfect Path for Two
Genre: Family
Film Date: April, 2007
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Hashizume Isao, Motokariya Yuika, Suzuki Yuujin, Takahata Atsuko, Takeda Tetsuya, Takuma Seiko, Yamasaki Shizuyo

Description:
The weddings of the three daughters of the Takanabe family engaged in tea growing and processing, the succession of the Takanabe tea business that has been passed down over generations, conflicts between the couple regarding these issues, and so on… This is a sitcom depicting the human drama of the family full of laughter and tears

First Kiss

Alternative Title: ファースト・キス
Genre: Romance
Film Date: July, 2007
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Gekidan Hitori, Hiraoka Yuta, Inoue Mao, Ito Hideaki, Matsuyuki Yasuko, Sakai Wakana

Description:
A bitter-sweet and uplifting comedy drama about a young girl Mio and her brother Kazuki. To treat her illness overseas, Mio has been living away from her older brother Kazuki for the past ten years. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio's return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart

Enka no Joou

Alternative Title: 演歌の女王 (えんか の じょおう) / Enka no Joou
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: January, 2007
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Amami Yuki, Harada Taizo, Kikawada Masaya, Narumi Riko, Sakai Wakana

Description:
Himawari is an unsuccessful 39-year-old enka singer who has bad luck with men and money. Born into an Osaka takoyaki shop, the young Himawari was inspired by her father's words to immerse herself in enka. At the age of 13 her father disappears and her mother, bitter over the husband that left her, remarries--but Himawari has trouble adjusting to a new father and brother. With her father's words in her head--"You're the #1 singer in all of Japan!"--Himawari immediately heads to Tokyo after high school and makes her debut as an enka singer.

Dream Again

Alternative Title: ドリーム☆アゲイン
Genre: Human Drama, Sports
Film Date: October, 2007
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Aota Noriko, Kato Ai, Shida Mirai, Sorimachi Takashi, Suga Takamasa, Watanabe Tetsu

Description:
This original series stars Takashi Sorimachi as the pro baseball player Shunsuke Ogi, who is forced to retire after a shoulder injury. He continues to train in hope of returning to the game, but a sudden accident leads to his death. God decides to give him a second chance, placing his soul into the body of another man - a wealthy fund company manager - but adjusting to his new life isn't easy

Detective Conan

Alternative Title: Meitantei Conan / 名探偵コナン
Genre: Detective, Mystery
Film Date: October, 2006
Total Episodes: 2
Japan Casts: Fukawa Ryo, Iwasa Mayuko, Jinnai Takanori, Kurokawa Tomoka, Nishimura Masahiko, Oguri Shun

Description:
This tanpatsu celebrates the tenth year of this popular Japanese anime, originally a manga created by Aoyama Gosho. The story takes place when Shinichi was still a high school student. The talented young detective Kudo Shinichi receives a message: "I will kidnap one of your classmates during your class trip." Shinichi is going to find out the truth.

Delicious Gakuin

Alternative Title: Delicious Academy
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: April, 2007
Total Episodes: 13
Japan Casts: Aiba Hiroki, Amano Hironari, Nagayama Takashi, Yuji Yamaguchi

Description:
After being kidnapped and being taken to a cooking school told they must enroll, a group of boys deal with learning tons of recipes while also focusing on thoughts of love, friends, and intentions.

Dance Drill

Alternative Title: Dance☆Drill / Dance Drill
Genre: Romance, Sports
Film Date: July, 2006
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Eikura Nana, Katou Rosa , Kokubun Taichi, Masuda Takahisa

Description:
The story of this drama is based on a Kanagawa Prefecture senior high school cheerleading team which won the All-US cheerleading contest.

The last summer vacation in high school is a time when unforgettable memories are made and everything seems so bright.

July 2006. For 18 girls, their unforgettable summer has arrived! At first, the girls in this drama are leading mundane lives, uncertain of their future. What's more, they feel there's nothing special about them. But when they discover cheerleading, their world changes completely.

Suddenly, their lives are centered around cheerleading. More than fashion, studies, and romance, they are obsessed with cheerleading. Join the girls as they work together towards the same goal and experience the most exciting summer ever!

