Boogie Woogie
Date: From 8.00 a.m., Mondays – Fridays, 2 October 2023
Station: NHK
Scriptwriter: Adachi Shin (Hirowareta Otoko, Nusumareta Kao, Itsuka de Tiffany de Choshoku o)
Administrators: Fukui Mitsuhiro, Futami Daisuke, Izunami Takamasa
Solid: Shuri, Mizukami Koushi, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Aoi Yu, Mizukawa Asami, Tsubasa Kazuki, Shimizu Kurumi, Kurosaki Kodai, Katayama Yuki, Morinaga Yuki, Ihara Rikka, Fujima Sawako, Kikuchi Rinko, Nadagi Takeshi, Mitani Masato, Kusumi Kaoru, Seno Kazuo, Okabe Takashi, Uno Shohei, Fukutoku Shusuke, Goto Junpei, Yanagiba Toshiro, Hashimoto Jun, Masu Takeshi, Sawai Rioka, Honjo Manami, Nakagoshi Noriko, Ishikura Saburo, Mitsubayashi Kyoko, Niiro Shinya, Yasui Junpei, Oguri Motohiro, Kageyama Tai, Tomita Miu, Riju Go, Miyamoto Amon, Ichikawa Miwako, Fuse Eri, Sakata Tadashi, Enari Kazuki, Murakami Shingo, Kondo Yoshimasa
Synopsis: The poster woman of a small public bathtub in an Osaka neighbourhood across the finish of the Taisho interval, Hanada Suzuko (Shuri) loves singing and dancing. Eager to make everybody smile by track and dance, she decides to hitch a newly established musical theatre troupe in Dotonbori. Suzuko practices onerous and stands out together with her excellent singing expertise. In 1938, she strikes as much as Tokyo the place an encounter with a preferred songwriter dramatically alters her future. Beneath his steerage, she turns into standard because the Queen of Swing. However when World Struggle II begins, Suzuko’s state of affairs drastically adjustments. The songs she had sung are thought of the enemy’s music and her singing and dancing are severely restricted. Including to her troubles, her youthful brother Rokuro (Kurosaki Kodai) is shipped to the warfront and their mom Tsuya (Mizukawa Asami) dies of sickness. Suzuko falls in love with Murayama Aisuke (Mizukami Koushi) and so they decide to get married. However his household is useless set in opposition to their union. By the point the struggle ends after Japan’s give up, Suzuko is pregnant together with his baby. Nevertheless, he falls sick and she or he can not see him. Within the remaining month of her being pregnant, she receives phrase of his passing. A number of days later, Suzuko provides beginning to a child woman. She raises their baby on her personal whereas singing on stage. Tokyo Boogie Woogie is born right now. Vivid and pure Suzuko exhibits her appeal, singing with all she has bought. This singing voice resounds throughout the nation which has been blighted by the struggle. She turns into generally known as the Queen of Boogie and quickly rises to change into an enormous star.
Web site: www.nhk.jp/p/boogie/ts/NLPYVZYM29
Twitter: twitter.com/nhk_dramas
One Day ~ Seiya no kara Sawagi
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Mondays, 9 October 2023
Station: Fuji TV
Scriptwriter: Tokunaga Yuichi (Keibuho Daimajin, Lupin no Musume Collection, Good Physician)
Director: Suzuki Masayuki
Solid: Nakatani Miki, Ninomiya Kazunari, Osawa Takao, Nakagawa Taishi, Matsumoto Wakana, Nakamura Anne, Fukumoto Riko, Kote Shinya, Kato Ryo, Omizu Yosuke, Maruyama Tomomi, Kajihara Zen, Sakurai Yuki, Inowaki Kai, Imai Eiji, Kurihara Hideo, Eguchi Yosuke, Sato Koichi
Synopsis: At midnight on Christmas eve, Suguroji Seiji (Ninomiya Kazunari) wakes up in a nook of Yamashita wharf in Yokohama to discover a useless man mendacity proper in entrance of him with a gunshot to the top. However he can not recall what occurred and solely faintly remembers that he had an appointment with an essential particular person. Seiji comes underneath suspicion and turns right into a fugitive needed by the police. Following his hazy recollections, he tries to seek out clues in regards to the homicide. On the similar time, the cussed and aloof chef Tachiaoi Tokio (Osawa Takao) is busy with dinner preparations. His much-loved restaurant in Yokohama’s Kannai neighbourhood is totally booked. Many followers come from distant for the key sauce that has been handed down from the primary technology some 80 years in the past. After his spouse died, he believed he would by no means love anybody once more. However he fell in love for a second. On Christmas eve, a male stranger all of the sudden breaks into his restaurant. At that second, TV Yokohama newscaster Kurauchi Kikyo (Nakatani Miki) goes straight to the crime scene. She had been internet hosting her personal information programme for 10 years and pursuing her beliefs in reporting, however is unexpectedly knowledgeable in regards to the programme’s cancellation and her switch to a cooking present. Kikyo can not convey herself to simply accept this chilly dose of actuality after sacrificing all the things and goes after this remaining case. The lives of those three people who find themselves seemingly unconnected begin to intersect … …
Web site: www.fujitv.co.jp/oneday_christmas_ado
Twitter: twitter.com/oneday_xmas_ado
Miwa-san Narimasu*UPDATED*
Date: From 10.45 p.m., Mondays – Thursdays, 16 October 2023
Station: NHK
Authentic Work: Miwa-san Narimasu by Aoki Uhei
Scriptwriter: Tokuo Koji (unknown, Roppongi Class, Koi wa Deep ni)
Administrators: Nitta Shinzo, Terasaki Hideki, Tanaka Masaki, Hosaka Keita
Solid: Matsumoto Honoka, Tsunematsu Yuri, Yamaguchi Sayaka, Katagiri Hairi, Mizuma Ron, Koizumi Moeko, Ichikawa Tomohiro, Ito Marika, Umezawa Masayo, Blake Crawford, Takaoka Saki, Tsutsumi Shinichi
