Alternative Title: Gokusen

Genre: Comedy, School

Film Date: April, 2002

Total Episodes: 10

Japan Casts:
Akanishi Jin, Hayami Mokomichi, Kamenashi Kazuya, Koide Keisuke, Koike Teppei, Nakama Yukie

Description:
The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students’ lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of 3-D, the hardest class to maintain in the school. The students have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, and show absolutely no respect to her. The leader of the class, Sawada Shin is lazy but bright and shows some interest in Yamaguchi when he notices that she is very different from other teachers. The students try to bully her to make her quit, but their attempts don’t get them very far.What the class and the rest of the school does not know is that Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to the Ooedo Group, a notorious yakuza clan. Even though her family would like her to take the title of Ojou when her grandfather dies, they have accepted the fact that Yamaguchi would rather be a teacher.

Eventually, the students learn to respect their quirky teacher because of her devotion to them, and even give her a nickname: Yankumi.

Alternative Title: ごくせん
Genre: Comedy, School
Film Date: April, 2002
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts:
Kohmoto Masahiro, Nabe Osami, Nakazawa Yuko, Oguri Shun, Ookuma Ichirou, Sakata Tadashi, Sawamura Ikki
Description:
The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students’ lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of 3-D, the hardest class to maintain in the school. The students have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, and show absolutely no respect to her. The leader of the class, Sawada Shin is lazy but bright and shows some interest in Yamaguchi when he notices that she is very different from other teachers. The students try to bully her to make her quit, but their attempts don’t get them very far.

What the class and the rest of the school does not know is that Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to the Ooedo Group, a notorious yakuza clan. Even though her family would like her to take the title of Ojou when her grandfather dies, they have accepted the fact that Yamaguchi would rather be a teacher.

Eventually, the students learn to respect their quirky teacher because of her devotion to them, and even give her a nickname: Yankumi.

Alternative Title: Garasu no Kamen / Glass Mask / Mask of Glass / ガラスの仮面 （ガラスのかめん）
Genre: Drama
Film Date: July, 1997
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts:
Adachi Yumi , Fuji Mariko, Katso Kazuko, Kohashi Kenji, Matsumoto Megumi, Nogiwa Yoko, Saeki Hinako, Saitou Nozomi, Satoi Kenta, Tanabe Seiichi, Togawa Kyoko
Description:
The Glass Mask drama is based on a very popular manga of the same name by Suzue Miuchi, about a young girl named Maya whose dream is to be an actress. A legendary former stage actress, Tsukikage Chigusa, watches Maya as she reenacts drama episodes she’s seen on TV. She approaches Maya and has her join her acting company, Tsukikage Theater. Tsukikage holds the production rights to a legendary masterpiece called “The Crimson Goddess,” in which she had played the title role until a terrible accident burnt her face beyond surgical repair. She’s been searching all of these years for someone to play the role which only the most talented actress could play, and maybe she’s found that someone in Maya… –synopsis by awrittensin

• Alternative Title: 学校じゃ教えられない！
• Genre: Comedy, School
• Film Date: July, 2008
• Total Episodes: 10
• Japan Casts:
  Fukada Kyoko, Ito Ran, Naka Riisa , Nakamura Aoi, Tanihara Shosuke
• Description:
  Fukada plays Mai Aida, a woman in her third year as an english teacher at a private all-girls high school. Due to declining enrollment, the school decides to admit its first male students. Those five freshmen initially feel they’re in paradise, but the concerned Mai tries to help them adjust by creating a social dance club and inviting five girls. Those ten students become the focus of the drama, which is described as a story of love and adolescence.

• Alternative Title: Fuurin Kazan / Furin Kazan / Fūrin Kazan / Samurai Banners / 風林火山
• Genre: Period Drama
• Film Date: January, 2007
• Total Episodes: 50
• Japan Casts:
  Ichikawa Kamejiro, Ikewaki Chizuru , Shibamoto Yuki
• Description:
  The 46th Historical Drama is a life story of Yamamoto Kansuke, a lonely genius of strategy at the Age of the Civil War in the 16th century. Kansuke works under Takeda Shingen and pursues his dream of unifying the whole country through aiding the warlord of Kai. At the same time, Kansuke supports Shingen’s concubine Yu from his selfless affection for the woman who hates but eventually loves the warlord who killed her father and family. With the aid of Kansuke’s strategies, Shingen expands his power northward, where he is destined to fight with Kenshin Uesugi, the warlord of Echigo. The drama portrays how those who fight for their dreams face their destinies in the turbulent age.

• Alternative Title: 古畑中学生
• Genre: Drama
• Film Date: January, 2008
• Total Episodes: 1
• Japan Casts:
  Fukuda Mayuko, Yamada Ryosuke
• Description:
  Furuhata Chuugakusei is a detective story about a 15 year old Tokyo kid who transfers to junior high school to the countryside. It depicts the childhood of Furuhata Ninzaburo.