It's that time of the year... no, it's actually a little late, most of dramas are about to start already! Time is flying and I can't believe we're already in the middle of october >.<
This time I'll divide the post in 'dramas I want to watch' and 'dramas I might try', because this season I'm interested in many things, but as always I don't have that much time to watch them.
This time I'll divide the post in 'dramas I want to watch' and 'dramas I might try', because this season I'm interested in many things, but as always I don't have that much time to watch them.
Kounodori
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Trailer
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Fridays, 16 October 2015
Station: TBS
Scriptwriter: Yamamoto Mutsumi (Yae no Sakura, Tsukahara Bokuden, Gegege no Nyoubou)
Original Work: Kounodori by Suzunoki Yu
Cast: Ayano Go, Matsuoka Mayu, Yoshida Yo, Sakaguchi Kentaro, Hirayama Yusuke, Seino Nana, Toyomoto Akinaga, Asano Kazuyuki, Ayado Chie, Eguchi Noriko, Yamaguchi Sayaka, Hoshino Gen, Omori Nao, Kaname Jun (guest star), Usuda Asami (guest star), Shimizu Fumika (guest star)
Synopsis: Kounotori Sakura’s (Ayano Go) mother died right after he was born, and he grew up in a home for infants and a childrens’ orphanage. He is a loving obstetrician who wants to congratulate all babies who are born. At the same time, going by the name of ‘Baby’, he is a gifted pianist of many mysteries who channels all his emotions to the piano and plays with passion.
I have no reasons other than
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And look at that trailer!! Those pure eyes when he looks at the kids and that gentle smile aaaaaargggggghhhhhhhhh.
I'm going to be a mess.
Samurai Sensei
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Trailer
Date: From 11.15 p.m., Fridays, 23 October 2015
Station: TV Asahi
Scriptwriter: Kuroiwa Tsutomu (Yokoso Wagaya e, Subete ga F ni Naru, Strawberry Night Series)
Original Work: Samurai Sensei by Kuroe Ssuke
Cast: Nishikido Ryo, Kamiki Ryunosuke, Higa Manami, Fujii Ryusei, Kuroshima Yuina, Ishida Nicole, Kajihara Zen, Morimoto Leo
Synopsis: Takechi Hanpeita (Nishikido Ryo), a samurai of Tosa domain who campaigned for the expulsion of foreigners, unwittingly travels 150 years in time from the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate to present day Japan. Becoming a teacher at a private school run by Saeki Makoto (Morimoto Leo) in a village in the remote countryside through an unexpected turn of events, he solves all kinds of problems with methods unique to a samurai. Hanpeita is reunited with his good friend Sakamoto Ryoma (Kamiki Ryunosuke), who quickly adjusted to modern times after travelling in time to the present slightly before him, and lives in Tokyo as a journalist called Narasaki.
I'm not that thrilled for this thing, but it will probably make me laugh, so it's ok.
Ryo is good, Kamiki is good, there's that Johnny's WEST guy that was in Yokoso (did the scriptwriter like him that much? Is there a clause in Ryo's contract that imposes him to bring a Johnny's WEST member with him every time he does a drama?).
A funny thing is that, after I told my sister "hey, Ryo is going to be in a drama called Samurai Sensei", she spent like a week convinced that the drama was "Omurice Sensei". So this is how I'm going to call this drama. It's beautiful.
Okitegami Kyoko no Biboroku
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Trailer
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Saturdays, 10 October 2015
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Nogi Akiko (Soratobu Kouhoushitsu, Omo ni Naitemasu, Lucky Seven)
Original Work: Okitegami Kyoko no Biboroku by Nishio Ishin
Cast: Aragaki Yui, Okada Masaki, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Arioka Daiki, Uchida Rio
Synopsis: Okitegami Kyoko (Aragaki Yui) is a beautiful investigator who has a great love for money. But she is also forgetful. She always writes the important things that she has to remember on her body with a magic pen. Because her memory will reset every day once she falls asleep, she has to solve any case within a day.