Busu no Hitomi ni Koishiteru

Alternative Title: ブスの瞳に恋してる
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Film Date: April, 2006
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts: Ebihara Yuri, Igawa Haruka, Inagaki Goro, Murakami Tomoko

Description:
Popular scenario writer, Yamaguchi Osamu (Inagaki Goro) is currently dating fashion magazine model Ebihara Yumi (Ebihara Yuri). With a high salary and a beautiful girlfriend, one would expect Osamu to be the envy of all around him. Yet there is something missing in his life. On the complete other end of the spectrum, 25 year old Ota Miyuki (Murakami Tomoko) works part-time at a Ramen restaurant while trying to fulfill her dreams of becoming an actress. Though her parents may have named her Miyuki with the intentions of her being beautiful and happy, the reality is she is ugly. Ugly enough for her parents to worry over her future. Miyuki herself, though she hates it, is also quite aware of this fact. This is where Osamu and Miyuki meet. Shocked by Miyuki's pure and fresh personality, he is drawn to her, but...

Boys Este

Alternative Title: BOYSエステ
Genre: Romance
Film Date: July, 2007
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts: Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Kashu Toshiki, Nakamura Aoi, Saito Takumi, Sugimoto Yumi

Description:
Akagi Hibiki is a high schooler who takes up a part-time job at an esthetic salon, and is said to have a "god hand" for his superb massaging technique. Romance begins after he meets another high schooler named Koiwai Shizuka, who becomes insecure about her looks due to insensitive comments by her boyfriend.

Boku to Kanojo no XXX

Alternative Title: Your and My Secret
Genre: Comedy, Drama , Romance
Film Date: January, 2006
Total Episodes: 7
Japan Casts: Akie Suzuki, Anan Kenji, Daigo Fujisawa, Hirota Masahiro, Kobayashi Masahiro, Kohmoto Masahiro, Mai Takahashi, Sato Masahiro, Shun Shioya

Description:
The story revolves around high school student Akira Uehara, sensitive and demure by nature. Despite that he has a large crush on the most feared and violent girl in school–Nanako Momoi, who seems fragile and cute, until she opens her mouth.

One day, Uehara is made to go to Momoi’s house where he meets her mad scientist grandfather and unwillingly becomes the test subject for one of his machines. Accidentally, Momoi also gets tangled in the experiment and the two end up switching bodies.

To make matters worse Momoi in Uehara’s body breaks the machine (which will cost 2mil. yen to fix) as she would like more time in this body thus beginning their world full of debts and troubles.

Bambino!

Alternative Title: バンビーノ!
Genre: Food
Film Date: April, 2007
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Karina, Matsumoto Jun, Sato Ryuta, Uchida Yuki

Description:
A drama adaptation of a popular comic written by Sekiya Tetsuji. After a year of working at a neighborhood Italian restaurant, Ban Shogo (Matsumoto Jun), an enthusiastic, cocky young college student from Fukuoka, comes to Tokyo to perfect his cooking skills as a chef in Italian cuisine. He discovers he has much to learn and has to continually prove himself to the very competitive, quick and efficient staff at the upscale Italian restaurant.

Attention Please

Alternative Title: アテンションプリーズ
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: April, 2006
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Aibu Saki, Koizumi Koutaro , Maya Miki, Nishikido Ryo, Uehara Misa, Ueto Aya

Description:
Losing her mother at a young age, Misaki Yoko (Ueto Aya) was raised amongst three brothers. Yoko is a slightly boyish girl who is bullheaded and hates dishonesty. Ever since she was young, she enjoyed the company of boys over girls. She starts a band with four of her boy friends and becomes the lead singer. Then one day, one of the members of the band, Tsukasa, gets a job at a bank in Tokyo. Due to Tsukasa leaving town, the band breaks up and though Yoko finds herself lonely, she puts on a strong act in front of Tsukasa. She can't tell Tsukasa how she truly feels for him. On the day Tsukasa leaves for Tokyo, Yoko goes along with the band members to the airport to see him off. The guys get excited when they see some cabin crew ladies and Yoko has no idea why. She reminds them that even she can wear a uniform, but the guys only make fun of her. That's when Tsukasa tells Yoko he wonders what she'd look like dressed in uniform. This is when Yoko decides she wants to work as a Cabin Attendant