Synopsis: 29-year-old Kubota Miwa (Matsumoto Honoka) is fired from the DVD rental store the place she works part-time as a result of she loves motion pictures an excessive amount of. When she randomly discovers that Yatsumi Takashi (Tsutsumi Shinichi), the veteran actor whom she adores, is searching for home assist at his home, she can not suppress her curiosity and heads over for surveillance. Miwa is unexpectedly mistaken for the brand new housekeeper by Yatsumi’s supervisor. Succumbing to fan girling, she fails to level out that he bought the improper particular person. From that day on, she pretends to be a “tremendous housekeeper” and works at his home. Miwa is scared that she will likely be discovered quickly, however the romantic notion of with the ability to change phrases with Yatsumi whom she worships as god consumes her. She turns into an increasing number of besotted with the preciousness of his true nature that she glimpses. Though she manages to outlive repeated nerve-wrecking crises of getting her identification uncovered, Miwa Sakura, the particular person she has been impersonating, ultimately seems … …
Web site: www.nhk.jp/p/ts/5GWLQJPMR4
Twitter: twitter.com/nhk_dramas
Tokumei! Keishichou Tokubetsu Kaikei-gakari
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Mondays, 16 October 2023
Station: Fuji TV
Style: Police
Scriptwriters: Araki Toshihito (Shimobei Collection), Satsuki Aya (Elevate de wa Chanto Shimasu Season 3)
Administrators: Joho Hidenori, Mitsuno Michio, Yuasa Makoto
Solid: Hashimoto Kana, Sawamura Ikki, Matsumoto Marika, JP, Maeda Kentaro, Yuki Moe, Fukui Shoichi, Yonemoto Takato, Maeno Ema, Ando Tsugumi, Tokushige Satoshi, Tsurumi Shingo, Sato Jiro
Synopsis: Hajime Madoka (Hashimoto Kana), a police officer of the Particular Accounts Unit, has been dispatched from headquarters with a particular mission to chop prices at native police stations as a part of fiscal austerity. She screens detectives’ investigation bills and suggests value reducing plans. As she is the meticulous kind, she can not cease desirous about a discrepancy as soon as she spots it. She can also be terribly robust in numbers. Madoka was raised by her grandmother who loves detective dramas and she or he turned a police officer as a result of she needed to be just like the detectives she admired. Nevertheless, she was born extraordinarily unfortunate and known as a jinx as a result of she will get the folks round her into hassle. She was not assigned to the Legal Affairs Division as she had hoped and ended up doing workplace work. Madoka sees circumstances from the cash side, noticing something odd or clues that detectives on the scene might miss to resolve circumstances in her personal distinctive method.
Web site: www.ktv.jp/tokumei
Twitter: twitter.com/tokumei_ktv
Ooku Season 2 (2023) ~ Iryou-hen
Date: From 10.00 pm., Tuesdays, 3 October 2023
Station: NHK
Authentic Work: Ooku by Yoshinaga Fumi
Scriptwriter: Morishita Yoshiko (Ooku Season 1 (2023), Dakara Watashi wa Oshimashita, Gibou to Musume no Blues Collection)
Administrators: Ohara Taku, Suenaga So, Kawano Hideaki, Kimura Takafumi
Theme Music: Shiroi Kagero by Aimer
Solid: Matsushita Nao, Adachi Yumi, Suzuki Anne, Tamaoki Reo, Murasame Tatsumasa, Okamoto Keito, Nakama Yukie, Nakamura Aoi, Renbutsu Misako, Furukawa Yuta, Manaki Reika, Takiuchi Kumi, Fukushi Sota, Kishii Yukino, Shida Sara
Synopsis: Throughout the reign of the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, a wierd illness known as “red-faced smallpox” spreads all through Japan. It’s a terrifying sickness that solely infects younger males and results in dying in a number of days. And not using a methodology to handle and remedy smallpox, the male inhabitants drops sharply to 1 / 4 of the feminine inhabitants. In consequence, the nation’s social construction is dramatically modified. Males are raised as uncommon stallions whereas females exchange the males because the labour power. Varied household companies at the moment are handed down from feminine to feminine. Even at Edo Fort, the position of the shogun is handed on to a feminine after Tokugawa Iemitsu’s dying. As an emblem of the shogun’s energy, the interior palace based by his moist nurse Kasuga no Tsubone retains these uncommon males, making a world with 3,000 good-looking males.
Web site: www.nhk.jp/p/oooku/ts/PKYJ66Q8JP
Twitter: twitter.com/nhk_oooku
Preview: Ooku Season 2 Introduction
Associated: Ooku Season 1 (2023)
Toki o Kakeruna, Koibitotachi
Date: From 11.00 p.m., Tuesdays, 10 October 2023
Station: Fuji TV
Style: Love comedy, time journey
Scriptwriter: Ueda Makoto (Maho no Rinobe, Grappler Baki wa BL dewa nai ka to Kangaetsuzuketa Otome no Kiroku, Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku)
Director: Yamagishi Santa
Solid: Yoshioka Riho, Nagayama Eita, Ito Marika, Nishigaki Sho, Tanaka Makoto, Natsuko, Ishida Gota, Jiro
Synopsis: Tokiwa Megu (Yoshioka Riho), an artwork director working at an promoting company, lives within the Reiwa period. She is popular with her juniors and is superb at making sense at work. Nevertheless, on the subject of romance, she at all times can not convey herself to cross the road. Megu meets Iura Kakeru (Nagayama Eita), a time patrol member, who has travelled right here from the longer term, and receives a particular mission to clamp down on time travellers collectively. Unlawful time journey is a large offence because the hazard is that it will possibly change historical past. Even so, Megu is moved by lovers who attempt to reside for love. In reality, Megu and Kakeru had been as soon as lovers. He got here from the twenty third century on a time patrol and met Megu who was in college. However theirs was a forbidden romance. Her recollections had been erased in line with the principles governing time journey. Kakeru’s emotions have grown and now he has come again to see Megu who doesn’t keep in mind him in any respect. Having at all times put her personal romance on the again burner, Megu decides to fiercely battle to make her personal love come true this time.