I have so many unresolved feelings about Aragaki Yui and Okada Masaki since the 2nd season of Legal High, I need to see them being weird and cute and fluffy together, and this drama seems... weird and cute. I have some expectation, also because Nogi Akiko wrote the drama of my heart.
Isan Sozoku
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Trailer
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Thursdays, 22 October 2015
Station: TV Asahi
Scriptwriter: Inoue Yumiko (Hirugao, Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu Series, Pandora Series)
Cast: Mukai Osamu, Eikura Nana, Ito Shiro, Kishibe Ittoku, Muroi Shigeru, Suzuki Kosuke, Yo Kimiko, Itaya Yuka, Kishimoto Kayoko, Watanabe Ikkei, Horiuchi Keiko, Matobu Sei
Synopsis: Sato Ikuo (Mukai Osamu) is a houseman who works for the internal medicine department. Not wanting to burden his mother (Kishimoto Kayoko), who brought him up as a single mother, he obtained a scholarship from a nearby public university and enrolled in its medical faculty. After that, he met Kaede (Eikura Nana), the only daughter of Kawamura Kozo (Kishibe Ittoku), the president of Kawamura Memorial Hospital. They got married and he was adopted into the Kawamura family. He is completely indifferent to the many sarcastic and caustic remarks that are aimed at him by Kaede’s aunts and cousin, and lives detached from the ongoing inheritance battle. But that does not mean Ikuo is a timid man. He has no interest in the power struggle in the hospital, career progression and opening his own practice. His dream is to be involved in medical care in remote places overseas and he focuses on training as a houseman every day.
I'm quite interested in this too, mostly because usually we see the wife as the one who needs to be 'accepted' by her husband's family, while here it's the opposite. I'm curious.
I like Eikura Nana, I think she has grown a lot since the days of her first works. And Mukai Osamu... is not the best actor, but I mean look at his face.
And now some dramas that caught my attention and that I might try if I have time (maybe one of the four I mentioned above won't be subbed or I won't like it and drop it... even though I hope it won't happen!) or if I read that they're absolute masterpieces.
Kekkonshiki no Zenjitsu ni
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Trailer
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Tuesdays, 13 October 2015
Station: TBS
Scriptwriters: Yamamuro Yukiko (Aru Hi, Ahiru Bus), Takahashi Maki (Alice no Toge, Ikemen desu ne, Fuyu no Sakura), Shimada Ureha (White Lab, Inpei Sousa)
Cast: Karina, Harada Mieko, Suzuki Ryohei, Yamamoto Yusuke, Mano Erina, Fujita Yumiko, Hotaru Yukijiro, Yashiba Toshihiro, Nakano Yuta, Inukai Atsuhiro, Ikeda Saemi, Miho Jun, Toda Naho, Enami Kyoko, Endo Kenichi
Synopsis: 31-year-old Serizawa Hitomi (Karina) was single-handedly raised by her father, Kensuke (Endo Kenichi), who runs a sushi shop at Tsukiji. She is a project leader at a big real estate company, and engaged to marry Sonoda Yuichi (Suzuki Ryohei), a physician. With 100 days to go before her wedding, she is diagnosed with a brain tumour and learns that it could put her life in danger. Then her mother, Kanako (Harada Mieko), who left home 28 years ago, suddenly shows up. A free-spirited and unconventional woman, she bolted out of the house, and then Japan to pursue her own dreams. But she has come back upon learning of her daughter’s marriage. Hitomi naturally cannot forgive her mother while Kanako will not let her daughter die and gets actively involved in her life. This equates the start of a 100-day battle between daughter and mother.
Honestly... it seems really good. But I always avoid to watch stuff about sick people, because I feel sad and I'm a little hypochondriac so... I avoid them. But it seems good.
And I LOVE Karina. She's not the best actress ever, but I find her so charming... I like to look at her XD And I'm curious to see her in this kind of role. Also whan am I reading? Yamamoto Yusuke in the cast?? I feel like it's been AGES since the last time I've seen him doing something! The last thing I watched with him was... Host Club? Oh God.
