Bokutachi ga Yarimashita

Drama: Fugitive Boys (English title) / We Did It (literal title)
Romaji: Boku-tachi ga Yarimashita
Japanese: 僕たちがやりました
Director: Takehiko Shinjo, Toichiro Ruto
Writer: Muneyuki Kaneshiro (manga), Akeji Fujimura (manga), Yuichi Tokunaga
Network: Fuji TV, KTV
Episodes:
Release Date: July 18, 2017 (KTV) -- / July, 2017 (Fuji TV) --
Runtime: Tuesdays 21:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Tobio Masubuchi (Masataka Kubota) and his friends are ordinary high school students. Due to an incident, their peaceful days are about to change. Tobio’s friends are beaten by students from another high school in their neighborhood. Tobio and his friends scheme to get back the students from the other school. The day they are to carry out their plan, they see the other high school engulfed in flames. Tobio and his friends become suspects.

Cast
Masataka Kubota
Mei Nagano
Mackenyu
Shotaro Mamiya
Shono Hayama
Hiroki Konno
Rina Kawaei
Sae Okazaki
Itsuji Itao
Ikue Sakakibara
Asami Mizukawa
Shohei Miura
Arata Furuta

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Kimi wa Petto 2017

Drama: You're My Pet
Romaji: Kimi wa Petto
Japanese: きみはペット
Director: Izuru Kumasaka, Osamu Minorikawa
Writer: Yayoi Ogawa (manga), Fumie Koga, Yuuka Arai
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 16
Release Date: February 6, 2017 --
Runtime: Mondays
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Sumire Iwaya (Noriko Iriyama) works as an editor for a well known newspaper. She is attractive and graduated from a prestigious university.

She goes through a difficult period after being dumped by her boyfriend and getting demoted at work. One day, she picks up a beautiful young man, Takeshi Goda (Jun Shison), out of a box. Takeshi looks like her former pet Momo and Sumire offers to let Takeshi live in her home as her pet.

Cast
Noriko Iriyama
Jun Shison
Terunosuke Takezai
Yurina Yanagi
Kayo Noro
Sonomi
Yuumi Shida
Takashi Okabe
Oolong ta
Yoshida
Reiya Masaki

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BORDER2 Shokuzai SP

TV Movie: Border 2
Romaji: BORDER2 Shokuzai
Japanese: BORDER2 贖罪
Writer: Kazuki Kaneshiro
Network: TV Asahi
Release Date: Fall, 2017
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Story of Detective Ango Ishikawa who can see and talk with the dead continues.

Cast
Shun Oguri - Ango Ishikawa
Munetaka Aoki - Yuma Tachibana
Haru - Mika Higa
Arata Furuta - Akai
Kenichi Takito - Suzuki
Toru Nomaguchi - Hacker Garfunkel
Kenta Hamano - Hacker Simon
Kenichi Endo - Takuji Ichikura
Nao Omori - Chikao Ando

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Chinmoku Hotei

Drama: Silent Court (literal title)
Romaji: Chinmoku Hotei
Japanese: 沈黙法廷
Director: Makito Murakami, Yosuke Higashida
Writer: Joh Sasaki (novel), Masaya Ozaki, Hayato Miura
Network: WOWOW
Episodes: 5
Release Date: September 24 - October 22, 2017
Runtime: Sundays 22:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
In Akabane, Tokyo, an old person, who lived alone, is found dead. The elderly person was strangled to death. Detectives from the Akabane Police Station investigate the case. According to the victim's neighbors, a woman sometimes came in and out of the victim's home. That woman is Miki Yamamoto (Hiromi Nagasaku). She does housework for her customers. The detectives from Akabane Police Station visit Miki Yamamoto’s house. At that time, other detectives from Saitama Prefecture also arrive at Miki Yamamoto’s house. Multiple suspicious death cases have taken place at her prior clients' homes. The media begin covering the story as a serial killer case. Who is Miki Yamamoto? What is the truth behind the cases?

