Nou ni Sumaho ga Umerareta!

Title: 脳にスマホが埋められた!
Title (romaji): Nou ni Sumaho ga Umerareta!
Also known as: The Smartphone Guy
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Sci-fi, human drama
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 3.45%
Broadcast network: NTV / YTV
Broadcast period: 2017-Jul-06 to 2017-Sep-14
Air time: Thursday 23:59
Theme song: U by Miura Daichi

Synopsis
"Where did my life go wrong?"

Divorced, in need to pay child-support, and now a layoff candidate at his company; Orimo Keita, 34 years old was in the pits of despair. However, it all changes when his brain suddenly became a smartphone! Now his vision can see messages people send on their phones, which also means that he can learn their secrets. This new ability gets him intertwined with problems in and out of the office! A Sci-fi human drama about a simple man becoming a "Smartphone" hero. -- YTV

Cast
Ito Atsushi as Orimo Keita
Shinkawa Yua as Ishino Ryuko
Ando Natsu (安藤なつ) as Yasuda Bubuka
Okada Ryutaro (岡田龍太郎) as Tanishi Joji
Nomura Masumi as Hachiya Kaoru
Bokumoto Sakiko (ぼくもとさきこ) as Usuda Sadako
Yuki Moe (結城モエ) as Kanie Sayo
Nakagawa Chika as Kaede
Nitta Yuriko (新田祐里子) as Shiori
Takashima Kotoha (高嶋琴羽) as Aika
Shinoda Mariko as Kuriyama Satsuki
Ikeda Tetsuhiro as Takenotsuka Shiro
Hayashiya Pee (林家ペー) as himself
Hayashiya Parko (林家パー子) as herself
Nishimaru Yuko (西丸優子) as Fujiki Yuri
Toda Masahiro as Kobori Mamoru
Kishitani Goro as Kurobe Jin
Charlotte Kate Fox as Flora Campbell (ep7)

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Honjitsu wa, Ohigara mo Yoku

Title: 本日は、お日柄もよく
Title (romaji): Honjitsu wa, Ohigara mo Yoku
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 4
Broadcast network: WOWOW
Broadcast period: 2017-Jan-14 to 2017-Feb-04
Air time: Saturday 22:00

Synopsis
Imagawa Atsushi, the childhood friend whom office lady Ninomiya Kotoha had been in love with, gets married. She attends his wedding reception in the foulest of moods. However, she hears an amazing speech that moves her at the reception. It is the congratulatory address of the legendary speechwriter Kuon Kumi. Mesmerized by her words, Kotoha becomes Kumi's apprentice and starts training in words. Atsushi soon decides to run in the House of Representatives election and Kotoha is designated as his speechwriter. Will her words be able to move the world? -- Jdrama Weblog

Cast
Higa Manami as Ninomiya Kotoha
Hasegawa Kyoko as Kuon Kumi
Watanabe Dai as Imagawa Atsushi
Ishibashi Renji as Oyamada Jiro
Yachigusa Kaoru as Ninomiya Kikuyo
Hayami Mokomichi as Wada Kamatari
Funakoshi Eiichiro as Imagawa
Oishi Goro
Ishii Masanori
Abe Megumi (安倍萌生) as Imagawa Eri
Tachibana Nozomi (橘希) as Sendo Chika
Inoue Jun
Dan Jiro
Masu Takeshi

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Happy Retirement

Title: ハッピー・リタイアメント
Title (English): Happy Retirement
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Human drama
Viewership ratings: 6.8%
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast date: 2015-Oct-18
Air time: Sunday 21:00

Synopsis
Higuchi Shintaro has worked in the government financial services division for 33 years and is looking forward to retiring in five years. But a bribery scandal suddenly comes to light within his division, and his supervisor assigns blame to Shintaro. Suddenly, Shintaro's life is turned upside down. Instead of the happy retirement he was looking forward to, Shintaro is forced to retire under negative circumstances. Shintaro is faced with a decision. Should he finish out his remaining work years silently, without complaint for the injustice done him? Or, should he get revenge? Which would make for a happier retirement?

