Kuzu no Honkai (Scum Wish)

Drama: Scum's Wish (literal title)
Romaji: Kuzu no Honkai
Japanese: クズの本懐
Director: Shogo Miyaki, Shunsuke Shinada
Writer: Mengo Yokoyari (manga), Mikiko Takahashi
Network: Fuji TV
Release Date: January 18, 2017 --
Runtime: Wednesdays 25:55
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Hanabi Yasuraoka (Miyu Yoshimoto) and Mugi Awaya (Dori Sakurada) look an ideal high school couple, but, they both like someone else. Hanabi Yasuraoka has liked Narumi Kanai (Kouki Mizuta) since she was a kid and Mugi Awaya likes his private tutor Akane Minagawa (Rina Aizawa).

As a couple, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awayai have 3 conditions: they are not supposed to like each other, they will break up if either of them succeed in love with their secret crush and they will fulfill their physical desires.

Cast
Miyu Yoshimoto
Dori Sakurada
Sarii Ikegami
Kouki Mizuta
Rina Aizawa
Hiroki Ino

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Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu

Title: 逃げるは恥だが役に立つ
Title (romaji): Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu
Also known as: We married as a job! / The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Love comedy
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 14.47%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2016-Oct-11 to 2016-Dec-20
Air time: Tuesday 22:00
Theme song: Koi by Hoshino Gen
Opening theme: Susume, Tamani Nigete mo by CHARAN-PO-RANTAN

Synopsis
A jobless, single woman marries a single businessman as a job! But the relationship between the husband (employer) and the wife (employee) gets more and more romantic the longer they live together... -- TBS

Cast
Aragaki Yui as Moriyama Mikuri
Hoshino Gen as Tsuzaki Hiramasa
Ishida Yuriko as Tsuchiya Yuri
Otani Ryohei as Kazami Ryota
Fujii Takashi as Hino Hideshi
Mano Erina as Tanaka Yasue
Narita Ryo as Umehara Natsuki
Yamaga Kotoko (山賀琴子) as Horiuchi Yuzu
Takahashi Yo (髙橋洋) as Takenaka Michihiko
Hayama Shono as Watanabe Kazuma
Hosoda Yoshihiko as Moriyama Chigaya (ep2,8)
Takayama Yuko as Moriyama Aoi (ep2,8)
Furutachi Kanji (古舘寛治) as Yama-san
Moro Morooka as Tsuzaki Sohachi (ep2,5)
Takahashi Hitomi as Tsuzaki Chika (ep2,4-5,8)
Ukaji Takashi as Moriyama Tochio
Tomita Yasuko as Moriyama Sakura
Furuta Arata as Numata Yoritsuna
Furuhata Seika as Mana (ep1)
Okada Kohki as Tajima Yoshihiko (ep3-4,9-10)
Uchida Rio as Igarashi Anna (ep9-11)

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Kenja no Ai

Title: 賢者の愛
Title (romaji): Kenja no Ai
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Love, revenge
Episodes: 4
Broadcast network: WOWOW
Broadcast period: 2016-Aug-20 to 2016-Sep-10
Air time: Saturday 22:00

Synopsis
Takanaka Mayuko is an editor of a literary magazine. She has been having secret rendezvous with Sawamura Naomi without the knowledge of his parents, Yuri and Ryoichi. Naomi is dependent on Mayuko and keeps seeking her. This is precisely Mayuko's “revenge” of two decades... 13-year-old Mayuko lived happily with her parents and Sawamura Ryoichi, a teenage boy she liked who stayed in a detached house on the grounds of their family estate. But her first love was stolen by Asakura Yuri, a new neighbour with whom she became fast friends. Little did Mayuko realise that Yuri wanted everything that was hers. One winter soon after they had become working adults, Yuri suddenly confessed that she was carrying Ryoichi's child and the couple got married. Mayuko was there to witness Yuri's childbirth and give a name to the boy at Yuri's insistence. She called him Naomi.

Cast
Nakayama Miho as Takanaka Mayuko
Takaoka Saki as Sawamura (Asakura) Yuri
Ryusei Ryo as Sawamura Naomi
Asari Yosuke as Ishida
Kusamura Reiko as Mayuko's grandmother
Asaka Mayumi as Mayuko's mother
Enoki Takaaki as Mayuko's father
Tanabe Seiichi as Sawamura Ryoichi
Asami Himeka as young Mayuko (high school student)
Kawashima Ririka as young Mayuko (junior high school student)
Uehara Miku (上原実矩) as young Yuri (high school student)
Kobayashi Rino as young Yuri (junior high school student)
Uchida Kenji (内田健司) as young Ryoichi

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