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Naoto Takenaka (竹中直人)

An encouragement of love

恋愛のすゝめ   名校菁英的戀愛大作戰

30min × 8eps

Distractions are strictly forbidden for the student body leader of a super prep school where 95% successfully get into Japan’s most prestigious University of Tokyo. But then he falls in love for the first time. Turning his back on studies and defying school rules, he now stakes his life on the most difficult challenge of all: winning a person’s heart! But he is so undaunted by repeated failure that his quest soon takes on a life of its own, engulfing the hearts and minds of the entire school! Super elite boys in glasses take on forbidden "love” in this over-the top, no holds barred rom-com!

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.

Midnight Sun

タイヨウのうた   태양의 노래   太陽之歌

60 min x 10 eps|10 episodes

While working at a seaside inn with his high school buddies, Koji Fujishiro meets Kaoru Amane, a street musician. Kaoru is suffering from an incurable disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum), and can’t be exposed to the sun. Under the sun, the two would never have met. Still, destiny brings the two together. Since the day he suddenly lost his job, Koji has lost sight of his dreams. But when he meets Kaoru, who is making positive efforts to become a singer, Koji regains his long-forgotten passion for music.

Charming

あいくるしい   사랑스러워라   親親我的愛

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 10 eps|11 episodes

Yuki, mother of the Mashiba family, is the grease that keeps this well-oiled machine running and its seven members happy and healthy. But when Yuki herself falls ill and needs to be hospitalized, the rest of the family must cooperate and make sacrifices in order to keep everything running smoothly and make ends meet. This heart-warming drama shows how a family finds strength in the face of adversity and learns the true meaning of family.

Tales of Terror - The Movie -

怪談新耳袋 劇場版   괴담신이대 극장판   怪談新耳袋 劇場版

92 min.

Hands appearing from out of the darkness choke a woman nightly. A nurse on a videotape stares at the high school girl watching television. A group of young women traveling hear a strange sound and begin disappearing one by one. Traveling around Japan, the producers of this chilling film have gathered the scariest true stories from around the country and brought together some of the best names in “Japanese Horror” to create this theatrical version of the hit series.

GOOD LUCK!!

GOOD LUCK!!   굿 럭 !   GOOD LUCK!!

75 min x 2 eps / 65 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 7 eps|10 episodes

Having achieved his life-long dream of being a pilot, Hajime is first officer on an international jetliner and is now working to become a captain. But he can’t seem to please Captain Kouda, who has become an exacting taskmaster since an air incident many years ago. To complicate matters, he begins a relationship with stubborn and straight-talking mechanic, Ayumi, whose parents died many years ago in the plane crash for which Captain Kouda feels he is responsible. What follows is a story of 21st century love, dreams and passion.