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Family Hunter 家族狩り   가족사냥   涉獵家族

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Yuko Hizaki is a child psychologist working for the city’s child counseling service. She’s saddled by a senile father and a mother grown weary of nursing.
Shunsuke Sudo is a high school teacher resistant to the idea of marrying and building a family with his girlfriend. Ai Yoshizawa, who is highly antisocial, is one of his students. Koki Mamihara is a cop who suspects foul play in a family suicide. The case begins to rouse each character to life amid a rush of events in this foray into the pettiness, pathos and nobility of human nature, based on a representative work by novelist Arata Tendo.
치매를 앓는 아버지와 간병에 지친 어머니를 돌보며 아동상담소에서 근무하는 아동심리사 히자키 유코. 애인과 가정을 꾸리는 것에 강한 거부감을 느끼는 고교교사 스도 슌스케, 마음의 문을 닫은 여고생 요시자와 아이. 어떤 한가족의 자살사건에 의문을 품은 형사 마미하라 코키. 이 사건을 계기로 관련되어가는 사람들은 격류속에서 각자 생의 삶에 눈뜨기 시작한다. 인간의 추악함, 슬픔, 고귀함. 그 모든것을 담은 덴도 아라타의 대표작을 드라마화했다.
在兒童諮詢輔導所裡工作的兒童心理輔導師一冰崎游子,撫養著患了認知症的父親和因長期看護而深感疲惫的母親。對於愛情和家庭強烈反感的高中老師一巢藤凌介和他班上的自閉女高校生一芳澤亞衣。對於某家庭裡發生的殺人後自殺事件感到懸念的刑事一馬見原光毅。因為這起殺人事件而捲入關係的人們在奔流裡找到自己生存的意義。這是一部以擅長描寫人類的醜惡,悲哀,自負的作家一天童荒太的原作連續劇。

Dearest

最愛   최애   最愛

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps|10eps

Leading female industrialist, Rio, has been named a key person of interest in a serial murder case investigated by Detective Daiki. The two were once in love with each other in their youth. Rio’s legal advisor, Kenichiro, will do anything for her. Caught in a love triangle and a criminal investigation, Rio and Daiki’s “forbidden” romance seems doomed by a missing person incident 15 years ago and its possible links to a current serial murder case. Is Rio complicit? What would you do to protect those who are most beloved to you, be it a first crush, a sibling, a parent, a child, or a lifelong friend? This suspenseful romance evokes the uncompromising passion, struggle and redemption of true love.

Lifeflash Incorporated

走馬灯株式会社   주마등 주식회사   跑馬燈株式會社

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

"Somato" is a term referring to the phenomenon at the brink of death where a person sees their whole life pass before their eyes. Those who are lost and happen to stumble into the Somato Incorporated are guided by Kaminuma by the entreaty, "Take as much time as you'd like to look back over your life" and then are handed a set of DVDs equal in number to each of your age. They contain parts of your life you had forgotten and your life as viewed by others. What's more, you get to learn the shocking truths you were not capable of knowing before, forcing you to face up to facts so shocking they may never recover. After watching every volume, what are people left thinking? Are they left with a sense of despair? Or hope.

Miss Double Faced Teacher

黒の女教師   검은 여교사   黑暗女教師

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

Yuko is a biology teacher and education counselor at a local high school. Between the school bell chimes, she’s an ordinary teacher with superlative instructional technique. But when school lets out, she transforms into the one person you don’t want to mess with, a super problem-solving mercenary for whom no method is off limits when it comes to rooting out the myriad problems infesting teenage life in the schools. With an “eye for an eye” approach, she’s not above breaking a few laws and demands payment for her services. Enlisting as her sidekicks, Sumire and Aya, the personality-diverse trio run their elite “extra-curricular social work” club unified around Yuko’s charismatic leadership. High school students do not live in a sanitized bubble, and some extraordinary problems require extraordinary solutions that black-and-white rules of propriety or common sense alone cannot solve.