5-ji Kara 9-ji Made ~ Watashi ni Koi Shita Obousan
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Trailer
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Mondays, 12 October 2015
Station: Fuji TV
Scriptwriter: Koyama Shota (Ishitachi no Renai Jijou, Subete ga F ni Naru, Bitter Blood)
Original Work: 5-ji Kara 9-ji Made by Aihara Miki
Cast: Ishihara Satomi, Yamashita Tomohisa, Tanaka Kei, Furukawa Yuki, Takanashi Rin, Saeko, Yoshimoto Miyu, Nagatsuma Reo, Tsunematsu Yuri, Hayami Mokomichi, Terada Kokoro, Nakamura Anne, Toda Keiko, Ueshima Ryuhei, Onodera Takehiko, Kaga Mariko
Synopsis: Sakuraba Junko (Ishihara Satomi), an English language school teacher, has had no boyfriend even before her 29th birthday and dreams of working in New York. But one day, she encounters a handsome monk in the worst moment when she attends a funeral service at a temple. Because of numbness in her legs, she grabs the altar and ends up emptying the ash from burning incense on him while he is chanting the sutra. Although a rueful Junko thinks they will probably not meet again, she is deceived by her family and made to go for a matchmaking session. The other party is none other than that monk, Hoshikawa Takane (Yamashita Tomohisa)...
It seems nice and funny, BUT I have a problem with both the leads. I've watched few things with Ishihara Satomi, and never liked her: not because she isn't good, but because she always plays characters I dislike. I feel like she's been typecasted a bit, so I'm afraid that here she'll be once again the pretty but shallow woman. And Yamapi... sorry, I don't like him. I even liked some of the dramas with him I watched (like Summer Nude), but not because of him or the character he played, just because the story and the rest of the cast were good.
Trailer
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Fridays, 16 October 2015
Station: TBS
Scriptwriter: Yamamoto Mutsumi (Yae no Sakura, Tsukahara Bokuden, Gegege no Nyoubou)
Original Work: Kounodori by Suzunoki Yu
Cast: Ayano Go, Matsuoka Mayu, Yoshida Yo, Sakaguchi Kentaro, Hirayama Yusuke, Seino Nana, Toyomoto Akinaga, Asano Kazuyuki, Ayado Chie, Eguchi Noriko, Yamaguchi Sayaka, Hoshino Gen, Omori Nao, Kaname Jun (guest star), Usuda Asami (guest star), Shimizu Fumika (guest star)
Synopsis: Kounotori Sakura’s (Ayano Go) mother died right after he was born, and he grew up in a home for infants and a childrens’ orphanage. He is a loving obstetrician who wants to congratulate all babies who are born. At the same time, going by the name of ‘Baby’, he is a gifted pianist of many mysteries who channels all his emotions to the piano and plays with passion.
I have no reasons other than
And look at that trailer!! Those pure eyes when he looks at the kids and that gentle smile aaaaaargggggghhhhhhhhh.
I'm going to be a mess.
Samurai Sensei
Trailer
Date: From 11.15 p.m., Fridays, 23 October 2015
Station: TV Asahi
Scriptwriter: Kuroiwa Tsutomu (Yokoso Wagaya e, Subete ga F ni Naru, Strawberry Night Series)
Original Work: Samurai Sensei by Kuroe Ssuke
Cast: Nishikido Ryo, Kamiki Ryunosuke, Higa Manami, Fujii Ryusei, Kuroshima Yuina, Ishida Nicole, Kajihara Zen, Morimoto Leo
Synopsis: Takechi Hanpeita (Nishikido Ryo), a samurai of Tosa domain who campaigned for the expulsion of foreigners, unwittingly travels 150 years in time from the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate to present day Japan. Becoming a teacher at a private school run by Saeki Makoto (Morimoto Leo) in a village in the remote countryside through an unexpected turn of events, he solves all kinds of problems with methods unique to a samurai. Hanpeita is reunited with his good friend Sakamoto Ryoma (Kamiki Ryunosuke), who quickly adjusted to modern times after travelling in time to the present slightly before him, and lives in Tokyo as a journalist called Narasaki.
I'm not that thrilled for this thing, but it will probably make me laugh, so it's ok.
