Korean Drama

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.

Sora Tobu Tire

Alternative Title: 空飛ぶタイヤ
Genre: Human Drama, Suspense
Film Date: March, 2008
Japanese Drama Cast: Aijima Kazuyuki, Hakamada Yoshihiko, Komoto Masahiro, 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.

Shaolin Girl

Alternative Title: Shorin Shojo | 少林少女
Genre: Action
Film Date: April, 2008
Japanese Movie Cast: Eguchi Yosuke, Kou Shibasaki, Nakamura Toru
Description: A young female kung fu teacher, Rin, who must take over her grandfather's dojo. In order to prepare herself, she travels to China for 3,000 days of grueling Shaolin kung fu training. On her return to Japan, she works to rebuild the dojo and joins her university lacrosse club, putting her considerable physical prowess to work for the team.
Shaolin Girl is a sequel to the 2001 Stephen Chow Chinese comedy Shaolin Soccer. The sequel is a Japanese production, with Stephen Chow working as a producer of the film.

Team Batista no Eiko

Alternative Title: チーム・バチスタの栄光
Genre: Mystery
Film Date: October, 2008
Japanese Drama Cast: Hayashi Ryuzo, Ihara Tsuyoshi, Ito Atsushi, Nakamura Toru , Notari Yuko, Shaku Yumiko, Shirota Yu, Tsurumi Shingo
Description: There exists a legendary team of surgical experts in Tojo University Hospital that specializes in the Batista procedure - one of the most difficult cardiac surgeries with the survival rate only at 60%. Ever since its formation, this team has shocked the country by having 26 consecutive post-operative successes, virtually unheard of in the medical community. They basked in the glory until one day when three recent procedures produced consecutive deaths on the operating table. Taguchi, an internal medicine specialist has been entrusted with the investigation but since he is dealing with skills beyond his realm of expertise, he soon brushes off speculations of murder and deems the deaths accidents. Then arrives Shiratori, a Ministry of Health investigator. He not only labels Taguchi naive but speaks with confidence that this is a murder, and the murderer is within this team of elites. As the mystery unfolds, so does the complicated affiliation between each of the seven team members, will the duo discover the truth in time?

Karei Naru Ichizoku

Alternative Title: 華麗なる一族 | The Grand Family
Genre: Business, Human Drama , Romance
Film Date: January, 2007
Japanese Drama Cast: Aibu Saki, Harada Mieko, Hasegawa Kyoko, Kimura Takuya, Kitaoji Kinya, Nakamura Toru , Suzuki Kyoka, Yamada Yu, Yamamoto Koji
Description: Originally a novel by Yamazaki Toyoko, and later a 1974 movie, Karei naru Ichizoku depicts the conflicts within the Manpyo family, famous in Kansai's financial circles, amidst the tumultuous reorganization of the financial industry of the late 1960s. Unlike the book, the eldest son, Teppei, and not the father, Daisuke, is the central character of the drama.

A Sleeping Forest

Alternative Title: A Sleeping Forest | Nemureru Mori | 眠れる森
Genre: Mystery
Film Date: October, 1998
Japanese Drama Cast: Kimura Takuya, Nakamura Toru , Nakayama Miho, Natsuyagi Isao, Okada Masumi
Description: Kimura Takuya plays Ito Naoki, a mysterious man that seems to have some special connection with Oba Minako (Nakayama Miho) by their childhood. But Minako has lost her memory long ago and she won't remember anything about her childhood or him. Naoki knows almost everything about her and he secretly invites her to the "Sleeping Forest". From there on their story begins, into a mix of dark and romantic drama.

Tokyo Wankei

Alternative Title: 東京湾景
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: July, 2004
Japanese Drama Cast: Nakamura Shunsuke, Nakamura Toru , Sato Eriko, Yukie Nakama
Description: "Please tell me who I really am."