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Naoki Tanaka (田中直樹)
Tower of Sand砂の塔～知りすぎた隣人 모래의 탑 ～ 너무 잘 아는 이웃 砂之塔 75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps｜10 episodes
Aki Takano is a homemaker who has built an ordinary yet amply content family life. When she and her family move into a luxurious, high-rise condo with all the latest security advancements, Aki anticipates the start of the kind of family life of which dreams are made. Until, that is, she meets her creepy and scary neighbors. Behind the walls of this ivory tower, life is a social ecosystem dictated by strict rules and decorum of vainglorious housewife residents. There are “compulsory Halloween parties”, “hellishly exorbitant lunches”, “floor discrimination”, and even “strictly enforced proper attire for putting out the trash.” Though farcical and comical at first glance, the housewives’ behavior easily becomes sinister, as Aki begins to discover in unexpected ways. Someone is trying to tear her life and family apart.
THE MOTHER CLASSマザー・ゲーム〜彼女たちの階級〜 마더게임 ～그녀들의 계급～ Mother Game～她們的階級～ 
75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 9 eps｜10 episodes The setting is a nursery school. But it’s far from being an ordinary place where mothers simply drop off and pick up their children every day. Instead, it is a small and tightly knit society governed by a “mother caste” social order where mother harassment and matriculation exam troubles occur daily. By some twist of fate, single mother Kiko Kamahara, has enrolled her child to what she hears is a prestigious nursery school. But when she arrives by bicycle with her child on that first day of school, she is met at the gate by a long line of luxury cars and mothers toting expensive brand name handbags. This is a nursery school for children of the super elite. As an ordinary mom, Kiko finds herself constantly shocked by the school’s many eccentricities, and her no-nonsense, straight talking style soon put her on the wrong side of the mother. establishment. But gradually, she begins to influence the entrenched minds of some of the mothers and affect change. A refreshingly fun and energizing human relations drama that will recharge your spirits. The Thorns of Aliceアリスの棘 앨리스의 가시 愛麗絲的復仇
75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 9 eps｜10 episodes
The story is set at a university hospital where the strong ambitions and sharp minds of unscrupulous doctors clash in a never-before-seen medical suspense drama. A cute but strong heroine who lost her father to a mistake in O.R. that got covered up. She joins the hospital staff as a rookie physician, and then one by one takes revenge on those responsible. Anger and sadness cloaked beneath a white smock, a lifelong vendetta is about to be paid!
School Teachersガッコの先生 학교 선생님 熱血老師 75 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 10 eps.｜11 episodes A visiting substitute teacher for a woman on maternity leave, Sentaro, shakes things up with his passionate and direct teaching style and meets resistance from the entire school. Motoko, the daughter of his landlord is one of his colleagues and strongest critics. Another colleague asks Sentaro to fix him up with Motoko, and Sentaro is more than happy to oblige since he has fallen for her sister. But Motoko’s father senses that Sentaro and Motoko would actually be good together and tries to fix them up! Facing pressure in work and in love, Sentaro must figure out if his current path is the best one. |
