It is called “The Musical Koshien”, the All-Japan Wind & Brass Band High School Championship. Regional rounds begin across the country every July, gradually narrowing a field of over 3,000 high school bands to just about a dozen for the finals. Amid the event’s long history, one public school is legendary for having risen from complete anonymity to national champion. In 1983, Kanagawa Prefectural Noba High School was a rough and tumble, low-rated school with a music room littered with cigarette butts and an inactive brass band club made up of hopeless slackers. But in the short span of 2 years, one man turned them around and made them national heroes. Based on a true story about a teacher named Nakazawa who spent 10 years guiding students to glory while battling cancer, this inspiring drama depicts two years in the life of a broken down musician (Koichi Hikuma), searching for meaning after suffering an accident that forced him out of a musical career, and the turnaround he orchestrates for himself and for the lives of his problematic students.

Kazuki Kitamura and Gaku Hamada co-star in a television dramatization of two seminal works from the hugely-popular, hard-boiled series, “Yakubyogami” by crime thriller writer, Hiroyuki Kurokawa: “Hamon” (Expulsion), based on the novel of the same name that won the 151st Naoki Prize, and the series’ debut novel, “Yakubyogami” (Hoodoo).
Set in Osaka, high-spirited yakuza Kuwabara and buttoned-down construction consultant Ninomiya form an odd couple as they rail against the city’s “bad elements” drawn to money like sharks to the scent of blood. Laced with the characteristic witty banter of the Osaka dialect here is a gritty, hard-boiled drama that explodes with violent thrills and impact that defies all expectations.

The critical success of its predecessor has therefore led to a second season based on the 4th book from Hiroyuki Kurokawa’s Naoki Prize-winning “Yakubyogami” (The Pest) series: “Kera" (Mole Cricket).
The world’s worst “Deity of Disease Duo” returns! Picking up from the previous season, Kazuki Kitamura resumes his role as womanizing yakuza, Kuwabara, with Gaku Hamada as construction firm consultant, Ninomiya. This time, they’re targeting a treasure held by a powerful religious organization: an ancient illustrated handscroll, which they hope to turn into cash. But this is a religious organization to which baddies swarm like bees to honey. Corrupt cops, Tokyo yakuza, a beautiful and mysterious art gallery owner, and wealthy priests. Amid this circus of avarice and greed, who will emerge victorious? What is in store for the “Deity of Disease Duo” as they make their way between Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya and Tokyo.