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UPCOMIGN AUTUMN DORAMA
Kobukuro sings for Mocomichi drama
Sun, September 7, 2008 (1:47am EDT)
Popular duo Kobukuro will be in charge of the theme song for NTV's
drama series "Oh! My Girl!!" The show was announced last month with
actor Hayami Mocomichi in the starring role.
The song is called "Toki no Ashioto" and is scheduled to go on sale
October 29 as the group's 16th single.
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Narimiya to lead terrorists in "Bloody Monday"
Wed, September 10, 2008 (2:06am EDT)
Actor Hiroki Narimiya has been added to the cast of the TBS drama series "Bloody Monday," based on a suspense manga by Ryo Ryumon. The show stars Haruma Miura as a hacker fighting a terrorist organization, and Narimiya will be playing the head of the terrorists.
Narimiya has also been cast in the Fuji TV drama series "Innocent Love," which stars Maki Horikita. In contrast to his role in "Bloody Monday," he portrays a naive man who is unable to open up his heart to the one he loves.
"Bloody Monday" will air Sunday nights, starting on October 11. "Innocent Love" will be broadcast on Monday nights.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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UPCOMING SPRING 2009 DORAMA
Shingo Katori succeeds Yujiro Ishihara in "Kurobe no Taiyou" adaptation
Thu, September 11, 2008 (2:38am EDT)
It was rumored in July that the 1968 film "Kurobe no Taiyou" (directed by Kei Kumai) would be seeing a live-action television adaptation. Now, Fuji TV has formally revealed its plans for a TV version next spring.
The original movie starred Yujiro Ishihara and Toshiro Mifune in a recounting of the construction of the Kurobe dam, the largest dam in Japan. The film was a huge success during its time, but according to Ishihara's wishes, it has not been seen outside a theater since the original theatrical run.
 
SMAP's Shingo Katori is taking on the lead role, filling in the shoes of Ishihara. Kaoru Kobayashi will co-star in place of Mifune. More cast details will be revealed at a future date.
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UPCOMING DORAMA SP
ARATA gets first TV drama role
Fri, September 12, 2008 (2:02am EDT)
Actor ARATA will appear in his first television drama, taking the starring role. The show is an NHK special titled "Saigo no Senpan," revolving around the internal conflict of a WWII officer who is ordered by his superiors to commit war crimes.
  
"Saigo no Senpan" also features Mitsuko Baisho, Seiichi Tanabe, and Sachie Hara. NHK will air the episode on December 7.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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UPCOMING DORAMA SP
"Code Blue" to get New Year's special
Sat, September 13, 2008 (2:25am EDT)
Fuji TV's medical drama series "Code Blue" ended its run on Thursday, but the network has announced that a special two-hour episode will air during the New Year's period at the start of 2009.
According to Video Research Ltd.'s viewership data, the last episode had ratings of 19.5%, putting the entire series average at 15.9%. With the rest of this season's dramas almost over as well, it appears that "Code Blue" will have the highest ratings of the summer.
The special episode is set to take place after the events of the final episode. The main cast has been confirmed as returning, including Tomohisa Yama$hita, Yui Aragaki, Erika Toda, Manami Higa, and Yosuke Asari.
Fuji TV has not yet scheduled an exact date for the special.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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UPCOMING DORAMA
Shun Shioya stars in film, drama, and internet project
Mon, September 15, 2008 (12:12am EDT)
Actor Shun Shioya will be starring in a project titled "Tenshi Kyubin: Reboot." It is actually the follow-up to a web-based movie released in 2004 that Shioya also appeared in. "Reboot," however, will also be turned into a theatrical movie and a drama series.
Shioya plays Yuki, a motorcycle-riding delivery boy, who gains the power to slow down time, but at the same time is given the task of saving people in trouble. His accomplices are his girlfriend Megumi Yasu and his older co-worker Kohki Okada.
 
"Reboot" launches with a limited-release movie on October 4, followed by a BS-i television series that will air Saturday nights at 11:30pm, starting on October 11. Internet video will begin distribution after that.
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B'z rocks "Shoni Kyumei" theme
Tue, September 16, 2008 (12:15am EDT)
The super-popular rock band B'z is doing another TV drama theme song. Their "Itsuka Mata Koko de" will be used in TV Asahi's Thursday night drama "Shoni Kyumei," which stars actress Manami Konishi as the head of a children's hospital.
