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Love Story ラブストーリー   러브 스토리   愛情故事

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Sudo Misaki, an editor with misgivings about her professional and private life, is assigned to Nagase Koh, a popular romance novelist who has been in a two-year slump. Despite his profession, Nagase has never experienced true romance and becomes quite uncomfortable at the prospect. However, these two find themselves curiously drawn to each other and begin writing their own love story.

DEATH CASH

死幣   사폐   死幣

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

College student and Economics major, Yuka Minami (19) suddenly learns of the freakish death of her friend, Ikumi, on whose corpse were found reams of 10,000-yen bills. The eyes of Yukichi Fukuzawa, the face on the 10,000-yen note, had all been darkened black. When the bodies of 5 more men and women around Ikumi turn up in the same manner, rumors spread of a “death cash” curse. Frantic over this rash of inexplicable deaths in her immediate surroundings, Yuka one day hits upon a certain “rule” she believes might combat the workings of these fatal deaths. Horror and suspense surround her in this visceral depiction of modern society’s biggest and most terrifying subject: money.

Forbidden Fruit

不機嫌な果実   금기의 과일   禁果的誘惑

60 min. x 11 eps.|11 episodes

Mayako, a married woman, finds her life of comfort and casual affairs thrown into disarray when she unexpectedly falls in love with a younger man. Here is a modern fable of the moral dilemmas facing today’s women, in a time where the expectations of love, marriage, and divorce from earlier generations no longer seem true.

I Love You Just a Little Bit

あなたのことはそれほど   당신을 그렇게까지는   我對你並没那麼

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

Mitsu is a 29-year-old woman who married “the number 2 man in her life,” but has been unable to forget her first love, Arishima. When she accidentally encounters him after several years, she feels it is destiny calling, and the two spend one night together in secret from their spouses. Airtime himself has just begun a family of his own, with a newborn child, but he and Mitsu find themselves continuing their affair. While they at first enjoy what seems to be a no-strings at-tached affair, it gradually begets subtle changes in feeling. Mitsu’s husband, Ryota, becomes aware of the affair and ups his devotion to her to keep her. Meanwhile, Arishima’s wife, Reika, is a picture perfect mother and devoted wife, throwing this four-way relationship into an increas-ingly complicated web of mixed emotions.

I Will Be Your Bloom

君の花になる   너의 꽃이 될래   為你綻放的花

75min × 1ep / 60min × 9eps

Asuka had once realized her goal to become a teacher, but after a gutting failure, she gives up her dream profession and becomes extremely withdrawn. After a series of events, she finds herself becoming a live-in housemother for a dorm... where the boy band septet 8LOOM live together!
At the dorm, she is reunited with her former student Dan—as a teacher, Asuka used to encourage him to go for his dreams. Inspired by Dan’s leadership in the band and his passion for making his dream come true, Asuka, too, regains the passion she had in her teaching days and comes to terms with her own failure.
Don’t miss this adorable story about a woman’s journey to new heights in work, friendship, and romance!

MOZU (S1): Night Cry of the MOZU|MOZU (S2): Phantom Wings

MOZU Season 1 ~百舌の叫ぶ夜~|MOZU Season 2 ~幻の翼編~   MOZU Season1 ~모즈가 울부짓는 밤~|MOZU Season2 ~환상의 날개~   吶喊正義 第一季~百舌吶喊的夜晚~|吶喊正義 第二季~幻之翼~

Season 1: 114 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 9 eps Season 2: 60 min x 5 eps|15 episodes

The crowning work of Go Osaka, one of Japan’s leading hard-boiled mystery writers, his series “Mozu” (Bull-headed shrike) has sold almost 700,000 copies to date.

【MOZU Season1: Night Cry of the Mozu】
Ace police officer of the public safety department plice, Kuraki (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who lost his wife in a bombing incident, Osugi (Teruyuki Kagawa), a cop who rose from the bottom of the ranks up through the 1st Criminal Section, and a tough woman cop, Miki (Yoko Maki), form an odd trio that gradually learn to trust each other as they try to solve a town bombing, catch an assassin that goes by the name “Mozu”, and expose shady past collusions and conspiracy within the police department. The truth emerges slowly from a whirlpool of human intrigue that will keep you glued to your screen in a blockbuster production that goes beyond the conventional scale and realm of television.

