Kaibutsu-Kun The Movie

(1 DVD)

Movie: Kaibutsu-Kun The Movie
Romaji: Eiga Kaibutsu-kun
Japanese: 映画　怪物くん
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Writer: Fujio A. Fujiko (manga), Masafumi Nishida
Producer: Hiroko Nakamura, Satoshi Katayori, Minami Ichikawa, Fumihiro Hirai, Nobuto Nagasaka, Yasushi Udagawa, Kenji Ikeda, Kazuki Haratou, Tetsuya Sakashita, Takayuki Akimoto, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Julie K. Fujishima
Cinematographer: Takashi Komatsu
Release Date: November 26, 2011
Runtime: 103 min.
Production Company: NTV
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Kaibutsukun (Satoshi Ono) is the young prince of Kaibutsu (monster) land who decides to go to Earth to prove to his people that he is worthy of becoming king. Kaibutsukun is accompanied by his friends Dracula (Norito Yashima), Wolfman (Ryuhei Ueshima), and Franken (Choi Hong-Man).
The Prince decides to go to Japan to visit his friends Utako (Umika Kawashima) and Hiroshi (Tatsuomi Hamada). The Prince, Dracula, Wolfman and Franken are in for a surprise ...

Cast

Satoshi Ono
Norito Yashima
Ryuhei Ueshima
Choi Hong-Man
Takeshi Kaga
Umika Kawashima
Tatsuomi Hamada
Takaya Kamikawa
Kazuki Kitamura
Masahiro Matsuoka
Izumi Inamori

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Switch Girl!!

1 DVD

    Title: スイッチガール！！
    Title (romaji): Switch Girl!!
    Format: Renzoku
    Genre: Romance
    Episodes: 8
    Broadcast network: Fuji TV Two
    Broadcast period: 2011-Dec-24 start
    Air time: Saturday

Synopsis
Based on a manga with the same name created by Aida Natsumi, 'Switch Girl!!' revolves around a high school student named Nika (Nishiuchi) who appears to be a stylish and fashionable girl at school, but that's really a fake persona that she uses when she's in public. At home, she “switches off” the facade and her returns to her true slovenly nature. Kiriyama Renn plays the good-looking transfer student Arata, who is Nika's love interest in the story.

Cast
    Nishiuchi Mariya as Tamiya Nika
    Kiriyama Renn as Arata

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Gomennasai

( 1 DVD)

Story

This movie is about a girl named Yuka. She attends the same school as a girl with black hair, named Kurohane. Kurohane is a strange girl with great grades in school. However, she has a hard life at home, because her mother and father do not care about her. They only care about her sister, Kana. One day, Kurohane found she had cancer, but still, her mother did not care, so she cursed her little sister Kana with words. Kana started having trouble breathing and died within a month. Kurohane tried the same with her mother but it did not work, so she entered a competition to improve her skills.

Her school life did not go so well because her class mates were mean to her. She saw her opportunity for revenge when she was selected to write a script for the school festival play. She started cursing her class mates one by one. The only one that realized the curse was Yuka. She tried to stop Kurohane, by talking to her, but it was useless. Kurohane's curse was also discovered by one classmate she wanted to kill, so Kurohane tried a different way to kill her. One day, that class mate that she wanted to kill transferred to another school, but appeared several days later to kill Kurohane, and then killed herself, not because she wanted to, but because she was cursed by Kurohane. At that point, Kurohane's curses were so strong that a person would lose command and kill herself. The new source Kurohane used was text messages. She also sent a text message to Yuka, but she never read it.

Time passed and Yuka was with her new classmates, telling them the story of Kurohane. They stole Yuka's cell phone and saw the text message Kurohane had sent to her, including Yuka. Then, one by one, Yuka's classmates started dying, leaving Yuka alone. And that is when she realizes that the way to save herself is to get more and more people to read the words of Kurohane. She killed people randomly, so Yuka wrote a short story with Kurohane's words in it and posted it online, increasing her time to live.

