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.

News Sokuho wa Nagareta

Alternative Title: ニュース速報は流れた
Genre: Suspense
Film Date: November, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Fukazawa Atsushi, Furuta Arata, Narimiya Hiroki, Sakai Wakana, Satsukawa Aimi
Description: Set in a television newsroom, it is described as a “real-time” suspense drama, in the style of the popular American series “24.” The story focuses on an incident that unfolds during the hours between late night and morning.

Gaiji Keisatsu

Alternative Title: 外事警察
Genre: Police, Suspense
Film Date: November, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Ishibashi Ryo, Ishida Yuriko, Kenichi Endo, Watabe Atsuro, Yo Kimiko
Description: In this world, there exists a police force that goes unnoticed, hidden deep within the city and never revealing themselves. Established after the September 11 attacks, this elite division, known as "Ura", is tasked with combating threats of international terrorism and espionage. Sumimoto Kenji leads this team in a war of secret intelligence, deception, and betrayal.

Gyoretsu no 48 Jikan

Alternative Title: 行列48時間
Genre: Comedy, Suspense
Film Date: October, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Iwata Sayuri , Kaneda Akio, Kunimura Jun, Morishita Aiko, Sano Shiro, Taira Airi
Description: A drama about a man nearing his retirement who waits in line for 48 hours to buy a lucky bag on New Year's Day. He and others with strong characters in queue, find themselves caught in a series of strange incidents. The unexpected story evolves through meeting people who try to hide their true feelings.

Bloody Monday Season 2

Alternative Title: ブラッディ・マンデイ
Genre: Action, Suspense
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Kawashima Umika, Miura Haruma
Description: Whereas the first series dealt with a deadly Russian weapons-grade virus, the new season is set two years later when an aircraft bearing a new kind of nuclear weapon threatens Tokyo.

ROMES

Alternative Title: 空港防御システム
Genre: Suspense
Film Date: October, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Kuninaka Ryoko, Ogi Shigemitsu, Okura Tadayoshi , Watanabe Hiroyuki, Yasuda Shota
Description: Recently built on an artificial island, the (fictional) Tokyo Bay International Airport is equipped with the most advanced security system in the world, known as ROMES. To celebrate the airport's first anniversary, a gold statue called the "Goddess of Temptation" is placed on display at the airport. After an international group of thieves called Silverfox issues a challenge to the airport and begins exploiting the ROMES system, the director requests assistance from the brilliant Narishima Yuya, who knows the system the best out of anyone. Yuya's team of experts is assigned to combat this dangerous organization, which continues to escalate its activities. Meanwhile, Yuya himself has a different reason for coming to the airport...

Harvest Villa

Alternative Title: Harvest Villa | Good Harvest Villa | 풍년빌라
Genre: Comedy, Suspense
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Description: ‘Harvest Villa’ is a suspense comedy drama which centers it’s story on the existence of a huge inheritance left to a man who doesn’t know and a woman who is desperately in need of money and each of the neighbours who are also keeping secrets to take the money for themselves even if they are to dip their hands in blood.

Orthros no Inu

Alternative Title: オルトロスの犬
Genre: Human Drama, Suspense
Film Date: July, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Harada Natsuki, Mizukawa Asami, Nishikido Ryo, Oshinari Shugo, Takizawa Hideaki, Yamamoto Ryuuji
Description: Ryuzaki Shinji who possesses a “God Hand”, the power to heal wounds and illnesses just by touching the patient, is in fact a dark introvert who does not reveal his true self to others. Aoi Ryosuke who possesses the “Demon’s Hand”, the power to kill a person just by touching him, is as kind and pure as an angel. When the demon meets the God, a fatal battle begins…

Ningen no Shoumei

Alternative Title: 人間の証明 | Proof of the Man
Genre: Mystery, Suspense
Film Date: July, 2004
Japanese Drama Cast: Matsuzaka Keiko, Natsukawa Yui, Ogata Ken, Osugi Ren, Takenouchi Yutaka
Description: The police raid a club in Roppongi, Tokyo - a trendy area of the city that attracts youths and more recently drug trafficking. When a drug dealer tries to escape from a club with a gun in hand, the whole club goes into chaos. But one man ignores the gun pointed directly at him and blocks the dealer's path. It's Ichiro Munesue, a cop from the local police station. The drug dealer struggles to get away, but Ichiro subdues him and makes a brilliant arrest. When Ichiro returns to the police station, his boss announces his appointment to Central Headquarters - a great promotion for a cop working the local beat like Ichiro. Off the clock, Ichiro is very gentle, but when it comes to being a cop, he is obsessed with arresting criminals. At times, Ichiro does spin out of control, however. His superiors consider his actions brave and driven by a strong sense of justice - which is why he was promoted. His new boss, Eizaburo Nasu is looking forward to Ichiro's arrival. One day an African-American man is found dead on a small island in Daiba, Tokyo. He has a deep wound in his chest, indicating that he was stabbed by a very sharp knife. The man seemed to have been walking along the long land bridge that connects the beach and the island. Ichiro teams up with a veteran cop, Atsushi Yokowatari, to tackle this case. But their investigation goes nowhere. The man was found dead at the entrance of the land bridge, but it would have been almost impossible for him to walk the distance with such a deep wound. The police conclude that he was killed elsewhere. However, witnesses near the bridge claim that nobody else but the American man passed through the area. No one knows who the man was. And he had no identification on him. The only clue to the case is his final words heard by a passerby - "stoha." What is the mystery behind the man's dying message?