Drama season - fall 2012
This season is strange: there's nothing I can't wait to watch, but there are few things I think will be really good... Also, I was excited when they announced Kimutaku and Shingo's dramas, but Kimura's one seems a bit boring, while Monsters... I can't bring myself to watch another drama with Yamapi. At the beginning I thought 'I'll try it just for Shingo', but then I saw the trailer... and... I can't XD
Also Toma's drama... I'm not so excited about it O_O
Ooku ~ Tanjou ~ Arikoto . Iemitsu-hen
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Fridays, 12 October 2012
Station: TBS
Cast: Sakai Masato, Tabe Mikako, Tanaka Koki, Hirayama Hiroyuki, Minamisawa Nao, Omi Toshinori, Danta Yasunori, Naito Takashi, Aso Yumi, Suruga Taro
Synopsis: In the Edo era during the reign of the third shogun, a mysterious smallpox epidemic affects males only, causing the number of males to plummet to one-fourth of the population. The roles of males and females are reversed. Women run businesses and politics. A young girl takes the seat as the heir of the shogunate and becomes first female shogun. She is Tokugawa Iemitsu (Tabe Mikako). When Iemitsu turns 16, the pure-hearted Madenokoji Arikoto (Sakai Masato), who heads a temple, is threatened and forced to return to secular life. Together with his disciple Gyokuei (Tanaka Koki), he becomes one of the 3,000 handsome concubines that wait on the shogun in the inner palace.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUzMjU3MzMy.html
Reasons: because I'm love with Ooku universe and because Sakai Masato is a wonderful actor **
Kekkon Shinai
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Thursdays, 11 October 2012
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Kanno Miho, Amami Yuki, Tamaki Hiroshi, Koichi Mantaro, Miyoshi Ayaka, Ito Ayumi, Ishibashi Ryo, Ichige Yoshie, Kaji Meiko, Fukuda Ayano, Irie Jingi, Nakamura Shunsuke, Sharo, Nagae Yuki, Higashide Masahiro, Nakamura Yuri, Aoyagi Sho, Harumi Shiho, Hakamada Yoshihiko
Synopsis: 34-year-old Tanaka Chiharu (Kanno Miho) is a contract staff at a travel agency, has not had a boyfriend in 5 years and is almost 35. Although she is good-natured to a fault and a people person, her relationships have not lasted long because she cannot affect cuteness. Not that she does not want to get married. She wants to, and thinks that she should, but for some reason, she just cannot seem to. With friends of the same age are getting married one after another and seeing the birth of children, she starts to feel anxious about remaining single as she grows old. Then, Chiharu learns that Chinatsu, her younger sister, who is on the verge of marriage, hopes to live together in the family home. This makes it hard for Chiharu to stay and she ends up moving in with Kirishima Haruko (Amami Yuki) whom she met by chance. 44-year-old Haruko is a talented, successful landscape gardening planner who has designed parks and the gardens of large homes. As she gets older, she has come to terms with her worries and also grown used to being alone. Because she has been carrying on a long-standing affair with her married boss (Ishibashi Ryo), she has overcome doubts on marriage and childbirth and is philosophical about love. She has chosen not to marry, but on the few occasions that she goes to see her mother and grandmother, their laments sink in … … Then, there is 32-year-old kind-hearted, sensitive Kudo Junpei (Tamaki Hiroshi), who works part-time at a flower shop. He thinks of other people more than he does of himself, is a late bloomer in love and makes little headway. Although he does his best in his life, he has no confidence to marry and support someone else and a family. He believes it is absolutely impossible for him financially and emotionally, the way he is now.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUzMjU2MzIw.html
Reasons: it reminds me a bit of Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Ryuu, and I love this kind of stories *_* Also, hi Tamaki Hiroshi
Tokyo Zenryoku Shoujo
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Wednesdays, 10 October 2012
Station: NTV
Cast: Takei Emi, Miura Shohei, Higa Manami, Ichikawa Yui, Mori Kanna, Aoki Ryuji, Tsukamoto Takashi, Watabe Atsuro
Synopsis: 19-year-old Saeki Rei (Takei Emi) comes to Tokyo. Rei’s redeeming traits are her cheerfulness and distinctive positivity, but everything she does is always unheard of and unsuccessful. Because this foolhardiness causes trouble to the people around her each time, she ends up being called a girl who is unable to read situations. Rei moves to Tokyo with neither a dream nor goal, and is reunited with her father Suzuki Takuya (Watabe Atsuro) who abandoned her mother and her 15 years ago. Although she opposes her father for making her mother miserable, his dissolute life rouses her into action. “This won’t do. I’ve to make this person happy or I can’t move on with my own life!” And so, she runs about with the aim of getting her father remarried in her first experience living in Tokyo. With cheerfulness and positivity, she overcomes various difficulties and slowly changes the people around her too.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDQ5ODM3MDEy.html