Cast
Sato Koichi as Higuchi Shintaro
Ishiguro Ken as Otomo Tsutomu
Ishida Yuriko as Tachibana Aoi
Daito Shunsuke as Higuchi Taiki
Mano Erina as Higuchi Manami
Jinbo Satoshi as Nagata
Yashima Norito as Yajima Sumihiko
Takenaka Naoto as Kaneo Tametaro
Umezawa Tomio as Nick Ono
Kikuchi Momoko as Yasui Kiyoko
Asano Atsuko as Higuchi Yoshiko
Inagaki Kurumi

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Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim

    Title: 낭만닥터 김사부 / Nangmandakteo Kimsabu
    Genre: Medical, melodrama, human
    Episodes: 20 + 1 Special
    Broadcast network: SBS
    Broadcast period: 2016-Nov-07 to 2017-Jan-17
    Air Time: Monday & Tuesday 22:00
    Original soundtrack: Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim OST

Synopsis

Dr. Kim was once a famous surgeon who decided to leave his former workplace to be in a small hospital. The oddball but genius doctor teaches the meaning of true doctors to Kang Dong Joo and Yoon Seo Jung, two young doctors who were passionate in their efforts, but only for their own selfish reasons.
Cast

Main Cast

    Han Suk Kyu as Teacher Kim / Bu Yong Joo
    Yoo Yun Suk as Kang Dong Joo
        Yoon Chan Young as young Dong Joo
    Seo Hyun Jin as Yoon Seo Jung
        Shin Yi Joon (신이준) as young Seo Jung

Doldam Hospital

    Kim Hong Pa (김홍파) as Yeo Woon Young
    Jin Kyung as Oh Myung Shim
    Im Won Hee as Jang Gi Tae
    Byun Woo Min as Nam Do Il
    Seo Eun Soo (서은수) as Woo Yun Hwa
    Kim Min Jae as Park Eun Tak

Geosan Hospital

    Choi Jin Ho as Do Yoon Wan
    Yang Se Jong as Do In Bum
    Jang Hyuk Jin as Song Hyun Chul (chief surgeon)
    Joo Hyun as President Shin
    Yoon Na Moo as Jung In Soo
    Kim Hye Eun as Hyun Jung (President Shin's daughter)

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Kimi ni Sasageru Emblem

Title: 君に捧げるエンブレム
Title (romaji): Kimi ni Sasageru Emblem
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Human drama
Viewership ratings: 8.4%
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast date: 2017-Jan-03
Air time: Tuesday 21:00

Synopsis
Based on a true story, "Kimi ni Sasageru Emblem" depicts an extraordinary love story of the uphill struggle of Takajo Kazuya and his incredible transformation from being a professional soccer player to a top wheelchair basketball player after his legs were paralyzed in a car accident, with the love and support from his wife Miki. -- Fuji TV

Cast
Sakurai Sho as Takajo Kazuya
Nagasawa Masami as Nakagawa Miki
Ichihara Hayato as Mukai Hiroto
Tanaka Tetsushi as Tsuruta Hitoshi
Kobayashi Kaoru as Nakagawa Akiko
Baisho Mitsuko as Takajo Waka
Katase Rino as Mukai Fumiko
Ando Masanobu as Kamimura Ren
Kagawa Teruyuki as Fukumoto Kotaro

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Cain and Abel (2016)

Drama: Cain and Abel (literal title)

Romaji: Kain to Aberu

Japanese: カインとアベル

Director: Hideki Takeuchi, Hiroki Hayama

Writer: Tatsuya Kanazawa

Network: Fuji TV

Episodes: 10

Release Date: October 17, 2016 -

Runtime: Mondays 21:00

Language: Japanese

Country: Japan

Plot

Yu Takada (Ryosuke Yamada) works at a company. Since he was a kid, his father has always favored his smarter, older brother. His father doesn't seem to care much about Yu, but Yu craves affection from his father.

One day, Yu meets a woman by chance. That experience wasn't that good, but he begins to have feelings for her. Yu then learns she is his older brother's girlfriend.