Anna-san no Omame

Alternative Title: Anna-san no Omame / The Best Friend of Beautiful Anna
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Film Date: September, 2006
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Anzu Sayuri, Becky, Kashiwabara Shuji, Takizawa Saori

Description:
Anna is everyone’s dream; beautiful, intelligent, kind and elegant. But in this drama, she is not the heroine... it is her best friend Lily. Lily is a girl who is overly confident of her own beauty and fantasizes that the whole world is in love with her. She even feels sorry for Anna who is always chased by the boys... as she believes that they are using Anna to become acquainted with her own self.

Akihabara@Deep

Alternative Title: アキハバラ＠DEEP
Genre: Action, Comedy
Film Date: June, 2006
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Himura Yuki , Hoshino Gen , Ikuta Toma , Kosaka Yuka, Matsushima Hatsune

Description:
Akihabara is a Tokyo district full of mangas, anime, electronics, video games, figurines, etc. It is a place that gathers fanatics of such themes, people who are commonly referred to as otaku. Page, Box, Akira, Taiko, Daruma, and Izumu are six otaku each with his/her own troubles and sought relief through a website called "Yui’s Lifeguard." When site owner Yui died of a mysterious death, the six who are each experts in their own fields gathered to form "Akihabara@DEEP", a "trouble shooter" group that vows to protect Akihabara and solve the problems of its inhabitants.

Abarenbo Mama

Alternative Title: Abarenbo Mama / Wild Mom / Avarenbow Mama / 暴れん坊ママ
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: October, 2007
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts:Oizumi Yo, Tomosaka Rie, Ueto Aya, Yamaguchi Sayaka

Description:
22-year old Kawano Ayu was brought up way out in the country. She's a rough-mannered tomboy. When she meets Tetsu, a divorced beautician, the two fall in love and get married. Immediately after their happy new life begins, they are visited by a 5-year old boy, Yuki, who claims to be Tetsu's son. Ayu reluctantly becomes the boy's mother, but has no idea how to raise a child. What's more, at kindergarten, she must confront the elegant mothers of the neighborhood. Ayu's humorous life as a rookie mother begins

Yamato Nadeshiko

Alternative Title: Perfect Woman / やまとなでしこ / 大和撫子
Genre: Romance
Film Date: October, 2000
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Matsushima Nanako, Tsutsumi Shinichi

Description:
Matsushima Nanako grew up in a very poor family and is thus determined to marry a rich man so that she will never have to go through poverty ever again, and is named the "gokon queen" in her quest to find her man. Tsutsumi Shinichi is a brilliant academic (Fields prize winner - Nobel Prize equivalent in Mathematics) who gave up his studies to take over his deceased father's fish-shop. They meet through a doctor's "gokon" (group date) and she falls in love with him under the mistaken assumption that he is a very rich man...

Yoiko no Mikata

Alternative Title: よい子の味方
Genre: Drama
Film Date: January, 2003
Total Episodes: 9
Japan Casts: Sakurai Sho

Description:
Ask any nursery-aged little girl what she wants to be when she grows up and she's bound to say nurse, florist, or ballerina. Ask any nursery-aged little boy what he wants to be when he grows up and he's bound to say policeman, fireman, sports player, or pilot. As for 20-year-old young man Taiyo Suzuki, however, he's had different aspirations all his life. Moved by his elderly nursery school teacher, Taiyo decided then and there that he too would also become one. Now, having passed the nursery school teacher examination, bright-eyed and eager Taiyo is out to make his mark on a totally female-dominated world. Posted at the Himawari Nursery School to cover for another teacher on maternity leave, Taiyo has but a few short months to prove himself to the female teachers and children's mothers who are arrayed against him that he is every bit as capable as the women. And more importantly, along the way, he'll make his mark with his sparkle and energy to be a true best friend to the children at the school as well.

