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Scenario Writer Name: Shuko Arai (荒井修子)


BOYS OVER FLOWERS

花より男子   꽃보다 남자   流星花園

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

Set at a famous high school for the super-wealthy, this is a puppy love story centered on Tsukushi Makino a poor girl, and the F4 gang of rich kids headed by the rough and fearless Prince Charming Tsukasa Domyoji. A total of 55 million copies of the popular original comic have been published, and the story has been turned into a movie and TV animation. In 2001, it was remade as a TV drama series in Taiwan, and has been broadcast in 13 countries worldwide, achieving high ratings. Producer Katsuaki Setoguchi based his casting on the characters as portrayed in the original manga. “By showing these kids growing up together, and their social interactions in all their clumsiness,” he says, “I wanted to ask, what is really important in life, and how do we live true to ourselves, and love another person?”

Daisuki!!

だいすき!!   너무 좋아 !!   最喜歡你!!

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

Yuzu Fukuhara is a 23-year old with a slight mental disability. With childlike innocence, Yuzu falls in love and becomes pregnant. The sudden death of her child’s father throws Yuzu into confusion even as she becomes a mother. Yuzu’s dogged efforts win the unflagging support of those around her, but a far more difficult path lies ahead than anyone can imagine.

KIRA-KIRA KENSHUI

きらきら研修医

70 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 10 eps.|11 episodes

Usako is an intern who just graduated from medical school. Being clumsy and slow, she is always causing inconvenience to those around her, but her pure and do-it-all-the-way attitude is second to none. This drama sensitively and brightly depicts the process of Usako gaining her experience, from the times when she struggles to simply complete her assigned tasks to the point where she begins to realize she wants to become the kind of doctor to whom patients would say ‘thank you’.

Seven Days of a Daddy and a Daughter

パパとムスメの7日間   아빠와 딸의 7 일간   父女7 日變

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 6 eps|7 episodes

What if one day a “much-hated father” and his “beloved daughter” switch their personalities while their bodies, looks and voices remain intact? It is comical and tearful non-stop entertainment that depicts the “exciting youth” and the “thrilling salary man life” the two are exploring.

Seven Days of a Daddy and a Daughter (2022)

パパとムスメの7日間   아빠와 딸의7일간 (2022)   父女7日變 (2022)

30min × 8eps

A high school girl, Koume, and her working stiff father, Kyoichiro, wake up one day after a traffic accident to find they have switched bodies. The two had been drifting apart, but are now thrown into each other’s lives. Kyoichiro, for example, shows no interest in Koume’s love interest, a classmate named Kenta. Ironically, however, Kenta finds himself more attracted to Koume ever since the swap. There’s plenty of hijinks in this bizarre love triangule style romcom!

Sweets Dream

スイーツドリーム   스위트드림   甜點美夢

30 min. x 40 eps.|40 episodes

Three women working for a big corporation full of catch-22s have finally broken out of the company with a dream of starting their own business! Their goal is to open a specialty shop for mail-order sweets. But challenges and difficulties fall upon them one after another.
These three women, who are positive about both their love lives and careers, are sure to give “genki" power to female audiences.

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.