• Alternative Title: 경숙이 경숙아버지 / Gyeongsuk & Gyeongsuk’s Father
• Genre: Comedy, Period Drama
• Film Date: January, 2009
• Total Episodes: 4
• Korea Casts:
  Hong Choong Min, Jung Bo Suk, Jung Sung Hwan, Shim Eun Kyung
• Description:

  The story seems to always be the same: it’s hard for most people to accept tragedies of the past, and that is probably the reason why tear gas going at 24 frames per second like 화려한 휴가 (May 18 ) and 태극기 휘날리며 (Taegeukgi) still gets made. But the best way to remember the legacy of a past tragedy, while at the same time erasing at least a little bit of the residual pain, is black comedy. Bong Joon-Ho is the perfect example, with his 살인의 추억 (Memories of Murder) and 괴물 (The Host) speaking wonders about the power of laughing — however dry it might be — in the face of adversity. Im Sang-Soo is another, brilliant case, while the new kid on the block, Park Gwang-Hyun of 웰컴 투 동막골 (Welcome to Dongmakgol) added a welcome “North Koreans are people, too” spin to the proceedings. But how about TV? 경성스캔들 (Scandal in Old Seoul) did try to offer another side of the colonial era, far removed from dichotomies painting you either as an independence fighter or a traitor. But, sure enough, it eventually returned into the warm and smelly embrace of trendy drama tropes. But fear not, because we finally have a contender.
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• Alternative Title: 未来講師めぐる
• Genre: Comedy, Family , Romance
• Film Date: January, 2008
• Total Episodes: 10
• Japan Casts:
  Sato Jiro, Arakawa Yoshiyoshi, Fukada Kyoko, Funakoshi Eiichiro, Hashimoto Jun, Hoshino Gen , Katsuji Ryo, Kurokawa Tomoka, Masana Bokuzo, Taguchi Hiromasa, Takeda Shinji
• Description:

  Yoshida Meguru is an English teacher at a cram school. On her 24th birthday, she awakens to a new power - she can see 20 years ahead into the future of everyone around her.

• Alternative Title: 青春舞台
• Genre: Romance
• Film Date: January, 2009
• Total Episodes: 20

• Alternative Title: 最遙遠的距離
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Film Date: November, 2007
• Taiwan Casts:
  Guey Lun-Mei, Jia Xiao-Guo, Mo Ziyi

Summary
Tang (Muo) goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend who is leaving him. What he does not know, is that she has already moved away and another girl, Yun (Kwai), has moved into that apartment. Yun is trapped in a hopeless love triangle, and troubled by all the issues she faces in life. After listening to the tape that Tang sent, she feels as if the kindness of nature is calling her, and travels to Taitung to find the mysterious man who sends her the tape.

On the other hand, Tsai (Chia), a psychiatrist struggling in a failed marriage, suddenly realizes that he needs to let things go after helping a patient with extramarital affairs. He leaves everything behind and goes to Taitung to search for his ex-lover. The three young souls, with different purposes, comes to the coast and search for the meaning of their life, a journey considerably longer than any of them has taken before.

• Alternative Title: トキオ / Message Across Time
• Film Date: August, 2004
• Total Episodes: 20
• Japan Casts:
  Ibu Masato , Inoue Waka, Kokubun Taichi, Sakurai Sho, Takahashi Hitomi, Tomita Yasuko, Yamamura Momiji , Yasuda Ken
• Description:

  The 18th NHK Yorudora is Tokio, based on a 2002 science-fiction novel by Higashino Keigo, the same author who wrote Byakuyako.

  The painful tears and deep emotions of the bonds between father and son transcend time in this epic, heart-warming drama.

  The year is 1979, and Miyamoto Takumi’s life suddenly changes when he meets a mysterious young man named Tokio at a park in Asakusa. The young man says, “I’ve come from the future. I’m your son, Tokio.” Thinking it’s some kind of bad joke, Takumi doesn’t believe him at all. However, Tokio can predict the future, make strange machines, and shows Takumi strange powers. Takumi, who at first doesn’t pay any mind to Tokio, slowly begins to believe him.

