Geezer wrote:

Any help?

Yup, thanks Geez''

I'll ask my mom this weekend, give her and the obaasans the list and see if they can remember which dorama it was.
-PCM

I'll put this over at the "Future of Dorama in the U.S." thread once I find it, but:

I got a response to one of my letters.

As I mentioned earlier, I sent a note (snail mail) to Paramount Studios trying to get them interested in bringing Japanese Prime Time Doramas to the U.S. Home DVD market, and this morning I got this email:

"Dear Mr Foley

Thank you for your letter of September 22, 2004 to Mr Lesinski regarding your views on the potential US market (DVD) for "Doramas." Your thoughts have been shared with both our Japanese and US Home Entertainment management. Thanks for expressing your interest to us. And please keep buying your favorite TV shows on DVD!

Regards

Steven M. Glick
Executive Vice President Business Affairs, Licensees & Business Development
Paramount Home Entertainment International "

I'm kind of excited about this because now we have the contact information for the guys who make the decisions at Paramount Studios. And Paramount Studios is working hard on the DVD home market.

(Quick note: The letter I sent to Sony Corp America came back unopened because I didn't address it to a specific person. I'll have to work on that one.)

Anyway...

Snail Mails sent to:

Thomas Lesinski
President of World Wide Home Entertainment
Paramount Studios
5555 Melrose Ave
Hollywood Ca 90038

Obviously do get opened and read. And he's the boss.

Snail mail can also be sent to:

Steven M. Glick
Executive Vice President Business Affairs, Licensees & Business Development
Paramount Home Entertainment International

at the same address.

Or you can send him an email at:

[email protected]

You want high quality, legal copies of Japanese Doramas available to the U.S. Market? These are the guys we have to convince.

If enough people ask for this stuff... they'll think they can make a profit. And if they think they can make a profit...

So get out your pens and pencils boys and girls.

Geezer wrote:

PC I'm not sure of the air dates on KTSF, but I first started following the Taiga Dramas on KTSF with: "AOI Tokugawa" 49 part NHK Taiga Drama running about that time. (Broadcast in Japan in 2000) It was the story of the first three Tokugawa Shoguns. (crica 17th & 18th cen,) A Great Great series. You can find a rundown, and cast list on it over at the kiku site. (This is a series I really wish I'd taped and kept.) That was followed by "Hojo Tokimune" NHK 49 parts. (Broadcast in Japan in 2001) The story of the 13th century Kamakura Shogunate and Tokimune's face down with the Mongol Invastions (the divine wind and all that). Supposedly staring Motoya Izumi, but really staring Ken Watanabe, Atsuro Watabe, and the lucious Yoshino Kimura. There's one inbetween that just slips my mind. About a prince of Yamato in the first days of Japan as a nation seperate from Korea. Then came "Toshie & Matsu". Nanako Matsushima, and what's his name, the guy who married Tomoko Yamaguchi. About a general whose life intersected the lives of all three of the great uniters, Nobunaga, Hideoshi, and Tokugawa. Then, of course, BMW's fav, "Musashi". Any help?

On the phone with my mom, the character was a prince and one of the main characters in the dorama... she said she watched it in 2002 and 2003... it sort of sounds like that prince of Yamato one you mentioned. Any links to info on that dorama?
-PCM

Calssic. The one I can't remember the particulars on.

Geezer wrote:

Calssic. The one I can't remember the particulars on.

Does that sound like the right dorama? I know the obaasans were watching it on Saturday nights in 2003.
-PCM

I've been poking around on google trying to find a list of the NHK Taiga Dramas, but I haven't found it yet. I think I'd remember which it was if I saw the title. But for the life of me, I can't come up with it now.

Geezer wrote:

I've been poking around on google trying to find a list of the NHK Taiga Dramas, but I haven't found it yet. I think I'd remember which it was if I saw the title. But for the life of me, I can't come up with it now.

Cool, thanks. Let me know if you find any websites about it, with pics.
-PCM

PC

The site that used to be the bible for what was going on at KTSF, and West Coast Japanese drama was: The Actual KTSF Schedule.

The guy who ran it closed it down in 2003 because he didn't like the quality of shows KTSF was getting, or the number of shows they were getting.

But the site is still there, and the lists of the shows and when they aired is there... up to 2002. You might poke around in there to see if the show is mentioned.

http://www.backerstreet.com/japan/ustvhist.htm

Beyond that, I can't find a list of all the NHK Taiga Dramas.

Geezer wrote:

Doramafan113 Nope. As far as I know, there's no new Dorama starting this Sunday. The add you saw was for a Movie "Night Train to the Stars" that KTSF will be running (with subs) starting at 8:30 this Sunday (the 17th) and ending the Sunday after. The movie features Kippei Shiina... but like last week's, this is not a very new movie.