【MOZU Season2: Phantom Wings】
One year following the first season “Night Cry of the Mozu”, an even more wicked challenge presents itself to Kuraki and his gang in the form of an international conspiracy. A murder in the style of Mozu occurs near Kuraki, Osugi and Miki that points to not only Japan but to an international terrorist ring surrounding the “Phantom wings” and a high-stakes gamble. The shocking truth behind a peaceful society is about to be revealed! “Phantom Wings” adds new cast members to this action thriller sure to shake the foundation of your values and view toward life.

Mr. Kimpachi in Class 3B (S1-8)

3年B組金八先生 1-8   3 학년 B 반 긴파치 선생님   3 年 B 班金八老師

1: 60 min. x 23 eps. 2: 60 min. x 25 eps. 3: 85 min. x 1 ep., 60 min. x 11 eps. 4: 120 min. x 2 eps. , 60 min. x 21 eps. 5: 135 min. x 1 ep. , 120 min. x 3 eps. , 60 min. x 19 eps. 6: 150 min. x 1 ep. , 120 min. x 3 eps. , 60 min. x 19 eps. 7: 120 min. x 2 eps. , 60 min. x 19 eps. , 240 min. x 1 ep. 8: 120 min. x 2 eps., 60 min. x 20 eps.|173 episodes

A legendary television series and cultural asset that first aired 32 years ago, Mr. Kinpachi in Class B is famous for putting many social issues on the front burner of the public conscious over its long run, as filtered through the emotionally volatile lives of third year middle school students. The heartfelt relations between a devoted schoolteacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, and his unique students have won the show high praise for several decades. Whether due to the pressures of exams, family relations, teachers and friends, graduating middle school students navigate a turbulent hormonal sea of “hope” and “frustration”, constantly shaped by the social environment of the times. Standing as a beacon in the storm and emitting messages of hope for each generation is one Japanese teacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, who has come to be adored and admired by a nation through the adventures of Class 3B.

MY FAIR BOY

マイフェアボーイ   My Fair Boy   因為遇見你

30 min. x 30 eps.|30 episodes

The story begins when a housewife named Aoi meets a boy named Yuichi, who is the orphaned son of her close friend. It is a heartwarming comedy about Aoi, the constantly positive, cheerful and accommodating housewife, transforming Yuichi, a sissy and sensitive crybaby, into a mature and independent man.

Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange

テレビ未来遺産 ORANGE〜1.17 命懸けで闘った消防士の魂の物語〜   ORANGE – 1.17 목숨걸고 싸운 소방관의 영혼의 이야기   Orange 1.17 拼命奮鬥的熱血消防員的魂之物語

135 min x 1 ep|1 episode

Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all firefighters can attain. But to do so, he and his fellow trainees must suffer through the most rigorous training. As Yamakura and his fellow trainees grit their teeth and complain, their superior officer, Sakurai, impresses upon them the lessons of the Great Hanshin Earthquake (Kobe Earthquake) 20 years ago as “the only time we ever lost.” What hap-pened on the front lines of rescue that day and in the aftermath? What raced through the hearts and minds of rescuers as they tried to get a handle on unimaginable disaster? The shocking facts pour from Sakurai’s mouth in hopes of preparing the recruits for the unforgettable event that awaits them.

TARO's CANDY HOUSE

おかしの家   과자의 집   下町的糖果屋

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

The setting is the Tsukishima district of Tokyo where the Summer Olympic Games will be held in five years. A small old-fashioned confectionary shop, “Sakuraya” stands as a remnant of the past amid the rapidly changing cityscape. Akiko Sakurai has been running the shop on a shoestring for over 50 years, along with her grandson, Taro (33) whom she raised form childhood after he lost his parents in a traffic accident. With them also is Reiko, a single mother who has returned to Tsukishima with her child. Seemingly left behind by a fast-moving world, Taro appears as something of a “loser” who finds himself reexamining his lost childhood in an effort to move forward. Life takes a strange turn when his grandmother, Akiko, receives a letter that she is being sued for damages because her cat, Mi-chan, allegedly scratched up a neighbor’s luxury car. What should be an easy case to win turns into a fumbling mess at the hands of Taro who can’t seem to win for losing in this wacky yet endearing and slightly heartwarming late-night drama.

The Family

華麗なる一族   화려한 일족   華麗一族

90 min x 2 eps / 60 min x 8 eps|10 episodes

"The Family", the program commemorating the 55th anniversary of the launch of the TBS TV station, is a social drama depicting the inside story between bureaucrats, politicians and big businesses over a bank merger revolving around the family discord between Daisuke Manpyou, the owner and president of Hanshin Bank, and his eldest son, Teppei. A program that was a big hit, "The Family" recorded average audience ratings of 23.9% in the Kanto region and 30.4% in the Kansai region.