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Masaya Kato (加藤雅也)

Smiling Matryoshka

笑うマトリョーシカ   웃는 마트료시카   微笑俄羅斯娃娃

When newspaper reporter Kanae Michiue suspects that a young politician hailed as a future prime minister is being manipulated, she looks into his past in an effort to find out by whom. His secretary? Or someone else? She discovers several mysterious deaths have occurred during the politician’s stellar political rise, including that of her own father. What is the “peculiar relationship” between the politician and his talented secretary? One newspaper reporter is determined to find out in this political drama laced with mystery and passion.

Girls in the Bar

女はそれを許さない   여자는 그것을 용서하지 않아   女人絕不允許

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

Rei Iwasaki is in her 30s and holds a lawyer’s license but is too shy and nervous to stand in court.
Rinka Ebisawa, by contrast, is a glamorous, haughty 40-something woman with superlative legal talent but lost her license after resorting to “gray” legal methods.
Now, two women incapable of practicing law alone find possibility as a pair with the assistance of a legal apprentice, Taisuke Takiguchi who works under a crackpot human-rights lawyer.
The two women embark on a host of legal cases as professional partners in this exhilarating life-size human drama about the struggles of work and friendship.

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’.