Title: ラブシャッフル

Title (English): Love Shuffle

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Romance, comedy

Episodes: 10

Viewership rating: 8.7 (Kanto)

Broadcast network: TBS

Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-16 to 2009-Mar-20

Air time: Friday 22:00

Theme songs:

Main theme: Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire

Insert song: Eternal Flame by The Bangles

Usami Kei is a salaryman who has risen in status due to his engagement with Mei, the wealthy daughter of his company’s president. Shortly after she breaks off the engagement, a power failure leaves him stuck in the elevator of his apartment building. Trapped with him are three others living on the same floor – Airu, a trilingual interpreter, Ojiro, a model photographer, and Masato, a psychiatrist. While waiting, their conversation hits upon their love lives and the question of whether there is truly only one fated partner for everyone. As a result, they decide to try “shuffling” their relationships with each other. —Tokyograph

Tamaki Hiroshi as Usami Kei

Karina as Aizawa Airu

Matsuda Shota as Sera Ojiro
DAIGO as Oishi Yukichi

Yoshitaka Yuriko as Hayakawa Kairi

Kojima Hijiri as Kamijyo Reiko

Kanjiya Shihori as Kagawa Mei

Tanihara Shosuke as Kikuta Masato

he story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students’ lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of 3-D, the hardest class to maintain in the school. The students have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, and show absolutely no respect to her. The leader of the class, Sawada Shin is lazy but bright and shows some interest in Yamaguchi when he notices that she is very different from other teachers. The students try to bully her to make her quit, but their attempts don’t get them very far.

What the class and the rest of the school does not know is that Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to the Ooedo Group, a notorious yakuza clan. Even though her family would like her to take the title of Ojou when her grandfather dies, they have accepted the fact that Yamaguchi would rather be a teacher.

Eventually, the students learn to respect their quirky teacher because of her devotion to them, and even give her a nickname: Yankumi.

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Cast

• Nakama Yukie as Yamaguchi Kumiko (Yankumi / Ojou / Kumicho) (Math Teacher/Class 3D adviser)
• Matsumoto Jun as Sawada Shin
• Namase Katsuhisa as Sawatari Goro, Kyoto (School Vice Principal)
• Utsui Ken as Kuroda Ryuichiro (Kumiko’s grandpa / 3rd Generation Oedo Yakuza Boss)
• Anan Kenji as Wakamatsu Hiro
• Kaneko Ken as Asakura Tetsu
• Uchiyama Shinji as Tatsukawa Minoru
• Ryogoku Hiroshi as Sugawara Makoto
• Oguri Shun as “Uchi” / Uchiyama Haruhiko
• Waki Tomohiro as “Kuma” / Kumai Teruo
• Narimiya Hiroki as Noda Takeshi
• Ishigaki Yuma as Minami Yoichi
• Ito Misaki as Fujiyama Shizuka (English Teacher)
• Nakazawa Yuko as Kawashima Kikuno (School Nurse)
• Nabe Osami as Ando Osamu (Social Studies Teacher)
• Kohmoto Masahiro as Iwamoto Kohei (P.E. Teacher)
• Okuma Ichiro as Oyama Hajime (Science Teacher)
• Tayama Ryosei as Shirakawa Gonzo (Principal)
• Saito Satoru as Washio Kanji (Japanese Language Teacher)
• Sawamura Ikki as Shinohara Tomoya (Police Officer)
• Sakata Tadashi as Kashiwagi Yutaka (Police Officer)

Class 3D

• Kawai Jun as Akechi Jun
• Minato Kohei as Imagawa Kohei
• Okabe Hiroki as Uesugi Hiroki
• Kamiji Yusuke as Oishi Yusuke
• Izumi Masayuki as Ochi Masayuki
• Kanazawa Koji as Oda Koji
• Matsuzawa Ren as Gamo Ren
• Kitamura Eiki as Shimazu Eiki
• Sainei Ryuji as Sengoku Ryuji
• Tomita Sho as Takeda Sho
• Tomita Shigeo as Chikamatsu Shigeo