Cast

Ryosuke Yamada

Kenta Kiritani

Kana Kurashina

Masanobu Takashima

Houka Kinoshita

Yojin Hino

Hirona Yamazaki

Nene Otsuka

Kaho Minami

Mikijiro Hira

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Suna no Tou

Title: 砂の塔

Title (romaji): Suna no Tou
Also known as: Tower of Sand
Tagline: 知りすぎた隣人 / Shirisugita Rinjin
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Suspense, human drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 10.19%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2016-Oct-14 to 2016-Dec-16
Air time: Friday 22:00
Theme song: Suna no Tou by THE YELLOW MONKEY

Synopsis
Takano Aki is a homemaker who has built an ordinary yet amply content family life. When she and her family move into a luxurious, high-rise condo with all the latest security advancements, Aki anticipates the start of the kind of family life of which dreams are made. Until, that is, she meets her creepy and scary neighbors. Behind the walls of this ivory tower, life is a social ecosystem dictated by strict rules and decorum of vainglorious housewife residents. There are "compulsory Halloween parties", "hellishly exorbitant lunches", "floor discrimination", and even "strictly enforced proper attire for putting out the trash." Though farcical and comical at first glance, the housewives' behavior easily becomes sinister, as Aki begins to discover in unexpected ways. Someone is trying to tear her life and family apart... -- TBS

Cast
Main Characters
Kanno Miho as Takano Aki
Matsushima Nanako as Sasaki Yumiko
Iwata Takanori as Ubukata Kohei
Takano Family
Tanaka Naoki as Takano Kenichi
Sano Hayato as Takano Kazuki
Inagaki Kurumi as Takano Sora
Residents of Sky Grand Tower TOYOSU
Yokoyama Megumi as Aso Hiroko
Tsuda Kanji as Aso Takefumi
Horiuchi Keiko as Hashiguchi Rino
Kawazu Asuka as Hashiguchi Narumi
Otozuki Kei as Yanagi Shori
Sato Nori as Miura Atsuko
Horan Chiaki as Ono Ayaka
Metropolitan Police Department
Mitsuishi Ken as Aramata Hidemi
Uesugi Shuhei as Tsukui Takumi
Others
Kimura Yuichi as Inose Shinji
Karasuma Setsuko (烏丸せつこ) as Mita Kumiko
Sakai Miki (ep7-8)

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Kidnap Tour

TV Movie: Kidnap Tour
Japanese: キッドナップ・ツアー
Director: Yoshiyuki Kishi
Writer: Mitsuyo Kakuta (novel), Yoshiyuki Kishi
Network: NHK
Episodes: 1
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Runtime: Tuesday 19:30-20:43
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Synopsis
Haru (Toyoshima Hana) is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell Yuko what she really feels. On the first day of the summer vacation, Haru is kidnapped. The culprit is her free-spirited father Takashi (Tsumabuki Satoshi) who disappeared from home two months ago. He is scruffy, pathetic, poor and unemployed. Her dependable mother Kyoko (Kinami Haruka) has given up on him and they have been living apart. While Haru neither likes nor dislikes her good-for-nothing father, she gets excited about the kidnapping which will take her where she likes. But Takashi seems to have made some bargain with her mother by holding Haru hostage. Haru is in the dark about the details. Her father brings her to the sea, mountains and various places. During this time, Haru learns how the romance between her parents started, is piggybacked for kilometres and even meets his ex-girlfriend Nori-chan (Mitsushima Hikari). Through this strange yet thrilling summer journey, she gets to know a side of her father that was previously unknown to her. Takashi eventually runs out of money and the “trip” between father and daughter comes to an end.

Cast
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Hana Toyoshima
Haruka Kinami
Kaho
Hirofumi Arai
Tsuyoshi Muro
Hikari Mitsushima
Kaoru Yachigusa

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Guard Center 24

TV Movie: Guard Center 24
Romaji: Godo Senta 24 Koik Keibi Shirei Shitsu
Japanese: ガードセンター24　広域警備指令室
Director: Hiroshi Matsubara
Writer: Naomi Hiruta
Network: NTV
Episodes: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Runtime: 21:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Synopsis
The Security Guard Centre is the central command and control centre for security firm, Security 24. This is where the ultimate professional group of “observers” use the security system that runs throughout Tokyo to issue swift and precise instructions to locations and keep people safe and secure round-the-clock. An intrusion is reported today and a security officer, Shinomiya Mamoru (Nakajima Kento), heads to the scene under the instructions of an observer. He has a strong sense of justice and has an honest personality. However, he is a little of a problem child with the tendency to ignore the instructions of the guard centre. A brief moment after the centre’s young ace, Anzai Kokoro (Kuriyama Chiaki), starts issuing instructions, Mamoru discovers the intruder. He takes off after the person and apprehends him after a scuffle. He laughingly declares that he has caught the culprit and assures Kokoro, who had ordered him to evacuate, that he is fine. However, she is shocked. Mamoru is assigned to the Security Guard Centre for some reason in an unprecedented promotion and is greeted by the members of the centre – Nonomura Shogo (Kamikawa Takaya), the head of the centre; the smart science guy Ouji Shunichi (Tanaka Kei); the sporty Sotokoba Hidemichi (Kobayashi Kendo) who used to work in the field; customer service professional Minato Mamiko (Horiuchi Keiko) who has even learned psychology; the polite, cautious Kokoro; and the veteran Shinkawa Jinichiro (Nakamura Baijaku) who is a walking encyclopedia on the security industry. As the rookie, Mamoru has to confront all sorts of cases in this central command and control centre. He strives to dispel the fears of the people who call in for help and assure them that there is nothing wrong. There are those who are helped by his words, but on the other hand, he frequently tends to be late in ensuring their security. Then at one time, a big incident develops as a result of Mamoru’s misjudgment. He is stricken and feels deeply discouraged, but … …