Web site: www.ktv.jp/tokikake
Twitter: twitter.com/kadora_11
My Second Aoharu
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Tuesdays, 17 October 2023
Station: TBS
Style: Love comedy
Scriptwriter: Kitagawa Ayako (Tokyo Love Story (2020), Watashi ni XX Shinasai!, Onna Kudoki Meshi Collection)
Administrators: Aoyama Takahiro, Yamamoto Takeyoshi, Izumi Masahide
Solid: Hirose Alice, Michieda Shunsuke, Ihara Rikka, Iinuma Ai, Mizusawa Rintaro, Yanai Yumena, Hamao Noritaka, Imoto Ayaka, Ando Masanobu
Synopsis: Shiratama Sayako (Alice Hirose) has by no means had a lot good luck. She lacks tutorial credentials and cash. Wanting to check structure, she tried to take the college entrance examination however failed. Since then, she has had the mentality that life shouldn’t be like this. On the level she wonders if she ought to brace herself to proceed scraping by in life, she is already a 30-year-old at all-time low greater than she had imagined. In the future, Sayako occurs to fulfill a college pupil Ogasawara Taku (Michieda Shunsuke). When she pours her coronary heart out to him that her life might have been totally different had she gone to college at the moment, he declares that it’s not too late to be a college pupil now. Motivated by his phrases, Sayako decides to go after the architectural designer dream that she had as soon as given up on and enter the college that she needed to go to. After learning very onerous, she passes the examination and meets Taku who’s now her senior in the identical school. Now that they’ve met once more, will their relationship cease at friendship or progress to romance?
Web site: www.tbs.co.jp/mysecondaoharu_tbs
Twitter: twitter.com/myharu_tbs
My Residence Hero
Date: From 1.28 a.m., Wednesdays, 25 October 2023
Station: TBS
Style: Suspense
Authentic Work: My Residence Hero by Yamakawa Naoki
Scriptwriters: Sakurai Tsuyoshi (Anata no Butsu ga Koko ni, 4-punkan no Marigold, Fuwaku no Scrum), Funabashi Susumu (Kiraware Kansatsukan Otonashi Ichiroku)
Administrators: Aoyama Takahiro, Tanazawa Takayoshi, Yamamoto Daisuke, Mori Hirofumi
Solid: Sasaki Kuranosuke, Takahashi Kyohei, Saito Asuka, Kimura Tae, Fuchikami Yasushi, Naito Shuichiro, Otoo Takuma, Yoshida Eisaku
Synopsis: Tosu Tetsuo (Sasaki Kuranosuke) is an odd household man who simply needs to reside a quiet life together with his beloved household. He and his spouse Kasen (Kimura Tae) have a daughter Reika (Saito Asuka) who moved out to reside on her personal after changing into a college freshman. On the day of his forty seventh birthday, Tetsuo seems to be ahead to assembly Reika to have a good time together with her. However when she exhibits up, he notices a bruise on her face. One thing has clearly occurred however she refuses to reply his questions. When a fearful Tetsuo visits Reika’s residence with out telling her, her violent boyfriend Matori Nobuto (Naito Shuichiro) comes over. Tetsuo instantly hides in a closet. Studying that Nobuto beat his former girlfriend to dying and can also be making an attempt to hurt Reika, Tetsuo impulsively decides to kill him to guard his daughter. Kasen retains his secret and helps him whereas Reika stays in the dead of night. In the meantime, Nobuto’s good friend Majima Kyoichi (Takahashi Kyohei), who belongs to a felony organisation, has suspicions about Tetsuo and group drives him right into a nook.
Web site: www.mbs.jp/mhh_drama
Twitter: twitter.com/mhh_drama_movie
Paripi Koumei*UPDATED*
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Wednesdays, 27 September 2023
Station: Fuji TV
Style: Youth comedy
Authentic Work: Paripi Koumei by Ogawa Ryo
Scriptwriter: Nemoto Nonji (Gouritekini Arienai, Hakozume, Kansatsui Asagao Collection)
Director: Shibue Shuhei
Solid: Mukai Osamu, Kamishiraishi Moka, Sugawara Koharu, Miyase Ryubi, Yagi Rikako, Morisaki Win, Sekiguchi Mandy, Avu-chan, Elly, Dean Fujioka, Moriyama Mirai, Honma Tomoaki (visitor star), Makabe Togi (visitor star), RYO-Z (visitor star), Nao (visitor star), Shimada Kyusaku (visitor star), Aoi Yamada (visitor star)
Synopsis: Shokatsu Komei (Mukai Osamu), higher generally known as Zhuge Liang, served the state of Shu in the course of the Three Kingdoms interval when the states of Wei, Wu and Shu fought for supremacy over the entire nation. An excellent tactician, he defeated one enemy after one other and had received many battles. Then in 234 AD, he fell sick throughout a battle and died. However for some cause, he’s reincarnated in modern-day Japan and winds up in a crowded Shibuya on a busy Halloween evening. Komei errors the scenes of individuals dressed as zombies, vampires and werewolves because the afterlife. He finds his solution to a membership the place he’s captivated by a younger girl’s singing. He solely realises that he has been reincarnated after he comes into contact with trendy objects and sees a mirrored image of his younger self in a mirror. Deciding to do all he can to help the aspiring younger singer Tsukimk Eiko (Kamishiraishi Moka) whose voice he fell in love with, Komei seeks a world of peace created by music and brings a brand new perspective to Japan’s music trade together with his sensible thoughts.