Yasashii Jikan

Alternative Title: 優しい時間 / Yasashii Jikan
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: January, 2005
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Nagasawa Masami , Ninomiya Kazunari, Terao Akira , Yo Kimiko

Description:
This is the story about one small coffee shop located in the northern island of Hokkaido.

Yukichi Wakui used to work as a successful businessman at a prestigious trading firm. He worked for several years in New York as well as other cities around the world. When his wife Megumi died at the age of 47 in a car accident three years ago, he decided to leave the company. He was only 57. When Megumi died in the accident, her 18-year-old son Takuro was at the wheel.

Yukichi declined an offer to switch to an affiliate company after his retirement, and moved to Megumi's hometown Furano, Hokkaido instead. There he started a small coffee shop named "The Forest Clock."

Unbeknownst to Yukichi, Takuro is working as an apprentice pottery maker in Biei—a town located 50km away from Furano. His father hasn't spoken a word to him since the accident.

One day, Takuro meets Azusa, the lovely Forest Clock employee who has a habit of accidentally breaking the shop's plates and cups. It doesn't take long for the two to fall in love.

Will the wall of ice between father and son ever melt?

Adding color to the drama are the conversations between Yukichi and the tourists and café-goers who drop in the shop

With Love

Alternative Title: With Love
Genre: Romance
Film Date: April, 1998
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts: Fujiwara Norika, Oikawa Mitsuhiro , Takenouchi Yutaka, Tanaka Misato

Description:
It all started when Takashi (Takenouchi), a talented composer who could not write a love song ever since his girlfriend Rina left him suddenly, accidentally sent an uncompleted piece of his latest work to Amane (Tanaka) via email. Deeply touched by his music, Amane wrote back to him, without getting a reply. Amane continued writing to him, pouring out her thoughts. Only when she signed as "Teru Teru Bozu", did Takashi responded with a mail saying "WHO ARE YOU?", because what Rina left him as a farewell gift was a teru teru bozu!

Waterboys

Alternative Title: Water Boys
Genre: Comedy, Romance , Sports
Film Date: July, 2003
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Akifumi Miura, Hiroshi Tamaki, Koen Kondo, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Takatoshi Kaneko

Description:
Two years ago, five high-school boys brought fame to a small town in Japan. What was so unique was that they formed a "men's synchronized swimming club." Their involvement and struggles while learning synchronized swimming - known to be a sport for girls - brought much attention to their school and town.

Two years have passed since that summer, and the boys of Tadano High School are still in the club. The Fuji Television drama "Water Boys" shows how these young boys fight to learn synchronized swimming, fall in love, and enjoy friendship with one another.

Tokyo Friends

Alternative Title: 東京フレンズ
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Film Date: June, 2005
Total Episodes: 5
Japan Casts: Maki Yoko, Matsumoto Rio, Nagayama Kento, Sato Ryuta

Description:
Otsuka Ai plays the character of a small town girl who goes to Tokyo chasing after her dream, there she finds a part-time job as a waitress in a small restaurant where she makes new friends. This dorama focuses on Ai and her friends, their friendship and their problems. massaru

The Queen's Classroom

Alternative Title: 女王の教室 / じょおうのきょうしつ
Genre: Human Drama, School
Film Date: July, 2005
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Amami Yuki, Hada Michiko, Hara Sachie, Omi Toshinori

Description:
Yuki Amami plays Maya Akutsu, a sixth-grade teacher who dresses all in black and is repeatedly referred to as "oni sensei" (the teacher from hell), when, in fact, she seems to be an ultrarealist at heart. The drama focuses on a year in her classroom and, particularly, the effect it has on 12-year-old Kazumi--a nice but mediocre student whose parents want to send her to a private secondary school.

Akutsu-sensei accomplished this feat by introducing a test-based rank and privilege system on the first day. The highest scorers on the Monday morning test get their choice of seats and other perks while the two lowest scorers are burdened with all the chores for the week from blackboard and toilet cleaning to serving lunch. The system also disallows toilet breaks during class because this reflects an inability to manage one's own schedule.