Reasons: it seems so nice, and I have Takei Emi and Shohei in the same drama ç___ç
Things I'll try
Double Face
Date: From 9.00 p.m., 15 October 2012
Station: TBS
Cast: Kagawa Teruyuki, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Wakui Emi, Ito Atsushi, Kadono Takuzo, Kohinata Fumiyo
Synopsis: The police receive a tip off from their undercover operative that the crime syndicate Oda-gumi will be conducting a huge drug transaction. However, Oda Taisei (Kohinata Fumiyo) suspects that there is a spy in their midst and does not even tell his leaders the venue of the transaction until the very last minute. Hearing of police activities from his spy in the police organisation, he orders a change in the location. The police are led by the nose, but scramble to the alleged venue based on information from their operative. They charge in and seize Oda. However, right before that, Oda had received information from his spy and promptly threw away the drugs to destroy evidence. In the end, he and his men are released. This incident confirms to both Oda and Police Inspector Onodera (Kadono Takuzo) that there is a spy in each of their organisations. Moriya Jun (Nishijima Hidetoshi) happens to see police officer Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki). A few days earlier, the two of them had encountered each other on the streets by chance, but this is the first time that they learn of their respective positions as crime syndicate member and police officer. While Moriya is a member of the Oda-gumi, he is actually the police’s undercover operative. No one besides Onodera knows that he is a police officer. But the 6 years spent enduring this mission has started to tip Moriya’s emotional balance a little. On the other hand, Takayama is given the mission to find the traitor within the police by the director of the Security Department. Takayama is in fact the spy for the Oda-gumi and has been secretly tasked to discover the identity of the undercover operative in the gang. No one in the police organisation knows that and he is gradually alienated by his colleagues who wonder if he suspects them. Takayama obtains the personal history of the Oda-gumi members who were involved in the drug transaction the other day from Oda. A man stealthily tails him from behind as he leaves. It it Moriya. However, Takayama shakes him off by slipping into a crowd. An invisible fear that their true identities have been revealed to someone else starts to shake them up … …
Reasons: actually, it seems that there are two of them, so I'm still confused XD Anyway, it seems interesting and I'd like to check out the first episode.
Osozaki no Himawari ~ Boku no Jinsei, Renewal
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Tuesdays, 23 October 2012
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Ikuta Toma, Maki Yoko, Kiritani Kenta, Kashii Yu, Emoto Tasuku, Kimura Fumino, Kuninaka Ryoko, Taguchi Junnosuke, Matsushige Yutaka
Synopsis: Kodaira Jotaro (Ikuta Toma) is a youth of today who lives from day to day reasonably contented and anxious as a temporary worker. But one day, when he should have been hired as a full-fledged employee in recognition of his steady work performance, his company unexpectedly downsizes by laying off its part-time and temporary workers. His unemployment is the catalyst for the break up with his girlfriend of 7 years. Jotaro returns to his family whom he has grown apart from, but it is not a place where he can be himself with the presence of his reliable younger brother who works at the local government office. Just as Jotaro is ready to despair, he suddenly learns of the activities of the Kochi Shimanto ‘Area Revitalisation Cooperation Volunteers’ through the internet. Taking an interest in it, he decides to live in Shimanto City which he is a complete stranger to. Kahori (Maki Yoko) works at leading edge medical department for cancer as a houseman after graduating from a famous private Tokyo medical college. This has been her dream since high school days. However, one day, she is asked by her supervising doctor to transfer and is sent to her hometown of Shimanto City to be a clinician at the municipal hospital. With her dream shattered, a despondent Kahori happens to ride on the same train bound for Kochi as Jotaro. Because of that incident, Jotaro feels a sense of affinity as fellow friends who have moved out from Tokyo, but his optimism rubs Kahori the wrong way.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUyMTI1MTQ4.html
Reasons: honestly, I'm not really excited about it. Still, it could be actually a nice drama (I have this Freeter-feeling...), and I always like Toma's works, so I'll try it
Priceless ~ Aruwakenedaro, nnanmon!