Cast
Kento Nakajima - Mamoru Shinomiya
Chiaki Kuriyama - Kokoro Anzai
Kei Tanaka - Shunichi Oji
Kendo Kobayashi - Hidemichi Sotokoba
Keiko Horiuchi - Mamiko Minato
Baijaku Nakamura - Niichiro Shinkawa
Takaya Kamikawa - Shogo Nonomura
Soji Izumi - Minegishi

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Eigyou Buchou Kira Natsuko

Name: 営業部長 吉良奈津子
Title (romaji): Eigyou Buchou Kira Natsuko
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 7.01%
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2016-Jul-21 to 2016-Sep-22
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: CHEER UP! THE SUMMER by Yamashita Tatsuro

Synopsis
Kira Natsuko led a busy life as a successful creative director at an advertising agency. She got married just before turning 40, then put her career on hold for maternity and parental leave. Three years later, she returns to work and she is ready to get back into the swing of things. However, due to the changes within the company that happened while she was away, she gets assigned as a director of the sales department, and not of the creative department. What await for her in her new position are co-workers who don't trust her and a series of issues that erupt as she scrambles to juggle both work and her family. -- Fuji TV

Cast
Matsushima Nanako as Kira Natsuko
Matsuda Ryuhei as Takagi Keisuke
DAIGO as Ichijo Tatsuya
Okada Yoshinori as Kawahara Yoshio
Nakamura Anne as Imanishi Tomomi
Adachi Rika as Kanzaki Asuka
Shirasu Jin as Maruo Yuto
Takagi Wataru (高木渉) as Go Takashi
Ito Ayumi as Sakabe Miyuki
Itao Itsuji as Yoneda Toshio
Matsubara Chieko as Koyama Shuko
Ishimaru Kanji as Saito Ryoichi
Harada Taizo as Koyama Kotaro
Imai Hana (今井華) as Yoshida Chika

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Setouchi Shonen Yakyuudan

Cast: Takei Emi, Miura Takahiro, Tomochika, Yamauchi Takaya, Honda Miyu, Sakata Yui, Yano Koji, Kuriyama Wataru, Tanaka Ken, Enari Kazuki, Hiraizumi Sei, Takahashi Keiko, Osugi Ren

