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.

Smile

Alternative Title: スマイル
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Film Date: April, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Aragaki Yui, Koike Eiko, Matsumoto Jun, Nakai Kiichi, Tokuyama Hidenori
Description: Hayakawa Bito has a Filipino father and a Japanese mother, but he was born and raised in Japan and has never visited the Philippines. The ever-smiling Bito works at Machimura Foods during the day, and at night, he works a part-time job trying to make his dreams come true. One day during an incident at a bookstore, he meets a girl named Mishima Hana, who lost her ability to speak due to an accident. But even though she can't speak, Bito is drawn to her beautiful smile. However, Bito becomes wrongly suspected by the police for a crime, and after meeting the lawyer Kazuma, the issue begins to grow... Together, Bito, Hana, and Kazuma will go through challenging times and have to overcome many obstacles.

Yellow Tears

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Film Date: November, 2007
Japanese Movie Cast: Matsumoto Jun, Ninomiya Kazunari, Sakurai Sho, Tabata Tomoko
Description: The five members of Arashi appear together on the big screen again in the highly anticipated Kiiroi Namida, a.k.a. Yellow Tears. Based on the classic manga by Nagashima Shinji, this nostalgic film takes the audience back to the 1960s with a moving story about youth, friendship, and the pursuit of dreams. Director Inudo Isshin, whose previous works include Touch, Maison de Himiko, and Across a Gold Prairie, strikes the right balance of compelling drama and coming-of-age tropes in following the hopes and trials of five young men in post-war Japan. With all the members of Arashi in a film together for the first time since Pikanchi, Kiiroi Namida inevitably bears the label of an idol movie, but it is much more than that. Matsumoto Jun (Hana Yori Dango), Sakurai Sho (Honey and Clover), Ninomiya Kazunari (Letters from Iwo Jima), Aiba Masaki (Triple Kitchen), and Ohno Satoshi have all developed respectable acting careers in their own rights, and the film truly showcases them as individual actors, while building on the chemistry they have as a group.

Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru

Alternative Title: みゅうの足パパにあげる|Myu will Give Daddy Her Legs
Genre: Family, Human Drama
Film Date: August, 2008
Japanese Drama Cast: Hatakeyama Rina, Ishihara Yoshizumi, Karina, Matsumoto Jun
Description: The drama is based on a true story of Yamaguchi Hayato (25), a young man who learns he has a rare illness known as CIDP, which affects the nervous system. He begins to lose the functioning of his limbs, but he is determined to fight the illness with the support of his wife and his 2-year-old daughter, Myu-chan.

Hana Yori Dango Final

Alternative Title: Hana Yori Dango Final
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Film Date: November, 2008
Japanese Movie Cast: Abe Tsuyoshi, Inoue Mao, Matsuda Shota, Matsumoto Jun, Nishihara Aki, Shun Oguri
Description: begins as Domyoji holds an extravagant press conference to announce his wedding to Makino the following spring. The press is playing her up like a modern-day Cinderella and everything seems to be going well. Later, the families offer congratulations to the couple. Even Domyoji’s mother—who was formerly vehemently opposed to the relationship and tried desperately to break them up at every opportunity—is suddenly happy for them. She even offers Makino a family heirloom: a tiara worth 10 billion yen (about $95 million USD) called “Smile of Venus”.
Later in their hotel room, Makino begins to worry that her life is about to take a drastic change from what she’s used to. Domyoji consoles her by telling her he’ll spend the rest of his life protecting her, but just as he says that a man dressed in black crashes into their room through a window and steals the “Smile of Venus” tiara. Domyoji tries to chase the man but he vanishes into the city. By the time they get back to the hotel room the glass is completely cleaned up and the window is replaced as if nothing had ever happened. Obviously there’s some sort of conspiracy going on. Could Domyoji’s mother be meddling again, hoping to make it look like Makino carelessly lost the tiara herself? Or is someone at the hotel trying to cover up the crime? Domyoji and Makino are determined to get to the bottom of things, and end up going on a wild adventure together which takes them through Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and various places throughout the world. And don’t worry fangirls, the rest of F4 will show up too.

Bokura no Yuuki

Alternative Title: ぼくらの勇気 ~未満都市~ | Keys to the City ~ The Kids are in Charge ~ | Miman City | Bokura no Yuuki ~Miman To
Genre: Mystery, Suspense
Film Date: October, 1997
Japanese Drama Cast: Aiba Masaki, Domoto Koichi, Domoto Tsuyoshi, Hosho Mai , Kohara Yuki, Matsumoto Jun, Yada Akhiko
Description: An entire city becomes managed solely by children after a mysterious accident results in the deaths of all the adults. The child leaders must save the city and also fight the government, which tries to hide the truth. -- NTV

Bambino!

Alternative Title: バンビーノ!
Genre: Food
Film Date: April, 2007
Japanese Drama Cast: Karina, Matsumoto Jun, Sato Ryuta, Uchida Yuki
Description: A drama adaptation of a popular comic written by Sekiya Tetsuji. After a year of working at a neighborhood Italian restaurant, Ban Shogo (Matsumoto Jun), an enthusiastic, cocky young college student from Fukuoka, comes to Tokyo to perfect his cooking skills as a chef in Italian cuisine. He discovers he has much to learn and has to continually prove himself to the very competitive, quick and efficient staff at the upscale Italian restaurant.

Kimi wa Petto

Alternative Title: きみはペット | You're My Pet | Tramps Like Us
Genre: Comedy, Drama , Romance
Film Date: April, 2003
Japanese Drama Cast: Koyuki, Matsumoto Jun, Sakai Wakana, Tanabe Seiichi
Description: After a terrible day at work and a bad break up, Iwaya Sumire played by Koyuki returns home sad, depressed, and most of all lonely. However, at the front of the apartment she finds an unconscious young man lying in a cardboard box. Feeling sorry for him, she takes him into her home and nurses him back to health. As the young man, played by Matsumoto Jun, gets better he begins to like her place and resolves not to leave her. In fact, he even professes that he'll do anything she wanted if she allowed him to stay. Sumire looks over at a picture of the golden retriever that she had when she was a child and jokingly says to him, "You can stay if you become my pet."

Hana Yori Dango Season 2

Alternative Title: Boys Before Flowers | Boys Over Flowers
Genre: Romance
Film Date: January, 2007
Japanese Drama Cast: Abe Tsuyoshi, Inoue Mao, Kato Natsuki, Matsuda Shota, Matsumoto Jun, Nishihara Aki, Oguri Shun, Seto Saki
Description: This second season of Hana Yori Dango picks up right after Domyoji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyoji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try and help Makino meet Domyoji again by going to New York for the christmas holidays. Though F4 and Makino meet Domyoji again, he has become a completely different person, and so they leave for Japan.

Hana Yori Dango

Alternative Title: 花より男子 | Boys Before Flowers | Boys Over Flowers
Genre: Romance
Film Date: October, 2005
Japanese Drama Cast: Abe Tsuyoshi, Inoue Mao, Matsuda Shota, Matsumoto Jun, Oguri Shun
Description: Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, the school of the ridiculously rich and privileged that is ruled by Flower 4 or F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families: Domyoji Tsukasa, the leader and heir of the Domyoji World Finance Group; Hanazawa Rui, the introverted son of a large company; Nishikado Sojiro, a player who is the heir of a tea ceremony school; and Mimasaka Akira, a madam killer with ties to the underground. If a student gets on the F4’s bad side, he/she gets a red notice and is bullied and driven out of school.