The “Deka Wanko” drama series, starring Tabe Mikako, is getting a special episode at the start of the new year. The story this time will take place in Paris and in Edo-period Japan.
“Deka Wanko” is based on a manga by “Gokusen” creator Morimoto Kozueko. The story follows a rookie detective named Hanamori Ichiko (played by Tabe), whose exceptional dog-like sense of smell earns her the nickname of “Deka Wanko.” The drama series adaptation aired between January and March of this year, and the final episode drew ratings of 15.8%.
The story for the special episode has Hanamori and her colleagues taking a vacation in Paris, where some of the scenes were shot on location at the start of this month. While they are enjoying the Christmas atmosphere, they suddenly get called back to Tokyo for a case. However, they can’t find their colleague (played by Sawamura Ikki), so Hanamori tries using her sense of smell to track him down. She winds up getting lost, and she finds herself in a place that resembles Edo-period Japan.
Besides Sawamura, Tegoshi Yuya (NEWS) has also been confirmed as a returning cast member.
The special episode will be broadcast on NTV on January 7 at 9:00pm.
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject:
Goriki Ayame to star in drama series “Teen Court”
Posted on December 10, 2011 by tokyograph
Up-and-coming actress Goriki Ayame (19) has been given her first sole starring role in a drama series. She will play the lead in NTV’s “Teen Court ~10-dai Saiban~,” scheduled for Tuesday nights (11:58pm) this winter.
The setting for the series is modeled after actual teen courts in the United States, which allow juveniles who have committed minor offenses to have their cases heard by their peers. The teen courts generally hand down sentences of community service, following principles of restorative justice.
In the drama, Goriki plays a 2nd-year high school student named Nyakouji Misato, who serves as a prosecutor in teen court. Although the cases she deals with have already been investigated, she teams up with a boy in her class to re-investigate until her own curiosity has been satisfied. From her perspective as a high school girl, she notices things such as an odd use of emoji in an email, or an unnatural pose in a picture, leading her to discover the real truth behind each incident.
The supporting cast includes Murakawa Eri, Mori Ken, Konno Hiroki (King of Comedy), Owada Kensuke, Azuma Mikihisa, and Maeda Bibari.
The series is planned to take two episodes per case. Filming already started on December 7. The series will premiere on January 10, 2012.
Matsushima Nanako joins cast of Matsumoto Jun’s “Lucky Seven”
December 11, 2011
More cast members have been revealed for Fuji TV’s upcoming drama series “Lucky Seven.” The biggest announcement is that “Kaseifu no Mita” star Matsushima Nanako will be in it, playing the boss of the detective agency of the “Lucky Seven” team.
The drama was unveiled last month, starring Arashi member Matsumoto Jun as a rookie detective named Tokita Shuntaro. At the time, Eita and Oizumi Yo were revealed as two other members of the detective team. It is now known that Naka Riisa, Kadono Takuzo, and Iriki Mari are also part of the team.
Fukiishi Kazue will play a police inspector who has connections with the agency. Okae Kumiko will play Shuntaro’s mother.
Matsushima and Matsumoto previously appeared together in the drama series “Hana Yori Dango” in 2005 and its sequel in 2007.
This will be Matsushima’s first role in one of Fuji TV’s “Getsu 9” dramas since “Yamato Nadeshiko” in 2000, which had ratings of 26.4%, peaking at 34.2% for its final episode. She currently appears in NTV’s “Kaseifu no Mita,” which has so far reached ratings as high as 29.6%.
Tanihara Shosuke to star in “Lucky Seven” spin-off
December 12, 2011
Before the Fuji TV drama series “Lucky Seven” premieres on January 16, the cable channel Fuji TV TWO will broadcast a spin-off drama on January 14, titled “Shiritsu Tantei Makabe Ryu.” Although Arashi’s Matsumoto Jun is the star of the actual series, the spin-off will star Tanihara Shosuke.
As announced before, “Lucky Seven” is an action/comedy series about a team of private detectives who solve various difficult cases despite their lack of smooth teamwork. In the series, “Shiritsu Tantei Makabe Ryu” is a TV detective drama that the characters love to watch. Matsumoto’s character, Tokita Shuntaro, has admired Makabe Ryu since he was a child, and even in his actual detective work he imitates Makabe’s signature line and pose.