  Present day, 2004. Miyamoto Tokio is suffering from a serious illness and is in between life and death. As 50-year-old Takumi watches over Tokio in his sickbed, he suddenly remembers strange happenings that took place 25 years ago…

  A father and son who cross the borders of space and time to meet 25 years in the past; 1979. They travel together to Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, searching for Takumi’s lover, Chizuru, who has disappeared. Takumi, who had been a bitter man, begins to grow as a human being through spending time with his son, who came from the world of the future. Throughout a strange two-week journey together, Tokio watches his father in his younger days, and leaves him with an encouraging message.

Alternative Title: 미워도 다시 한번 / Hateful But Once Again
Genre: Romance
Film Date: February, 2009
Total Episodes: 24
Korea Casts:
Go Eun Mi , Jung Gyu Woon , Min-Sik Choi, Oh Joo Eun, Park Ye Jin
Description:

Lee Min Chul is the Korean male version of Paris Hilton. He meets an ambitious woman and marries her. One of her goals is to become the first lady of their nation. She grooms Min Chul into a successful corporate leader.

Film Date: April, 2006
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts:
Kitamura Kazuki, Koike Teppei, Mizukawa Asami, Natsuki Mari, Sakaguchi Kenji
Description:

Ryutaro Asada is enjoying his peaceful life in the countryside, when he is visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital.

Ryutaro is a genius surgeon who used to lead “Team Medical Dragon,” a world-class NGO medical team. In harsh environments that lacked medicine and electricity, Ryutaro witnessed many lives pass away. At the same time, he saved many other lives, helping his matchless skill overwhelm other doctors.

As a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She has ambitions to be promoted to professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique — an extremely difficult type of heart surgery — and also by writing a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro’s skills when he was an NGO doctor. That’s why she recruits him and asks him to use the Batista technique. Since Ryutaro’s arrival, urgent patients who would have been abandoned in the past, are miraculously saved by the “hands of God.”

• Alternative Title: キミ犯人じゃないよね? /Aren’t You a Criminal?
• Genre: Comedy, Mystery
• Film Date: April, 2008
• Total Episodes: 10
• Japan Casts:
  Ikeda Tsutomu, Kaname Jun, Kanjiya Shihori , Matsuura Aya, Ogawa Nana, Watanabe Ikkei
• Description:
  Morita Sakura is a peculiar “freeter” (freelance part-timer) who dreams of becoming a mystery novel writer. While switching between various jobs throughout the series, she also becomes an assistant to Officer Udagawa, a detective who discovers her excellent memory and reasoning skills. On the other hand, Udagawa (who has just joined the police ranks through his father’s connections) is fairly inept and has a tendency to fall in love with female suspects.

• Alternative Title: キイナ / Impossible Crime Investigator
• Genre: Detective, Mystery
• Film Date: January, 2009
• Japan Casts:
  Hiraoka Yuta, Kaneda Akio, Kanno Miho, Koike Eiko,Kusakari Masao, Sakura, Sawamura Ikki, Takahashi Ryosuke, Tonesaku Toshihide, Tsukaji Muga
• Description:

  At first glance Haruse Kiina is a completely normal 29-year-old. However, Kiina is the head of a special investigation unit nicknamed “Beppan” which deals with strange cases. With an unorthodox approach to solving crimes, she draws on her exceptional memory and powers of observation, and gets so absorbed in the pursuit of these cases that she forgets to eat or sleep til she solves the mystery.

• Alternative Title: ラブシャッフル
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Film Date: January, 2009
• Japan Casts:
  Karina, Matsuda Shota, Tamaki Hiroshi
• Description:

  Usami Kei is a manager at an IT company who breaks off his engagement to Mei, the president’s daughter. Later at his apartment, a power failure leaves him trapped in an elevator with three other residents: Ojiro, Airu and Masato. While waiting, their conversation hits upon the question of whether there is truly only one fated partner for everyone. As a result, they decide to run an experiment by “shuffling” their relationships with one another.