The song is included as a new track on the band's "B'z The Best ULTRA Treasure," which goes on sale this Wednesday.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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UPCOMING DORAMA SP
AUTUMN DORAMA SP
Nadeshiko Tai
Cast: Riko Narumi, Hiroki Narimiya, Emi Wakui, Kazama Yamane, Nanami Sakuraba, Akiko, Sayoko Oho, Rina Kamei, Machiko Ono, Hiroko Yakushimaru
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast date: 20 September 2008, 9.00 pm (Saturday)
Official site: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/nadeshiko/index2.html
Theme song: "Sen no Kaze ni Natte" by Masafumi Akikawa
Cast:
RIKO NARUMI
HIROKI NARIMIYA
EMI WAKUI
The story is set in Chiran, Kagoshima, the site of a secret base used to launch kamikaze missions during the war. At the time, a group of young girls known as the Nadeshiko Tai were gathered to help out at the base. The drama will be part documentary and it is based on the experiences of 78-year-old Shoko Nagasaki, a survivor of the Nadeshiko Tai.
Lupin no Shosoku (Lupin's News)
Cast: Takaya Kamikawa, Yoshinori Okada, Megumi Sato, Hirofumi Arai, Shuji Kashiwabara, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kanji Tsuda, Kenichi Endo, Michiko Hada, Kyozo Nagatsuka
Broadcast network: WOWOW
Broadcast date: 21 September 2008, 10.00 pm (Sunday)
Official site: http://www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/lupin/
Theme song:
Cast:
TAKAYA KAMIKAWA
YOSHINORI OKADA
MEGUMI SATO
HIROFUMI ARAI
SHUJI KASHIWABARA
The suicide of a female teacher 15 years ago was actually a murder. A new investigation team, spearheaded by Mizorogi, is formed based on new information turned in to the police. Obsessed about cracking cases right up till the statute of limitation, Mizoguchi has a bitter thought about a 300 million yen case that has reached the statute of limitation... When he goes to investigate the male high school student(s) whom the woman had taught and other persons related to the deceased, he sees an unexpected connection with another case...
Yo ni mo Kimyo na Monogatari 2008
Cast: Yuki Uchida, Yu Yokoyama (Kanjani8), Yuta Hiraoka, Shosuke Tanihara, Kyoko Fukada
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast date: 23 September 2008, 9.00 pm (Tuesday)
Official site:
Theme song:
Cast:
YUKI UCHIDA
YU YOKOYAMA (KANJANI8)
YUTA HIRAOKA
SHOSUKE TANIHARA
KYOKO FUKADA
Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari is a semi-annual special televised by Fuji TV. Below are the articles for each year.
The series started in April 1990, showing at least two episodes each month. In January 1991, they started airing a new episode each week, with the series ending in December. In 1992, the series aired from April to December. In 1993, only one episode aired, on July 30. Since 1994, the series aired anywhere from two to four episodes per year. |
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Yagyu Ichizoku no Inbo (Yagyu Family's Conspiracy)
Cast: Takaya Kamikawa, Rina Uchiyama, Yuma Ishigaki, Aiko Sato, Kazuya Takahashi, Hiroki Matsukata
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast date: 28 September 2008, 9.00 pm (Sunday)
Official site: http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/yagyuu/
Theme song:
Cast:
TAKAYA KAMIKAWA
RINA UCHIYAMA
YUMA ISHIGAKI
AIKO SATO
6-jikan Ato ni Kimi ga Shinu (You'll Die Six Hours Later)
Cast: Takashi Tsukamoto, Yoko Maki, Ikki Sawamura, Takushi Tanaka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Tetsu Watanabe, Takeshi Kato
Broadcast network: WOWOW
Broadcast date: 28 September 2008, 10.00 pm (Sunday)
Official site: http://www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/6hours/
Theme song:
Cast:
TAKASHI TSUKAMOTO
YOKO MAKI
IKKI SAWAMURA
揧ou will die six hours later. |
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ROOKIES SP
Cast: Ryuta Sato, Hayato Ichihara, Keisuke Koide, Yu Shirota, Akiyoshi Nakao, Sousuke Takaoka, Eri Murakawa
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast date: 4 October 2008, 6.30 pm (Saturday)
Official site: http://www.tbs.co.jp/rookies08/