In the world of “Lucky Seven,” the “Makabe Ryu” series is described as a “hard-boiled comedy” about a private eye with a trademark yellow hat and trench coat, who solves the world’s toughest unsolved cases and has even earned the respect of the American intelligence agency CIA.
The spin-off consists of 4 original stories. Fuji TV TWO will broadcast “Shiritsu Tantei Makabe Ryu” on January 14 at 12:30pm.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:52 pm Post subject:
Matsushige Yutaka to star in drama adaptation of food manga “Kodoku no Gourmet”
Posted on December 19, 2011 by tokyograph
Actor Matsushige Yutaka (48) will star in a live-action drama adaptation of Kusumi Masayuki and Taniguchi Jiro’s gourmet manga “Kodoku no Gourmet.” This will be Matsushige’s first time to star in a television series.
“Kodoku no Gourmet” was originally serialized in Fusosha’s “Gekkan SPA!” between 1994 and 1996. It was resumed in 2008 and has been irregularly serialized since then.
The story follows a man named Inogashira Goro (played by Matsushige), who privately runs an imported dry goods business. In his spare time between work, he visits various shops and tastes their cuisine. One of the highlights of the manga is that the shops that appear in it are all real shops geared towards a general public. The drama will preserve the spirit of the manga, in which the solitary protagonist speaks very little and the focus is on his character as he eats various dishes.
TV Tokyo will broadcast the series late at night (Wednesdays 12:43am-1:13am), starting on January 4.
^ That could be interesting. Yutaka Matsushige (http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.77.htm) usually plays "second thug from the left". I wonder how he'll do as the lead.
Watanabe Mayu to play 38-year-old teacher in her drama series “Saba Doru”
January 3, 2012
Some plot details have finally been released regarding the drama series “Saba Doru,” starring AKB48 member Watanabe Mayu. The series was announced last month but was initially surrounded by secrecy. It turns out that Watanabe will be playing a dual role, one as herself and one as a 38-year-old teacher.
The story revolves around the 38-year-old Usa Shijimi (Watanabe), who is a high school classical literature teacher. Her students are mean to her, but they don’t realize that she has another identity. Outside school, she lies about her age to be active as the super popular 17-year-old idol Watanabe Mayu, whom the students adore.
The title is a combination of the phrase “nenrei no saba wo yomu” (to lie about one’s age) and the word “aidoru” (idol).
Watanabe commented on the role, “How to act as the 38-year-old Shijimi is especially difficult, but I want to give it my best.” She continued, “The show is a heartful comedy, so I hope I can provide energy to those who watch it.”
Ando Tamae, Sakata Tadashi, Kaminaga Keisuke, and Takahashi Hitomi are among the supporting cast. The planning and original work are being handled by AKB48 producer Akimoto Yasushi.
It was already announced that Watanabe’s solo debut single “Synchro Tokimeki” (being released February 29) will be the drama’s theme song, and that the drama will have a manga version debuting in Kodansha’s Young Magazine on January 16.
“Saba Doru” will air on Friday nights at 12:53am on TV Tokyo, beginning January 13. A total of 12 episodes are planned.
Ichihara Hayato, Narimiya Hiroki cast in drama adaptation of Tezuka Osamu’s “Hidamari no Ki”
January 15, 2012
Actor Ichihara Hayato will star in a historical drama for the first time. He has been chosen as the lead of an adaptation of Tezuka Osamu’s manga “Hidamari no Ki,” with Narimiya Hiroki as his co-star.
Set during the end of the Edo period, “Hidamari no Ki” tells the story of a friendship between a young samurai named Ibuya Manjiro (Ichihara) and a doctor named Tezuka Ryoan (Narimiya). The story is based on the life of Tezuka Osamu’s own great-grandfather.
Kurokawa Mei plays the young woman with whom the two both fall in love. Other cast members include Tsugawa Masahiko, Nishioka Tokuma, Ikegami Kimiko, Sasano Takashi, Kotegawa Yuko, and Fueki Yuko.
Production is scheduled to begin on January 19 and finish in mid-February. The drama will be aired on NHK BS Premium sometime in April.