Web site: www.fujitv.co.jp/paripikoumei
Twitter: twitter.com/paripikoumei_cx
Kotatsu ga Nai Ie
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Wednesdays, 18 October 2023
Station: NTV
Style: Comedy
Scriptwriter: Kaneko Shigeki (Japanese Model, Konto ga Hajimaru, Ore no Hanashi wa Nagai)
Administrators: Nakajima Satoru, Maruya Shunpei
Solid: Koike Eiko, Yoshioka Hidetaka, Sakuma Ryuto, Horan Chiaki, Tomita Miu, Kawano Shinya, Hirasawa Kokoro, Nakagawa Daisuke, Nonomura Yukiko, Ishikawa Moka, Takahashi Keiko, Kitamura Kazuki, Kobayashi Kaoru
Synopsis: 44-year-old Fukabori Marie (Koike Eiko) is a legendary wedding ceremony planner and CEO of her personal firm. Though she gave her all in romance and work, and may have all the things that she needs, she is supporting three ineffective males at residence. They’re her husband Yusaku (Yoshioka Hidetaka), son Junki (Sakuma Ryuto) and father Tatsuo (Kobayashi Kaoru). Marie’s husband is a struggling manga artist who’s about to surrender on his career. Her son desires of changing into an idol however failed at his auditions and developed belief points. Her father was given a divorce after being married for a very long time and got here to Marie’s residence. With these three males regularly inflicting hassle day-after-day, her life is utter chaos. Marie faces any hardship with attribute positivity. Even when the boys in her life make a 100 big errors, she is touched by a wee little bit of development and moved to tears by a wee little bit of kindness. She would inwardly declare to herself “Don’t fear I’ll feed you however how dare you trigger hassle day-after-day!”
Web site: www.ntv.co.jp/kotatsuganaiie
Twitter: twitter.com/kotatsu_ntv
Akazukin, Tabi no Tochuu de Shitai to Au
Date: From 14 September 2023
Community: Netflix
Style: Fantasy thriller
Scriptwriters: –
Director: Fukuda Yuichi
Solid: Hashimoto Kana, Araki Yuko, Iwata Takanori, Fukuda Yuichi, Natsuna, Wakatsuki Yumi, Kiritani Mirei, Muro Tsuyoshi, Hasegawa Tomoharu, Inukai Atsuhiro, Yamamoto Mizuki, Kimura Midoriko, Maya Miki, Sato Jiro
Synopsis: Little Crimson Driving Hood (Hashimoto Kana), a younger girl carrying a pink hood, encounters Cinderella (Araki Yuko), a younger girl lined in ash. She makes use of magic to alter their garments into pretty attire and the 2 of them head to a ball on the fortress. Nevertheless, the pumpkin carriage that they’re driving on runs over and kills a person. They shortly disguise his corpse to forestall anybody from discovering out, and journey to the fortress. Cinderella and the prince (Iwata Takanori) fall in love immediately. However the discovery of the useless physique places a cease to the ball. Little Crimson Driving Hood and Cinderella are in a determined state of affairs with no solution to escape. The shadow of the actual killer lurks among the many peculiar individuals who seem in entrance of them. Little Crimson Driving Hood tackles the case together with her perceptiveness and brazenness. What’s the fact behind the tragedy that occurred in a land the place magnificence is all the things?
Web site: www.netflix.com/jp/title/81450775
Twitter: twitter.com/NetflixJP
Preview: Akazukin, Tabi no Tochuu de Shitai to Au CM
Malice
Date: From 7.00 p.m., Thursdays, 14 September 2023
Community: U-NEXT
Style: Suspense
Episodes: 8
Scriptwriters: Yamaoka Junpei (Ao no SP, Good Crime, Daisy Luck), Takei Aya (Junai Dissonance, Pareto no Gosan, Sousa Kaigi wa Residing de!)
Administrators: –
Solid: Hayashi Kento, Takanashi Rin, Sato Ryuta, Baba Fumika, Ichinose Hayate, YU, Konishi Eito, Kaibashira, Izuka Kenta, Isoyama Sayaka, Akira100%, Yamanaka So, Kurosawa Asuka, Jinbo Satoshi
Synopsis: Shoto College’s govt director Kozono Yohei (Yamanaka So) is discovered stabbed to dying in his residence. When detective Hoshino Naoto (Hayashi Kento) from Fujimi Police Precinct rushes to the crime scene, he senses the presence of one other girl from the looks of the lounge of Kozono who lived aside from his spouse Mayuko (Kurosawa Asuka). Tanimura Kaho (Takanashi Rin), a lecturer on the college’s school of worldwide research, is somebody who will do no matter it takes to advance in her profession. She has been having an affair with Kozono since six months in the past as a result of he has authority over personnel issues. Kaho will get arrested as his assassin. Journalist Maruyama Kanata (Sato Ryuta) receives an nameless electronic mail with details about the affair. Realising that somebody is making an attempt to control impressions of this case, he begins probing into it on his personal. In the meantime, Hoshino feels uncomfortable with the investigation coverage of the highest brass who’ve labelled Kaho because the felony by a half-baked investigation, and he ultimately catches on to the chance that she was arrange by somebody. A detective, suspect and journalist every with their very own private issues are motivated by a shared mutual curiosity to collaborate. They plot to reveal the one who plotted the crime and begin getting nearer to the reality one step at a time.
Web site: www.video.unext.jp/title/SID0090205
Twitter: twitter.com/MALICE_UNEXT
Preview: Malice CM
Yuria Sensei no Akai Ito
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Thursdays, 19 October 2023
Station: TV Asahi
Authentic Work: Yuria Sensei no Akai Ito by Irie Kiwa
Scriptwriter: Hashibe Atsuko (6-byoukan no Kiseki, Mokomi, Shitteru Spouse)
Administrators: Kanai Hiro, Hoshino Kazunari, Takezono Hajime
Solid: Kanno Miho, Suzuka Oji, Kido Taisei, Miyazawa Ema, Matsuoka Mayu, Shiroyama Noa, Shida Mirai, Kichise Michiko, Tanaka Tetsushi, Mita Yoshiko
Synopsis: Izawa Yuria (Kanno Miho) has been married to a kind-hearted, struggling novelist for a few years and holds embroidery lessons at residence. Her life takes a sudden flip when her husband Goro (Tanaka Tetsushi) faints at a resort and is taken to the emergency room. Yuria rushes to the hospital the place she meets a teary good-looking, younger man (Suzuka Oji) who introduces himself as Yanai Riku, her husband’s lover. Yuria is surprised. However this isn’t the one drawback. Along with caring for her unconscious husband, Yuria faces one other state of affairs that she had by no means imagined. Two women (Shiroyama Noa) who name her husband “father” and their mom Oyamada Michiru (Matsuoka Mayu) present up! Nevertheless, Yuria’s motto has at all times been to remain cool. Her coronary heart shouldn’t be about to interrupt at this second. In reality, she makes a weird proposal for everybody to take care of her husband, inviting his two lovers and the youngsters he fathered into the home the place they start a wierd life collectively. As Yuria perseveres by this chaos and confusion, she ultimately will get an inkling of a brand new romance that she had thought would by no means occur once more.