Kazumi gets the first week's work assignment along with the class clown, a warmhearted boy who is not nearly as silly as he acts. The child actors in the series are all likeable pros who give realistic portrayals of the wide spectrum of an average classroom from the isolated serious students to the sophisticated girls who think they already know what life is all about. Akutsu-sensei lets them know immediately that they do not have a clue.

When the students protest her system and call it unfair, she tells them to open their eyes. In Japanese society, she lectures, those who work hard or have influence get all the privileges, and the lazy or less affluent end up with the leftovers. She says only six in 100 people can expect to be happy and the elite already have most of the advantages and access to the best medical care. She tells them that, as products of the public school system, they will have to scramble to get anything at all, and most of them will end up as "bonjin" (ordinary people), to whom those on the top will be happy to leave the soldiering and service-sector jobs.

Taiho Shichauzo

Alternative Title: 逮捕しちゃうぞ /You're Under Arrest
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Film Date: October, 2002
Total Episodes: 9
Japan Casts: Hara Sachie, Hayami Mokomichi, Ichikawa Yui , Ito Misaki, Ito Shiro, Kaneko Noboru , Kaneko Norihito , Otoha, Watanabe Eri, Yoshioka Miho

Description:
A marvelous team-play comedy with beautiful and active policewomen! Original story comes from a best selling comic book.

Don’t you want to meet with a woman who falls in love, likes to dress up, and arrests felonious offenses? What if she fights for outrageousness of the society with the sounds of the howling siren, and yet, enjoys her love life and friendship? This is how the 21st century-woman with strong will and gentleness would be like. And without doubt, attractive woman are to be surrounded by attractive guys.

Summer Snow

Alternative Title: Summer Snow
Genre: Human Drama, Romance
Film Date: July, 2000
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Abe Sadao, Domoto Tsuyoshi, Fukuda Mayuko, Kadono Takuzo, Oguri Shun, Tsukamoto Takashi

Description:
A love story between a young man who has been forced to grow up too quickly, and a young woman with an ailment that has placed restrictions on her life. Natsuo (Domoto Tsuyoshi) has been looking after his younger brother and sister since the death of their parents. He has also been running the family bicycle shop. Yuki (Hirosue Ryoko) becomes the only person in the world in whom he can confide. For Yuki, Natsuo becomes the catalyst that has her trying to break out of her cocoon.

Strawberry on the Shortcake

Alternative Title: Strawberry on the Shortcake / S.O.S. / SOS
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: January, 2001
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Fukada Kyoko, Ishida Yuriko, Kubozuka Yosuke, Takizawa Hideaki, Uchiyama Rina

Description:
At some point, Irie Manato began to withdraw himself from the world. Even when picked on, it's not the real Irie, but an act. However one day he meets a strange girl - Misawa Yui. Yui, who finds the tedium of everyday life unbearable, teases Manato with her almost too upfront and honest manner. Alone and afraid Manato wavers but finds himself drawn to her. But his feelings for Yui are doomed to be unrequited.

Stand Up!

Alternative Title: Stand Up!
Genre: Human Drama, Romance
Film Date: July, 2003
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Narimiya Hiroki, Ninomiya Kazunari, Oguri Shun, Suzuki Anne, Yamashita Tomohisa

Description:
Four schoolboys find themselves the last virgins left at school. During the summer holidays, a girl they knew as children 11 years ago, moves back to the neighborhood. Despite their childhood attraction to her, they realize she is a mere shadow of the "princess" they all thought they knew. This story of summer - love, friendship, school, family, the hypocrisy of adults, complications of life, experience and failure is set in an everyday shopping district and shows the clumsiness of children who have developed a little later than their peers. It's a bright romantic comedy that both young and old can appreciate.

