Alternative Title: エンゼルバンク
Film Date: January, 2010
Japan Casts:
Hasegawa Kyoko, Namase Katsuhisa, Wentz Eiji
Description:

Ino Mamako is an English teacher at one of Japan’s roughest schools, Ryuzan High School. After nine years of teaching, Ino decides to “reset” her life and meets with Ebisawa Yasuo, a charismatic “occupational change agent” who advises people on switching jobs. However, Ebisawa ends up hiring Ino as an occupational change agent herself. Together with her work partner Taguchi Ryota, Ino helps others switch gears in their livelihoods and transform the rest of their lives.

Alternative Title: 曲げられない女
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: January, 2010
Japan Casts:
Kanno Miho, Nagasaku Hiromi, Tanihara Shosuke, Tsukamoto Takashi
Description:

Ogiwara Saki, 33, is a woman who does not go with the flow of society but forges her own path. She hates flattering men and trying to be nice to people of the same sex. She has failed the bar exam ten times in a row but persists in her dream of being a lawyer while working as a clerk at a law firm. Saki’s good friend, Osabe Riko, who is a mother of two children, was high school classmates with Saki, but is in fact 35, because she had deliberately declared herself to be two years younger. She has no qualms of lying for the sake of female happiness, pretending to be married to a man of wealth and blessed with children. Because her personality is the exact opposite, this accentuates Saki’s uncompromising way of life.

Alternative Title: ヤマトナデシコ七変化
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: January, 2010
Japan Casts:
Hoshino Aki, Kamenashi Kazuya, Tegoshi Yuya, Uchi Hiroki
Description:

Takano Kyohei is a handsome but bad-tempered university student who is always ready for a fight; Toyama Yujinojo possesses a cuteness that can be mistaken for a girl; the cool-headed Oda Takenaga excels in academics and sports; and the princely Mori Ranmaru loves females, accept a proposal from the female owner of the house where they are lodging at for “free lodging if they are able to transform her niece into a proper lady”. Her niece, Nakahara Sunako lives in a gloomy and solitary world because of an inferior complex about her looks.

Alternative Title: 空港防御システム
Genre: Suspense
Film Date: October, 2009
Total Episodes: 9
Japan Casts:

• Kuninaka Ryoko, Ogi Shigemitsu, Okura Tadayoshi ,Watanabe Hiroyuki, Yasuda Shota

Description:

Recently built on an artificial island, the (fictional) Tokyo Bay International Airport is equipped with the most advanced security system in the world, known as ROMES. To celebrate the airport’s first anniversary, a gold statue called the “Goddess of Temptation” is placed on display at the airport. After an international group of thieves called Silverfox issues a challenge to the airport and begins exploiting the ROMES system, the director requests assistance from the brilliant Narishima Yuya, who knows the system the best out of anyone. Yuya’s team of experts is assigned to combat this dangerous organization, which continues to escalate its activities. Meanwhile, Yuya himself has a different reason for coming to the airport…

Alternative Title: 毛利元就
Film Date: January, 1997
Total Episodes: 49
Japan Casts:
Jinnai Takanori, Kamikawa Takaya , Matoba Koji, Matsuzaka Keiko, Tomita Yasuko
Description:

The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mouri Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori’s famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari’s rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration.

Alternative Title: 上野樹里と5つの鞄
Film Date: September, 2009
Total Episodes: 5
Japan Casts:
Ueno Juri
Description:

The series features Ueno taking on five roles in five episodes. As the title suggests, each episode involves a bag of some kind, such as a guitar case or a mysterious delivery package.

Alternative Title: 空飛ぶタイヤ
Genre: Human Drama, Suspense
Film Date: March, 2008
Total Episodes: 5
Japan Casts:

• Mimura, Mizuno Miki , Nakamura Toru , Tanabe Seiichi

Description:

A tire comes off a moving truck and becomes a deadly weapon, hitting a mother and child. The problem was caused by the vehicle manufacturer’s failure to recall the vehicle, but the blame falls on the head of the delivery company who, despairing, searches for evidence that the recall was suppressed. Crossing paths with banks, police, weekly magazine writers, the victim’s family, and various others, he eventually gets to the truth of the matter.

Alternative Title: The Guests of Room No. 0
Genre: Varies
Film Date: October, 2009
Japan Casts:
Kato Shigeaki, Koyama Keiichiro , Morisako Ei, Murakami Shingo , Ohno Satoshi

Description:
Fuji-TV reserves the late-night time period to be used for experimental projects, giving up-and-coming young screenwriters, producers and directors a place to develop their skills and televise their works. This time around several Johnny’s Jimusho idols will participate in a television mini-drama project on Fuji TV. Titled “0 Goshitsu no Kyaku,” the show will consist of six stories, each lasting for a month. The weekly episodes will be 15 minutes long.

Set in a city hotel called Point, where there is a strange “Room 0″ that can reveal one’s “grade” as a human being. Various guests with different circumstances visit the room, hoping to determine their own worth.

Alternative Title: 交渉人
Film Date: October, 2009
Japan Casts:
Kakei Toshio , Sasano Takashi , Takachi Noboru,Takaoka Sousuke , Tsukaji Muga , Yagami Ren,Yonekura Ryoko
Description:

The new season opens with a string of deadly incidents involving guns sent to various people by someone known as “Summer Claus.” The weapons seem to be part of a batch of 27 stolen guns, and so far 14 of them have been given out. Now it’s up to Usagi and the rest of the SIT to recover the remaining 13 before there are any more casualties

Alternative Title: 赤鼻のセンセイ
Film Date: July, 2009
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts:
Hiraiwa Kami, Kamiki Ryunosuke, Kashii Yu, Mitsuishi Ken, Oizumi Yo, Omi Toshinori, Suga Kenta
Description:

Ishihara Santaro is an electronics salesman with a knack for entertaining customers while wearing his trademark red nose. But his actual sales are poor, and he soon gets fired. Through his former teacher, he finds a job at a hospital as a junior high teacher for children who are unable to normally attend school due to their illnesses. Looking to cheer up the children, he tries using comedy, but he is unable to even draw a smile. The elementary school teacher, Tagawa, scolds him for not focusing on education. After some painful events, he becomes determined even more to bring laughter to the children, but it results in even more conflict between him, Tagawa, and the pediatrician Haruka.