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Scenario Writer Name: Kei Watanabe (渡辺啓)


Get Ready!

Get Ready!   Get Ready!

75min × 2eps / 60min × 8eps

Hazama is a brilliant surgeon who runs a patisserie by day, creating cakes with the same ingenuity and dexterity he applies to surgery. But in his other life, he leads a secretive and powerful medical team willing to apply daring and unrivaled skills to any surgical challenge for an exorbitant fee. With his international legal partner Shimoyamada handling the client negotiations, Hazama takes scalpel into his own genius hands in this unprecedented type of medical human drama.

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.

Love Letter

ラブレター   러브레터   愛情信

30 min. x 60 eps.|60 episodes

Minami is a deaf girl who, through sign language, tries to relate herself to her first love, Kaiji, and in so doing nurtures their puppy love for one another. In the process, Minami begins to develop an unrealistic desire to “hear Kaiji’s voice”. In response, Kaiji swears to Minami that he will “be her ears for her”. Alas, they are too young to keep to their promise… This is a beautiful but painful love story of the 15 long years of their unforgettable first love and family ties.

Osamu’s Casebook

白戸修の事件簿   시라토 오사무의 사건부   白戶修的事件簿

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

Osamu Shirato is a timid man and ultra pushover who goes completely unnoticed by women and is devoid of any sex appeal. He’s been searching vainly for employment for two years. But his life undergoes a radical change when he is reunited with a childhood friend named Hitoshi Kurosaki. Following a certain “incident,” Osamu is suddenly a magnet for women as he finds himself embroiled in - and solving - one messy situation after another. Still hoping to “find work” over “solving crimes”, the endearingly awkward Osamu can’t bring himself to refuse requests for help, be it solving a murder, bank robbery or organized shoplifting to stopping stalkers, buggings, and graffiti.

TAGUSARI bros.

田鎖ブラザーズ   타구사리 브라더스   田鎖兄弟

75min × 1ep, 60min × 9eps

In April 2010, just two days before the statute of limitations for murder was abolished,, the statute of limitations expired on the case of the Tagusari brothers’ parents’ murder. To bring the culprit, who can no longer be judged by the law, to justice with their own hands, the older brother Makoto becomes a detective, and the younger brother Minoru becomes a medical examiner, continuing their relentless investigation within the police organization. While interacting with figures like the mysterious pawnshop owner Haruko and Makoto's buddy detective Shiori, they close in on the truth behind the daily difficult cases and the mystery of the incident from 31 years ago. A full-fledged crime suspense drama that depicts the love and resilience of the brothers as they confront their harsh fate and "frozen time," seeking the hope that lies beyond the truth.

Tumbling

タンブリング   텀블링   體操男孩

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

All hell breaks loose at a local high school when a very effete men’s tumbling and rhythmic gymnastics club is suddenly joined by a gang of the school’s “baddest” boys, and proceed to make believers out of everybody around them. Casting a spotlight on the Japanese-born sport of men’s rhythmic gymnastics, Tumbling is an uplifting and inspirational passion-of-youth drama about true friendship, dreams and the wonders of hard work. In fact, all the actors underwent rigorous gymnastics training so they could perform their stunts. But will they all be tumbling like pros by the end of their dramatic run?