My Little Chef

マイリトルシェフ   나의 작은 요리사   我的小廚師

60 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

Seri, an unknown yet talented female chef from the country, arrives in Tokyo to work at French restaurant, Etoire, but discovers that they have gone out of business due to the departure of their main chef. Together with the restaurant’s former manager, she opens a French restaurant of her own and begins to recreate the flavors her late father mastered as a famous gourmet chef. Unfortunately, Etoire returns with an unscrupulous manager, and to make matters worse, Seri learns that it happens to be owned by her birth mother living in Paris who she hasn’t seen since she was a child. Seri wonders if her passion and skill will be enough to succeed.

Our Love Song!

愛のうた!   사랑의 노래!   愛之歌

30 min. x 45 eps.|45 episodes

Aki loses her husband-to-be right before their wedding. What is left for her are the three children he had with his ex-wife. This story depicts the transition of Aki and the children instantly becoming a “family,” discovering love and bonds and building a true family. The new family of four heals their wounds of losing their loved one by gradually clearing up normal household issues and becomes true to themselves through their life in the nature of Nasu Heights.

Quartet/Lovers & Liars

カルテット   콰르텟   美麗的謊音四重奏

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

Four people’s paths cross one winter by chance: two women and two men in their 30s, all whose dreams have gone sadly unfulfilled. Instead of swelling toward the peak of their lives, their lives all seem headed gently downhill. Despite being total strangers, they decide to share a house together in the wooded resort area of a Karuizawa. But “chance” also hides some pretty big secrets in this brand new adult-sized drama that will have you laughing at odd chemistry, biting your nails at unexpected turns, and even alarmed by some stark truths of the human condition.

The Melancholy of an Disguised Interviewer

変身インタビュアーの憂鬱   변신인터뷰어의 우울   憂鬱的百變偵探

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

A mystery writer and master of-the-trick-ending turns active interviewer in search of answers to a series of mysteries taking place in the realm between the virtual world and reality in an isolated town. Suffering from writer’s block, the author teams with his editor to solve a gothic murder that leads them down a labyrinthine path in this edgy mystery with dark comedy streaks.

The Wings of the Kirin

麒麟の翼   기린의 날개   麒麟之翼

129 min.

The book author Keigo Higashino describes as the masterpiece of his best-selling ‘Detective Kyoichiro Kaga’ series now comes to the screen! His novel “SHINZANMONO”, a brilliant achievement that in 2009 placed number 1 in the ‘This is a Great Mystery!’ and the Shukan Bunshun Mystery Awards, in 2010 became a wildly popular TV drama starring Hiroshi Abe. Its sequel, “The Wings of the Kirin” published in 2011, is a jewel of a mystery Higashino describes as the masterpiece of the Kaga series. “The Wings of the Kirin”, a ‘moving human drama’ starring Hiroshi Abe, Yui Aragaki, Kiichi Nakai, Junpei Mizobata, Tori Matsuzaka, Meisa Kuroki, Rena Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and other great names in Japanese film.

Ties of Shooting Stars

流星の絆

75min. x 2 eps. / 60min. x 8 eps.|10 episodes

“When we grow up… We’ll kill him together”. Koichi, Taisuke, and Shizuna are three siblings whose parents had been brutally murdered when they were just elementary school children, and they vowed to avenge the death of their parents. Fourteen years later, their vengeful plan unravels countless new facts. A shocking revelation leads to an overwhelmingly emotional ending. What will become of the siblings who have lived their lives solely in reliance of their bond alone?

Tokyo Elevator Girl

東京エレベーターガール   도쿄 엘리베이터 걸   東京電梯女郎

60 min. x 11 eps.|11 episodes

A young woman is on her own, facing the fascination and challenges of the working world. This drama traces her journey to maturity as she casts off illusions and misconceptions to learn the genuine truths of life.