• Sasaki Hitoshi as Hazama Hitoshi
• Hatanaka Masafumi as Hattori Masafumi
• Furuhata Katsutaka as Fujiwara Katsutaka
• Nishikawa Yuya as Hojo Yuya
• Nagayama Hiromi as Hosokawa Hiromi
• Morimoto Ryoji as Horibe Ryoji
• Yashiro Shingo as Maeda Shingo
• Onodera Takamichi as Matsudaira Takamichi
• Matsuyama Kenichi as Mori Kenichi
• Nishitani Aruto as Yagyu Mitsuru

22-year old Kawano Ayu was brought up way out in the country. She’s a rough-mannered tomboy. When she meets Tetsu, a divorced beautician, the two fall in love and get married. Immediately after their happy new life begins, they are visited by a 5-year old boy, Yuki, who claims to be Tetsu’s son. Ayu reluctantly becomes the boy’s mother, but has no idea how to raise a child. What’s more, at kindergarten, she must confront the elegant mothers of the neighborhood. Ayu’s humorous life as a rookie mother begins.

Casting:

Ueto Aya

Oizumi Yo

Shibuya Takeru

Tomosaka Rie

Katase Nana

Yamaguchi Sayaka

Himura Yuuki

Nakayama Megumi

Mukai Osamu

Hirooka Yuriko

Seto Koji

Azuma Mikihisa

Owada Shinya

Okae Kumiko

Otoo Takuma

Okamoto Kotaro

Hosoya Rie

Shimada Kanako

Tanihata Kanato

Konishi Yuiko

Kaburagi Kaichi

Koide Sachika

Takeda Hiroshi

Odoru Daisousasen is a Japanese drama, with some comedic moments. It originally ran for 11 episodes, and has spawned several TV specials and four full-length theatrical movies.

Oda Yuji plays a character named Aoshima Shunsaku, an ex-computer salesman, who decides one day that he wants to be a detective. He soon becomes a detective at the Wangan Police Station where he encounters various cases and deals with the police bureaucracy.

Casting:

Oda Yuji

Yanagiba Toshiro

Fukatsu Eri

Mizuno Miki

Ikariya Chosuke

Ono Takehiko

Satoi Kenta

Kondo Yoshimasa

Yusuke Santamaria

Kobayashi Susumu

Kitamura Soichiro

Shinohara Ryoko

Hashi Ryugo

Hakamada Yoshihiko

Hosaka Naoki

Nakayama Jin

Tsukay

Upon getting thrown out of his girlfriend Fujiko’s apartment, Hiromi (Sorimachi) decides to head for the ocean. En route, he crosses paths with Kaito (Takenouchi), an elite employee of a large multinational trading company in Tokyo who is running away from his problems at work after losing a key client. The two stumble into a quiet B&B on the beach run by the aging surfer Masaru and his high-school-aged granddaughter Makoto. Hiromi immediately applies to work there for the summer, and Kaito is forced to join him after he loses his wallet. The two share a room, with Hiromi trying to make friends, and Kaito at first resisting, unimpressed by Hiromi’s devil-may-care attitude. Slowly over the ensuing episodes, Kaito becomes more and more at home in this sleepy rural town, and begins to wonder if he should give up his pursuit of success in the big city, and try to relax, and enjoy himself more. When he returns to Tokyo to finish his work, Hiromi and Makoto come to lure him back, but when he returns to the B&B, his boss and girlfriend Sakura likewise come looking for him.

