Also known as 33分探偵 / 33 Minute Detective

Genre: Comedy, Mystery

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: August, 2008

Episodes: 9

Rokuro Kurama is a private detective. His mission is to use all up the airtime (33 min.) to solve a quite simple case which must be settled in 5 min. His wild guesses and imagination increase the number of suspects, and his ambiguous reasoning turns the cases upside down. Can he finally discover the offender? Can he really spend on all 33 minutes broadcast time? This is a thrilling yet lax comedy. Be careful of what he says!

Also known as 南くんの恋人 / Minami’s Lover / Minami-kun no Koibito 2004 / Minami’s Girlfriend

Genre: Romance

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2004

Episodes: 11

hat would you do if you were suddenly only 16 cm tall? What would you do if your loved one was suddenly only 16 cm tall? A best selling sentimental love story is dramatized for the second time! Everything started when a high school couple, Chiyomi (Fukada Kyoko) and Minami (Ninomiya Kazunari) had a mysterious and ominous fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant… “If you stay close to him, he will become great and the two of you will be together for a long time. However, when the two of you drift apart, horrible thing will happen”. Just as the prophesy, on the very day when Minami decided to leave Chiyomi, a magical curse struck Chiyomi. Believe it or not, it shrunk her into a size of merely 16 cm tall! What would happen when a tender boyfriend and a miniaturized girlfriend secretly starts living together? .

Genre: Romance, Work

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: October, 2007

Episodes: 11

Hiroko Matsukata(Miho Kanno) is a super busy magazine editor. Just like any other 28-yearold woman, she enjoys going on dates with her boyfriend, fashion and her private life. But once she turns her switch into working mode, she sacrifices all that and dedicates her life to work. That’s when her colleagues refer to her as the Hataraki Man (working man). Her success at work however doesn’t give her total satisfaction. She constantly questions: “Why do I chose work over my boyfriend?” “What am I working for?” These are the questions all working people have asked themselves once, and the viewers can’t help relating themselves to Hiroko’s experiences. “Why do people work?” The viewers and the characters of this uplifting drama search for the answer through different types of working people, who all imply different answers to the question: a sense of accomplishment, fulfillment, mission, obligation, happiness, or…?

Genre: Human Drama

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

Yuri Saotome is a charismatic beautician who runs a major sports gym and aesthetic salon. Her older brother died in an accident just before his opportunity to achieve a gold medal at the Olympics, so she chose to marry a wrestling gold medalist. After giving birth to four children, she and her husband broke off their marriage, leaving Yuri to raise the kids by herself. With their excellent genes, three of them have been raised as possible candidates for the next Olympic games.

Also known as 崖っぷちのエリー / Kono Yo de Ichiban Daiji na ‘Kane’ no Hanashi / この世でいちばん大事な“カネ”の話

Genre: Comedy

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

“Gakeppuchi no Eri” describes the turbulent life of Eriko (Yamada), who has been extremely poor since childhood, due to the debt left by her parents. Despite constant misfortune, she aims to achieve happiness and money by moving to Tokyo to pursue life as a manga artist.

Also known as 国税査察官 / Kokuzei Sasatsukan

Genre: Drama

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: April, 2010

Episodes: 6

Also known as 帰ってきた時効警察 / Kaette Kita Jikou Keisatsu / 時効警察 2 / Time Limit Detective 2

Genre: Comedy, Mystery

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: April, 2007

Episodes: 9

One year has past, Kiriyama works at the same police station and he is still interested in unsolved cases which belong to the statute of limitations. Together with his asistance Mizazuki, (who is actually in love with Kiriyama), Kiriyama solves those cases as his hobby. He still gives the “I won’t tell anyone” card to the culprits.

Genre: Crime

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

The story begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still unsolved three years later, the case gets revived when one of the girls reappears. Odagiri plays a sharp national investigator searching for the truth behind the incident, which leads back to a seemingly peaceful town.

Genre: Comedy

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

Kano Haruko (Naka Riisa) is a charismatic shop assistant who has such excellent fashion sense that she has been featured in fashion magazines. However, she is unable to give up her dream of being a high school teacher. Haruko is asked by her former teacher to teach Japanese to foreigners for three months on the understanding that he would introduce her for the high school’s Japanese language teaching position. And so, she becomes a trainee teacher at a Japanese language school where she coaches nine foreign students with strong personalities, including an Italian anime enthusiast and a Swede who is in love with ninjas, according to her own convictions, while setting her sights on becoming a high school teacher.

Also known as 逃亡弁護士 / The Fugitive Lawyer

Genre: Suspense

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

The suspenseful story follows an enthusiastic lawyer who becomes a nationally wanted man after being falsely accused of murder, arson, and embezzlement. He goes on the run, and while trying to hunt down the real criminal, he encounters various people and helps them with their troubles.