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Mondays, 22 October 2012
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Kimura Takuya, Karina, Fujigaya Taisuke, Renbutsu Misako, Masu Takeshi, Maeda Oshiro, Tanaka Kanau, Isse Ogata, Nakai Kiichi, Nakamura Atsuo (guest star), Natsuki Mari, Naohito Fujiki
Synopsis: Originally a mid-level manager with a promising future in a big corporation called Miracle Thermos and loved by subordinates, the life of the elite Kindaichi Fumio (Kimura Takuya) changes dramatically one day. Having for some reason attracted the attention of the senior management, he is framed for a crime which he knows nothing of and forced out of the workplace. Even after that, Kindaichi is assailed by a series of surprises and in one day, he loses his house, wealth and handphone until he is without a cent to his name. At his wits end, he comes to a park where he encounters two young boys (Maeda Oshiro, Tanaka Kanau). Learning from them how to survive even if he does not have money, he somehow weathers this crisis and discovers the truly important and priceless things in life. The good thing about Kindaichi is that his carefree personality amazingly does not shift. It is not resentment and bitterness that become his driving force, but the love and help of the people he meets that enables him to keep go forward step by step. Nikaido Aya (Karina) works in the accounts department of the same company as Kindaichi. She is a female who attracts no attention but gets work done perfectly. The incident involving Kindaichi is the catalyst for a major turning point for Aya too. The heart of this rigid woman also changes through her encounters with him.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUxNTkwMDQ0.html
Reasons: it seems boring ç_ç I'll try it only because I'm in love with Kimutaku. This is my only reason u_u
source: jdramaswordpress
Also Toma's drama... I'm not so excited about it O_O
Ooku ~ Tanjou ~ Arikoto . Iemitsu-hen
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Fridays, 12 October 2012
Station: TBS
Cast: Sakai Masato, Tabe Mikako, Tanaka Koki, Hirayama Hiroyuki, Minamisawa Nao, Omi Toshinori, Danta Yasunori, Naito Takashi, Aso Yumi, Suruga Taro
Synopsis: In the Edo era during the reign of the third shogun, a mysterious smallpox epidemic affects males only, causing the number of males to plummet to one-fourth of the population. The roles of males and females are reversed. Women run businesses and politics. A young girl takes the seat as the heir of the shogunate and becomes first female shogun. She is Tokugawa Iemitsu (Tabe Mikako). When Iemitsu turns 16, the pure-hearted Madenokoji Arikoto (Sakai Masato), who heads a temple, is threatened and forced to return to secular life. Together with his disciple Gyokuei (Tanaka Koki), he becomes one of the 3,000 handsome concubines that wait on the shogun in the inner palace.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUzMjU3MzMy.html
Reasons: because I'm love with Ooku universe and because Sakai Masato is a wonderful actor **
Kekkon Shinai
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Thursdays, 11 October 2012
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Kanno Miho, Amami Yuki, Tamaki Hiroshi, Koichi Mantaro, Miyoshi Ayaka, Ito Ayumi, Ishibashi Ryo, Ichige Yoshie, Kaji Meiko, Fukuda Ayano, Irie Jingi, Nakamura Shunsuke, Sharo, Nagae Yuki, Higashide Masahiro, Nakamura Yuri, Aoyagi Sho, Harumi Shiho, Hakamada Yoshihiko
Synopsis: 34-year-old Tanaka Chiharu (Kanno Miho) is a contract staff at a travel agency, has not had a boyfriend in 5 years and is almost 35. Although she is good-natured to a fault and a people person, her relationships have not lasted long because she cannot affect cuteness. Not that she does not want to get married. She wants to, and thinks that she should, but for some reason, she just cannot seem to. With friends of the same age are getting married one after another and seeing the birth of children, she starts to feel anxious about remaining single as she grows old. Then, Chiharu learns that Chinatsu, her younger sister, who is on the verge of marriage, hopes to live together in the family home. This makes it hard for Chiharu to stay and she ends up moving in with Kirishima Haruko (Amami Yuki) whom she met by chance. 44-year-old Haruko is a talented, successful landscape gardening planner who has designed parks and the gardens of large homes. As she gets older, she has come to terms with her worries and also grown used to being alone. Because she has been carrying on a long-standing affair with her married boss (Ishibashi Ryo), she has overcome doubts on marriage and childbirth and is philosophical about love. She has chosen not to marry, but on the few occasions that she goes to see her mother and grandmother, their laments sink in … … Then, there is 32-year-old kind-hearted, sensitive Kudo Junpei (Tamaki Hiroshi), who works part-time at a flower shop. He thinks of other people more than he does of himself, is a late bloomer in love and makes little headway. Although he does his best in his life, he has no confidence to marry and support someone else and a family. He believes it is absolutely impossible for him financially and emotionally, the way he is now.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUzMjU2MzIw.html