Cast

    Miyabi Natsuyaki
    Airi Suzuki
    Momoko Tsugunaga

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Cannonball Wedlock

    ( 1 DVD)

    Movie: Cannonball Wedlock
    Romaji: Konzen Tokkyuu
    Japanese: 婚前特急
    Director: Koji Maeda
    Writer: Ryo Takada, Koji Maeda
    Producer: Hiroyuki Negishi, Yuji Sadai, Miyabi Kusakabe
    Cinematographer:
    Release Date: April 1, 2011
    Runtime: 107 min.
    Distributor: Bitters End
    Language: Japanese
    Country: Japan

 Plot

24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life. Chie spends her time accordingly to her motto. Chie Ikeshita then starts to date 5 different men and adjusts herself to the different situations.

Up to this point, Chie never thought about marriage. She changes her thought after her friend Toshiko Hamaguchi (Anne Watanabe) gets married. Chie takes the advise of Toshiko and decides to marry one of the 5 men. She must now whittle down her choice to one man. Chie says goodbye first to Takumi Tanashi (Kenta Hamano) ...

Cast

Yuriko Yoshitaka
Kenta Hamano
Anne Watanabe
Anna Ishibashi
Munetaka Aoki
Takuya
Mutsuo
Shohei Uno
Kazuko Shirakawa
Takaaki Enoki
Ryo Kase

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Ousama Game

(1 DVD)

    Movie: Ousama Game / King's Game (literal title)
    Romaji: Ousama Game
    Japanese: 王様ゲーム
    Director: Tsuruta Norio
    Writer: Nobuaki Kanazawa (mobile phone novel), Junya Kato
    Producer: Yutaka Morozumi, Andrew Niwa Tamon
    Cinematographer: Shogo Ueno
    Release Date: December 17, 2011
    Runtime: 82 min.
    Language: Japanese
    Country: Japan

 Plot

One night, Chiemi Honda (Yurina Kumai) and childhood friend Nobuaki Kanazawa (Dori Sakurada) receive an email. The sender is the King and the subject of the email is "King Game." The email states that if the recipient does not complete the king's order within 24 hours then they will be punished.

Since that first email all of Chiemi's classmates receive an email from the King. At first, students think it's a joke, but perform the orders anyways. Gradually, the orders become worse. Finally, 2 classmates who do not follow the orders are punished. Then classmates start to disappear in sequence. Maria Iwamura stares at one classmate coldly. With Maria Iwamura (Airi Suzuki), Chiema Honda gets closer to uncovering the identity of the King, but tragedy is about to come to Chiemi ....

 Cast

    Yurina Kumai - Chiemi Honda
    Dori Sakurada - Nobuaki Kanazawa
    Airi Suzuki - Maria Iwamura
    Hitomi Yoshizawa - Yoko Nagamine
    Maimi Yajima - Reiko Hamura
    Saki Nakajima - Kana Ueda
    Chisato Okai - Kaori Maruoka
    Mai Hagiwara - Yoshiharu Kanazawa
    Chinami Tokunaga - Akemi Kamoshita
    Saki Shimizu - Masami Matsumoto
    Momoko Tsugunaga - Yuko Imoto

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Heaven's Flower

    Heaven's Flower ( 2 DVD)

    Title: ヘブンズ・フラワー
    Title (romaji): Heaven's Flower
    Tagline: The Legend of ARCANA
    Format: Renzoku
    Genre: Futuristic romantic mystery
    Episodes: 8
    Broadcast network: TBS
    Broadcast period: 2011-Jan-14 to 2011-Mar-04
    Air time: Friday 24:20

Synopsis

Set in the near-futuristic 2060, "Heaven's Flower" combines mystery with a pure love story. Due to a botched experiment, Japan has become a barren land where flowers can't even bloom, resulting in a severe rationing crisis. While the country works towards rebuilding, "District 7" is one of the areas left behind in the process.

The story unfolds in the neglected District 7. Despite Kawashima's typical innocent image from her previous works, here she takes on her first "villain" role as a cruel and emotionless assassin named Ai, part of a group known as "Last Garden." While faithfully carrying out her missions every day, she encounters the police detective Yuichiro Manaka (Araki), and she suddenly must deal with her newfound emotion of love. The ensuing story is a romantic mystery involving betrayal and the secret behind her birth...