Synopsis:
In the spring of 1944 (Showa 19), Komako (Takei Emi) gets married to Nakai Masao (Miura Takahiro), the eldest son of the head of the biggest local fisherman’s group, in a modest ceremony. Masao is departing for the battlefront a few days later and Komako’s wish is to wait for his return, as his wife. She tells Masao, who had been a baseball player at the Koshien stadium, that she is giving him a baseball as a good luck charm so that he will come back alive and he sets off … … The schoolyard at Esaka Elementary School where Komako works as a teacher is converted to a plot for potatoes. The children are constantly hungry. But they still have the energy to smile and fool around. Meanwhile, one of the school’s students, Ashigara Ryuta (Sakata Yui), is told that his father was killed in battle. There is only a toothbrush that his father had supposedly used inside the funerary urn box that is delivered. Komako is soon informed with a scrap of paper that Masao was killed in action. Then the war ends. That summer, Hatano Mume (Honda Miyu), the daughter of a navy admiral, transfers to the school. The school’s educational policy undergoes a complete change following the end of the war. Boys and girls can now study in the same classroom and Ryuta and Mume are made to sit next to each other. Mume’s grown-up air makes Ryuta’s heart pound, but he blots out heavily militarised content in the textbook that Komako bases her teaching on with ink. Komako worries about this. Masao’s younger brother Tetsuo (Kuriyama Wataru) understands Komako’s feelings. With Masao’s death, his parents Ginzo (Osugi Ren) and Toyono (Takahashi Keiko) have started to think of welcoming Komako anew as Tetsuo’s bride. The Allied Occupation forces set foot on Awaji Island which is immediately influenced by American culture. Masaki Jiro (Enari Kazuki), the elder brother of Ryuta’s classmate Saburo (Yamashita Masato), leaves the island when he makes money in Osaka. Ryuta sends off Jiro with Saburo who is on the verge of crying. A man with a mysterious cane appears in front of them. He is Masao who was believed to have died in battle. Although he lost a leg in the war, he was miraculously demobilised and sent home, returning with the baseball as promised. He suggests to Komako to let the children play baseball with certain rules that will not be influenced by adults and creates the Esaka Tigers with her students. He guides them as their coach while Komako becomes the field manager. Despite his handicap, he and Komako try hard to give these young boys and girls energy to live and hope through baseball after the defeat in the war.

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99.9 ~Keiji Senmon Bengoshi~

Title: 99.9
Tagline: 刑事専門弁護士 / Keiji Senmon Bengoshi
Also known as: 99.9 ~Criminal Lawyers~
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Legal, human
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 17.12%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2016-Apr-17 to 2016-Jun-19
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: Daylight by Arashi

Synopsis
The conviction rate for criminal cases in Japan is 99.9%. However, this hides a big danger. Once indicted, there is a tendency to accept the prosecution’s story at face value. There are also extremely few lawyers that specialise in criminal cases. Therefore, a thorough verification is very difficult. This is a drama about a team of expert criminal lawyers who pursues the truth that may be hiding in the remaining 0.1%.

Cast
Madarame Law Firm
Matsumoto Jun as Miyama Hiroto (33)
Kagawa Teruyuki as Sada Atsuhiro (47)
Eikura Nana as Tachibana Ayano (27)
Katagiri Jin as Akashi Tatsuya (40)
Magy as Fujino Hiroki (44)
Watanabe Makiko (渡辺真起子) as Togawa Natsuko (36)
Fujimoto Takahiro as Shiga Makoto (46)
Baba Toru (馬場徹) as Ochiai Yohei (27)
Kishibe Ittoku as Madarame Haruhiko (65)
Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office
Aoki Munetaka as Marukawa Takahisa (36)
Koichi Mantaro as Inaba
Okuda Eiji as Otomo Shuichi (60)
Others
Emi Kurara as Sada Yukiko (36)
Hata Mei as Sada Kasumi (ep5-)
Ikeda Takafumi (池田貴史) as Bando Kenta (44)
Kishii Yukino (岸井ゆきの) as Kanako (24)
Shuto Yasuyuki (首藤康之) as Miyama Daisuke, Hiroto's father
Morita Aren (森田愛蓮) as young Hiroto
Oda Lisa (織田梨沙) as Misato

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Juhan Shuttai!

Title: 重版出来!
Title (romaji): Juhan Shuttai!
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama, work
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 7.99%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2016-Apr-12 to 2016-Jun-14
Air time: Tuesday 22:00
Theme song: Echo by UNICORN

Synopsis
Kokoro who was once an Olympic candidate of Judo, starts working in the major publisher - Koto Kan. Assigned to the editorial department of Vives - a weekly comic magazine, she starts learning the basics of editing. Along with the deputy chief editor, Iokibe, she goes to a meeting with the most popular cartoonist of Vives - Mikurayama. Although she is excited by the real comic production at first, later Mikurayama rises turmoil by telling that he will take all of his submitted work back from the publisher. Through her work as an editor, Kokoro begins to feel as fulfilled as when she used to play Judo. Their mutual goal is to make a comic that can get reprinted, in other words, make a sleeper hit. With the help of her colleagues and cartoonists, Kokoro strives to make a "sleeper hit". -- TBS

