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The Best Way to End a Life: Ending Planner 最高の人生の終り方 〜 エンディングプランナー 〜   최고의 인생을 마감하는 방법 ~엔딩 플래너~   最棒的人生終結方式 ~Ending Planner~

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The Best Way to End a Life: Ending Planner,最高の人生の終り方 〜 エンディングプランナー 〜,최고의 인생을 마감하는 방법 ~엔딩 플래너~,最棒的人生終結方式 ~Ending Planner~

Broadcast Date

2012.1.12 - 2012.3.15

Episode / Duration

10 episodes 80 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 9 eps

Scenario Writer

Chiho Watanabe (渡辺千穂)

Cast

Tomohisa Yamashita (山下智久)
Nana Eikura (榮倉奈々)
Atsuko Maeda (前田敦子)
Yuri Chinen (知念侑李)
Ito Ono (大野いと)

The death of a father places his son, Masato Ihara, in charge of the family undertaker business, “Iharaya” as its 5th generation owner. In an old quarter of Tokyo, the business is frequented by the police who bring only the deceased with checkered pasts. Inevitably, Masato, along with his elder brother, younger sister and a rookie female cop, find themselves involved in unraveling the mysterious lives and hard realities that these voiceless clients faced when they were alive, and endeavor to bring some “redemption”, warmth and comfort to the bereaved families. A human drama that powerfully depicts what it means to live.
아버지가 돌아가시고 줄곳 싫어하던 가업인 장의사를 잇게 된 이 하라 마사토 . 경찰에서 의뢰받은 시신은 갖가지 사연을 안고 있 다 . 마사토는 어떤 일을 계기로 알게 된 신참여형사와 함께 매번 시신과 함께 운반되어 오는 세상의 갖가지 현실을 맞는다 . 사연있 는 시신을 둘러싼 미스테리한 전개와 함께 말못하는 고인의 인생 을 의미있게 바꾸어 남겨진 가족의 눈물을 불러일으킨다 . 정많은 마사토의 모습을 통해 ‘삶’ 을 강한 터치로 그린 휴먼드라마이다 .
因為父親的去世「井原 真人」不得不接下原本討厭的家 業「葬儀社」而成了「井原屋」的第五代主人。警察常幫 他們帶上門的生意,都是那些「有特殊原因」的遺體。真 人和兄妹們以及意外相識的女刑警,面對每具「有特殊原 因的遺體」所附加的神秘故事以及世間殘酷的現實,他們 將已故的人生賦予了新的意義。我們透過真人的角色看到 了人情的冷暖,這是一齣深刻描寫「活著」的人性劇。

After School is Mystery Time!

放課後はミステリーとともに   방과후 미스테리와 함께   放學後再推理

30 min. x 9 eps.|9 episodes

A huge fan of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team, you the viewer become the story protagonist, Ryo Kirigamine, vice-president of the Young Detectives Club at Tokyo’s Koigakubo Academy. In the search for truth, each week the school club gets tangled in perplexing local crimes and mysteries, including murder!
Ryo is a self-avowed super detective, but tends to get lost in the maze of clues at critical junctures of a case. But never fear; there are plenty of people to come to get her back on track, including the biology teacher, Hiromi Ishizaki. Take part in an intricately-constructed, hardcore mystery every week.

Captain Cook’s Banquet

コック警部の晩餐会   콕경부의 만찬회   料理警探的晚宴

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

Hoshimitsu Kokku is a Criminal 1st Division cop with professional level culinary skills. Nicknamed “Captain Cook”, he brings his own eccentricities and philosophy toward crime-fighting with the conviction that “Food doesn’t lie.” If there is one thing Captain Cook can’t stomach, it is the thought of people getting away with murder and then being able to eat freely and sumptuously. So he recreates the meals of victims in an effort to understand them better in the course of his investigation, and invites suspects to a grand feast where he can smoke out the true criminal. His compassion and unwavering pursuit of criminals in the name of justice make him a new hero in the gourmet world. Meanwhile, constantly stressed to the max is his new partner, Azumi Nanase, who despite having fulfilled her dream of becoming a cop is diametrically different in personality and disposition from her partner. As a consequence, she is constantly stressed out being at the mercy of Captain Cook’s freestyle sleuthing style and having to salvage the peace between her partner and his rival detective, Nekota. Nevertheless, Nanase and Hoshimitsu together make a crack crime solving team.

Coloring Himura

イロドリヒムラ   이로도리히무라   華麗搞笑日村秀

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

Starring Japan's currently most popular comedian, Yuki "Bananaman" Himura finds himself the central character in an eccentric drama that unfolds in ominibus style with each episode penned by a different writer and featuring an ever-changing support cast. Only Himura appears each time without fail, showcased and accentuated by resplendent actresses. Giving color to all who appear are the prominent globally-acclaimed film directors. Himura versus 10 movie directors and 10 stunning actresses. Witness a wholly new kind of TV drama that can only be seen here!