Cast

    Kawashima Umika as Ai
    Araki Hirofumi as Manaka Yuichiro
    Ayano Go as Shion
    Nakano Yuta (中野裕太) as Naruki
    Taketomi Seika as Ran
    Suruga Taro (駿河太郎) as Sudo Senji
    Morimiya Ryu (森宮隆)
    Yoshida Yo as Kusakabe Hitomi
    Sakura as Lily
    MATSU as Haru
    Ishimaru Kanji (石丸幹二) as Kusakabe Takashi
    Honda Hirotaro as Xiao Gang
    Mita Yoshiko as Katagiri Kaoru
    Owada Kensuke

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Suteki na Kanashibari (A Ghost of a Chance)

  1 DVD

    Movie: A Ghost of a Chance (English title) / Once in a Blue Moon (Japanese English title)

    Romaji: Suteki na Kanashibari

    Director: Koki Mitani

    Writer: Koki Mitani

    Producer: Chihiro Kameyama, Yoshinari Shimatani, Kuga Maeda, Ken Tsuchiya

    Cinematographer: Hideo Yamamoto

    Release Date: October 29, 2011

    Runtime: 142 min.

    Genre: Comedy

    Distributor: Toho

    Language: Japanese

    Country: Japan

Synopsis :

Emi Hosho (Eri Fukatsu), a not so successful lawyer, is assigned to the one of the most unusual of cases. Her client is accused of murdering his wealthy wife and he his alibi is that he was staying at an inn while suffering from "kanashibar" (sleep paralysis). The only witness able to corroborate his alibi is the 500-year-old ghost of the Sengoku period military commander Rokubei Sarashina (Toshiyuki Nishida) - who sat on the accused's chest all night long.

Attorney Emi Hosho travels to the inn to investigate further. Emi Hosho also falls into "kanashibar" and soon discovers the 500-year-ghost sitting on her chest. Knowing that the ghost is the only witness who can support her client's alibi, she grabs his hand and pleads with him to testify in court ....

Cast :

Fukatsu Eri, Nishida Toshiyuki, Abe Hiroshi, Nakai Kiichi.

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Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo

  1 DVD

    Movie: Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Engima (International English title)
    Romaji: Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo
    Japanese: 源氏物語　千年の謎
    Director: Yasuo Tsuruhashi
    Writer: Shikibu Murasaki, Izumi Kawasaki, Yukiko Takayama
    Producer: Tsuguhiko Kadokawa
    Cinematographer: Osamu Fujiishi
    Release Date: December 10, 2011
    Runtime: 136 min.
    Distributor: Toho
    Language: Japanese
    Country: Japan 

 

Synopsis :

 
A powerful politician in 11th century Japan, Lord Fujiwara (Noriyuki Higashiyama), commissions Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Miki Nakatani) to write a story that will inspire his daughter Shoshi (Misako Renbutsu) to fall in love with the Emperor. Muraski is secretly in love with Fujiwara, and uses him as the model for the main character of her story, Prince Genji (Toma Ikuta). In the story, Genji is is an exceedingly attractive man who’s loved by all the ladies of the court. However, he’s in love with the only woman who’s unattainable for him—the Emperor’s wife and his step-mother, Kiritsubo. The story has its intended effect, but Murasaki becomes obsessed with it, continuing her writing while blurring the line between fantasy and reality.

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Kaiji 2

Kaiji 2 (1 DVD)

Movie: Kaiji 2
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Runtime: 133 min.
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Subtitle : English

Kaiji (Tatsuya Fujiwara) erased all of his debts by successfully navigating through death-defying games one after the other. A year later though, he's back in the same debt ridden situation. Kaiji then gets a chance to clear himself of his 200 mllion Yen debt, but he has only 2 weeks.
Kaji then decides to take on the mother of all pachinko machines named "The Swamp". The top winning payout is over 1 billion Yen. "The Swamp" is controlled by an illegal casino operation named Teai. Meanwhile, Seiya Ichizo (Yusuke Iseya), controls the machine from a remote location to ensure the machine never pays out the jackpot . Kaiji recruits the help of Yumi Ishida (Yuriko Yoshitaka) whose father was killed by Teai, Kotaro Sakazaki (Katsuhisa Namase) a fired employee of Teai and Yukio Tonegawa (Teruyuki Kagawa) who lost his position at the hands of Teai. They all join Kaiji to take down "The Swamp," but their lives are at stake ...

