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Alternative Title: Sono toki wa kare ni yoroshiku | そそのときは彼によろしく

Genre: Drama, Romance

Film Date: June, 2007

Japanese Movie Cast: Kohinata Fumiyo, Kuninaka Ryoko, Nagasawa Masami , Tsukamoto Takashi, Yamada Takayuki

Description: Quiet, earnest, and a bit nerdy, Toyama Satoshi runs a marine plants store where he can indulge in his love for aquatic vegetation. Though he barely makes enough money, Satoshi is determined to hold on to the store as it fulfills a promise he made to his two best friends years ago. One day, a beautiful young model shows up at his steps asking for a job. As clueless as ever, it takes some time before Satoshi realizes that she is actually his childhood friend and first crush Karin. Though he doesn't understand what has brought Karin to him so suddenly after thirteen years, Satoshi is glad to have her back in his life. Their happiness is short-lived though as they soon receive sobering news about their friend Yuji .

(4 vote(s), average: 7.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 瑠璃の島 | Ruri's Island

Genre: Human Drama

Film Date: April, 2005

Japanese Drama Cast: Kohinata Fumiyo, Narumi Riko, Nishida Naomi, Ogata Ken, Takenouchi Yutaka

Description: On Hatoma, a small island in Okinawa state part of Japan's southern sea frontier, the social environment is suffering. With the last student of the elementary school leaving the place, the closing of the school is a virtual given. Mr. Nakama (Ogata Ken), decides to do something about it - and heads for Tokyo to recruit his grandson. Rebuffed by his daughter, however, he decides to adopt another child. He finds Ruri (Narumi Riko), a mature girl of 11 who distrusts people due to the fact that her mother (Nishida Naomi) doesn't care much about her, but after seeing Mr. Nakama's true intentions, allows him to take her to the island. Unfortunately, the local teacher, Ms. Sanae (Konishi Manami), who was banking on the school's closing to be able to go somewhere else, is resentful of Ruri and makes light of her city fashion (including permed hair, fake curls, and miniskirts), which leads to a big showdown between her and Ruri - and the people who were enthusiastic about her suddenly begin to have their doubts, and only Mr. Nakama and his wife Megumi (Baisho Mitsuko) take Ruri's side strongly. Following into the island is Mr. Kawashima (Takenouchi Yutaka), a mysterious man who saves Ruri from drowning following the fight - and who becomes her conscience and friend in her daily life in the island. But is Kawashima what he seems? Or did he come to the island to run away from Tokyo - and possibly a crime he may have been involved in there? Katsumura and Nishiyama play a local married couple of neighbors, Kashu and Igawa a local unmarried couple of neighbors, all of them willing to help Ruri in their own way...

(2 vote(s), average: 1.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: あしたの、喜多善男 | Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow | 世界一不運な男の、奇跡の１１日間 | The World's Unluckiest Man

Genre: Human Drama

Film Date: January, 2008

Japanese Drama Cast: Kohinata Fumiyo, Konishi Manami, Kuriyama Chiaki, Matsuda Ryuhei

Description: Can a coward commit suicide?Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend’s death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.

(402 vote(s), average: 9.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: ハチワンダイバー | 81diver

Genre: Sports, Suspense

Film Date: May, 2008

Japanese Drama Cast: Kinoshita Yukina, Kohinata Fumiyo, Mizobata Junpei, Naka Riisa , Yasuda Misako

Description: Sugata Kentaro used to be one of the most hopeful trainee to be a professional Shogi (Japanese chess) player, but fails at the final test. Now he has become a "Shinkenshi," a gambler who plays Shogi for money, and boasts his 182 wins in a row. But he is devastated when he is beaten completely by a young woman known as "Ukeshi" who takes any challenges and never loses. As Shogi means everything to him, he decides to train himself harder to become the strongest player. Based on a popular comic, this comedy drama is about a young man's exciting journey to reorganize his life through a series of tough challenges in Shogi guided by a mysterious girl.

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Alternative Title: プリズナー

Genre: Human Drama, Suspense

Film Date: November, 2008

Japanese Drama Cast: Kohinata Fumiyo, Nakamura Shunsuke, Omori Nao, Tamayama Tetsuji, Tsuruta Mayu

Description: Prisoner was adapted from a true story, the account of a Japanese man arrested in Cambodia, protagonist of Sawai Kujira's Prisoner in Phnom Penh. The location changed to an imaginary island in Southeast Asia (shoot was in Thailand), but the rest remains more or less the same. Going to Seraivia to meet old senpai Yuzurihara (Nakamura Shunsuke), Izawa Keigo (Tamayama Tetsuji) finds himself involved in more than he could ever expect. He quickly learns there's no law you can't bend with a few good dead presidents, and that embassies only work as long as you don't become a burden to them. Following a man who conned his friend, Keigo finds himself in prison, with a 10 year sentence and seemingly no way to escape, although he does find a friend in the ambiguous Pon (Ohmori Nao, his first drama appearance in two years). Real estate intrigues, corrupt police, a mounting death toll and the tasty decadence of a banana (or... well, pineapple) republic. That's Seraivia for you.