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Toshihide Nishijima (西島秀俊)

Always Smiling

笑顔の法則   웃는 얼굴의 법칙   笑顔的法則

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

Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an interview for a job at a publishing company. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono, and finds popular comic book writer Reijiro Sakurai is having an editorial meeting with some staff. He is planning to lock himself away at a hot spring for the next three months to concentrate on his next project. Sakurai comments that if Yumi were to join him he wouldn't mind being away for so long..., and so their adventure begins.

Am I Unattractive?

わたしってブスだったの?   난 매력없는 준재인가?   難道我很醜?

60 min. x 12 eps.|12 episodes

Determined never to be defeated, the heroine of this story is economically independent. Yet with each passing year, she experiences greater isolation and uneasiness. Her quest to live with integrity, despite the scars of previous battles, raises deep questions of how anyone can find their own way through these times.