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Soredemo, Ikite Yuku

2 DVD 

Title: Soredemo, Ikite Yuku
Also Known As: それでも、生きてゆく
Genre: Drama
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 11
Release Date: 2011-Jul-7 start
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Synopsis
A man (Eita) whose younger sister was killed by a friend, who meets the friend’s sister (Mitsushima) 15 years after the incident. Both of their families have been burdened with grief, but through their meeting they struggle to find a brighter tomorrow.

Cast
Eita as Fukami Hiroki
Mitsushima Hikari as Toyama Futaba
Kazama Shunsuke as Amemiya Kenji
Tanaka Kei as Hiragi Kohei
Sato Eriko as Kusama Maki
Fukuda Mayuko as Toyama Akari
Murakawa Eri as Hiragi Yuka
Kurashina Kana as Fujimura Mei
Ando Sakura as Usui Saho
Emoto Akira as Fukami Katsuhiko
Danta Yasunori as Hiragi Seiji
Ono Takehiko as Kusama Goro
Fubuki Jun as Toyama Takami
Tokito Saburo as Mizaki Shunsuke
Otake Shinobu as Nomoto Kyoko

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Nankyoku Tairiku

3 DVD

Title: Nankyoku Tairiku ~Kami no Ryouiki ni Idomunda Otoko to Inu no Monogatari~
Also Known As: Antarctica ~The Story of Dogs and Men Who Challenged the Field of God~
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Network: TBS
Episodes: 10
Release Date: 2011-Oct-16 start
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English + Indonesian


Synopsis
In a national project to rebuild the country’s self-confidence, Japan’s first Antarctic winter party set off from Japan on an antacrtic exploration aboard the observation ship ‘Soya’ in 1956. Kuramochi Takeshi (Kimura Takuya), an assistant professor of geophysics at Tokyo University, was the second in command in the party and in charge of geological observation and the dog sled of 19 Sakhalin Huskies. Shouldering the dreams of their fellow countrymen, the party and their dogs braved temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celcius and blizzards with speeds of 100 metres per second in the place they were told to be inaccessible, and built the Showa base. While this took a toll on the dogs, they made it through the winter. However, the party was forced to leave 15 of the Sakhalin Huskies behind in Antarctica. A year later, Kuramochi returned to the South Pole and was reunited with the dog siblings ‘Taro’ and ‘Jiro’ that had miraculously survived the harsh climate …

Cast
Kimura Takuya as Kuramochi Takeshi
Ayase Haruka as Takaoka Miyuki
Sakai Masato as Himura Haruhiko
Yamamoto Yusuke as Inuzuka Natsuo
Yoshizawa Hisashi as Yokomine Shinkichi
Okada Yoshinori as Funaki Ikuzo
Shiga Kotaro as Tani Kennosuke
Kawamura Yosuke as Arashiyama Hajime
Doronzu Ishimoto (ドロンズ石本) as Yamazato Manpei
Shibata Kyohei as Shirosaki Suguru
Kimura Tae as Furutachi Ayako
Ashida Mana as Furutachi Haruka
Inoue Mizuki (井上瑞稀) as Furutachi Ryo
Kato Takako as Samejima Junko
Sakura as Yokomine Naomi
Ono Ito (大野いと) as Inuzuka Mitsuko
Yamamoto Gaku as Furutachi Tomohiro
Watase Tsunehiko as Kuramochi's father
Terajima Susumu as Samejima Naohito
Ogata Naoto as Utsumi Noriaki
Kagawa Teruyuki as Hoshino Eitaro
Nakama Yukie as Kuramochi Yukari
Sato Ryuta as Ando Michio

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Sengyou Shufu Tantei ~Watashi wa Shadow

3 DVD

Title: Sengyou Shufu Tantei ~Watashi wa Shadow
Also Known As: 専業主婦探偵～私はシャドウ
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Network: TBS
Episodes: 9
Release Date: 2011-Oct-21 start
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Synopsis
Asagi Serina (Fukada Kyoko) is a housewife who loves her husband, Takefumi (Fujiki Naohito), to the extent that she would not mind being his shadow. However, his response to her excessive devotion is to attempt to avoid her “burdensome”, “gross” expression of love.