Web site: www.tv-asahi.co.jp/yuriasensei
Twitter: twitter.com/yuriasensei_ex
Ichiban Sukina Hana*UPDATED*
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Thursdays, 12 October 2023
Station: Fuji TV
Scriptwriter: Ubukata Miku (silent)
Director: Takano Mai
Solid: Tabe Mikako, Matsushita Kohei, Kamio Fuju, Imada Mio, Saito Asuka, Shiratori Tamaki, Kurokawa Soya, Tanabe Momoko, Izumisawa Yuki, Usuda Asami, Nakano Taiga
Synopsis: Ushio Yukue (Tabe Mikako) got here to Tokyo from Niigata Prefecture. She lives together with her youthful sister Konomi (Saito Asuka) and has been working as a trainer at a cram faculty. Since her childhood, she labored onerous in all the things – research, sports activities and private relationships – however she realized that she is disliked for placing in effort. She has not been in a position to voice her true emotions to feminine mates because of the uncomfortable experiences she has had. Yukue had only one good friend. A a boy from her faculty day whom she might candidly say something to. It by no means developed right into a romantic relationship however he was the one particular person with whom she didn’t need to strive too onerous. Then in the future, he informed her that they might now not meet and their friendship got here to an abrupt finish. Yukue unexpectedly meets Haruki Tsubaki (Matsushita Kohei), Sato Momiji (Kamio Fuju) and Miyuki Yoyo (Imada Mio) who will not be solely of various ages but in addition have very totally different circumstances and mindsets.
Web site: www.fujitv.co.jp/ichibansukina_hana/
Twitter: twitter.com/sukihana_fujitv
Black Familia ~ Shindoke no Fukushuu*UPDATED*
Date: From 12.09 a.m., Friday, 6 October 2023 (recurrently 11.59 p.m., Thursdays)
Station: NTV
Style: Thriller
Scriptwriters: Sato Tomoharu (Black Scandal, Black Revenge, The Final Cop), Jojo Hideo, Tomiyasu Mie (Shouri no Houteishiki, 5-hun Go ni Igaina Ketsumatsu)
Director: Jojo Hideo
Solid: Itaya Yuka, Yamanaka Takashi, Morisaki Win, Watanabe Risa, Hoshino Yuna, Tsutsuii Mariko, Shiono Akihisa, Hirayama Yusuke, Taki Nanami, Ono Takehiko, Shoji Yusuke, Nagatsuma Reo, Shuhama Harumi, Kato Shinsuke, Shaku Yumiko
Synopsis: All of it started after the leak of a video of businessman Saotome Akio’s home social gathering. One week later, Shindo Kazuha’s (Itaya Yuka) second daughter Ririan (Hoshino Yuna) dies underneath suspicious circumstances at the highschool that she attends after leaving a mysterious message. The Shindos are dealt one other blow when a fabricated scandal about Ririan’s male type trainer being her sugar daddy is uncovered, and the household will get criticised by the general public. Whereas Kazuha despairs, she discovers that the media is being directed by the businessman to make it look like her daughter dedicated suicide. She realises that the thriller concerning Ririan’s dying is related to the home social gathering. Vowing to take revenge for Ririan, Kazuha and the entire household (Yamanaka Takashi, Morisaki Win, Watanabe Risa) come collectively to formulate a grand impersonation scheme in a bid to get near the businessman and his household.
Web site: www.ytv.co.jp/blackfamilia
Twitter: twitter.com/_blackfamilia_
Preview: Black Familia CM
Hyena*NEW*
Date: From 8.00 p.m., Friday, 20 October 2023
Station: TV Tokyo
Style: Authorized
Authentic Work: Hyena by Kim Ru Ri
Scriptwriter: Sato Shimako (Siren, Unfair Collection, Dokushin Kizoku)
Administrators: Hijikata Masato, Kobayashi Yoshinori
Solid: Shinohara Ryoko, Yamazaki Ikusaburo, Takimoto Miori, Nakao Akiyoshi, Kubota Yuki, Makita Sports activities, Otomo Karen, Yagi Yusei, Takahashi Katsunori
Synopsis: Ichijo Rei (Yamazaki Ikusaburo) is a younger elite lawyer who has gained a excessive profile after profitable many troublesome circumstances. He works for S&J, the nation’s largest regulation agency and has the proper tutorial background, revenue and appears. Nevertheless, he has no affinity with ladies. Rei’s boss Shinkai Kenichi (Takahashi Katsunori) provides him an sudden new mission to deal with. It’s the divorce lawsuit for the son of a big company group. Rei appears sad about this however Shinkai factors out, “Your weak point is that you simply’re squeaky clear. You’ve to get extra expertise coping with gray areas to develop as a lawyer.” A number of weeks later, Rei meets a bewitching girl (Shinohara Ryoko) when he goes to a laundromat at 4 am within the morning. It’s completely love at first sight for him. After that encounter, he retains assembly her many times. Discovering that they’ve widespread pursuits, they hit it off and change into a pair however … …
Web site: www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/hyena
Twitter: twitter.com/tx_dorama8
Uchi no Bengoshi wa Te ga Kakaru
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Fridays, 13 October 2023
Station: Fuji TV
Style: Authorized
Scriptwriters: Hattori Takashi (Janai Hou no Kanojo), Okazaki Satoko (Anata ga Shitekurenakute mo, Saisho wa Paa, Konintodoke ni Han o Oshita dake desu ga)
Administrators: Ruto Toichiro, Aizawa Hideyuki
Solid: Muro Tsuyoshi, Hirate Yurina, Kichise Michiko, Toda Keiko, Sakou Yoshi, Matsuo Satoru, Murakawa Eri, Hyuga Wataru, Adachi Yumi, Okura Koji, Honda Chikara, Kanno Rio, Eguchi Noriko
Synopsis: Kuramae Ben (Muro Tsuyoshi) has been supporting standard actress Kasahara Rino (Kichise Michiko) for 30 years, managing her schedule, making sensible enterprise selections, choosing the proper initiatives, dealing with her private issues. She has sealed her place as Japan’s high actress by his very good administration expertise. Nevertheless, Kuramae will get abruptly dismissed proper earlier than she ventures abroad which was the dream that the 2 of them had. She even tells him that his work would be the similar regardless of who does it. Having devoted his complete life to Rino and change into estranged from household and mates, Kuramae is devastated. He even has an existential disaster. At this juncture, he occurs to be assigned to handle a rookie lawyer Amano Ann (Hirate Yurina) as a paralegal. Ann is the youngest particular person to go the bar examination. However she shouldn’t be solely poor at speaking with folks, her enthusiasm is futile. In consequence, she has not been in a position to carry out properly. Nevertheless, Kuramae is moved by Ann’s clumsy makes an attempt to do her finest for her purchasers. Offering her with the help to change into a full-fledge lawyer turns into his new aim. He decides to dive into a totally totally different world and use the administration expertise he had honed to serve her.