Sore wa, Totsuzen, Arashi no you ni

Alternative Title: それは、突然、嵐のように…
Genre: Romance
Film Date: January, 2004
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts: Ayase Haruka, Esumi Makiko, Inoue Jun, Kato Takako, Katsuji Ryo, Miyaji Mao, Ryu Raita, Yamada Yu

Description:
Kozue Ogawa (Esumi Makiko) is a housewife and has been married to Hideo (Yanagiba Toshiro) for seven years. They don't have any children but as they live with her parents at their flower shop, everyday is still lively. She is happy with her life and her husband but she wonders if it is enough. From time to time, she is gripped by this doubt that she cannot raise with anyone.

Kozue starts a part-time job in the editing department of the magazine where she used to work. Her former colleague is now working hard as the editor-in-chief.

One rainy day, Kozue meets a young man. He is Takuma Fukazawa (Yamashita Tomohisa), a high school student. He seems somehow shrouded in sadness. He is a dance teacher. In the dance studio, there is just the two of them.

Takuma curls his hands around Kozue's body and his dance instruction begins. Their unexpected closeness causes Kozue to hesitate. With her heart pounding, she pushes Takuma's hands away and runs home. But the throbbing in her chest continues. It can't be. But what is this feeling?

Slow Dance

Alternative Title: スローダンス
Genre: Romance
Film Date: July, 2005
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts: Fujiki Naohito, Fukatsu Eri, Hirosue Ryoko , Kobayashi Mao, Koizumi Koutaro , Tsumabuki Satoshi

Description:
A man who constantly applies the brake in his life, a woman who could do with a brake in her life They have their careers but they are both failures in love Afraid to face each other directly, Instead of focusing on feelings, they choose to focus on their positions, Meeting each other, falling in love!? They are already adults but still have some way to go when it comes to putting their foot on the ground. This summer, a feel-good love story...

Shomuni 3

Alternative Title: Power Office Ladies
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: July, 2002
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts: Esumi Makiko, Hosho Mai , Kyono Kotomi, Morimoto Leo, Takahashi Yumiko, Toda Keiko

Description:
Shomuni Final is a comedic drama serial, continued from Shomuni 2.

Tsuboi Chinatsu, the most hated GA-2 by the Personnel Department, has resigned from Manpan Corporation. During the wedding reception, she asks four of the five female GA-2 employees (all of them except Tsukahara Sawako) whether they wished to have a little bet on whether Tsukahara Sawako would lose her virginity by the end of the month (30th of June). At the same time, Sawako is made the new "de facto" leader of GA-2, and she struggles to fill the boots left behind by Chinatsu.

Shomuni 2

Alternative Title: Power Office Ladies
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: April, 2000
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts: Esumi Makiko, Hosho Mai , Kyono Kotomi, Sakurai Atsuko, Takahashi Yumiko, Toda Naho

Description:
Shomuni 2 is a sequel from Shomuni, a popular comedic drama serial. It continues where it left off when the female employees from GA-2, deemed "the graveyard of all female employees" for its inane daily job routines of changing light bulbs, used toilet rolls and organising flower appreciation nights, saved the company in the final episode of Shomuni.

However, Manpan Corporation has changed. The multi-national company is now run in a totalitarian fashion. Closed circuit cameras are placed in every nook and cranny of the company to monitor the daily routines of employees. Even the basins in the toilets are not spared (though, obviously, the cubicles are) from scrutiny. This is a result of the Personnel Department, led by the evil Terasaki and Nonomura, who are (again) seeking to find a reason to save up on company budget.

Shomuni

Alternative Title: Power Office Ladies
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: April, 1998
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts: Esumi Makiko, Hosho Mai , Kyono Kotomi, Sakurai Atsuko, Takahashi Yumiko, Toda Naho

Description:
Shomuni (ショムニ) is a comedic TV drama serial based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Gumi Yasuda (安田弘之 Yasuda Gumi).

The stories revolve around the Office Ladies of General Affairs department 2 (Shomu ni, or GA-2) in a large multinational company called Manpan Corporation.

GA-2 is called "the graveyard for female office ladies", simply because it is the place where female employees are dumped should they mess up big time elsewhere. Jobs include replacing used toilet rolls, changing light-bulbs, organizing company outings among other menial stuff. As an added incentive, their department is located in the nether regions of the company - in the basement, and is in fact a disused store room.