With a wife’s naivety, she refuses to suspect her husband of infidelity, and initially gets frustrated. One day, with the help of her good friend, Motoko (Ashina Sei), Serina goes out for a meal with the men at the publishing company where Motoko works. The moment a man in the group makes a move on her, it is captured on film by the sleuth, Jinnai Haruki (Kiritani Kenta). Not wanting her husband to see the photograph, Serina starts working at Jinnai’s detective agency as an assistant.

This ordinary, bumbling housewife grows stronger and improves her self-confidence through the skills she hones. Serina wants to support and help her husband instead of flaunting her new self to him because he is having a hard time. Aware of the problem that happened to her husband because of her over positivity, she sets about trying to solve it.

Cast
Fukada Kyoko as Asagi Serina
Fujiki Naohito as Asagi Takefumi
Kiritani Kenta as Jinnai Haruki
Furuta Arata
Ashina Sei as Motoko
Endo Kenichi
Ishida Yuriko
Kohinata Fumiyo

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Mitsu no Aji~A Taste of Honey~

3 DVD

Title: Mitsu no Aji~A Taste of Honey~
Also Known As: Mitsu no Aji~A Taste of Honey~ Anata ga Ireba. Anata sae Inakereba.
Genre: Romance, Drama
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 11
Release Date: 2011-Oct-13 start
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Synopsis
Morimoto Naoko (Eikura Nana) is the only daughter of the owner of an olive farm that faces the Seto Inland Sea. She is in love with Ikezawa Masato (ARATA), a doctor who is also her father’s young step-brother. Masato was placed with relatives in Tokyo during his childhood and when he came back to his hometown, Naoko fell in love for the first time. Obsessed with him and willing to sacrifice everything, the passionate Naoko pursues him and qualifies for a prestigious Tokyo medical university. However, the Masato she has not seen in a while has a girlfriend, the beautiful and intelligent Harada Aya (Kanno Miho), who was his schoolmate in university. Aya was born the daughter of the director of a large hospital and can be said to have had a perfect life. Her presence brings anguish to Naoko, and she tries to let go off Masato. On the other hand, Naoko’s appearance causes Aya to experience her first setback and be consumed with a jealousy she had not expected when the man she loves has a change of heart and the three of them get mired in a love triangle.

Cast
Eikura Nana as Morimoto Naoko
Kanno Miho as Harada Aya
ARATA as Ikezawa Masato
Mizobata Junpei as Norisugi Yasushi
Ichikawa Tomohiro as Kuriyama Wake
Kimura Fumino as Lai Yoka
Kondo Koen as Minoya Susumu
Mori Ren as Takinohara Koichi
Yamazaki Shigenori as Hosokawa Yuji
Nishiyama Maki as Shirai Kana
Anan Kenji as Morimoto Yosuke
Kimura Midoriko as Morimoto Hisako
Masu Takeshi as Takinohara Kenji
Sano Shiro as Kirishima Tadashi

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HUNTER

 3 DVD

Title: HUNTER ~Sono Onnatachi, Shoukin Kasegi~
Also Known As: HUNTER～その女たち、賞金稼ぎ～ / HUNTER ~Sono Onnatachi, Shoukin Kasegi~
Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Drama
Network: Fuji TV, KTV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: 2011-Oct start
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Synopsis
On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei (Yonekura Ryoko) arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives a reward of 1 million yen. However, she is half-forced to resign from her job as a cabin attendant because of this roundup. Furthermore, her younger sister, Akane (Yamaguchi Sayaka), has made her a guarantor and disappeared, leaving her 10-year-old daughter, Haru (Kawashima Ririka) behind. Rei starts to live with a reluctant Haru at ‘Shunkato’, the small eating house that Akane has been running. There is a firsthand account of Akane meeting a ‘Shunkato’ customer on the day she went missing. Rei brings the photograph of the man whom Akane met to Tsukishima Police Precinct, and learns that there is a 1 million yen bounty because he is a wanted criminal. The lack of motivation of the attending detective, Gondo Takeshi (Tanihara Shosuke) of the precinct’s Community Safety Division, spurs her to decide that she has to arrest this criminal who has some sort of connection to her sister. And so, Rei becomes a bounty hunter together with the ladies who gather at ‘Shunkato’.