I watched this on Sunday. It's little bit strange so far. Not sure if I like it or not. Same can be said for "Kai" on Saturday.
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Mr. Burns: I could crush him like an ant. But it would be too easy. No, revenge is a dish best served cold. I'll bide my time until ... Oh, what the hell. I'll just crush him like an ant.

I'm capturing "Kai" but mostly for trader fodder... and because it's Matsu.

As for "Night Train..." I watched about 15 minutes of my tape last night and that was it for me. I've already taped over it.

The good news is... it only goes for 2 weeks.

Geezer wrote:

Beyond that, I can't find a list of all the NHK Taiga Dramas.

Here's a list I've been working on for awhile...

http://www.macgeek.org/jdrama/nhktaiga.html

I use it to track my NHK taiga books. The listing dates back to the very first release in 1963.

groink wrote:

Here's a list I've been working on for awhile... http://www.macgeek.org/jdrama/nhktaiga.html I use it to track my NHK taiga books. The listing dates back to the very first release in 1963.

Thanks Groink.

Hey Geez', did they show Hojo Tokimuni on KTSF in 2002-2003?
http://www.kikutv.com/shows/hojo_tokimune/index.html


Thanks,
PCM

groink wrote:

Here's a list I've been working on for awhile... http://www.macgeek.org/jdrama/nhktaiga.html I use it to track my NHK taiga books. The listing dates back to the very first release in 1963.

Wow I am sorry I missed Aoi, and Hojo Tokimune. They sound very interesting.
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Mr. Burns: I could crush him like an ant. But it would be too easy. No, revenge is a dish best served cold. I'll bide my time until ... Oh, what the hell. I'll just crush him like an ant.

pcmodem wrote:

Thanks Groink. Hey Geez', did they show Hojo Tokimuni on KTSF in 2002-2003? http://www.kikutv.com/shows/hojo_tokimune/index.html Thanks, PCM

I vaguely remember watching this taiga drama. I was in college then so I couldn't watch every week.

dochira wrote:

I vaguely remember watching this taiga drama. I was in college then so I couldn't watch every week.

All I remember from the show were the funky top-hats that they wore.

I think this was aired around the same time as Yome wa Mitsuboshi was. Or maybe it was Toshiie to Matsu. I don't remember anymore.

PC

Hojo Tokimune on KTSF? Absolutely.

As I said, I started watching Taiga Dramas on Saturdays, on KTSF with:

Aoi which was followed by Hojo Tokimune, followed by Toshie & Matsu, followed by Musashi, followed by Shinsengumi.

And somewhere in there, probably between Hojo and Toshie, there was this show about the Prince who transformed Yamada from a backwater annex of Korea, into the Nation of Japan.

I think it's the one eightysix is refering to when he mentions them wearing strange looking Top Hats. The costumes all looked more like cerimonial Korean garb than Japanese clothing.

The thing is... it wasn't... couldn't have been... a 49 episode epic. (Had it gone for 49 weeks I would have remembred the title.)

Maybe it was an NHK 4 or 6 parter like "Kai" which is running right now.
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Finally, Sakura comes to an end!

Okay, next up:

On Saturday the 6th of November KTSF will replace Sakura with:

Koi Seyo Otome ("Let's Fall In Love")

I couldn't find a listing for the series here at JDorama, and there was nothing at J-Net. But there was mention of it at CD Japan.

I think it's a series first telecast in 2002 staring;

Aiko Sato
Hitomi Nanaka
Ayumi Yamaguchi
Wakana Sakai

According to CD Japan it's an NHK Drama. They are selling it as a 2 DVD set showing "all 20 episodes" with a running time of 300 minutes.

Has anyone ever heard of this show? Any comments? Reviews?
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Wow, 20 episodes? That's kinda long for JDramas. Or is this going to be like Sakura which only airs for 30 minutes?

And why does KTSF always end up getting the weird dramas that no one's heard about? I mean, we've had Good Luck!! and Itoshii Kimi e, but those weren't subbed...

eightysix wrote:

Wow, 20 episodes? That's kinda long for JDramas. Or is this going to be like Sakura which only airs for 30 minutes? And why does KTSF always end up getting the weird dramas that no one's heard about? I mean, we've had Good Luck!! and Itoshii Kimi e, but those weren't subbed...

Yea 20 eps usually mean it's a morning drama. Morning dramas usually occupy like a half an hour time slot. Dramas such as Chura-san is a morning drama.

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According to CD Japan it's an NHK Drama. They are selling it as a 2 DVD set showing "all 20 episodes" with a running time of 300 minutes. Has anyone ever heard of this show? Any comments? Reviews?

It ran in Southern California last year. I enjoyed it quite a bit, though I don't remember it all that well and missed a few episodes. Had a nice sense of humor to it. =\

It wasn't a morning show though. I remember reading that it was a late-night show. Part of some kind of trend or something that I'm not at all familiar with.