Cast
Hiromi Nagasaku
Hayato Ichihara
Koji Ookura
Asami Usuda
Izumi Fujimoto
Satoshi Judai
Masahiro Komoto
Akio Kaneda
Hiroyuki Onoue
Nahana
Daikichi Sugawara
Soichiro Kitamura
Tetta Sugimoto
Tetsushi Tanaka

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Mamagoto

Drama: Mamagoto
Romaji: Mamagoto
Japanese: ママゴト
Director: Hideo Nakata
Writer: Hiroko Matsuda, Noriaki Sugihara
Network: NHK
Episodes:
Release Date: August 30, 2016 -
Runtime: Tuesday 23:15-23:44
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Snack bar mama Mieko (Sakura Ando) drinks alcohol with her regular male customers. One day, when she is about to close the snack bar, her old friend Shigeko (Asami Usuda) appears with her 5-year-old son Taiji (Harutomo Koyama). Shigeki leaves Taiji with Mieko and disappears. She leaves a letter behind. While looking at Taiji, Mieko remembers her own past when she gave birth. Mieko and Taiji begin to live together.

Cast
Sakura Ando
Harutomo Koyama
Asami Usuda
Kanji Furutachi
Kaito Takamura
Pao Kurihara
Toshie Negishi
Tetta Sugimoto

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Million Yen Women

Drama: Million Yen Women
Romaji: 100 man en no Onna tachi
Japanese: 100万円の女たち
Director: Michihito Fujii
Writer: Shunju Aono (manga), Yoshitatsu Yamada, Yoshimiko Murooka, Yuuya Nakazono
Network: Netflix, TV Tokyo
Episodes: 12
Release Date: April 7, 2017 (Netflix) / April 13 - June 29, 2017 (TV Tokyo)
Runtime: Thursdays 25:00-25:30 (TV Tokyo)
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Shin Michima (Yojiro Noda) is an unpopular novelist. He has lived with 5 mysterious women in the same house for half a year. Minami Shirakawa (Rila Fukushima) loves coffee. Hitomi Tsukamoto (Rena Matsui) loves black tea, yoga and reading good books. Yuki Kobayashi (Miwako Wagatsuma) is a polite woman and loves roasted green tea. Midori Suzumura (Rena Takeda) is a high school student and loves acerola juice. Nanaka Seki (Yuko Araki) loves drinking milk.

These 5 women pay Shin a million yen every month for rent and living expenses. They have roles in the house and questions about the women are banned.

Cast
Yojiro Noda
Rila Fukushima
Rena Matsui
Miwako Wagatsuma
Rena Takeda
Yuko Araki
Lily Franky
Takashi Yamanaka
Tomoya Nakamura
Tetsuhiro Ikeda

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Code Blue Season 3

Drama: Code Blue Season 3
Romaji: Kodo Buru ~ Dokuta Heri Kinkyu Kyumei
Japanese: コード・ブルー～ドクターヘリ緊急救命～
Director: Masaki Nishiura, Hiroki Hayama, Ryo Tanaka
Writer: Naoko Adachi
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: July 17 - September 18, 2017
Runtime: Mondays 21:00
TV Ratings: 14.6%
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Kousaku Aizawa (Tomohisa Yamashita), Megumi Shiraishi (Yui Aragaki), Mihoko Hiyama (Erika Toda), Kazuo Fuikawa (Yosuke Asari) and Haruka Saejima (Manami Higa) have worked and pursued careers down different paths.

Kousaku Aizawa left the hospital emergency room. He now works as a brain surgeon. Megumi Shiraishi works hard as a staff leader for flight doctors at a hospital emergency room. Mihoko Hiyama wanted to become a flight doctor in th past, but she left the hospital emergency room and now works as an ob-gyn. Kazuo Fuikawa works as a emergency physician specializing in orthopedics and works with Megumi Shiraishi. Haruka Saejima still works as a nurse for flight doctors.

They each live fiercely and face new situations.

Cast
Tomohisa Yamashita
Yui Aragaki
Erika Toda
Manami Higa
Yosuke Asari
Daiki Arioka
Ryo Narita
Yuko Araki
Fumika Baba
Masanobu Ando
Kippei Shiina
Ryo
Tetta Sugimoto
Susumu Terajima

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