Upcoming Summer 2013 Dramas

Kyuumei Byoto 24-ji Season 5
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Tuesdays, July 2013
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Matsushima Nanako, Sasaki Kuranosuke, Kazama Shunsuke, Ashina Sei, Haru, Kashiwabara Shuji, Kojima Kazuya, Okamoto Rei, Yamada Maho, Shukugawa Atom, Ito Yuko, Tezuka Toru, Anju Mira, Danta Yasunori, Tokito Saburo
Synopsis: Kojima Kaede (Matsushima Nanako) heads a team as the chief medical officer of the emergency and critical care centre at Minato University Hospital. However, the staff members of the centre are all skilled but idiosyncratic people with the emergency doctor Honjo Masaharu (Sasaki Kuranosuke) heading the list. It is a defective “team” which is not able to work together. Kaede herself is a more competent emergency doctor than anybody else but is unsure of leading the team. Meanwhile, the hospital management (Danta Yasunori) is frustrated with the emergency and critical care centre for not having a single organ donor since the organ transplant act was amended. They decide to get the unusual emergency doctor Natsume Mamoru (Tokito Saburo) to satisfy both a high percentage of lives saved and number of organ donors. Under continual pressure from daily tasks, Kaede has no time for that. But on Natsume’s first day at work, the worst ever major incident in history breaks out in Tokyo … …
Website: www.fujitv.co.jp/kyumei24
Related: Kyuumei Byoto 24-ji Season 4

TV Asahi Drama Special 2013 ~ Specialist

Date: From 9.00 p.m., 18 May 2013
Cast: Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Minami Kaho, Ashina Sei, Hiraoka Yuta, Satoi Kenta, Saito Takumi, Osugi Ren, Enami Kyoko, Konno Mahiru, Nakamaru Shinsho
Synopsis: A man is released from Shiga Chuo Prison. His name is Takuma Yoshito (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi). 10 years ago he was arrested and prosecuted for attempted murder. He received a 15-year prison sentence, but the comatose victim suddenly woke up and gave a statement that Takuma was not the attacker. It is proven that he was wrongfully convicted and he gets out of prison with his name cleared. Takakura Kiichiro (Osugi Ren), the assistant commissioner of the Kyoto Prefetural Police appears before Takuma. He reinstates Takuma, who had been with the Kyoto Prefetural Police’s Public Relations Department at the time of the incident, to the police force, in the Special Investigation Section he has created. It is an office which requires little work despite its grand name.

Kasukana Kanojo

Official Website
www.ktv.jp/kasuka

Broadcast
Tuesdays, 10.00 – 10.54 p.m. from 9 April 2013

Station
Fuji TV

Summer 2013 Dramas – Rumours

TBA
Date: Mondays, 9.00 p.m. July 2013
Station: Fuji TV
Cast: Yamashita Tomohisa

Spring 2013 Dramas

Kakushou ~ Keishichou Sousa 3-ka
Date: From 8.00 p.m., Mondays, 15 April 2013
Station: TBS
Cast: Takahashi Katsumi, Eikura Nana, Shitara Osamu, Yamamoto Ryuji, Yanagishita Tomo, Kurokawa Tomoka, Nishio Mari, Washio Machiko, Matsuda Satoshi, Nakamura Yasuhi, Izumiya Shigeru, Nakajima Tomoko, Kadono Takuzo, Kondo Masaomi (guest star), Bengal (guest star), Yoshida Yo (guest star), Miyakawa Ichirota (guest star)
Synopsis: The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Third Investigative Division handles thefts which make up 70% of criminal offenses. On Takeda Akiho’s (Eikura Nana) first day at work at the Third Investigative Division, a robbery occurs at a Shibuya jewellery store. Akiho, who originally wanted to be in the First Investigative Division, is impatient, but is warned by Section Chief Ino (Yamamoto Ryuji) that robbery cases are the work of the First Investigative Division. However, when she secretly leaves the office and heads to the crime scene, she notices a sharp-eyed man among the crowd of curious onlookers. This man is to be Akiho’s superior, Hagio Shuichi (Takahashi Katsumi). Hagio is a veteran of the Third Investigative Division. Akiho becomes his partner and is taught the fundamentals as a specialist in thefts.
Website: www.tbs.co.jp/sousa3

Haitatsusaretai Watashitachi

Official Website
www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/haitatsu

Broadcast
Sundays, 10.00 – 11.00 p.m. from 12 May 2013

Station
WOWOW

Fuji TV Drama Special 2013 ~ Yo ni mo Kimyo na Monogatari 2013 Haru no Tokubetsu-hen

Official Website
www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/kimyo

Broadcast
From 9.00 p.m., 11 May 2013

Air Doctor
Story: Kirihara Toru (Oguri Shun) is onboard a plane bound for Hawaii when a cabin attendant makes an announcement asking if there is a doctor among the passengers. One of the passengers is suffering from a tightness in his chest. Kirihara immediately stands up and tells the cabin attendant “I am a doctor …” After palpating the passenger, he diagnoses mild arrhythmia and succeeds in stabilising him. People cheer. However, Kirihara is not a real doctor. Meanwhile, that passenger is in pain again and he decides on an emergency operation. But the passengers present are all imposters too … …
Cast: Oguri Shun, Aijima Kazuyuki, Haa Mikie