Cast
Kuroki Haru as Kurosawa Kokoro
Odagiri Joe as Iokibe Kei
Sakaguchi Kentaro as Koizumi Jun
Arakawa Yoshiyoshi as Mibu Heita
Hamada Mari as Kawa Maiko
Nono Sumika (野々すみ花) as Misato
Nagaoka Tasuku (永岡佑) as Kikuchi Fuminori
Maeno Tomoya (前野朋哉) as Hattan Kazuo
Takeda Rina as Sara
Mogami Moga (最上もが) as Rinne
Tomiyama Eriko (富山えり子) as Tsukasa
Kohinata Fumiyo as Mikurayama Ryu
Namase Katsuhisa as Oka Eiji
Takito Kenichi as Takahata Issun
Kaname Jun as Narita
Nagayama Kento as Nakata Haku
Muro Tsuyoshi as Numata Wataru
Takada Junji as Kuji Masaru
Yasuda Ken as Yasui Noboru
Matsushige Yutaka as Wada Yasuki
Takatsuki Sara as Agarie Kinu

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Love Song

Title: ラヴソング
Title (English): Love Song
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, human drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 8.43%
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2016-Apr-11 to 2016-Jun-13
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: soup by Fujiwara Sakura

Synopsis
The protagonist Kamishiro Kohei once worked as a professional musician, but he could not produce any hit songs after having only one hit. Eventually his contract with the recording label was cancelled. Feeling the limits of his talent as a musician, Kohei left the music industry. Twenty years later, Kohei now works as a corporate counselor, but his passion for music never really went away. One day, a young woman named Sano Sakura comes to his office for counseling. Sakura grew up in an orphanage and lives bearing sense of loneliness. Though she is poor at communicating with people, but she happens to be gifted with beautiful singing voice. Over time, the two start to connect through music and gradually find hope and inspiration in life. -- Fuji TV

Cast
Fukuyama Masaharu as Kamishiro Kohei
Fujiwara Sakura as Sano Sakura
Suda Masaki as Amano Soraichi
Kaho as Nakamura Mami
Yamaguchi Sayaka as Watanabe Ryoko
Kinoshita Houka as Takigawa Fumio
Shibukawa Kiyohiko as Hoshida Kazuo
Suruga Taro as Nomura Kenta
Tanaka Tetsushi as Masamura Taizo
Yuki Saori as Yuasa Shizuko
Uzaki Ryudo as Sasa Yuji
Mizuno Miki as Shishido Natsuki
Ohkubo Satomi as Enomoto Rio
Noutomi Arisa as Ogawa Nanako
Miku as Ube Yuka
Sakamoto Shogo as Takahashi Masashi
Niiyama Shiori as Shishido Haruno

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Nigeru Onna

Title: 逃げる女
Title (romaji): Nigeru Onna
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human suspense drama
Episodes: 6
Viewership ratings: 2.77%
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2016-Jan-09 to 2016-Feb-10
Air time: Saturday 22:00

Synopsis
40 year old Nishiwaki Rieko has spent the last 8 years of her life behind bars for a crime she didn't commit. Sent there by an overzealous police detective and the lies of her best friend, Rieko leaves prison with grim determination into a cold world that still doesn't trust her. In the meantime, flittering psycho Taniguchi Mio, apparently having murdered a man in cold blood, will soon be crossing paths with Rieko and the new murder investigation that's created will send both of them on the run once more...

Cast
Mizuno Miki as Nishiwaki Rieko
Naka Riisa as Taniguchi Mio
Endo Kenichi as Sakuma Manabu
Kaku Kento as Ando Junya
Tabata Tomoko as Kawase Azumi
Takahashi Katsunori as Saito Koichi
Denden as Kashiwagi Kensaku
Kato Masaya as Amano Takamasa
Harada Mieko as Komura Ayano
Takahashi Tsutomu as Fukami Hajime
Furuya Ikko as Nishiwaki Takao

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Kazoku no Katachi

Title: 家族ノカタチ
Title (romaji): Kazoku no Katachi
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Home drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 8.98%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2016-Jan-17 to 2016-Mar-20
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: Unpredictable Story by ellie

Synopsis
Nagasato Daisuke is a 39-year old bachelor with an extremely negative attitude towards marriage, but by no means an unattractive man. However, he truly believes that he'd "rather be alone." Averse to taking the risk of bringing in other people into his living space, he protects it as if it was his castle, and is fully enjoying his idiosyncratic single life. Kumagai Hanako, on the other hand, is a 32-year old divorcee who works for a major trading firm. She has her own distinct thoughts about being single, doesn't want to get married again, and already planning for her life after retirement. She’s a hard worker who has a strong sense of responsibility for her work, but at the same time, has a critical temperament and is strict with others.