Web site: www.fujitv.co.jp/uchiben_kin9
Twitter: twitter.com/uchiben_kin9_cx
Fermat no Ryori*UPDATED*
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Fridays, 20 October 2023
Station: TBS
Style: Meals
Authentic Work: Fermat no Ryori by Kobayashi Yugo
Scriptwriters: Watanabe Yusuke (Dr Chocolate, Shinigami-san Collection, Talio), Miura Kisa (Ikukyu Deka, Kanojo wa Kirei datta, Responsible)
Administrators: Ishii Yasuharu, Hirano Shunichi, Ouchi Maiko
Solid: Takahashi Fumiya, Shison Jun, Koshiba Fuka, Itagaki Rihito, Shiraishi Sei, Kubota Sayu, Asai Daichi, Igashira Manami, Kida Keisuke, Jua, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Miyazawa Ema, Yagi Alissa, Hosoda Yoshihiko, Ukaji Takashi, Takahashi Mitsuomi, Nakamura Toru
Synopsis: Kitada Gaku (Takahashi Fumiya) was fascinated by arithmetic from a younger age. Though he excelled in his research, notably arithmetic, and aspired to change into a mathematician, he confronted setbacks. That can also be when Gaku meets a mysterious and charismatic chef Asakura Kai (Shison Jun) who discovers his culinary expertise. The proprietor of the 2 star restaurant Ok in Tokyo, Asakura is youngest chef to ever obtain such recognition. Gaku quickly joins Asakura’s restaurant the place he works onerous with gifted cooks from all all over the world and applies mathematical ideas to the problem of cooking. Asakura guides him within the culinary world and he develops at wonderful pace. He appears to have a scheme to utilize Gaku to perform what he needs … …
Web site: www.tbs.co.jp/fermat_tbs2023
Twitter: twitter.com/fermat_tbs
Tokyo Hikon Joshi ~ Hikon Nante Taningoto da to Omotteta
Date: From 11.00 p.m., Fridays, 17 November 2023
Community: WOWOW
Style: Social
Episodes: 6
Authentic Work: Tokyo Hikon Joshi ~ Kanojotachi wa Naze Tsumazuita no ka by Nakamura Atsuhiko
Scriptwriter: Takaha Aya (Koko wa Ima kara Rinri desu)
Administrators: Aoki Tatsuya, Endo Mitsutaka
Solid: Shuri, Miura Takahiro, Kirishima Reika, Miyazawa Ema, Tanabe Momoko, Anzai Seira, Kochi Machiko, Kanazawa Miho, Takada Kaho, Hinoi Asuka, Miura Ryota, Umefune Ariei, Kawashima Junya, Kakimaru Michie, Fuchikami Yasushi, Takahashi Hitomi
Synopsis: Kariya Mako (Shuri) returns to work after her divorce and turns into a enterprise journal’s editor on contract. She is ordered by the editor in chief to take cost of a collection based mostly on the theme of “ladies’s poverty” to earn web page views. Sakida Yuji, who writes in regards to the intercourse commerce, is launched to Mako. However his angle in the direction of the poor irritates her and she or he clashes with him over his interview coverage. In the meantime, an interview with Hirota Yuka, who’s eking out a dwelling by the intercourse trade with a view to attend medical faculty at a state-run college, goes viral. The article on Yuka is seemingly stuffed with contradictions. Overruling Yuji’s objections, Mako apologises and tells Yuka that she’s going to delete the article. Nevertheless, Yuka’s sudden phrases drive residence her personal shallowness and prejudice. Sensing Yuji’s willpower as a author, Mako encounters the difficulties of merely dwelling for folks dealing with totally different conditions in life, resembling caring for a member of the family, sexual abuse from mother and father, extreme harassment and office bullying, the fact of re-employment, issues with the household register and faculty attendance. On the similar time, Mako additionally begins to grasp that “poverty” shouldn’t be another person’s problem as she struggles to boost her kids with out common employment.
Web site: www.wowow.co.jp/drama/authentic/hinkon
Twitter: twitter.com/drama_wowow
Kyou kara Hitman
Date: From 11.15 p.m., Fridays, 27 October 2023
Station: TV Asahi
Style: Motion comedy
Authentic Work: Kyou kara Hitman by Muto Hiroshi
Scriptwriters: Okura (Sumu Sumu Collection), Yamaura Masahiro (Lodge Subsequent Door, Two Weeks, Miss Satan)
Administrators: Kimura Hisashi, Nakamae Yuji, Katayama Osamu
Solid: Aiba Masaaki, Yamamoto Maika, Motokariya Yuika, Honda Chikara, Kakei Toshio, Katsumura Masanobu
Synopsis: Inaba Tokichi (Aiba Masaaki), an odd officer employee at a meals producer, isn’t any match for his spouse. In the future, he occurs to fulfill a outstanding hitman known as Nichou who all of the sudden orders Inaba to kill his goal and save his girl. And if Inaba fails to take action, he says he’ll kill Inaba and his household. In consequence, Inaba has to guide a double life with a view to defend his spouse and kids.
