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"Saka no Ue no Kumo" to cut "Tenchijin" short
Fri, January 9, 2009 (3:08am EST)
NHK has announced that its major drama project "Saka no Ue no Kumo" will be starting this November. As a result, the currently-airing taiga drama "Tenchijin" will be shorter than previous taiga dramas, ending almost a month early and lasting only 47 episodes, despite getting off to a good start.
"Saka no Ue no Kumo," which began filming in 2007, is based on a historical novel set in the Meiji Era written by author Ryotaro Shiba. Its star-studded cast includes Masahiro Motoki, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Hiroshi Abe, Miho Kanno, and Takako Matsu. Filming is still in progress, with locations overseas and all across Japan.
A total of 13 90-minute episodes are planned, divided into three parts. The first chapter, which is almost done filming, lasts five episodes and will have the First Sino-Japanese War as its climax. It will air on Sundays at 8:00pm, from November 29 to December 27. The drama will then continue with a 4-episode chapter in fall 2010, and another 4-episode chapter in fall 2011.
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"Code Blue" SP breaks 23%
Wed, January 14, 2009 (1:02am EST)
On Saturday, Fuji TV aired a special episode for its "Code Blue" drama series, which was broadcast last year. The episode achieved ratings of 23.1%, surpassing the ratings of the original series.
Last summer, "Code Blue" reached its peak at 21.2% with the opening episode. Over the whole season, it averaged 15.9%, which was the highest out of all the summer dramas.
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Saki Fukuda to star in "Ghost Friends"
Teen actress Saki Fukuda has been cast as the star of NHK's upcoming drama series "Ghost Friends." She has starred in movies and one-shot dramas before, but this will be her first time leading a drama series.
In the show, Fukuda plays a high schooler who can see ghosts as a result of a car accident. The story follows her growth as she interacts with the spirits she meets, and even falls in love with a young male ghost. "Ghost Friends" is said to be a mix of horror, fantasy, and comedy.
"Ghost Friends" premieres on April 2 in NHK's Thursday 8:00pm time slot. A total of 10 episodes are planned.
Source: http://www.tokyograph.com/
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saki fukuda dpt lead !!! :pompom:
sape la yg jadi male ghost nih... hehe... ala2 casper lak bercinta ngan hantu...  |
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Reply #723 Kittie's post
yay Saki! suka tgk dia berlakon  |
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TELEVIEWS / Fuji offers up promising drama for 50th anniversary
Wm. Penn / Daily Yomiuri Columnist
Fuji TV is commemorating its 50th year on air with two serious continuing dramas by grand masters of the scriptwriting craft. Arifureta Kiseki (Thursdays, 10 p.m.) by Taichi Yamada and last quarter's successful Kaze no Garden by So Kuramoto are the centerpieces of the celebrations.
Yamada's career spans four decades, and he is best known for dramas exploring family and societal issues through in-depth character portrayals, such as Kishibe no Album (1977), about a family who lost their home in the Tamagawa river flooding, and Fuzuroi no Ringo Tachi (1983). The latter series and its sequels tracked the lives of a group of college friends from 1983 to 1997. But for the 12 years until this offer came along, Yamada chose not to write another continuing series.
The title of Arifureta Kiseki reflects his view that all our lives represent an amazing series of small miracles. The small miracle that brings Kana (Yukie Nakama) and Shota (Ryo Kase) together is their encounter with a suicidal Fujimoto (Takanori Jinnai), whom they prevent from jumping from a train platform. Later, Fujimoto thanks them, but asks how they sensed his plans. He wonders if they had once thought of suicide themselves. That answer has yet to be revealed, but all the seemingly ordinary characters in this drama have secrets Yamada will slowly expose.
The unusual encounter creates an immediate bond between the couple that gradually draws them closer and closer together, but Shota is hesitant. They come from different worlds. Kana's white-collar family is intact even though each member is lonely and isolated, while Shota works as a plasterer and lives with his father and grandfather. His mother left five years ago.
This is Kase's first lead in a prime-time TV continuing series, but he seems suited to the role and he does have a film career dating all the way back to 2000 and including a role in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima.
The theme song is Enya's "Dreams Are More Precious." She reportedly took an active interest in the project after learning that suicide, taking over 30,000 lives a year, is the sixth leading cause of death in Japan.
Yamada finds her involvement a bit of a miracle in itself. He is quite fascinated with Ireland and even gave Shota's character an interest in Celtic Ireland, long before he realized what theme song would be chosen. And so, life's little miracles go on. Fuji's 50th birthday drama is a present to us all.
Fascinating but confusing, the suspense drama Triangle (Tuesdays, Fuji, 10 p.m.) is also worth watching. But the complicated, meandering plot is full of twists, turns and dead ends.
The story begins with a series of flashbacks. Jan. 12, 1984: We see fifth-grader Sachi lying dead and a little boy, tentatively identified as Ryoji, standing over her with blood on his hands. In the next scene, his brother is helping him wash off the blood at home and telling him the statute of limitations on murder is 15 years.
Jan. 11, 1999: We see Ryoji (Yosuke Eguchi) with blood on his hands again. He is a surgeon but when the clock strikes midnight, he walks out of the hospital. Next, it is 10 years later and he is an Interpol officer. He is shown approaching Japanese artist (Ryoko Hirosue), pretending to be a guide offering to show her around Paris. She takes a liking to him and predicts they'll meet again.
Finally, the story returns to the present. He is back in Japan for training. He's chosen the police station in his old neighborhood that handled the unsolved Sachi murder case 25 years earlier. Shun (Goro Inagaki), the initial investigator's son, works there now. On the day Ryoji arrives, Shun gets an anonymous call piquing his interest in the old case. He begins sniffing about and suspects Ryoji is involved.
Meanwhile, Ryoji is meeting with old classmates. One has written a book on the case. Ryoji wants to read it, but is not granted access to the manuscript, which then immediately goes missing.
Episode 1 ended with a class reunion. In walks Hirosue. Everyone wonders who she is, but Ryoji knows. He goes up to her and calls her Sachi. At the same time, Shun is interviewing Sachi's mother, who also claims that Sachi is not dead. In Episode 2, we learn the artist is an Osaka orphan adopted to take Sachi's place and the manuscript robbery was faked. Then, Ryoji is stabbed protecting Sachi. Yes, definitely confusing but fascinating.
Will wonders never cease? The first two entries in the new winter drama lineup were quite watchable. Can we make it three hits tonight with Love Shuffle (Friday, 10 p.m., TBS)? A drama about eight young people confused about love, it's got a script by Shinji Nojima, who created many of the 1990s' biggest hits, and Karina in the starring role. It also has Daigo in his first major drama appearance--but can the black-gloved wizard of "Wisshu" act? We'll find out tonight.
(Jan. 16, 2009)
Source: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20090116TDY16004.htm |
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UPCOMING MIDNIGHT DORAMA
"Yukemuri Sniper" being adapted to TV
Sat, January 17, 2009 (2:57pm EST)
TV Tokyo will be adapting the manga series "Yukemuri Sniper" as a live-action drama next season. The original comic, written by Yuho Hijikata and illustrated by Tadashi Matsumori, was serialized in the magazine Manga Sunday from 1998 to 2004.
The story revolves around a top-notch assassin who retires and wants to live the rest of his life in peace, so he begins working at a remote hot-spring ryokan.
The series will air in TV Tokyo's "Drama 24" time slot (Friday 12:12am), starting in April.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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UPCOMING DORAMA SP
Fuji TV drama mixes blood type and marriage
Mon, January 19, 2009 (4:20pm EST)
Next month, Fuji TV will air a four-night drama special titled "Ketsuekigatabetsu Onna ga Kekkon Suru Houhou." The romantic comedy follows the path to marriage for four different women, each representative of a different blood type.
Each character will be played by an actress of the same blood type. They all have different personalities and occupations, though they share the same name of Yukie Harukawa.
   