Last Train Bye-Bye!

終電バイバイ   막차 바이바이   末班車bye-bye!

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

If you missed the last train, and had no money to get home by other means of transport, and had to spend the night in and around a particular train station, what would you do? This is how our story begins, with the protagonist missing the last trine. He has no money with him and must figure out how to pass the time until the first train in the morning. Little does he knows of the encounters and "late night adult adventure" that await him and which will cause him to grow. A one-night romance with a mysterious and attractive woman? The suspense and perils of becoming embroiled in a criminal incident? Or an incident of interpersonal connectivity sure to make one smile broadly? Enjoy a brand new type of drama that will leave you thinking about missing your last train tomorrow.

Over-the-Shoulder Lover

肩ごしの恋人

65 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 8 eps.|9 episodes

Rental Lovers

レンタルの恋   렌탈 사랑   出租小妹 紫陽花

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

Remi Takasugi is the most popular “item” at the “Rental Lovers” company where no customer request is deemed too impossible, outlandish or difficult to fulfill as long as certain rules and time constraints are observed. The company motto is “The ultimate rental girlfriend” and they guarantee complete satisfaction and perfectly-met requests. Remi is the ideal girlfriend in every way. But she also exhibits a few distractingly different traits. She absolutely refuses to smile once a date “gig” is over, and she wears an odd-looking bandage on her neck. So who or what is Remi? And what’s with the bandage? Cyborg? Alien? Cat? The suspense-filled love story starts here.

Resident : Story of 5 Interns

レジデント 〜5人の研修医〜   레지던트 ~5명의 연수의~   菜鳥實習醫

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

Shizuku Miyama aims to become a doctor and follow in the footsteps of her father, Katsumi. “I want to make him proud,” she thinks. But when Katsumi expresses his disapproval toward his daughter becoming a doctor, Shizuku rebels and attends med school anyway on a scholarship. She makes it to her first year of residency where together with 4 other same-year interns she is assigned to the front lines of emergency medicine at the hospital’s critical care center. With only 6 months of medical practice behind them, these five interns lack sufficient life-saving skills, but through daily contact with experienced colleagues and contact with patients, find themselves maturing into full-fledged doctors and adults under the unforgiving life or death pressures of the emergency room.

SPEC: life

SPEC ~翔   SPEC: 翔   SPEC: 상(翔)

114 min x 1 ep|1 episode

A year after his last big fight, Takeru Sebumi, returns to the Metropolitan Police following some time off recovering from medical treatment on his eyes. But he is immediately confronted with a very strange murder case involving a machine gun shootout that took place in the middle of a street in broad daylight where only one high school female survived. But the girl's testimonial is that the shooter was dressed all in black and could move by instant teleportation. Photos taken by a combatant in the firefight revealed the presence of Satori, who had been badly knifed and held The Empress tarot card in her hand. Saya Toma views the incident as a blatant showdown between "spec holders" of specialized powers. Thus, a new challenge is thrown down for former special forces cop, Sebumi, and the quirky Toma with her 201 IQ.

Takeshi’s Castle Thailand

風雲!たけし城 タイ版   타케시성 - 타이   泰國版 百戰百勝

100 min x 85 eps Including special and best of episodes|Eps 85

The classic game show, “Takeshi’s Castle”, returns to life in Thailand!
Built on the largest set in Thai television history, challengers take part in the legendary game to great laughs and adventure! Thailand’s popular actors and comedians provide extra glamour and entertainment including distinctly Thai themed shows, such as a “models competition,” that do the original show proud.

What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?

老後の資金がありません!

115 min

The 2015 best-seller novel by Miu Kakiya has been adapted to film by director Tetsu Maeda (“A Banana? At This Time of Night?”). As of April, 2020, the book has sold over 260,000 copies.
In Japan, it is said you need 20 million yen saved up for retirement. Though everyone has their worries about the future, not many openly talk about it. This film comically depicts this problem through the eyes of a respectable-looking family that’s actually a bit dysfunctional.

The main character, Atsuko, is your average housewife who believes in frugality. She has a husband, Akira, who’s quite clueless about the family budget, a daughter who works part-time, and a son in college. Though Atsuko had been saving up for retirement, she gets in an argument with her sister-in-law and her husband one day, and she ends up having to pay 4 million yen for her father-in-law’s funeral. As if that’s not enough, her husband’s company goes bankrupt, she gets fired from her part-time job, her daughter wishes for a lavish wedding with her fiancé who’s in a heavy metal band, and her big-spending mother-in-law moves in. The family’s savings dwindle by the day.
Problems between husband and wife, parent and child, wife and mother-in-law, a child’s marriage, a child moving out, caring for a parent, and funerals… These are all problems that everyone faces. As the family is hit by one dilemma after another, they struggle and torment themselves in order to overcome adversity.