Korean Drama

Code Blue 2

Alternative Title: ドクターヘリ緊急救命 2
Genre: Medical
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Aragaki Yui, Asari Yosuke, Higa Manami , Kodama Kiyoshi , Toda Erika, Yamashita Tomohisa
Description: It has been one and a half years since Aizawa Kosaku, Shiraishi Megumi, Hiyama Mihoko and Fujikawa Kazuo were assigned to Shoyo University’s North Hospital. They have only three months left of their fellowship programme (specialised training programme) to be flight doctors and each of them have come to the crossroads where they have to think of their lives after graduation. Aizawa, who has only one relative – a grandmother currently in a nursing home, starts having doubts about his duties and cannot find a clear direction for his future. Meanwhile, Shiraishi Megumi is unable to forget the past. She had caused their former teacher, Kuroda Shuji, to have his right arm amputated. Then Tachibana Keisuke, a veteran flight doctor, takes up a new post. He has been put in charge of certifying the fellowship programme which will decide their future.

Tumbling

Alternative Title: タンブリング
Genre: Sports
Film Date: April, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Daito Shunsuke, Miura Shohei, Nishijima Takahiro, Seto Koji, Tomiura Satoshi, Yamamoto Yusuke
Description: Higashi Ko, a third-year student at Karasumori High School, is a devil who strikes fear in the hearts of people. One day, Ko is told by his form teacher that he has to participate in a club activity in order to make up for the lack of second-year students. The short-tempered Ko cannot last long in whatever he does. At that moment, he learns that Satonaka Mari, the beautiful transfer student in his class, has joined the female rhythmic sports gymnastics club. He joins the male rhythmic sports gymnastics club, a club activity with very few people under the captain, Takenaka Yuta. They are ridiculed by the coach of the female rhythmic sports gymnastics club, and others, and are also hardly allowed to use the gym. However, when a sixth boy joins the club, Yuta decides to take part in a team competition with his long-sought six members …

Gegege no Nyobo

Alternative Title: ゲゲゲの女房
Genre: Family
Film Date: March, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Adachi Rika, Hoshino Gen , Matsushita Nao , Mukai Osamu, Nogiwa Yoko, Osugi Ren
Description: The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki Shigeru. The story revolves around the life of the married couple, told from the perspective of Mura.

Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

Alternative Title: ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: April, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Naka Riisa , Narimiya Hiroki
Description: Shinagawa Daichi used to be a good student who has now become a delinquent, while class president Adachi Hana was a delinquent who is now trying to move on. Her secret is discovered by Shinagawa, but she involves herself trying to correct his ways.

Chiritotechin

Alternative Title: ちりとてちん
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: October, 2007
Japanese Drama Cast: Enami Kyoko, Kanjiya Shihori , Matsushige Yutaka, Wakui Emi
Description: The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.

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.

Ryoma den

Alternative Title: 龍馬伝
Genre:
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Fukuyama Masaharu, Kodama Kiyoshi , Sugimoto Tetta, Terajima Shinobu
Description: The 49th NHK Taiga drama is Ryoma den, set back in the Bakumatsu period. The story focuses on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, who lived from 1835 to 1867. He was an important leader in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa Bakufu, eventually bringing about the Meiji Restoration. He was also one of the founders of modern day Japanese navy through incorporation of western technology, which proved to be a force to be reckoned with during the revolution.

Tokujo Kabachi!!

Alternative Title: 特上カバチ!!
Genre: Comedy, Work
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Horikita Maki, Kenichi Endo, Sakurai Sho, Tamaru Maki, Watanabe Ikkei
Description: The story centers around the employees of a legal document firm. Tamura Katsuhiro is a young man with a strong sense of justice. Although he believes that the law isn't always right, he becomes an administrative scrivener with the goal of manipulating the law in order to protect the weak. On the other hand, Sumiyoshi Misuzu, a former delinquent who hates to lose and who is now a capable scrivener. Katsuhiro and Misuzu are always at odds, but they gradually come to understand each other.

Naniwa no Hana

Alternative Title: 浪花の華
Genre: Mystery
Film Date: January, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Kuriyama Chiaki, Manda Hisako
Description: Seemingly wimpish medical student Ogata Akira, later Ogata Koan, who was born to a samurai family yet lacks the fighting spirit. With the help of Sakon, a mysterious girl disguised as samurai belonging to an independent underground vigilante group, they solve crime cases.

Dandan

Alternative Title: だんだん
Genre: Drama, Family
Film Date: September, 2008
Japanese Drama Cast: Mikura Kana, Mikura Mana
Description: The 79th NHK Asadora is Dandan, a story about twin girls Megumi and Nozomi who had been separated at birth by their parent's divorce, but meet unexpectedly and discover their tight bonding. Together they decide to seek their career in singing. Tajima Megumi is an active high school girl in Shimane prefecture who loves to sings in a band on the streets. Ichijo Nozomi is a maiko - an apprentice geisha raised strictly by her geisha mother in Kyoto. The two girls meet by coincidence one day, and realize they had been brought to each other by a powerful fate because of their striking resemblance. Locations include Shimane and Kyoto. Dandan means "thank you" in the Izumo dialect.