Rosa Kato plays the type-A Yukie, an OL in the accounting department of a small firm, while Naoki Nokubo plays her partner. Yumiko Shaku (type-B) is a successful drama screenwriter, pairing up with Hiroyuki Miyasako. Yu Kashii (type-O) is a freeter whose partner is played by Taiwanese actor Wilson Chen. Asami Mizukawa plays the last Yukie (type-AB), a university student. She is teaming up with TOKIO's Shigeru Joshima.
   
Harisenbon's Haruna Kondo will be a common character for the four episodes, playing a friend of Yukie.
The drama will air at 11:00pm on February 23-26.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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Italian forensic science drama starring Japanese actress gets high audience ratings
Friday 23rd January, 04:23 AM JST
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UPCOMING DORAMA SP
"Ani Kaeru" kicks off WOWOW's "Drama W"
Mon, January 26, 2009 (12:40am EST)
WOWOW has revealed its starting lineup for the year in its "Drama W" series. So far, three dramas have been announced, which will air on consecutive weeks next month.
 
The first is "Ani Kaeru," adapted from the manga by Yoko Kondo. Kazuya Takahashi plays Koichi, the eldest child of the Noda family, who essentially had to become the head of the house after his father disappeared. One day, he also disappears, leaving behind his fiancee Makiko (Yoshino Kimura) and the rest of the family. Three years later, he comes home after a traffic accident, unable to say a word. Wondering where he was and why he left, Makiko begins a journey to retrace his steps.
  
The second drama is "Senryokugai Tsuukoku," based on a novel by Yoshinaga Fujita. The story revolves around Hideaki Utsugi (Masatoshi Nakamura), who joined a clothing company after graduation. With his wife Eriko (Jun Fubuki) supporting him at home, he becomes successful at work and is about to be appointed as an executive. However, the company president suddenly dies and is succeeded by his son, who treats Utsugi poorly. Utsugi resigns but has difficulty finding a new job. In addition, Eriko starts working, leading to problems at home. At that point, Utsugi ends up attending a junior high school reunion and meets his old classmates, including his first love (Kyoko Maya). But while everyone seems fine on the surface, they are all actually suffering from their own hardships.
 