Reasons: it reminds me a bit of Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Ryuu, and I love this kind of stories *_* Also, hi Tamaki Hiroshi
Tokyo Zenryoku Shoujo
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Wednesdays, 10 October 2012
Station: NTV
Cast: Takei Emi, Miura Shohei, Higa Manami, Ichikawa Yui, Mori Kanna, Aoki Ryuji, Tsukamoto Takashi, Watabe Atsuro
Synopsis: 19-year-old Saeki Rei (Takei Emi) comes to Tokyo. Rei’s redeeming traits are her cheerfulness and distinctive positivity, but everything she does is always unheard of and unsuccessful. Because this foolhardiness causes trouble to the people around her each time, she ends up being called a girl who is unable to read situations. Rei moves to Tokyo with neither a dream nor goal, and is reunited with her father Suzuki Takuya (Watabe Atsuro) who abandoned her mother and her 15 years ago. Although she opposes her father for making her mother miserable, his dissolute life rouses her into action. “This won’t do. I’ve to make this person happy or I can’t move on with my own life!” And so, she runs about with the aim of getting her father remarried in her first experience living in Tokyo. With cheerfulness and positivity, she overcomes various difficulties and slowly changes the people around her too.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDQ5ODM3MDEy.html
Reasons: it seems so nice, and I have Takei Emi and Shohei in the same drama ç___ç
Things I'll try
Double Face
Date: From 9.00 p.m., 15 October 2012
Station: TBS
Cast: Kagawa Teruyuki, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Wakui Emi, Ito Atsushi, Kadono Takuzo, Kohinata Fumiyo
Synopsis: The police receive a tip off from their undercover operative that the crime syndicate Oda-gumi will be conducting a huge drug transaction. However, Oda Taisei (Kohinata Fumiyo) suspects that there is a spy in their midst and does not even tell his leaders the venue of the transaction until the very last minute. Hearing of police activities from his spy in the police organisation, he orders a change in the location. The police are led by the nose, but scramble to the alleged venue based on information from their operative. They charge in and seize Oda. However, right before that, Oda had received information from his spy and promptly threw away the drugs to destroy evidence. In the end, he and his men are released. This incident confirms to both Oda and Police Inspector Onodera (Kadono Takuzo) that there is a spy in each of their organisations. Moriya Jun (Nishijima Hidetoshi) happens to see police officer Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki). A few days earlier, the two of them had encountered each other on the streets by chance, but this is the first time that they learn of their respective positions as crime syndicate member and police officer. While Moriya is a member of the Oda-gumi, he is actually the police’s undercover operative. No one besides Onodera knows that he is a police officer. But the 6 years spent enduring this mission has started to tip Moriya’s emotional balance a little. On the other hand, Takayama is given the mission to find the traitor within the police by the director of the Security Department. Takayama is in fact the spy for the Oda-gumi and has been secretly tasked to discover the identity of the undercover operative in the gang. No one in the police organisation knows that and he is gradually alienated by his colleagues who wonder if he suspects them. Takayama obtains the personal history of the Oda-gumi members who were involved in the drug transaction the other day from Oda. A man stealthily tails him from behind as he leaves. It it Moriya. However, Takayama shakes him off by slipping into a crowd. An invisible fear that their true identities have been revealed to someone else starts to shake them up … …
Reasons: actually, it seems that there are two of them, so I'm still confused XD Anyway, it seems interesting and I'd like to check out the first episode.