When these two meet, they fight constantly, but they're actually similar in a lot ways. When Daisuke's father and Hanako's mother barge into their respective homes, their comfortable single life comes to an end. -- TBS

Cast
Katori Shingo as Nagasato Daisuke
Ueno Juri as Kumagai Hanako
Mizuhara Kiko as Tanaka Rina
Arakawa Yoshiyoshi as Sasaki Shoichi
Nishida Toshiyuki as Nagasato Yozo
Fubuki Jun as Kumagai Ritsuko
Chiba Yudai as Irie Haruto
Yanagihara Kanako as Yamane Satori
Takada Hyoga (髙田彪我) as Nagasato Kota
Nakamura Anne as Kozue Aya
Mizuki Alisa as Ono Mika (ep1,6,10)
Tanaka Kei as Takase Kazuya
Morimoto Leo as Shige
Asaji Yoko (浅茅陽子) as Nagasato Misayo
Mizuno Miki as Nagasato Megumi
Nagao Mariya as Koyama Yuka
Konishi Kiss (小西キス) as Fukuda Ayumi
Irie Masato as Tanaka Nobuaki
Okuda Tatsuhito as Sawa

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Kekkonshiki no Zenjitsu ni

Title: 結婚式の前日に
Title (romaji): Kekkonshiki no Zenjitsu ni
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 5.57%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2015-Oct-13 to 2015-Dec-15
Air time: Tuesday 22:00
Theme song: Ashitairo by Yasuda Rei

Synopsis
Serizawa Hitomi works in the apartments development team of a prestigious real estate company, and is holding her own in a department that is predominantly male. She was raised singlehandedly by her father, Kensuke, after her mother, Kashiwada Kanako abandoned them 28 years ago. Currently engaged to be married to Dr. Sonoda Yuichi, she is looking forward to her wedding and her new life ahead.

100 days prior to her wedding, Hitomi is told that she has a tumor in her brain, and her chances of survival is indeterminate. Upon hearing the news, Yuichi is hesitant about going forward with the wedding, especially since his mother, Kyoko, objects to the wedding in the first place due to the two families difference in status. At the same time, Hitomi's mother, Kanako, suddenly appears in her life again. Kanako had heard of Hitomi's impending nuptials and decides to return to Japan as she is fully confident that her daughter will welcome her to her wedding. Kanako is a free-spirited unconventional woman, and she thinks nothing of bullying her daughter to fight for her life and her man... by TBS

Cast
Karina as Serizawa Hitomi
Harada Mieko as Kashiwada Kanako
Suzuki Ryohei as Sonoda Yuichi
Yamamoto Yusuke as Maehara Shota
Mano Erina as Hirose Mana
Miho Jun Serizawa Saki
Enami Kyoko as as Sonoda Kyoko
Endo Kenichi as Serizawa Kensuke
Fujita Yumiko as Kitano Satomi
Hotaru Yukijiro as Maeno Genta
Yashiba Toshihiro as Suzuki Kiyohiko
Nakano Yuta as Ogura Shinya
Inukai Atsuhiro (犬飼貴丈) as Shimazaki Kohei
Ikeda Saemi (池田沙絵美) as Minamiyama Chinatsu
Toda Naho as Teramoto Mariko

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Gattan Gattan Soredemo Go

Title: ガッタン　ガッタン　それでも　ゴー
Title (romaji): Gattan Gattan Soredemo Go
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 1
Viewership rating: TBD
Broadcast network: NHK BS Premium
Broadcast period: 2015-Oct-28
Air time: Wednesday 22:00

Synopsis
Upon the death of her mother, Ito Kana, who is currently working for a living in Tokyo, decides to return to her hometown of Okuhida, Gifu. Due to her traumatic childhood there, Kana actually hates Okuhida. Morita Shinichi was Kana's classmate and he is still living in Okuhida, helping out at the onsen that his parents, Tetsuharu and Haruko, run. Shinichi too detests his current life, but has no choice but be resigned to it, giving up his dreams altogether. During her stay at Okuhida, Kana and Shinichi both run into Kotani Yoshio, a native there who loves Okuhida very much. To Kotani, the mines and the rail tracks are the treasures of Okuhide, and he finds it unbelievable for anyone to think otherwise. For Kana, talking to Kotani brings back the memories of the one happy thing that has ever happened to her during her life there. At the base of the Northern Alps, their encounter with Okuhida's treasures changes both Kana's and Shinichi's take on life.