Theme song:
Cast:
RYUTA SATO
HAYATO ICHIHARA
KEISUKE KOIDE
YU SHIROTA
AKIYOSHI NAKAO
SOUSUKE TAKAOKA
ERI MURAKAWA
Galileo SP (Episode Zero)
Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama, Miura Haruma, Kazuki Kitamura, Kazuma Sano, Masami Nagasawa, Karina, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Kazuki Namioka, Keizou Kanie
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast date: 4 October 2008, 9.00 pm (Saturday)
Official site: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/galileozero/index.html
Theme song:
Cast:
MASAHARU FUKUYAMA
HARUMA MIURA
KAZUKI KITAMURA
KAZUMA SANO
MASAMI NAGASAWA
KARINA
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. Detective Kusanagi is looking to solve a murder mystery, and he gets back in touch with his former badminton teammate, the brilliant professor Yukawa Manabu. |
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Arigatou, Okan (Kansai TV 50th Anniversary SP)
Cast: Subaru Shibutani (Kanjani8), Shingo Murakami (Kanjani8), Shinobu Ohtake, Erika Toda, Yuri Nakamura, Yuriko Ishida, Ren Ohsugi, Seishiro Kato, Hisashi Yoshizawa (special appearance)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV/KTV
Broadcast date: 7 October 2008, 9.00 pm (Tuesday)
Official site: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/tokuhen/08aut_sp/b_hp/1007okan.html
Theme song:
Cast:
SUBARU SHIBUTANI (KANJANI8)
SHINGO MURAKAMI (KANJANI8)
SHINOBU OHTAKE
ERIKA TODA
A graduation ceremony at a highschool in Nishinari, Osaka. In contrast to Takamura Yukiya (Shibutani Subaru) who's skipping the ceremony on the roof top of ths school, Hayama Kotarou (Murakami Shingo) gives the speech of thanks as the representative of the new graduates, and the one cheering this Kotarou on is Nishida Hanako (Ohtake Shinobu). After her husband's death, Hanako has run the Nishida Manufacturing company together with the workers while taking in children who aren't able to live with their parents because of various issues, she's a foster parent, "the famous okan." Currently, in addition to her real daughter Kiyoko (Toda Erika) and her foster children Yukiya and Kotaro, she lives with three younger children, but with graduation and starting jobs, Yukiya and Kotaro start living alone. This is when the juvenile counseling center workers Hasegawa Teruo (Ohsugi Ren) and Nagasaka Mariko (Ishida Yuriko) bring along Irie Atsushi (Kato Seishirou) who has nowhere to go because of problems caused by his father. Surrounding by adults he doesn't know, Atsushi is insecure and rebels by going through the food in the fridge and intentionally breaking dishes but...
On the other hand, Yukiya leaps out of the restaurant he'd been working at because he couldn't take the bullying by the sempai anymore. Hanako is contacted and with Kotarou, she finds Yukiya playing a guitar and singing downtown. Before, Hanako had once recommended for Yukiya to find a job when he wanted to become a musician. Yukiya spills to Iwai Nozomi (Nakamura Yuri) who stopped to listen how he had wanted Hanako to support him.
Two years pass by. At the Nishida Mfg. company, multiple instances of money being stolen from the safe occur. Around the same time, Yukiya learns that his now girlfriend Nozomi is pregnant, and heads towards the Nishida residence, but there he encounters the factory worker Komazawa (Yoshizawa Hisashi) stealing the money. Yukiya tries to return the money to the safe, when Hanako and Kiyoko come along. They suspect that he's the thief, and he runs out of the house out of frustration and self-pity. This is when Kiyoko tearfully pleads that she hates herself for thinking of the lack of choice of universities to go to because of financial issues. At the same time, one of the factory's biggest customers ask to end their contract. Hanako loses confidence in herself and declares that she'll shut the factory down and quit being a foster parent.
Unlike adoption, they're not real parents and children, It's just that for a while, they live together... The foster children have all drifted away from each other. What will happen to the "bond between parent and child?"