Web site: www.tv-asahi.co.jp/hitman
Twitter: twitter.com/hitman_tvasahi
Kinou Nani Tabeta? Season 2
Date: From 12.24 a.m., Saturdays, 7 October 2023
Station: TV Tokyo
Style: Meals
Authentic Work: Kinou Nani Tabeta? by Yoshinaga Fumi
Scriptwriter: Adachi Naoko (Kinou Nani Tabeta? Season 1, Toumeina Yurikago, Daibinbo)
Administrators: Nakae Kazuhito, Matsumoto Kana, Hirata Daisuke
Solid: Nishijima Hidetoshi, Uchino Seiyo, Yamamoto Koji, Isomura Hayato, Makita Sports activities, Tanaka Misako, Tayama Ryosei, Kaji Meiko, Bando Ryota, Asakura Aki
Synopsis: Kakei Shiro (Nishijima Hidetoshi) is a lawyer who works at a small regulation agency. He is an efficient prepare dinner and a meticulous and thrifty one who retains the month-to-month meals finances to 25,000 yen. Shiro’s each day routine is to depart work on time and head to a reduction grocery store close by. His associate Yabuki Kenji (Uchino Seiyo) is the affable hairdresser. The 2 of them share a two-bedroom residence and the finer factors of two males dwelling collectively comes up on the eating desk day-after-day.
Web site: www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/kinounanitabeta2
Twitter: twitter.com/tx_nanitabe
Associated: Kinou Nani Tabeta? Season 1
Gifted Season 2
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, 14 October 2023
Community: WOWOW
Style: Thriller
Episodes: 8
Authentic Work: Gifted by Amagi Seimaru
Scriptwriters: Miura Hayato (Gifted Season 1, Octo, Kei x Yaku), Hikawa Kayo (Gifted Season 1, Kojinsa Arimasu, Cecile no Mokuromi), Kinoe Kyo (Gifted Season 1)
Administrators: Ikezawa Tatsuya, Shimomukai Hideki, Muroi Takehito, Yoko Hatsuki
Solid: Masuda Takahisa, Ukisho Hidaka, Izuma Rika, Kote Shinya, Nakayama Yuma, Kurotani Tomoka, Miyamoto Mayu, Jinbo Satoshi, Kasahara Hideyuki, Takahashi Tsutomu, Matsui Rena, Tanabe Seiichi, Takahashi Katsunori
Synopsis: Detective Amakusa Natsuki (Masuda Takahisa) from the Seventh Unit of the Metropolitan Police Division’s First Investigation Division is a genius at discerning and deducing clues. Along with highschool pupil Shiki Yuya (Ukisho Hidaka), who was born with the flexibility to visually distinguish killers, they unravel the jealousy, vengeance and conspiracy tousled in difficult circumstances.
Web site: www.gifted-drama.com
Twitter: twitter.com/drama_wowow
Atari no Kitchen
Date: From 11.40 p.m., Saturdays, 14 October – 23 December 2023
Station: Fuji TV
Style: Meals
Episodes: 11
Authentic Work: Atari no Kitchen by Shirono Yuki
Scriptwriter: Hashimoto Natsu (Watashi no Oyome-kun, Octo, Gossip)
Administrators: Iwata Kazuyuki, Kikukawa Makoto, Honma Toshiyuki
Solid: Sakurada Hiyori, Watabe Atsuro, Kubota Airu, Kudo Rio, Hara Sachie, Minemura Rie, Nishio Mari
Synopsis: Atari Kiyomi (Sakurada Hiyori), a 3rd 12 months college pupil, is extraordinarily unhealthy at speaking with folks. She misplaced her mother and father early in her childhood and was introduced up by her aunt Akemi (Hara Sachie) and her husband. Kiyomi began dwelling on her personal when she went to college, however with the job searching course of across the nook, she boldly decides to get a part-time job in an try to alter herself and likewise rejects the allowance that was despatched to her. Her aunt wonders how she’s going to be capable of do it when she can not even look somebody within the eye. Kiyomi struggles to discover a part-time job and leads a frugal life. Then in the future, she occurs to go by Aun, a restaurant promoting set meals close to the college, and is unexpectedly drawn inside by the inviting scent of sake, soy sauce and garlic. A flustered Kiyomi manages to order meals from the restaurant’s proprietor Nakae Zenjiro (Watabe Atsuro) and surprises him by guessing the recipe together with the key ingredient. As luck would have it, Aun is in need of manpower and Kiyomi shortly will get a part-time job.
Web site: www.tokai-tv.com/atarinokitchen
Twitter: twitter.com/tokaitv_dodra
Gekokujo Kyuji
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Sundays, 15 October 2023
Station: TBS
Style: Sports activities
Authentic Work: Gekokujo Kyuji by Kikuchi Takahiro
Scriptwriter: Okudera Satoko (Saiai, Kawa no Hotori de, Watashi Teiji de Kaerimasu)
Administrators: Tsukahara Ayuko, Yamamura Daisuke, Hamano Daiki
Solid: Suzuki Ryohei, Kuroki Haru, Igawa Haruka, Namase Katsuhisa, Asumi Rio, Yamashita Mizuki, Kyon, Matsudaira Ken, Koizumi Kotaro, Kohinata Fumiyo
Synopsis: Nagumo Shuji (Suzuki Ryohei) is in his third 12 months as a social research trainer at Etsuzan Excessive College in Mie Prefecture. He had performed baseball all over college however needed to cease after he sustained an damage. After dropping out of college, he labored as a sports activities coach however he couldn’t hand over his dream of being a trainer. Nagumo went again to college on the age of 32, and have become a trainer. When the grandson of a neighborhood landowner joins in Etsuzan Excessive College, Nagumo is put in control of the weak baseball membership that’s on the verge of being closed and his each day life fully adjustments.