Cast

Sorimachi Takashi as Sakurai Hiromi

Takenouchi Yutaka as Suzuki Kaito

Hirosue Ryoko as Izumi Makoto

Inamori Izumi as Maeda Haruko

Mike Maki as Izumi Masaru

Akimoto Yuki as Yamazaki Sakura (Kaito’s girlfriend)

Hara Sachie as Terao Hazuki

Hiraga Masaomi as the taxi driver

Takeno Isao as the postman

Kawaoka Daijiro as Yosuke, Makoto’s classmate

Sato Hitomi as Yuuko, Makoto’s classmate

Tsuji Kaori as Hara Fujiko (Hiromi’s former girlfriend)

Hiraizumi Sei as Kaito’s boss

Tanaka Yoshiko

Okayama Hajime

Hatano Hiroko

Kirishima Karen (SP)

Shinohara Ryoko (SP), Hiromi’s new girlfriend

Ryu Raita (SP)

Kimura Yoshino (SP), the girl on the plane

A bitter-sweet and uplifting comedy drama about a young girl Mio and her brother Kazuki. To treat her illness overseas, Mio has been living away from her older brother Kazuki for the past ten years. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio’s return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart.

Cast

Inoue Mao as Fukunaga Mio

Ito Hideaki as Kano Kazuki

Hiraoka Yuta as Yuki Akio

Matsuyuki Yasuko as Takagi Renko

Gekidan Hitori as Shindo Ichiryu

Abe Sadao as Nikaido Masaru

Takenaka Naoto as Banba Dai

Natsuki Mari as Fukunaga Rieko

Sakai Wakana as Saito Haruna

Warabino Tomoya as Shohata Takeo

This second season of Hana Yori Dango picks up right after Domyoji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyoji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try and help Makino meet Domyoji again by going to New York for the christmas holidays. Though F4 and Makino meet Domyoji again, he has become a completely different person, and so they leave for Japan.

Some time later, Domyoji’s mother annouces that they will be returning to Japan. There, they hold a giant super-rich and classy birthday party for Domyoji and annouce something very important. Domyoji, like in the first season, is engaged to a rich girl and heir. The only difference is that they are to be wed soon. What will Makino do?

Cast

Inoue Mao as Makino Tsukushi

Matsumoto Jun as Domyoji Tsukasa

Oguri Shun as Hanazawa Rui

Matsuda Shota as Nishikado Sojiro

Abe Tsuyoshi as Mimasaka Akira

Nishihara Aki as Matsuoka Yuuki

Kato Natsuki as Okawahara Shigeru

Shuji Kiritani (Kazuya Kamenashi) is a very popular high school boy whose girlfriend is Mariko Uehara (Erika Toda), the most popular girl in school. Despite his popularity among other students, he is relatively alone with Akira Kusano (Tomohisa Yamashita) as the only person he hangs out with, despite constantly claiming that he can’t stand the other boy. One day, a very shy girl, Nobuko Kotani (Maki Horikita) comes to school and she instantly gets picked on by a few other girls for her shyness. Shuji and Akira then decide to “produce” her, or make her popular. They nickname her “Nobuta”.

Of course, producing Nobuta is not an easy task, especially when a mysterious person is trying to ruin all of Shuji and Akira’s efforts. In the end, the person turns out to be Aoi, Nobuta’s “friend”, who later on attempts suicide in a dream shared by Aoi, Nobuta, Akira, and Shuji.

In the final episode Shuji discovers that he and his family must move out of Tokyo because of his father’s job and leave Nobuta to cope by herself with Akira. However, Akira follows Shuji to his new home town and surprises him by showing up at his new school. Nobuta is left alone in Tokyo, but she is not shy anymore, and is able to smile, and she also becomes somewhat popular among the other students.

Cover of the novel Nobuta o Produce by Gen ShiraiwaKazuya Kamenashi – Shuji Kiritani (桐谷 修二, Kiritani Shuji?)

Tomohisa Yamashita – Akira Kusano (草野 彰, Kusano Akira?)

Maki Horikita – Nobuko Kotani (小谷 信子, Kotani Nobuko?) (aka Nobuta)

Erika Toda – Mariko Uehara (上原 まり子, Uehara Mariko?)

Takashi Ukaji – Satoru Kiritani (桐谷 悟, Kiritani Satoru?)

Yuto Nakajima – Koji Kiritani (桐谷 浩二, Kiritani Kōji?)