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e ~Ikemen Paradise~
Cast: Maki Horikita, Shun Oguri, Toma Ikuta (Johnny's Jr), Minami, Hiro Mizushima, Ryo Kimura, Yusuke Yamamoto, Yuma Ishigaki, Nobuo Kyo
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast date: 12 October 2008, 9.00 pm (Sunday)
Official site: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/hanakimi/
Theme song:
Cast:
MAKI HORIKITA
SHUN OGURI
TOMA IKUTA (JOHNNY'S JR)
MINAMI
HIRO MIZUSHIMA
RYO KIMURA
YUSUKE YAMAMOTO
YUMA ISHIGAKI
NOBUO KYO
The special will take place half a year after the series' end. With Osaka Gakuen getting ready for an upcoming Valentine's Day event, Sano and Nakatsu reflect on the final week of their last summer vacation, which falls into the timeline of the original series between episodes 7 and 8. The special also includes a graduation scene and addresses the relationship between Mizuki and Sano. |
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UPCOMING DAILY DORAMA
TELEVIEWS / Can Mana-Kana twins pull-off second NHK morning drama hit?
Wm. Penn / Daily Yomiuri Columnist
The Mikura twins are back, and they are headed for Shimane Prefecture, the place that enchanted 19th-century author Lafcadio Hearn.
Mana and Kana Mikura will star in the new NHK morning serial Dandan, set to begin Sept. 29.
Hitomi has just one week to pack her bags and vacate the NHK 8:15 a.m. morning drama slot Sept. 27. Will Hitomi (Nana Eikura) somehow hip-hop off into the horizon on the arm of her dance mentor Ken? We'll just have to wait and see. Although they have been tying up a lot of the loose ends in the plot, never do Japanese TV dramas guarantee viewers a pat, fairy-tale happy ending. It is one of their most irritating, and occasionally most endearing, qualities.
With Hitomi finally bowing out, the Mikura twins are waiting in the wings, eager to infuse some new life into the sagging morning serial world. And if anyone can do it, it just might be them. They were the child stars of NHK's highly successful morning drama No. 55, Futarikko, the tale of the twin daughters of an Osaka tofu shop owner. It aired back in 1996-97 and averaged Video Research Co. ratings of 29.3 percent. No morning serial since then has had overall ratings that high, although the Hokkaido tale Suzuran in 1999 and the 2001 Chura-san, set in Okinawa Prefecture, came close. It's hard to even remember the titles of most of the rest of the post-1997 morning serial roster.
The question now is whether the twins, recently graduated from college and ready to dive back into the entertainment world life, will be able to work their magic again in Dandan. It's the story of twin sisters separated shortly after birth but reunited by a fateful chance meeting at the Izumo Taisha shrine at age 18.
The action takes place on two fronts--Kyoto and the Izumo region of Shimane Prefecture. Dandan means "thank you" in the Izumo dialect.
Megumi (Mana) has been raised in Matsue by their fisherman father (Eisaku Yoshida), stepmother and paternal grandparents. She's had a typical small town childhood, plays guitar and formed a band with friends in high school.
Nozomi (Kana), who plays a traditional Japanese hand drum, has been raised by their mother (Hikari Ishida) and maternal grandfather in Kyoto. She is studying the traditional geisha arts in the city's Gion district.
After realizing she has a twin sister, Megumi heads off to college in Kyoto. The girls will eventually team up and pursue a singing career reaching stardom with the help of their Osaka manager. This will allow them to provide lots of musical interludes with songs from the 1960s to 1980s. Look also for lots of gourmet moments featuring the local cuisine of both locales.
The short 15-minute morning dramas are a great language learning tool for avid students of Japanese. Dandan has a large supporting cast of veteran character actors in each hometown, but a pictorial diagram that details all the characters and explains their interrelationships can be viewed at www3.nhk.or.jp/asadora/dandan/cast/cast.html. This should help ease the initial confusion for language learners.
The script is by Kyoko Moriwaki.
Veteran singer-songwriter Mariya Takeuchi, a native of Izumo herself, sings the theme song "Enishi no Ito" and provides the narration.
As part of the promotion for the show, the twins will appear on a special discussing the making of the drama Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1:05-1:48 p.m. on NHK General and on NHK's Saturday variety show Sept. 27, 12:15-12:38 p.m. I know the one question I would ask them: How did the twins decide between themselves who got the Kyoto geisha role and who got the country-bred folk singer role?