"There will be tunnels in life. And bumpy roads too. Due to that, just by living, we become stronger." -- by NHK

Cast
Tanimura Mitsuki as Ito Kana
Machida Keita as Morita Shinichi
Tsurumi Shingo as Morita Tetsuharu
Kokusho Sayuri as Morita Haruko
Yoshimoto Miyoko as Ito Yumi
Matsuo Suzuki as Kotani Yoshio

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37.5°C no Namida

Title: 37.5℃の涙
Title (romaji): 37.5°C no Namida
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 6.14%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2015-Jul-09 to 2015-Sep-17
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Daijoubu by wacci
Insert song: EGG by Kimura Kaela

Synopsis
Sugisaki Momoko used to be a nursery school teacher. Her difficulty smiling leads to communication problems with parents and her contract is terminated in one year. Momoko is picked up by ‘Little Snow’, a home care service for sick children, and makes a fresh start as a caregiver for sick children. When a child has a fever, the caregiver would visit the home and care for the child in place of the parents who simply cannot take time off from work. Momoko encounters all sorts of families at the places she is sent to. With the support of her colleagues and the occasional help of her best friend, Yumika, she starts to face work, romance, family and friendship. -- Jdrama Weblog

Cast
Renbutsu Misako as Sugisaki Momoko
Inoue Rinna as young Momoko
Narimiya Hiroki as Asahina Motoharu
Hayami Mokomichi as Shinohara Kensuke
Triendl Reina as Ono Yumika
Suzuki Rio as Asahina Koharu
Mikami Kensei as Sugisaki Yuki
Kobayashi Kika (小林喜日) as young Yuki
Takizawa Saori as Shinohara Kumiko
Nishimura Kazuhiko as Sato Nishiki
Kubota Maki as Sato Yoko
Matsushima Hana as Asahina Koyuki
Shuri as Machii Risa
Nagaike Natsuko as Imai Kanako
Kido Yuya as Kato Teppei
Tanigawa Risako (谷川りさこ) as Sato Sayaka
Ishida Tosei (石田登星) as Sugisaki Seiichiro
Tanoue Yui (田上唯) as Shimizu Kaori
Inoue Hazuki as young Kaori
Yokoyama Ayumu (横山歩) as Shinohara Kenta
Fujiki Naohito as Yanagi Chikara
Miho Jun as Tanaka Masayo
Mizuno Miki as Seki Megumi
Asano Atsuko as Sugisaki Fumiko

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Yuube no Curry, Ashita no Pan

Title: 昨夜のカレー、明日のパン
Title (romaji): Yube no Curry, Ashita no Pan
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 7
Viewership ratings: TBD
Broadcast network: NHK BS Premium
Broadcast period: 2014-Oct-05 to 2014-Nov-16
Air time: Sunday 22:00-22:49
Theme song: M by Princess Princess

Synopsis
Seven years ago, Terayama Kazuki died of cancer at the young age of 25, leaving behind his wife Tetsuko and father Rentaro. They live together and are a family, but theirs is a delicate relationship of daughter-in-law and father-in-law with no blood ties. Through the intriguing people Tetsuko comes into contact with who were linked by fate to her kindhearted husband, she is freed from the pain of the loss of a loved one and begins to start life again. --Jdrama wordpress--

Cast
Naka Riisa as Terayama Tetsuko (aka Tetsuko)
Kaga Takeshi as Terayama Rentaro (aka Gifu)
Mizobata Junpei as Iwai Masaharu (aka Mr. Iwai)
Hoshino Gen as Terayama Kazuki
Mimura as Oda Takara (aka Mumumu)
Katagiri Hairi as Akiyama Asako
Miho Jun
Ogura Ichiro (小倉一郎)
Tsutsui Mariko
Ono Yuriko as Yanagida Rieko (aka Gidarie)
Kaku Kento as Takeuchi Torao
Yoshida Yo as Ogawa Satoko (aka Yama Garu (mountain girl))
Fukushi Seiji as Sakai-kun

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