The last of the three dramas is "Choushokutei," an adaptation of a work by writer Koji Nishida. The show centers on Choushokutei, a small restaurant in Tokyo's Taito ward, where a group of ten local residents share breakfast every morning before the shop opens. Each leads a troubled life, but they find comfort in their common meal, even though they don't say much to each other. One day, they learn that the drunk driver who killed the restaurant owner's son (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi) four years ago is about to be released from prison. At the time of his death, the son had uttered his final words to his wife-to-be, but in reality those words had been meant for Misako (Asaka Seto), an OL who is one of the ten people sharing breakfast at Choushokutei. Slowly, the truth of the past comes out.
The three dramas will air in WOWOW's Saturday 8:00pm time slot. "Ani Kaeru" will go first on February 14, followed by "Senryokugai Tsuukoku" on February 21 and "Choushokutei" on February 28.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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TELEVIEWS - A trio of indifferent dramas
January 24, 2009 by J!-ENT
In a recent column by Wm. Penn for the Daily Yomiuri, Penn wrote about upcoming dramas. Here is an excerpt from her televiews column:
This week Televiews ponders the future of terrestrial TV, emigration options for lobsters and three mediocre series.
First, that trio of dramas. The best of an average bunch was Honjitsu mo Hare, Ijo Nashi (Sundays, 9 p.m., TBS), another in the long string of 搇et抯 move to Okinawa and find ourselves |
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UPCOMING DORAMA SP
Yonekura returns in "Koshonin" SP
Tue, January 27, 2009 (2:22am EST)
Last winter, actress Ryoko Yonekura starred as a police negotiator in the TV Asahi drama series "Koshonin ~The Negotiator~." The network has announced that the show will be returning in the form of a special episode, scheduled to air on February 28.
Yonekura will of course reprise her role as the negotiator Reiko Usagi. The story this time revolves around a kidnapping case, with one of the highlights said to be an action scene in which Yonekura jumps onto a medical emergency helicopter.
During its initial broadcast, "Koshonin" averaged ratings of 13.4% over its 8 episodes.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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Televiews - TV Detectives
January 31, 2009 by J!-ENT
The following is an excerpt from Wm. Penn抯 揟eleviews |
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UPCOMING DORAMA SP
"Shibatora" SP slated for spring
Tue, February 3, 2009 (12:20am EST)
The popular Fuji TV drama series "Shibatora," which starred Teppei Koike as a baby-faced cop working in the juvenile division, will be returning to television. During a DVD release event on Monday, it was announced that a two-hour special is scheduled to air sometime this spring.
Filming started on Tuesday. Naohito Fujiki, Miki Maya, and Suzuka Ohgo are among the returning cast members.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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Meisa Kuroki, Aoi Miyazaki win All Nippon Producers Awards
TOKYO — Actresses Meisa Kuroki, 20, Erika Toda, 20, Aoi Miyazaki, 23, and actors Eita, 26, Shota Matsuda, 23, and Haruma Miura, 18, took out awards for best new performers for their roles in movies released and television dramas aired from December 2007 to November last year at the Elan d’or Awards for 2009. The awards were held by the All Nippon Producers Association in the Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku.
Kuroki, who won for her work in Fuji TV’s “Kaze no Garden” or “Garden of Wind” said on receiving the award: “I’ve never been happier. I’ve worked hard on my acting this past year.”
Kuroki is in a relationship with musician KEN, who lives in New York. “I hope he hears about this award,” she said. She also said with a smile that she hadn’t thought about sending KEN chocolates for Valentine’s Day.
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Takashi Miike joins cast of "Tenchijin"
Fri, February 6, 2009 (1:51am EST)
Popular director Takashi Miike is set to make his debut as a television drama actor. He will appear in NHK's taiga drama "Tenchijin," which features several stars he has worked with before, such as lead actor Satoshi Tsumabuki, Shun Oguri, and Kyoko Fukada.
Miike will have a semi-regular role in the series, starting with the 6th episode on February 8. He plays a retainer to Uesugi Kagetora (Tetsuji Tamayama). It is said that he will have a sword fight scene with Tsumabuki during the series.
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UPCOMING DAILY DORAMA
Noboru Kaneko stars as "newhalf" in TV Tokyo drama
Mon, February 9, 2009 (12:13am EST)
This spring, TV Tokyo will broadcast a daytime drama series called "Mama wa Newhalf," starring actor Noboru Kaneko. This is his first time playing the lead in a serial drama.
Kaneko plays a hard-working, elite salaryman who has suffered from a gender identity disorder since his youth. As a result, he spends his nights as a "newhalf" (transsexual) by the name of Luna, working as the number-one hostess at a nightclub. However, his life becomes even more complicated when he ends up taking in a five-year-old boy and having to fill the role of a parent.
The show will start on April 6, airing every weekday. TV Tokyo has not yet determined the specific time slot.
Source: www.tokyograph.com |
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