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.

Credits

Cast

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

Title (romaji): Teppan Shoujo Akane!!
Also known as: Teppan Girl
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Food / Family
Episodes: 9
Viewership ratings: 8.72%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2006-Oct-15 to 2006-Dec-10
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: “Sayonara” by Orange Range

Synopsis
Kagura Akane (Horikita Maki) is the only daughter of a family who runs a teppanyaki place in downtown Tokyo. Akane had always been proud of her father Tetsuma, who was called the “No.1 teppanyaki chef in Japan.” Growing up in such an environment, she naturally acquired “teppanyaki skills.” However, when her mother died of illness, her father lost his energy to work and disappeared. Since then, Akane has managed and protected the restaurant all by herself. One day, out of the blue, she is visited by Erena (Katase Nana), the rich daughter of a major food company, who orders Akane to move out at once because her father had borrowed money against his restaurant. Though feeling disappointed, Akane makes up her mind to close the store. But when her father’s friend, Kurogane (Jinnai Takanori), shows her “Ittetsu,” a grilling plate that Akane’s father cherished, it reignites her passion towards teppanyaki.
In order to protect the restaurant, she embarks on a journey with Shinta (Tsukamoto Takashi) to search for her father, but wherever she goes, she ends up getting involved in culinary battles. “—TBS”

Cast
Main Cast
Horikita Maki as Kagura Akane
Miyoshi Ani as Young Akane
Tsukamoto Takashi as Ichijo Shinta
Izumisawa Yuuki as Young Shinta
Jinnai Takanori as Kurogane Ginzo
Katase Nana as Saigoji Erena
David Ito as Kitamura Shugo
Ootomo Minami as Narumi Eiko
Natsuko as Katsura Yuzu
Akiko as Katsura Mikan
Ryu Raita as Akashi Mitsujiro
Iida Kisuke as Tomobe
Tamura Saburo (田村三郎) as Kinoshita
Suwa Taro (諏訪太朗) as Ninomiya
Neko Hiroshi (猫ひろし)
Guests
Miyazaki Masumi as Hamada Toyoko (ep2)
Yanagisawa Nana as Yayoi (ep2)
Hamada Gaku as Hamada Shingo (ep2)
Fuse Hiroshi as Shirai Bunpei (ep3)
Mizuhashi Takami as Shirai Fumino (ep3)
Mizutani Yuri (水谷妃里) as Himeno Momoka (ep4)
Hasebe Hitomi (長谷部瞳) as Shiina Ranko (ep4)
Sakaguchi Eri (坂口エリー) as Saotome Yuri (ep4)
Toyama Kyoko as Irie Fukumi (ep5)
Asaka Mitsuyo as Yamakawa Yasuko (ep6)
Miyashita Naoki (宮下直紀) as Yamakawa Kenji (ep6)
Sato Jiro as Yamakawa Hideki (ep6)
Toyota Maho as Ou Etsuko (ep7-9)