Archive for April, 2009
Yako no Kaidan – Characters
Sayama Michio … Fujiki Naohito (32)
An up-and-coming young hairstylist working at the hairdressing salon, Murase. He grew up not knowing maternal love because his mother disappeared when he was young. Much is not known about his past before he came out to Tokyo. His topnotch techniques and sense hold women captive and he plans to [...]
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Episode 1: Ambition
One rainy day in spring in the hair salon, Murase, the scolding of Murase Shuntaro, the owner, is heard. He reproaches hairstylist Sayama Michio, who was given an expensive watch, for being like a host and sends him outside to attract passersby to the salon. As a hairstylist, Sayama in fact possesses the [...]
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Boss – Episode 2 Synopsis
Episode 2: I want to know … The crime of curiosity
Eriko hears from Hanagata that a person has posted messages about killing people on a crime related website. This person calls himself “god” and has even made the names, addresses and photos of the dead bodies of three females he had killed public but in [...]
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Rinjo – Episode 1 Synopsis
Episode 1: The Potted Female
The bodies of a man and woman who died of unnatural deaths are discovered at an apartment. Kosaka Rumi, the assistant forensics examiner, and Ichinose Kazuyuki, the acting forensics examiner, rush to the scene but the key person, forensics examiner Kuraishi Yoshio is nowhere to be seen. When the detective with [...]
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Kyoto Chiken no Onna Season 5
Official Website
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/kyoto/
Broadcast
Thursdays, 8.00 – 8.54 p.m. from 23 April 2009
Station
TV Asahi
Story
Hearing the rumour that Public Prosecutor Tsurumaru Aya, who had relocated to Shimane, would be returning, her former assistant Ota Yuichi, who used to tear his hair out over her, is filled with trepidation. Ota’s shoulders sag after he ascertains that this is the truth [...]
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Majo Saiban
Official Website
http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/majo/index.html
Broadcast
Saturdays, 11.10 – 11.55 p.m. from 25 April 2009
Station
Fuji TV
Story
The burned body of Tojo Soichiro, the head of the Tojo conglomerate, is discovered and his mistress, Kashiwagi Kyoko, is arrested as a suspect. Yoshioka Toru, who is still unable to survive as a designer and earns a living working part-time, is chosen as [...]
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Love Game
Official Website
http://www.ytv.co.jp/lovegame/
Broadcast
Thursdays, 11.58 p.m. – 12.38 a.m. from 23 April 2009
Station
NTV
Story
The ‘Love Game’ where 100 million yen is stake is taking place in secret. At the instructions of the mysterious organiser Kuromiya, who won’t show his true identity, Himuro Sae, the dealer, contacts Takizawa Koichi, who is living happily with his wife Yuko, a [...]
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Rinjo – Characters
Kuraishi Yoshio (45) … Uchino Masaaki
Forensics examiner at the Criminal Affairs Bureau’s Crime Lab. Deputy Inspector. As a medical examiner, his powers of observation is the stuff of legend and he has no equal in opinions on crime scenes. At the scene, he is brusque and has the habit of dismissively saying, “It’s different from [...]
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Konkatsu
Official Website
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/kon-katsu/
Broadcast
Monsdays, 9.00 p.m. – 9.54 a.m. from 20 April 2009
Station
Fuji TV
Story
In the middle of the “ice age” of employment, Amemiya Kuniyuki, who graduated from a third-rate university and worked in a certain corporation, lost his job through corporate restructuring. Then he hears talk of the local recruitment of temporary workers, he immediately [...]
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Boss – Episode 1 Synopsis
Episode 1: The best female detective around 40 becomes boss
40 years old and single, Osawa Eriko, a former career official is selected to be the head of the First Investigative Division’s newly established Special Crimes Unit upon her return from America. Eriko had a promising future ahead of her but some scandal caused her demotion [...]
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