Web site: www.tbs.co.jp/gekokujo_kyuji_tbs
Twitter: twitter.com/gekokujo_kyuji
Fixer Season 3
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Sundays, 8 October 2023
Community: WOWOW
Style: Political suspense
Episodes: 5
Scriptwriter: Inoue Yumiko (Fixer Seasons 1 – 2, Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu Collection, Pandora Collection)
Administrators: Nishiura Masaki, Ikezawa Tatsuya
Solid: Karasawa Toshiaki, Uchida Yuki, Machida Keita, Furuta Arata, Ishizaka Koji, Kato Masaya, Takashima Reiko, Tokushige Satoshi, Shirasu Jin, Otomo Karen, Okura Koji, Kobayashi Kaoru
Synopsis: Tokyo’s picture is tarnished after it’s revealed that present governor Yokomiya Saburo (Ishiguro Ken) tried homicide and framed journalist Watanabe Tatsuya (Machida Keita) because the offender. Eager to redeem the Democratic Liberal arty’s repute on the subsequent election, the Celebration’s headquarters recommends political commentator Kawamoto Eita (Tokushige Satoshi) to be its official candidate. However Kuroba Shinjiro (Ishizaka Koji), the chief of the metropolitan meeting who controls the metropolitan authorities, fields Yomota Masami (Takashima Reiko), pitting two social gathering candidates in opposition to one another. As well as, Tatsuya decides to run for workplace on Shitara Kenichi’s (Karasawa Toshiaki) recommendation. In the meantime, Saki (Otomo Karen), the daughter of the CEO (Kato Masaya) of a serious building firm, will get kidnapped. Her kidnapper calls for the cancellation of the Tokyo Bay reclamation challenge being carried out by Hamacho Development underneath the social gathering’s secretary-general Suzaki Ichiro (Kobayashi Kaoru). Shitara is made the negotiator and he proposes an unprecedented hostage change with a view to save Saki.
Web site: www.wowow.co.jp/drama/authentic/fixer3
Twitter: twitter.com/drama_wowow
Associated: Fixer Season 2
Tatoe Anata o Wasuretemo*UPDATED*
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Sundays, 22 October 2023
Station: ABC TV
Style: Romance
Scriptwriter: Asano Taeko (Prism, Koi Nante Honki de Yatte Dousuru no?, Digital Tattoo)
Administrators: Otani Kentaro, Takaishi Akihiko
Solid: Hotta Mayu, Hagiwara Riku, Matsui Rena, Kazama Shunsuke, Okada Yui, Hata Mei, Hirai Amon, Nakamura Riho, Mori Kasumi, Maruyama Tomomi, Kato Takako, Dan Rei, Sudo Risa
Synopsis: Kono Miri (Hotta Mayu) confronted setbacks in her dream to change into a pianist and moved from Tokyo to Kobe to flee actuality. She is now a piano trainer at a music faculty. Nevertheless, her pay is meagre and she or he sighs to herself that she is of no use to society as she goes by every day. Then in the future, Miri meets Aoki Sora (Hagiwara Riku) by her love of melon juice. Sora has reminiscence loss and no previous to show who he’s. However he has not let this cloud his outlook on life. He provides Miri a carefree smile when she visits the meals truck that he runs. Miri is steadily interested in him though she doesn’t know something about his background, however … …
Web site: www.asahi.co.jp/anawasu
Twitter: twitter.com/anawasu_abc
OZU ~ Ozu Yasujiro ga Kaita Monogatari
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Sundays, 12 November 2023
Community: WOWOW
Style: Omnibus
Episodes: 6
Authentic Work: Dekigokoro and Otona no Miru Ehon Umarete wa Mita keredo by Ozu Yasujiro
Scriptwriters: Jojo Hideo, Yoshida Yasuhiro (Umoreru, Plage)
Administrators: Jojo Hideo, Yoshida Yasuhiro
Solid: Tanaka Kei, Watanabe Keisuke, Shiraishi Sei, Mori Yurito, Watanabe Makiko, Osada Seiya, Yukihira Aika, Komakine Ryusuke, Kitamura Yui, Ryu Kenzo, Kato Shinsuke, Ono Ryo, Emoto Tasuku, Kuninaka Ryoko, Sometani Shota, Koyama So, Shiratori Ren, Tsuchimura Kaho, Shibukawa Kiyohiko, Maeda Atsuko, Kora Kengo, Katayama Yuki, Maeda Oshiro, Watanabe Ikkei, Tanaka Shunsuke, Nakai Tomo, Shiratori Haruto, Ninomiya Ryutaro, Yamamoto Ikken, Kondo Yoshimasa, Fukikoshi Mitsuru
Synopsis: –
Web site: www.wowow.co.jp/drama/authentic/ozu
Twitter: twitter.com/drama_wowow
Attractive Tanaka-san*UPDATED*
Date: From 10.30 p.m., Sundays, 22 October 2023
Station: NTV
Style: Love comedy
Authentic Work: Attractive Tanaka-san by Ashihara Hinako
Scriptwriter: Aizawa Tomoko (Thriller to Iu Nakare, Hint, Hito wa Mitame ga 100 %)
Administrators: Inomata Ryuichi, Ito Akinori
Solid: Kinami Haruka, Nukumi Meru, Maiguma Katsuya, Kawamura Kazuma, Maeda Goki, Naenano, Takahashi Maryjun, Yasuda Ken
Synopsis: Tanaka Kyoko (Kinami Haruka), a plain 40-year-old workplace girl, works at an accounting division and excels so properly in what she does that she is described because the division’s AI. She is an authorized accountant and has a excessive English language proficiency rating of 900. Nevertheless, he has no mates or boyfriend. Nevertheless, she has a secret that nobody within the firm or round her is aware of about. She is a horny stomach dancer generally known as Sali and performs at a restaurant each evening. Kyoko began stomach dancing out of a want to alter her life. In the meantime her 23-year-old colleague Kurahashi Akari (Nukumi Meru), who’s a short lived worker, frets that she solely has market worth as a result of she is younger and cute. Though Akari spends her time on matchmaking events, she feels a way of vacancy. Then she learns Kyoko’s “actual identification” by likelihood and feels admiration. Drawn to Kyoko’s way of life life on her personal phrases, Akari finds the braveness to find out her personal happiness.
Web site: www.ntv.co.jp/tanakasan
Twitter: twitter.com/ntv_tanakasan
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