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Haru Kuroki (黒木華)
Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle下剋上球児 하극상 야구 소년 下剋上球兒 85min × 1ep / 75min × 1ep / 60min × 8eps Nagumo is a social studies teacher at Mie Prefectural Etsuzan High School. A former baseball player in college who had to retire due to injury, he worked as a sports trainer before turning to his “other dream” of becoming a teacher at 32. When he is made advisor for the high school’s weak and disbanding baseball team, his life begins to come full circle, and strives to produce a miraculous turnaround for the team in this uplifting tale of love and baseball. Nagi's Long Vacation凪のお暇 나기의 휴식 凪的新生活 75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps|10 episodes Nagi Oshima is a 28-year-old employee of consumer appliance maker, with silky straight hair and a peculiar personality, feeling she must try her hardest to “read the room” so as to interact well with others. But her striving to adapt to others leads her one day to hyperventilate and collapse. “I need to rethink my life!” she proclaims, physically and mentally exhausted. So she decides to give up everything and “reset” her life. She quits her job, terminates her condo lease, breaks off all contact with her boyfriend and everyone she knows, and goes on a solitary search to discover the “freedom” to enjoy her own life. This even means undoing her straight perm and letting her natural curly hair flow, something she’s always harbored a complex about. Moving to a new neighborhood and new life, however, presents both new and old challenges. She meets the man living next door, someone she might define as “too free” and re-encounters her boyfriend, from whom she’d hoped to escape. A romantic comedy straight from the heart that extolls the virtues of self-acceptance and living true to oneself. Sleepeeer hit!重版出来! 중쇄를 찍자! 75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 9 eps|10 episodes Kokoro Kurosawa is a musclebound judo athlete who upon graduation from university joins a major publishing company and is assigned to the editing desk of a weekly comic magazine called “Vibes”, full or very unique individuals and oddly-named senior editor, Iokibe. She becomes enthralled with the world of comic publishing with all of its meetings with serial cartoon writers, discovery of new talent, negotiating of issue volume, and working to secure second print runs. Despite her enthusiasm, Kokoro comes face to face with the hard realities of publishing as more content goes digital, and the days of the printed page appear numbered. If a comic book series doesn’t catch fire by its 3rd volume, it is doomed. Hoping to resuscitate fading “manga” artists on the cusp of oblivion, Kokoro and her colleagues strike upon a unique plan to produce a big hit, but must contend with their marquee writer being headhunted by a rival magazine, and the constant threat of discontinued publication. It’s one crisis after another for this plucky editing team. THE EMPEROR’S COOK天皇の料理番 천황의 요리사 天皇的御廚 114 min x 1 ep / 90 min x 1 ep / 70 min x 5 eps / 60 min x 5 eps|12 episodes A TBS 60th anniversary commemorative project, “The Emperor’s Cook” depicts the life of Tokuzo Akiyama, head chef of the Imperial Household Ministry’s Imperial Cuisine Division during the Taisho (1912-1926) and early Showa (1926-1989) eras. Based on a true story and book by Hisahide Sugimori “The Emperor’s Cook” follows the life of country boy, Akiyama, who arrives in Tokyo in pursuit of the culinary arts. Driven by a deep love for his wife and family, a great reverence for his teachers, strong reliance on friends and an abiding love for cooking, Akiyama eventually rises to become “the Emperor’s cook”. Producer Akihito Ishimaru, director Yuichiro Hirakawa and teleplay writer Yoshiko Morishita form the core of an elite production staff responsible for such seminal works as JIN (’09), Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (’04), Into the White Night (’06) and Tonbi (’12), spinning this grand romance and quintessential human drama full of laughter and tears, struggle and triumph. Silver Spoon銀の匙 Silver Spoon 실버스푼 銀湯匙 Silver Spoon 111 min. Yugo Hachiken flees from the high expectations and stress of an elite cosmopolitan education into the vast and fertile fields of Hokkaido's Obihiro highlands, enrolling himself in an agricultural high school because it offers him dormitory life and a hopeful "escape." But flanked by peers who all seem to harbor clear goals and dreams of the future, Yugo finds the harsh, hands-on reality of working a dairy farm to be no picnic. It is the perfect place for a discouraged and aimless youth to embark on a journey of self-discovery through toil, friendship and young romance. |