The story will revolve around a group of ordinary women who unite as a team to become bounty hunters.

Yonekura plays Isaka Rei, a cabin attendant with a strong sense of justice. Due to various circumstances, she becomes a “hunter,” trying to earn the reward money from bounties that the police have declared on cases that they can’t solve through traditional methods.

Cast
Yonekura Ryoko as Isaka Rei
Kiritani Mirei
Horiuchi Keiko
Tanihara Shosuke
Koizumi Kotaro
Kawashima Ririka
Hara Mikie
Saito Megumi
Saeki Daichi
Yamaguchi Sayaka
Toda Keiko
Emoto Akira

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Arakawa Under The Bridge

 2 DVD

Title: Arakawa Under The Bridge
Also Known As: 荒川アンダーザ ブリッジ / Arakawa Under the Bridge
Genre: Romance, Drama
Network: TBS
Episodes: 10
Release Date: 2011-Jul-26 start
Air time (JST): Tuesday 24:55
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English


Synopsis
Set in Arakawa, Tokyo, the series tells the story of Kou Ichinomiya, a man who has accomplished many things all by himself. Ever since he was little, his father has taught him one rule: to never be indebted to another person. One day by accident, he falls into the Arakawa River and almost drowns. A girl by the name of Nino rescues him and in return he owes her his life. Unable to accept the fact that he is indebted to her, he asks her about a way for him to repay her. In the end she tells him to love her. This is the beginning of Kou's life living under a bridge. However, as Kou starts to learn, Arakawa is a place full of weirdos and all of the people living under the bridge are what society would call, "denpasan".

Cast
Hayashi Kento as Riku
Kiritani Mirei as Nino
Oguri Shun as Soncho
Yamada Takayuki as Hoshi
Shirota Yuu as Sister
Katase Nana as Maria
Abe Natsumi as P-Ko
Tezuka Tooru (手塚とおる) as Shiro
Hiranuma Norihisa as Billy
Arisaka Kurume as Jacqueline
Tokunaga Eri as Stella
Suruga Taro (駿河太郎) as the Last Samurai
Sueoka Takuto (末岡拓人) as Tetsuo of the Tetsujin Kyodai
Mashika Raito (益子雷翔) as Tetsuro of the Tetsujin Kyodai
Kamikawa Takaya as Shinomiya Tsumoru
Takashima Masahiro as Takayashiki
Asano Kazuyuki as Takai
Inoue Waka as Shimazaki

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Kare, Otto, Otoko Tomodachi

 2DVD

Title: Kare, Otto, Otoko Tomodachi
Also Known As: カレ、夫、男友達 / Kare, Otto, Otoko Tomodachi
Genre: Drama
Network: NHK
Episodes: 8
Release Date: 2011-Nov-01 start
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Synopsis
Haruko (Maki Yoko), an events producer, is the second of the Inuyama family’s three daughters. She turns down a proposal from the man she has been cohabiting with, causing their relationship to turn awkward. Her older sister, Asako (Kimura Tae), is hides her husband’s domestic violence while her younger sister, Ikuko (Kaho), cannot instinctively understand love. Haruko is at a critical point in her career and love life, but she scrambles about for the sake of her sisters. The three of them are helped by the family ties and eventually break out of their shell.

Cast
Maki Yoko
Kimura Tae
Kaho
Yusuke Santamaria
Tokui Yoshimi
Miura Takahiro
Kataoka Reiko
Takahata Atsuko
Nagatsuka Kyozo

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Boku to Star no 99 Nichi

 3 DVD

Title: Boku To Star No 99-Nichi
Also Known As: 僕とスターの９９日 / Me and My Star's 99 Days
Genre: Drama
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Air time (JST): Sundays 21:00
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English + Indonesian

Synopsis
In the romantic-comedy "Boku to Star no 99 Nichi" top Korean actress Han Yoo-Na (Kim Tae-Hee) falls in love with a quite man named Kohei Namiki (Hidetoshi Nishijima).

