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Scenario Writer Name: Makiko Uchidate (内館牧子)


A School Behind Bars

塀の中の中学校   담장안의 중학교   監獄裡的中學

150 min x 1 ep|1 episode

Although Junpei is aiming to become a professional photographer, he has just completed a five-year teaching post at a reform school. His next assignment is deputy homeroom teacher at a prison school. Junpei will be working alongside senior teacher, Miyake. The students of the prison school are all convicted felons. Those who have not yet finished compulsory education but show the will to learn and have a clean slate of behavior in prison are the conditions for admission to the school. However, the screening process is strict, and only those judged worthy by the admissions committee are permitted to take 14 subjects and study for seven hours a day. The students are something of a motley crew and this drama traces not only their rocky path to graduation but also how Junpei grows through coming into contact with them.

A Younger Man

年下の男   연하의 남자   小男友

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

30-something office lady Chikako falls for Shun, a man at her gym. She asks him out, but he rejects her. Shun then happens to meet Chikako's mother, Hanae, and are instantly attracted to each other. The attraction of a younger man changes Hanae's perception of herself as a woman. Chikako enjoys seeing her mother blossom, oblivious to the fact that this is due to the man who rejected her. When she learns of Hanae and Shun's relationship, she sees her mother for the first time as a rival. They are no longer mother and daughter. They are simply two women in love with the same man.

An Old Boyfriend

昔の男   옛 남자   再見舊情人

60 min. x 12 eps.|12 episodes

29-year old Hara Akari, who is currently in a relationship with a man who doesn’t take their relationship seriously, finds herself reminiscing about her old college boyfriend before a class reunion. She is disappointed to discover he is married, but when he makes an unexpected appearance at the reunion, she finds herself torn between the present and the past.

Because There is Always Tomorrow

あしたがあるから   내일이 있기에   邁向明天

60 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

Reiko, an office girl, wants to marry her boyfriend, who works in the same office. However, the situation becomes quite complicated when the young woman is promoted to manage a major project. Reiko is left feeling lost and helpless before this unexpected move by the company president. Did her father have a secret agreement with the president? Will the future hold any happiness for her?

The Vulgar Tongue

汚れた舌   더러운 혀   口舌之爭

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

Working two jobs and forsaking her personal life, Chinatsu finally fulfilled her dream of owning her own flower shop two years ago. However, she guards a dark secret from her mother that the man who largely funded her business, and that she currently is in a relationship with, is the same man who drove her father to suicide. Kohei is a third-generation owner of a flower shop chain and lives with his wife, Anri, and mother-in-law, Hiroko, who is the same age as him and treats him in a special way. It is under these circumstances that Chinatsu and Kohei meet and find themselves attracted to one another, threatening to reveal secrets and stir up tensions until now hidden under the surface.