Korean Drama

Saigo no Yakusoku

Alternative Title: 最後の約束
Genre: Human Drama, Suspense
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Aiba Masaki, Kuroki Meisa, Matsumoto Jun, Ninomiya Kazunari, Ohno Satoshi , Sakurai Sho
Description: "Saigo no Yakusoku" is described as a human suspense story involving the hijack of a major building. The members of Arashi play five young men who happen to be inside, and the story depicts their attempt to escape and their interactions with the other people caught up in the incident.

Soratobu Taiya

Alternative Title: 空飛ぶタイヤ
Genre: Human Drama, Suspense
Film Date: March, 2008
Japanese Drama Cast: Mimura, Mizuno Miki , Nakamura Toru , Tanabe Seiichi
Description: A tire comes off a moving truck and becomes a deadly weapon, hitting a mother and child. The problem was caused by the vehicle manufacturer's failure to recall the vehicle, but the blame falls on the head of the delivery company who, despairing, searches for evidence that the recall was suppressed. Crossing paths with banks, police, weekly magazine writers, the victim's family, and various others, he eventually gets to the truth of the matter.

Kyoto Chiken no Onna Season 5

Alternative Title: 京都地検の女 5
Genre: Human Drama, Mystery
Film Date: April, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Terajima Susumu, Watanabe Ikkei
Description: Veteran actress Yuko Natori will star in "Kyoto Chiken no Onna", a new TV Asahi network series. She plays a lady prosecutor who solves crimes with a housewife's intuitive good sense.

Saisei no Machi

Alternative Title: 再生の町
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: August, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Danta Yasunori, Tsutsui Michitaka , Yajima Kenichi
Description: Takaoka Shunma is a man who loses his job and returns to his hometown in Osaka with his wife in order to take care of his mother. There, in the fictional city of Namihaya, he finds employment at the municipal office where his deceased father used to work. But with Namihaya on the brink of economic collapse, the city launches a difficult financial reform project. Shunma ends up involved in the operation, burdening him with the task of reviving the place he calls home.

Mama wa Mukashi Papa datta

Alternative Title: ママは昔パパだった
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: August, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Komuro Yuta, Shirakawa Yumi, Toda Keiko, Yo Kimiko, Yoshida Eisaku
Description: Hitomi is the single mother of two young boys, Shun and Ryo. She has always been considered beautiful by her sons who are proud of her. However, Hitomi wasn't always their mother. Until ten years ago Hitomi was a man. After being diagnosed with gender identity disorder and undergoing sexual reassignment surgery, Hitomi, then known as Hitoshi, began living life as a woman.

Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 4

Alternative Title: 救命病棟24時 4
Genre: Human Drama, Medical
Film Date: August, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Eguchi Yosuke, Itao Itsuji, Kimura Tae, Kitano Kii, Matsushima Nanako, Yusuke Santamaria
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Arashi ga Kureta Mono

Alternative Title: 嵐がくれたもの
Genre: Family, Human Drama
Film Date: August, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast:
Description: Setsuko's family is hit by the devastating Typhoon Vera (also known as Isewan Typhoon) in September 1959, which resulted in more than 4,500 people dead and over 600 people missing. Her husband and daughter disappear in the typhoon, and while taking refuge, she meets an orphan whom she begins raising as her child. Ten years later, she discovers that her husband and daughter are alive, leading a separate life.

Challenged

Alternative Title: チャレンジド
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: October, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Murakawa Eri, Natsuyagi Isao, Sasaki Kuranosuke, Tanaka Minoru, Tomita Yasuko
Description: A story about a school teacher who tries to go back to teaching after losing his eyesight due to an illness. Find the fascinating human drama that evolves through his strong belief in teaching, the importance of caring for others and the spiritual exchanges between the teacher, children and fellow teachers.

Salaryman Kintaro Season 2 (TV Asahi)

Alternative Title: サラリーマン金太郎
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Furuya Ikko, Hosokawa Shigeki, Inoue Waka, Nagai Masaru, Utsui Ken
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Magerarenai Onna

Alternative Title: 曲げられない女
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Kanno Miho, Nagasaku Hiromi, Tanihara Shosuke, Tsukamoto Takashi
Description: Ogiwara Saki, 33, is a woman who does not go with the flow of society but forges her own path. She hates flattering men and trying to be nice to people of the same sex. She has failed the bar exam ten times in a row but persists in her dream of being a lawyer while working as a clerk at a law firm. Saki’s good friend, Osabe Riko, who is a mother of two children, was high school classmates with Saki, but is in fact 35, because she had deliberately declared herself to be two years younger. She has no qualms of lying for the sake of female happiness, pretending to be married to a man of wealth and blessed with children. Because her personality is the exact opposite, this accentuates Saki’s uncompromising way of life.