Upcoming JDramas

mikomi wrote:

Nice... I'm overly glad to see the return of Ms. Kou to the drama world. I haven't seen a drama of her since Orange Days.

excellent - i'll guess i'll follow this one for Kou :mrgreen:

was Dr Koto ever subbed? I wanted to see it, but i gave up after a while.

krim wrote:was Dr Koto ever subbed? I wanted to see it, but i gave up after a while.

not that i know of.

cho-sucky-desu

krim wrote:cho-sucky-desu

yup

jade_frost wrote:Upcoming Summer Dramas

Hanayome wa Dami (Fake Bride)
Station: TBS
Time: 10.00pm, Thursday
Cast: Shinohara Ryoko, Hiroyuki Yabe, Matsushima Naomi, Iwashita Shima, Koyama Keichiro

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Hiroyuki Yabe of Ninety Nine will costar with Ryoko Shinohara in Hanayome wa Dummy (starting July 6, 10 p.m., TBS network). It's a light summer series in which Shinohara plays a talented-but-aging TV news announcer who has been sent off on a variety show assignment. She is to try life as a pretend bride in the countryside, but things don't go as scripted. What changes will take over when she smells that fresh country air?
(Daily Yomiuri Online)

My wish list :fingerscrossed: :fingerscrossed:

Orion wrote:Upcoming Summer Drama

Dandori~Dance*Drill
Station : FujiTV
Time : Tuesdays 9pm
Cast : Eikura Nana. Katou Rosa, Kokubun Taichi
Synopsis : hmm.....this dorama about cheerleader....i think.....

Massu will also play in this drama... :dancing:

Iv3_imt wrote:

Massu will also play in this drama... :dancing:

other cast including Kokubun Taichi, Kanno Miho, Morita Ayaka, Nishihara Aki and Toda Keiko

jade_frost wrote:Upcoming Summer Drama

Fushin no Toki (Time of Distrust ~ Women's Wars)
Station: FujiTV
Time: 10.00pm, Thursdays
Cast: Ryoko Yonekura, Yuki Matsushita, Ken Ishiguro, Kaoru Sugita, Junichi Ishida
Synopsis: Fushin no Toki is based on a novel by Sawako Ariyoshi. In a reversal of roles, Ryoko Yonekura is back but ditching the villianess roles she plays so well to star as a faithful wife while Yuki Matsushita plays the mistress, a Ginza Club madam! Ken Ishiguro plays the amorous husband, an ad agency employee.

OMG!!! :victory: :victory: :victory:

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I just notice that Yuki Matsushita and Ken Ishiguro is going to play together (AGAIN). It's their re-pairing.
I love this couple in Furikaereba yatsu ga iru / He is always there back then. Wow, that's a long time ago.

Any word on what will replace Glory Days once it finishes?

Ooh, no Ishihara Satomi for two consecutive seasons??

Dorama Summer Season 2006

From Yomiuri:

This quarter's lineup begins with Masakazu Tamura returning once again to the TBS network's Sunday, 9 p.m. slot as dear old dad in Dare Yori mo Mama o Aisu. The twist in this one is that he will be a househusband whose life revolves around his family and his wife's work.

Next up on the week-one checklist is Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (starting July 4, 10 p.m., Fuji TV network). Hiroshi Abe stars as a 39-year-old guy who has yet to find the girl of his dreams. The cast includes three strong candidates for his affections. Reiko Takashima works for the same architectural design company. Ryoko Kuninaka lives next door to Abe and Yui Natsukawa is the emergency room doctor who treats both Abe and Kuninaka.

Wednesday nights will feature yet another look at life at 30,000 feet with Arisa Mizuki as our cabin attendant in CA to Oyobi (starting July 5, 10 p.m., NTV network). Mizuki has real comic talent, so this series may provide less turbulence than the typical in-flight drama. It also adds a touch of reality to life in the skies as Mizuki will play an overworked, underpaid contract employee.

Romantic comedies and school dramas will predominate this quarter.

The networks are finally realizing we are getting more than enough dark drama from their real-world news reports. The only serious marital distress will come from Fushin no Toki: Women Wars (starting Thursday, July 6, 10 p.m., Fuji TV network). A wife will attempt to fight a club mama for her husband's affections, but even this series offers a bit of wry humor. The victimized wife is played by Ryoko Yonekura. She is usually cast as the conniving other woman, but Yuki Matsushita has the role of the other woman in this one.

Rounding out the cast are Kaoru Sugita, Kotaro Koizumi, the prime minister's son, and Junichi Ishida, who in real life coined the oft-repeated phrase: Furin (extramarital affairs) are part of the culture.

Naturally, he is cast as the best friend and accomplice of the philandering husband.

This series is likely to have a tough time in the ratings since Yonekura will be up against that other Ryoko--Ryoko Shinohara of Hanayome wa Yakudoshi (starting July 6 at 10 p.m., TBS network). She plays an aging news announcer who is assigned to a stint on a variety show, which includes a stay on a farm owned by her former boyfriend's mother. Shinohara has been ranked the third-highest female ratings draw after Nanako Matsushima and Yukie Nakama in a new book called Tarento Kakuzuke Rankingu Bukku 2006, which rates celebrities and claims to reveal how much they can command for a TV performance.