It was also recently announced that “Hidamari no Ki” is getting a new stage adaptation with Kamikawa Takaya and Kikkawa Koji.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:48 pm Post subject:
Yoshinaga Fumi’s “Ooku” gets live-action drama, movie sequel
Posted on January 16, 2012 by tokyograph
Yoshinaga Fumi’s historical fiction manga “Ooku” is getting a television drama adaptation and a second film adaptation, it has been announced. Actor Sakai Masato (38) will star in both, though he will play different characters in each.
“Ooku” is set during the Edo period of Japan, in an alternate history where a mysterious disease that affects only males has resulted in a population where women overwhelmingly outnumber men. As a result, woman are the dominant members of society, and due to scarcity, men are valued for their ability to produce offspring. The shoguns are female instead of male, and the “ooku” (the inner chambers of the shogun’s castle) consists of a harem of men.
A movie adaptation of the first volume of the manga was released in 2010, starring Arashi member Ninomiya Kazunari as a member of the “ooku” and Shibasaki Kou as Tokugawa Yoshimune. The movie earned 2.3 billion yen at the box office.
The television drama, titled “Ooku: Arikoto Iemitsu Hen,” will cover volumes 2 through 4 of the manga, which takes place during Tokugawa Iemitsu’s reign. Sakai will play the part of Arikoto, a monk brought into the “ooku,” while Tabe Mikako (22) will play Iemitsu.
The TV series is scheduled to run from October to December on TBS. After the series ends, the “Ooku: Emonnosuke Tsunayoshi Hen” movie adaptation will be released in theaters on December 22. It will cover volumes 4 through 6 of the manga. Sakai will play Emonnosuke, an “ooku” member who resembles Arikoto, and Kanno Miho (34) will play the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.
Kaneko Fuminori will direct again, and Kamiyama Yumiko will handle the screenplay. More cast members are expected to be announced in July.
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Sakurai Sho, Oshima Yuko to co-star in television drama “Blackboard”
January 24, 2012
Arashi’s Sakurai Sho and AKB48’s Oshima Yuko will appear together in a television drama for the first time. In April, TBS plans to air a 3-episode miniseries, and Sakurai and Oshima have been cast in the first episode.
The miniseries, titled “Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~,” revolves around teachers in different time periods having to deal with the problems of that era. For example, the first episode stars Sakurai as Shirahama, a junior high school teacher who taught his students about “dying for your country” during wartime. After later losing his right arm in the war, he returns to teaching but is burdened and conflicted by what he taught his students in the past.
Oshima will play one of Shirahama’s colleagues, an English teacher. She becomes an eventual love interest for him, though it seems to develop into a love triangle with his older brother’s wife (Miyazawa Rie).
This is the first time that an AKB48 member has appeared in a drama starring an Arashi member. Filming will take place between February and March, but it is said that initially their schedules were so busy there was only one day when they were both available. However, their schedules were later adjusted, and the production team gave up on filming on location (due to the time required just to travel) and instead constructed a nearly 2,000-square-meter set in Yokohama that reportedly cost 100 million yen.
The second episode of “Blackboard ~Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~” will star Sato Koichi as a teacher during the 1980s having to deal with school violence. Shida Mirai will play a delinquent student, and Kanjiya Shihori will play another teacher at the school.
The cast for the third episode has not yet been finalized.
TBS plans to broadcast “Blackboard ~Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~” over three consecutive nights in April.
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Nakai Masahiro to play autistic savant in drama series “Ataru”
Posted on January 29, 2012 by tokyograph
SMAP’s Nakai Masahiro (39) has been given the starring role in an upcoming drama series titled “ATARU.” This will be his first lead role in a drama series since “Konkatsu!” in 2009.
The show is a mystery drama revolving around a man named Ataru, played by Nakai. Ataru is autistic, but he is also a savant, possessing extraordinary memory and powers of deduction that he uses to solve difficult cases. The character is being likened to Dustin Hoffman’s award-winning role in the 1988 movie “Rain Man.”
Kitamura Kazuki (42) plays a police detective who works with Ataru and makes use of his abilities in his investigations. Kuriyama Chiaki (27) plays a former detective who also assists Ataru.
TBS will broadcast “ATARU” on Sundays at 9:00pm, beginning this April.
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