Kohei Namiki (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is a single man approaching his 40's. He works at security company as a part-time job. He also has a sweet and handsome appearance, which some people take advantage of. Kohei is easily swayed by those around him. Kohei often takes care of his sister's three kids because Kohei's sister has a habit of wandering around, but he is a passionate man and dreams of finding his star. Because of his family and economic situations, Kohei can't follow through on those dreams.

One day, Kohei is assigned security detail for the beautiful actress Han Yoo-Na (Kim Tae-Hee). Even though she has a near perfect appearance and style, she prefers to act like other normal people. She enjoys eating simple Japanese foods and on the filming set Yoo-Na will stop to help others. Yoo-Na has a pure and kind spirit. She seems to be the envy of all, but inside Yoo-Na is lonely working in the entertainment field and she also has a big secret.

At first, bodyguard Kohei and top star Yoo-Na don't get along. With time they become closer. Over the next 99 days their relationship changes. On the 100th day when the contract ends what choice will they make?

Cast
Hidetoshi Nishijima - Kohei Namiki
Kim Tae-Hee - Han Yoo-Na
TaecYeon - Tae-Sung
Nanami Sakuraba - Momo Namiki
Mayumi Asaka - Naoko Serizawa
Tomoko Ikuta - Yukiko Namiki
Hideo Ishiguro - Tamotsu Kondou
Mitsuko Baisho - Emiko Saegusa
Jun Kaname - Kazuya Hashizume
Kuranosuke Sasaki - Yamato Takanabe

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Yokai Ningen Bem

3 DVD

Title: Yokai Ningen Bem
Also Known As: 妖怪人間べム / Yokai Ningen Bemu
Genre: Supernatural, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Drama
Network: NTV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: 22 October 2011
Air time (JST): Saturdays 9.00 p.m.
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Synopsis
Bem (Kamenashi Kazuya), Bella (Anne) and Bello (Suzuki Fuku) are ugly monsters that are neither human nor animals, but they are peace-loving, righteous heroes who feel compelled to help humans in trouble. Because they are monsters, they are feared and detested by humans, and on top of that, pursued by the police. However, a friendship develops between them and a detective (Kitamura Kazuki) by mere accident. Through their contact with humans, Bem, Bella and Bello’s earnest wish to become human grow increasingly stronger. They battle evil for the sake of mankind, in the belief that they will be able to become humans one day …

Cast
Kamenashi Kazuya as Bem
Anne as Bella
Suzuki Fuku as Bello
Kitamura Kazuki

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Nazotoki Wa Dinner No Ato De

3 DVD 

Title: Nazotoki Wa Dinner No Ato De
Also Known As: 謎解きはディナーのあとで / Nazotoki Wa Dinner No Ato De
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Drama
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: 2011-Oct start
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English + Indonesian



Synopsis
Kageyama is a butler working for a rich heiress, Reiko Hosho. Needed by detectives, Reiko is a novice detective that lacks a few deductive skills. Because of this, Kageyama is relied on by Reiko to help solve cases. Kageyama isn't afraid to use sharp words against Reiko either. This drama not only focuses on the detective cases, but the relationship between butler and heiress


Cast
Sakurai Sho as Kageyama
Kitagawa Keiko as Hosho Reiko
Shiina Kippei as Kazamatsuri Kyoichiro

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Watashi Ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu

3 DVD

Title: Watashi Ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu
Also Known As: 私が恋愛できない理由 / Watashi Ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: 2011-Oct start
Air time (JST): Monday 21:00
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Synopsis
To start, 'Fujii Emi' is a girl who can't forget her ex-boyfriend. She thinks that being treated as a “guy's girl” is comfortable, but she wants to feel real love inside. 'Ogura Saki' (Yoshitaka) failed to find a job, and ended up working at a hostess bar. Although she gives lectures to Emi and Mako about love, she has never loved anyone seriously. Finally, we have 'Hanzawa Mako' (Oshima), who annoys men because of her serious and heavy personality; her efforts in love were also fruitless.

Cast
Karina as Fujii Emi
Yoshitaka Yuriko as Ogura Saki
Oshima Yuko as Hanzawa Mako
Gouriki Ayame as Hanzawa Momoko
Tanaka Kei
Kurashina Kana
Nakao Akiyoshi
Kagami Seira
Nakamura Ryu
Katsumura Masanobu
Hagiwara Masato
Inamori Izumi

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