Alternative Title: グッドラック！！

Genre: Drama
Film Date: January, 2003
Total Episodes: 10

Japan Casts:
Kaname Jun, Kimura Takuya, Shibasaki Kou, Tsutsumi Shinichi, Uchiyama Rina

Description: Having achieved his life-long dream of being a pilot, Hajime is first officer on an international jetliner and is now working to become a captain. He can’t seem to please Captain Kouda, who has become an exacting taskmaster since an air incident many years ago. To complicate matters, he begins a relationship with stubborn and straight-talking mechanic, Ayumi, whose parents died many years ago in the plane crash for which Captain Kouda feels he is responsible. What follows is a story of 21st century love, dreams, and passion.

Alternative Title: Golden Bowl

Genre: Romance, Sports
Film Date: April, 2004
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts:
Kaneshiro Takeshi

Description:

Focus, concentration, proper posture and good release are the hallmarks of a good bowler. Welcome to Golden Bowl bowling alley. A bit rundown and small but no worse for wear, the Golden Bowl is stockbroker Shu Akutagawa’s favorite haunt. A regular, he likes nothing better then the rumble of the bowl running down the alley and crash and crackle of the pins tumbling down. When a beautiful, older and married neighbor - who shares the same name as his old flame Hitomi - makes an appearance at the Golden Bowl, things start to heat up as Shu teams up with her to challenge some pro bowlers. Will Shu be as lucky with Hitomi as he is with the pins?

Alternative Title: Gokusen
Genre: Comedy, School
Film Date: April, 2008
Total Episodes: 11
Japan Casts:
Kaneko Ken, Nakama Yukie, Nakazawa Yuko, Utsui Ken
Description:
Kumiko (known by her students as “Yankumi”) becomes a teacher at an all-boys private high school. Her class is full of delinquents, but she tries her hardest to teach them not just about academics (her subject is Mathematics), but about lessons of life, much like any “dedicated teacher” story. Though she’s forced to keep her family a secret from the public, her Yakuza upbringing gives her the strength and the experience to reach out to her students, while also providing comedic relief.

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.