(8 vote(s), average: 6.94 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 素直になれなくて | Hard to say I love you

Genre: Drama

Film Date: April, 2010

Japanese Drama Cast: Eita, Seki Megumi, Tamayama Tetsuji, Ueno Juri, Hero Jaejoong

Description: Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno's best friend, whose boyfriend has been avoiding her since she discovered she was pregnant. Ichihara works at a magazine where he is being blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor. Park, on Twitter, takes on the persona of a doctor, when he is actually working at a company that sells medical equipment to disinterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister.This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.

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

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Genre: Detective

Film Date: April, 2009

Japanese Drama Cast: Amami Yuki, Mizobata Junpei, Takenouchi Yutaka, Tamayama Tetsuji, Toda Erika

Description: This series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband. In fact, her assignment in the U.S. was really a demotion after she ruined her career track over a man. So why was she chosen as the boss of the new division? Even though the detectives are talented, they all have some kind of issue or flaw, and they are considered to be the "problem children" of the police force. In the end, the division's true purpose is just to isolate these problematic detectives.

(1 vote(s), average: 5.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: Tegami | 手紙

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Film Date: November, 2006

Japanese Movie Cast: Sawajiri Erika, Tamayama Tetsuji, Yamada Takayuki

Description: How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki, and, branded as a "murderer's brother," Naoki is deprived of his love, career and dream. His desperate situation gradually changes when he finds true love with Yumiko, who always stands by him. To protect the love that he has finally found, Naoki begins writing a letter to Takeshi... The touching story of a man who was powerless against his irreversible fate, but still tried to overcome it in the quest for his dream.

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

Alternative Title: ブラザー☆ビート

Genre: Comedy, Family

Film Date: October, 2005

Japanese Drama Cast: Hayami Mokomichi, Kuninaka Ryoko, Nakao Akiyoshi, Tamayama Tetsuji, Tanaka Misako

Description: Tanaka Misako stars as a woman struggling to raise her three sons - played by Tamayama Tetsuji, Hayami Mokomichi and Nakao Akiyoshi - after her husband dies. Kuninaka Ryoko will appear as Tamayama's girlfriend, Chisato.They don’t know when to stop, and live life to the full—meet the never-a-dull-moment Sakurai family, where nobody holds their feelings back. Returning to serial drama for the first time in five years, Misako Tanaka and the three hyperactive sons provide a story with a heartbeat. Sakurai Harue (Tanaka) who has brought up her sons alone after her husband died, is absolutely hopeless at running a household. Her eldest, stickler Tatsuya (Tamayama), does the job in her place while keeping younger brothers Riku (Hayami), and Junpei (Nakao) firmly in line. The sparks are constantly flying, but that’s the way it goes in this home. Tatsuya, a serious-minded advertising agency worker, and his brothers, an easy-going swimming instructor and rather naïve student, are three good-lookers who, along with their useless live-wire of a mother, keep getting into all sorts of scrapes—in love and at work. This is the Sakurai household, where everything hangs loose and everyone always speaks their mind. Tanaka says she really loves this ‘perfect family.’ They are sure to win your hearts too!

(0 vote(s), average: 0.0 out of 10)

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.

(0 vote(s), average: 0.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: ワイルドライフ | 国境なき獣医師団R.E.D.

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Film Date: March, 2008

Japanese Drama Cast: Emoto Akira, Fukikoshi Mitsuru, Ichihara Hayato, Naka Riisa , Tamayama Tetsuji

Description: Based on a manga, this renzoku adapts Fujisaki Masato's story about a young veterinarian who saves animals' lives, using his extraordinary sense of hearing.