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Category Archives: Drama Digest
Drama Digest #17 Troubled Times?
Fuji TV gets criticised for putting Risk no Kamisama head on with NTV’s Hanasaki Mai ga Damattenai … Summer has been a bruising season for Fuji TV. At last count, all its dramas have fallen to single digit viewership ratings … Continue reading
Drama Digest #16 Power Scores & Castings
Abe Hiroshi tops Nikkei Entertainment’s ranking again … Nikkei Entertainment has released its ‘Power Ranking’ for the Top 30 Male Actors and Top 20 Upcoming Male Actors. I’m puzzled and horrified by the inclusion of some names, but thrilled that … Continue reading
Posted in Drama Digest
Tagged Abe Hiroshi, Eien no Bokura Seaside Blue, Kamoshirenai Joyutachi, Renai Aru Aru
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Drama Digest #15 Sequels & Romance Dramas
I’ve been busy and lazy and all things in between. Winter was such a bore that I didn’t have the motivation to bring news about dramas on air, and then spring came along with so many delights that it has … Continue reading
Posted in Drama Digest, Summer 2014 Dramas
Tagged Anne, GTO (remake), Hanasaki Mai ga Damattenai
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Drama Digest #14 Unsteady Ground & Last Ditch Measure
Amami Yuki spurns Fuji TV for TV Asahi … Amami Yuki’s new drama Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu on TV Asahi has been one of the most closely watched productions of winter, a season when all the networks focus on the lineup given … Continue reading
Drama Digest #13 Living On Past Glory
Ono Machiko not cut out for Fuji’s TV Geku, industry insiders say … There have been whispers of an informal decision on the next drama for Fuji TV’s Monday 9 pm time slot. Some views have it that this will … Continue reading
Posted in Drama Digest, Saikou no Rikon, Spring 2014 Dramas
Tagged Amami Yuki, Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu
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Drama Digest #12 Caught in the Middle?
Shitsuren Chocolatier spawning a boom of “Ishihara Satomi girls”? … Shitsuren Chocolatier, the rare love story among the many detective and medical dramas that dominate this dreaded winter season, has apparently been very popular among young females who are glued … Continue reading
Posted in Drama Digest, Winter 2014 Dramas
Tagged Ashita Mama ga Inai, Hanzawa Naoki, Sakai Masato, Shitsuren Chocolatier
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Drama Digest #11 Racing Against Time, Out of League?
Why Ashita, Mama ga Inai cannot be discontinued … Actress Matsushima Nanako was apparently scheduled to star in NTV’s Wednesday 10 pm drama this winter season. It would have been a reunion of the Kaseifu no Mita team (scriptwriter and … Continue reading
Drama Digest #10 Ashita, Mama ga Inai Saga
I started out the weekend thinking that I would write a quick update on the developments surrounding Ashita, Mama ga Inai but as I did so, it grew into a long chronicle of events reported by the media that started … Continue reading
Drama Digest #9 X-factor, Realism, Fact & Fiction
Tamura Masakazu says TV Asahi drama special maybe his last … Tamura Masakazu, who turned 70 last August, recently played the lead in Sanoku-en Jiken, one of two TV Asahi adaptations of Matsumoto Seichou’s novels to commemorate the network’s 55th … Continue reading
Drama Digest #8 Mixed Bag
The winter season has started but I’ve probably spent more time checking out the drama previews and digests rather than watching the dramas themselves. Because if they read and look uninspiring, chances are they probably are. By the time that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Drama Digest, Winter 2014 Dramas
Tagged Ashida Mana, Ashita, Dr DMAT, Mama ga Inai, Nishida Toshiyuki, Nojima Shinji
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