Osozaki no Himawari ~ Boku no Jinsei, Renewal
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Tuesdays, 23 October 2012
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Ikuta Toma, Maki Yoko, Kiritani Kenta, Kashii Yu, Emoto Tasuku, Kimura Fumino, Kuninaka Ryoko, Taguchi Junnosuke, Matsushige Yutaka
Synopsis: Kodaira Jotaro (Ikuta Toma) is a youth of today who lives from day to day reasonably contented and anxious as a temporary worker. But one day, when he should have been hired as a full-fledged employee in recognition of his steady work performance, his company unexpectedly downsizes by laying off its part-time and temporary workers. His unemployment is the catalyst for the break up with his girlfriend of 7 years. Jotaro returns to his family whom he has grown apart from, but it is not a place where he can be himself with the presence of his reliable younger brother who works at the local government office. Just as Jotaro is ready to despair, he suddenly learns of the activities of the Kochi Shimanto ‘Area Revitalisation Cooperation Volunteers’ through the internet. Taking an interest in it, he decides to live in Shimanto City which he is a complete stranger to. Kahori (Maki Yoko) works at leading edge medical department for cancer as a houseman after graduating from a famous private Tokyo medical college. This has been her dream since high school days. However, one day, she is asked by her supervising doctor to transfer and is sent to her hometown of Shimanto City to be a clinician at the municipal hospital. With her dream shattered, a despondent Kahori happens to ride on the same train bound for Kochi as Jotaro. Because of that incident, Jotaro feels a sense of affinity as fellow friends who have moved out from Tokyo, but his optimism rubs Kahori the wrong way.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUyMTI1MTQ4.html
Reasons: honestly, I'm not really excited about it. Still, it could be actually a nice drama (I have this Freeter-feeling...), and I always like Toma's works, so I'll try it
Priceless ~ Aruwakenedaro, nnanmon!
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Mondays, 22 October 2012
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Kimura Takuya, Karina, Fujigaya Taisuke, Renbutsu Misako, Masu Takeshi, Maeda Oshiro, Tanaka Kanau, Isse Ogata, Nakai Kiichi, Nakamura Atsuo (guest star), Natsuki Mari, Naohito Fujiki
Synopsis: Originally a mid-level manager with a promising future in a big corporation called Miracle Thermos and loved by subordinates, the life of the elite Kindaichi Fumio (Kimura Takuya) changes dramatically one day. Having for some reason attracted the attention of the senior management, he is framed for a crime which he knows nothing of and forced out of the workplace. Even after that, Kindaichi is assailed by a series of surprises and in one day, he loses his house, wealth and handphone until he is without a cent to his name. At his wits end, he comes to a park where he encounters two young boys (Maeda Oshiro, Tanaka Kanau). Learning from them how to survive even if he does not have money, he somehow weathers this crisis and discovers the truly important and priceless things in life. The good thing about Kindaichi is that his carefree personality amazingly does not shift. It is not resentment and bitterness that become his driving force, but the love and help of the people he meets that enables him to keep go forward step by step. Nikaido Aya (Karina) works in the accounts department of the same company as Kindaichi. She is a female who attracts no attention but gets work done perfectly. The incident involving Kindaichi is the catalyst for a major turning point for Aya too. The heart of this rigid woman also changes through her encounters with him.
Trailer: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUxNTkwMDQ0.html
Reasons: it seems boring ç_ç I'll try it only because I'm in love with Kimutaku. This is my only reason u_u
source: jdramaswordpress