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Midoriko Kimura (キムラ緑子)

Love Begins When the Money Ends

おカネの切れ目が恋のはじまり   돈이 떨어지면 사랑이 시작된다   錢的盡頭是愛情的開始

75 min × 2 eps / 60 min × 6 eps|Eps 8

Owing to a certain incident in her past, Reiko Kuki knows the value of money better than anyone. Thrifty with her spending, this poor, “around-thirty company woman meets Keita Saruwatari, the moronic president’s son and profligate spendthrift with no memory at all of how he spends his dough. When these two polar opposites spend a summer learning about money management with a bunch of other financially-quirky people, personalities and values clash to produce some unexpected comedy and romance.

The Crimes That Bind

祈りの幕が下りる時   기도의 막이 내릴때   當祈禱落幕時

119 min.

A woman is found strangled to death in an apartment in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
The victim is Michiko Oshitani, a resident of Shiga Prefecture who worked for a home cleaning company.
What’s more, the occupant of the apartment where the murder took place, Mutsuo Koshikawa, has gone missing.
Matsumiya (Junpei Mizobata) and his fellow detectives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Investigation Section 1 begin investigating, but hit a brick wall when they fail to find any links between Oshitani and Koshikawa.
Why was Oshitani, who lived in Shiga, killed in Tokyo?
Eventually, the detectives’ inquiries lead them to a theater director named Hiromi Asai (Nanako Matsushima).
They learn that Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit her former classmate Asai, but again come up with nothing when searching for connections between Asai and Koshikawa, and their investigation grinds to a halt.
Matsumiya has a hunch that a charred corpse found nearby the murder scene may have some relevance to the case, and subsequently discovers an item among the victim’s belongings with the names of Nihonbashi’s 12 bridges written on it.
When Kyoichiro Kaga (Hiroshi Abe) learns of this, he is deeply shaken.
It is somehow connected to his mother, who died alone...

RIKUOH

陸王   육왕   陸王

120 min × 1 eps / 90 min × 1 eps / 85 min × 2 eps / 75 min × 2 eps / 60 min × 4 eps|10 episodes

Dramatization based on the novel “RIKUOH” by Jun Ikeido. Koichi Miyazawa is the CEO of the longstanding company which manufacture tabi(traditional Japanese socks). Due to a decrease of demand for tabi thesedays, the Company, Kohazeya, has fallen upon hard times. For the company's survival, Miyazawa strikes upon the idea of creating a new type of running shoe that utilizes “tabi” making techniques to make the user feel as if running in bare feet. But the road ahead for a cash-strapped local company with a small staff is steep, and Miyazawa runs into continuous roadblocks only to be saved time and time again by those around him. Will he succeed in launching his running shoe and saving his company? Follow Miyazawa in this uplifting tale of economic revitalization.

Tokyo Scarlet - The Lady Cop Story

東京スカーレット ~警視庁NS係   도쿄 스칼렛~ 경시청NS계   東京紅鵝絨

70 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 8 eps|9 episodes

The “scarlet badge” is issued only to 1st Criminal Investigation Unit detectives. The badge is a proud symbol of dedication and passion by an elite cops of crime fighters including unit veteran, Sosuke Ato, and his rookie female partner, An Narutaki, of the newly-minted Search 1 New Service (NS) section. Narutaki has attained her long-cherished dream of becoming a cop but finds herself exhausted beyond belief by irregular hours in a male-dominated workplace. Wondering whether time is running out on her for settling down and raising a family, the thirty-something rookie and her talented partner with a secret past take on one hard-to-crack criminal mystery after another.

The Cat Lawyer and the Invisible Man: A Corpse’s Ransom

猫弁   고양이 변호사   貓說

120 min x 2 ep|2 episodes

Despite being celebrated as a brilliant lawyer, Taro Momose is a poor and lonely bachelor who lives in a run-down apartment and has never had a relationship with a woman in all his 40 years. Softhearted to boot, Momose has also become owner of a gaggle of cats that lost their home in a civil pet suit Momose had taken on. As a result, his Shinjuku office is littered with cats. Es-tranged from his mother at a young age, Momose has long dreamed of having a real family, but repeated use of dating services has yielded nothing. His professional motto is to accept all cases and then work to develop its merits and means for resolution. Once all the pieces have been put together, results nobody could have predicted await in this heartfelt mystery series brimming with tears and laughter.

PANDEMIC

感染列島   감영열도   感染列島

138 min.

An urgent patient is carried in for Tsuyoshi Matsuoka, an ER doctor. This patient is suffering from multiple organ failure, or systematic infection, with a high fever, cramps, and the vomiting of blood. . . It is an infection that humans have never encountered. Is it a new type of influenza? Or even some other new virus? To the hospital turned into a battlefield, where Matsuoka and other staff are engaged in hectic work, a medical officer named Eiko Kobayashi is sent over from WHO. If this virus causes a nationwide pandemic, the transportation networks and the urban functions across the country will be stalled within 3 months and the number of infected persons will reach tens of millions in only half a year. A horrendous situation that may be far worse than any war damage is anticipated. Will humans be able to stop the unprecedented infection panic?!

Old Flame

ハタチの恋人   스무살의 연인   二十歲的戀人

70 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 9 eps|10 episodes

Keisuke is a typical 50-year old, his work and private life settled into a rut. Just as he has started to think that life will hold no more thrills for him, a young woman comes into his life that looks just like the girlfriend of his youth. As Keisuke weaves a web of deceit about his social status, he is rejuvenated and acquires a positive attitude towards his life.