Week one ends with My Boss My Hero (Saturday, July 8, 9 p.m., NTV network) starring Tomoya Nagase as a successful but uneducated yakuza who goes back to high school at age 27. This series is loosely based on a popular 2001 South Korean drama. NTV is obviously hoping for another mega-hit like Gokusen, the ratings winner that featured Yukie Nakama as a high school teacher and heir to her grandfather's gang. Such series usually end up glamorizing gangs, but Gokusen was done with just enough silliness to make it little more than stress-relieving fun. It will be interesting to see if Nagase can do as well.

In week two of the new season, fans will be back to school again for summer sports training with the college rowing team on Regatta (Fridays at 9 p.m., TV Asahi network) and cheerleaders on Dance Drill (Tuesdays, starting July 11, 9 p.m., Fuji TV network). The latter is loosely based on the true story of the 18-member Kanagawa Prefectural Atsugi High School dance drill team, who made it to a major cheerleading competition in the United States.

The biggest attraction of week two will be the return of Misaki Ito in Sapuri, a romantic comedy scheduled for the coveted Monday, 9 p.m. slot on the Fuji TV network, starting July 10. Ito plays a commercial ad planner. We may not get a romantic ending but maybe we will at least get some insights on how commercials are made.

guess i'll watch for masakazu tamura, abe hiroshi, shinohara ryoko, yonekuro ryoko and tomoya nagase's doramas. it does seem like they're out of new ideas or something, so many seem like rehashing of old plots

Shindou wrote: it does seem like they're out of new ideas or something, so many seem like rehashing of old plots

jade_frost wrote:Wednesday nights will feature yet another look at life at 30,000 feet with Arisa Mizuki as our cabin attendant in CA to Oyobi (starting July 5, 10 p.m., NTV network). Mizuki has real comic talent, so this series may provide less turbulence than the typical in-flight drama. It also adds a touch of reality to life in the skies as Mizuki will play an overworked, underpaid contract employee.

So how many flight attendant/pilot dramas will we have??


Here is my idea for a drama, Hikouki Otoko (Airplane Man). You know the plot, you know the scene. :hehe:

dochira wrote:

[quote="jade_frost"]Wednesday nights will feature yet another look at life at 30,000 feet with Arisa Mizuki as our cabin attendant in CA to Oyobi (starting July 5, 10 p.m., NTV network). Mizuki has real comic talent, so this series may provide less turbulence than the typical in-flight drama. It also adds a touch of reality to life in the skies as Mizuki will play an overworked, underpaid contract employee.[/url]

So how many flight attendant/pilot dramas will we have??


Here is my idea for a drama, Hikouki Otoko (Airplane Man). You know the plot, you know the scene. :hehe:

LOL

good one - and masakazu's seems to sound like abe hiroshi's At Home Dad - wonder how alike those are gonna be

dochira wrote:

LOL

good one - and masakazu's seems to sound like abe hiroshi's At Home Dad - wonder how alike those are gonna be

My guess is big, overgrown kids vs small kids :hehe:

Summer Drama Info (Courtesy of Japan Times)
PS-Rashomon" (TV Asahi, Wednesday, 9 p.m.)
Yoshino Kimura stars as Rumi, a policewoman whose husband, also a cop, was killed in the line of duty. Three years after the death, Rumi is transferred out of the traffic division to detective work in the eastern part of the city. Her new coworkers are an odd bunch, reflecting the comic book genesis of the series. Her section chief (Shiro Ito) moonlights by running an oden stand in front of the police station. Her partner (Shiro Sano) is deep in debt. And her main boss (Hiroshi Tachi) is a blunt taskmaster.

Rumi's first big case is a series of arsons.

Upcoming Fall Drama

Kiraware Matsuko no Issho
Station: TBS
Time: TBC
Cast: Rina Uchiyama, Jun Kaname
Synopsis: A dark melodrama about a woman whose life descends into a downward spiral due to love, ill fate, recklessness (?). Adapted from Muneki Yamada's novel, the TV version comes in the wake of the movie of the same name, which starred Miki Nakatani in the lead role.

mm...agree with others..
the drama thesedays mostly dont have fresh ideas..

they rehashing old plots to gain popularity..
if not, they will adapt from manga or korean dramas..
so sad..

let's see how they'll do

ehh..the summer dramas havent been aired
and yet there is already info bout fall season's drama

Iv3_imt wrote:mm...agree with others..
the drama thesedays mostly dont have fresh ideas..

they rehashing old plots to gain popularity..
if not, they will adapt from manga or korean dramas..
so sad..

let's see how they'll do

ehh..the summer dramas havent been aired
and yet there is already info bout fall season's drama

Not just J-doramas it seem. Korean dramas & Taiwan dramas have been doing the same these days. Korean have been doing for...err, as long as I remember, and Taiwanese are adapting more and more mangas, and though they become popular, it doesn't quite hit it, not like when Japanese adapted mangas. Actually, Japanese have always rehashed ideas and adapted mangas/novels. The only thing is, it's getting so frequent lately.

WD wrote:

Not just J-doramas it seem. Korean dramas & Taiwan dramas have been doing the same these days. Korean have been doing for...err, as long as I remember, and Taiwanese are adapting more and more mangas, and though they become popular, it doesn't quite hit it, not like when Japanese adapted mangas. Actually, Japanese have always rehashed ideas and adapted mangas/novels. The only thing is, it's getting so frequent lately.

I agree... Korean dramas have been rehashing old ideas for a long long time, their old dramas used to be very good, same with Jdramas. I think it's just that it's very difficult to come up with new ideas because they're making so many dramas every season. I wouldn't be surprised if they run out of ideas one day and have to rely on novels or older dramas. And in the US, people are complaining and whining about Hollywood running out of ideas, it's the same thing.