Yoshinori Okada – Takeshi Yokoyama (横山 武士, Yokoyama Takeshi?)

Tomoya Ishii – Yoshida (吉田 浩, Yoshida?)

Katsumi Takahashi – Ippei Hirayama (平山 一平, Hirayama Ippei?)

Mari Natsuki – Yoko Sada (Katherine) (佐田 杳子（キャサリン）, Sada Youkou (Kyasarin)?)

Fumiko Mizuta – Kozue Bando (坂東 梢, Bandō Kozue?)

Shunsuke Daito – Taniguchi

Honami Tajima – Misa Inoue (井上 美咲, Inoue Misa?)

Akiko – Nami (佐伯 奈美, Nami?)

Tomu Suetaka – Kondo (近藤 利晃（ボケ担当）, Kondo?)

Title (romaji): Kekkon Dekinai Otoko

Also known as: The Man Who Can’t Get Married / He Who Can’t Marry

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Comedy

Episodes: 12

Viewership ratings: 16.93%

Broadcast network: Fuji TV

Broadcast period: 2006-Jul-4 to 2006-Sept-19

Air time: Tuesday 22:00

Theme song: Swimi by Every Little Thing

Synopsis

Shinsuke Kuwano (Abe Hiroshi), a successful architect at 40, enjoys living by himself. He doesn’t like people but somehow is able to design wonderful houses for them.

He has a routine of making himself a delicious dinner and then relaxing to classical music in his easy chair. (He likes to pretend he is the conductor.) One night, he plays the music loud enough to make his next door neighbor, Michiru Tamara (Kuninaka Ryoko) knock on his door to complain. When Kuwano answers the door, he suffers a terrible stomach pain and collapses to the floor. Lucky for him, his neighbor Michiru is nice enough to accompany him to the hospital, where he is treated by Dr. Natsumi Hayasake (Natsukawa Yui). He is really rude to Natsumi, but she is still determined to treat him.

Afterwards, Michiru and Natsumi become part of Kuwano’s life. They make friends with Kuwano’s colleagues Eiji (Tsukamoto Takashi) and Maya Sawazaki (Takashima Reiko). They all enjoy talking about how strange and eccentric Kuwano is. Is it possible that someone would ever want to marry him?

Cast

Abe Hiroshi as Kuwano Shinsuke

Natsukawa Yui as Hayasaka Natsumi

Kuninaka Ryoko as Tamura Michiru

Tsukamoto Takashi as Murakami Eiji

Takashima Reiko as Sawazaki Maya
SHEILA as Nishimura Chizuru, Michiru’s friend

Nishimaru Yuko as Ozawa Mari

Takamatsu Iku as Emori Kazumi

Omi Toshinori as Nakagawa Yoshio

Miura Rieko as Nakagawa Keiko

Hiraoka Emi as Nakagawa Yumi

Sakura as Yoshikawa Saori

Takachi Noboru as Kaneda Hiroyuki

Kusabue Mitsuko as Kuwano Ikuyo

Nagaoka Naohiko as the bartender

Tachibana Ayano as the combini cashier

Nishio Hiroyuki as the video rental cashier

Matsui Ryoko as the waitress

Fuwa Mansaku as the foreman

When Kanchi (Oda Yuji) first came to Tokyo to work, he is full of uncertainties. He is ‘lost’ in his work and his love relationship is in a mess. During those times, Rika (Suzuki Honami), his colleague, always encourages and helps him. Though they fall for each other once, all this comes quick and ends fast. Rika is simply too ‘energetic’ and her love is simply too ‘heavy’ for Kanchi.

Suzuki Honami as Akana Rika

Oda Yuji as Nagao Kanji

Arimori Narimi as Sekiguchi Satomi

Eguchi Yosuke as Mikami Kenichi

Sendo Akiho as Nagasaki Naoko

Nishioka Tokuma

Mizushima Kaori

Ito Miki

Nakayama Hideyuki