Are the networks all engaging in a thinly veiled national reeducation campaign? The most recent trend in early prime-time entertainment has been to give us a neverending stream of basic informational quizzes. They tutor and test us on our knowledge of all things Japanese from kanji and idioms to local cuisine and kitchen utensils. They explain the origins of common customs and traditions and even drill us on the locations and attributes of the nation's prefectures. It almost feels like a continuing, total-immersion national refresher course on all things Japanese, the kind of stuff people once learned naturally from their parents, grandparents and schools. It's TV as grandma--just another of the small screen's many functions. Mind you, I'm not complaining. It is far superior to letting the comedians run amok in early prime time.
The TBS network's 13-year international experiment Sekai Ururun Taizaiki ended on Sept. 14 with a two-hour finale that spotlighted some of the 688 talents the show has dispatched to all corners of the world for unusual homestay experiences since 1995. No word yet on what TBS has chosen to replace the program. This show will be a hard act to follow.
(Sep. 19, 2008)
Source: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20080919TDY16004.htm |
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New band flumpool does "Bloody Monday" music
Fri, September 19, 2008 (1:33am EDT)
TBS has chosen a fairly unknown band to provide the theme song for its upcoming Saturday night drama series, "Bloody Monday." The four-man Osaka-based group flumpool will be lending their 2nd digital single, titled "Over the rain ~Hikari no Hashi~."
flumpool made their major label debut with "Hana ni Nare," being used in a commercial for LISMO. That song is being released as a digital single on October 1. "Over the rain" will follow on November 5.
"Bloody Monday," which stars Haruma Miura as a hacker fighting terrorists, premieres on October 11.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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UPCOMING SHORT DORAMA
33 Southern All Stars songs being turned into short dramas
Mon, September 22, 2008 (2:44am EDT)
NTV is working on a new drama project in collaboration with Southern All Stars and management agency Amuse. 33 songs by Southern All Stars are being used as the motifs for a series of short dramas, each lasting approximately 10 minutes. Actor Yo Oizumi, said to be a big fan of the group, has been given the starring role.
This year, Southern All Stars and Amuse are celebrating their 30th anniversaries, and NTV is celebrating the 55th anniversary of its opening. As a result, the project is titled "Southern 30th x NTV 55th x Amuse 30th the Naminori Restaurant." Penned by screenwriter Ellie Omiya, the drama depicts Oizumi as the manager of an unopened restaurant in Chigasaki, Kanagawa.
The specific songs being used have not yet been decided. However, it has been announced that the episodes will not follow a regular schedule. The first of the 33 shorts will air during "Zoom In!! Saturday" on November 1, while the rest will be broadcast between then and November 9, at various times unknown by the viewers.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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Mika Nakashima added to "Ryusei no Kizuna" cast
Tue, September 23, 2008 (1:30am EDT)
Singer Mika Nakashima is taking on her first acting role in a television drama series since "Shiritsu Tantei Hama Mike" in 2002. She has been cast in TBS's "Ryusei no Kizuna," which features young stars Kazunari Ninomiya, Ryo Nishikido, and Erika Toda.
The drama, based on a mystery novel by popular writer Keigo Higashino, was first announced in July. The story follows three siblings who lose their parents to a murderer and subsequently become a team of swindlers to get revenge against the killer.
Nakashima plays a character that was not in the original story - a mysterious woman who is a regular customer at the restaurant where the oldest brother (Ninomiya) works. Her first appearance is in the show's second episode.
Nakashima is also providing a ballad called "ORION," to be used as an insert song in the drama. "ORION" will be released as a single on November 12.
"Ryusei no Kizuna" premieres on October 17.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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Kimaguren lands drama tie-in
Fri, September 26, 2008 (2:59am EDT)
The recently-debuted duo Kimaguren will be handling the theme song of the Fuji TV drama series "ROOM OF KING," which starts next month. After releasing the hit song "LIFE" in May and the chart-topping album "ZUSHI" in July, expectations are high for this new tune, a Latin-influenced number called "Ai NEED."
Moreover, Kimaguren will be doing not just the theme song, but also the insert song and the entire drama soundtrack. The experiment is being compared to the drama "Fuzoroi no Ringotachi" in the early '80s, which Southern All Stars did the music for.
 
"ROOM OF KING," which stars Hiro Mizushima and Anne Suzuki, premieres on October 4. "Ai NEED" goes on sale November 19.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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