Ryo is good, Kamiki is good, there's that Johnny's WEST guy that was in Yokoso (did the scriptwriter like him that much? Is there a clause in Ryo's contract that imposes him to bring a Johnny's WEST member with him every time he does a drama?).
A funny thing is that, after I told my sister "hey, Ryo is going to be in a drama called Samurai Sensei", she spent like a week convinced that the drama was "Omurice Sensei". So this is how I'm going to call this drama. It's beautiful.
Okitegami Kyoko no Biboroku
Trailer
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Saturdays, 10 October 2015
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Nogi Akiko (Soratobu Kouhoushitsu, Omo ni Naitemasu, Lucky Seven)
Original Work: Okitegami Kyoko no Biboroku by Nishio Ishin
Cast: Aragaki Yui, Okada Masaki, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Arioka Daiki, Uchida Rio
Synopsis: Okitegami Kyoko (Aragaki Yui) is a beautiful investigator who has a great love for money. But she is also forgetful. She always writes the important things that she has to remember on her body with a magic pen. Because her memory will reset every day once she falls asleep, she has to solve any case within a day.
I have so many unresolved feelings about Aragaki Yui and Okada Masaki since the 2nd season of Legal High, I need to see them being weird and cute and fluffy together, and this drama seems... weird and cute. I have some expectation, also because Nogi Akiko wrote the drama of my heart.
Isan Sozoku
Trailer
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Thursdays, 22 October 2015
Station: TV Asahi
Scriptwriter: Inoue Yumiko (Hirugao, Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu Series, Pandora Series)
Cast: Mukai Osamu, Eikura Nana, Ito Shiro, Kishibe Ittoku, Muroi Shigeru, Suzuki Kosuke, Yo Kimiko, Itaya Yuka, Kishimoto Kayoko, Watanabe Ikkei, Horiuchi Keiko, Matobu Sei
Synopsis: Sato Ikuo (Mukai Osamu) is a houseman who works for the internal medicine department. Not wanting to burden his mother (Kishimoto Kayoko), who brought him up as a single mother, he obtained a scholarship from a nearby public university and enrolled in its medical faculty. After that, he met Kaede (Eikura Nana), the only daughter of Kawamura Kozo (Kishibe Ittoku), the president of Kawamura Memorial Hospital. They got married and he was adopted into the Kawamura family. He is completely indifferent to the many sarcastic and caustic remarks that are aimed at him by Kaede’s aunts and cousin, and lives detached from the ongoing inheritance battle. But that does not mean Ikuo is a timid man. He has no interest in the power struggle in the hospital, career progression and opening his own practice. His dream is to be involved in medical care in remote places overseas and he focuses on training as a houseman every day.
I'm quite interested in this too, mostly because usually we see the wife as the one who needs to be 'accepted' by her husband's family, while here it's the opposite. I'm curious.
I like Eikura Nana, I think she has grown a lot since the days of her first works. And Mukai Osamu... is not the best actor, but I mean look at his face.
And now some dramas that caught my attention and that I might try if I have time (maybe one of the four I mentioned above won't be subbed or I won't like it and drop it... even though I hope it won't happen!) or if I read that they're absolute masterpieces.
Kekkonshiki no Zenjitsu ni
Trailer
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Tuesdays, 13 October 2015
Station: TBS
Scriptwriters: Yamamuro Yukiko (Aru Hi, Ahiru Bus), Takahashi Maki (Alice no Toge, Ikemen desu ne, Fuyu no Sakura), Shimada Ureha (White Lab, Inpei Sousa)
Cast: Karina, Harada Mieko, Suzuki Ryohei, Yamamoto Yusuke, Mano Erina, Fujita Yumiko, Hotaru Yukijiro, Yashiba Toshihiro, Nakano Yuta, Inukai Atsuhiro, Ikeda Saemi, Miho Jun, Toda Naho, Enami Kyoko, Endo Kenichi
Synopsis: 31-year-old Serizawa Hitomi (Karina) was single-handedly raised by her father, Kensuke (Endo Kenichi), who runs a sushi shop at Tsukiji. She is a project leader at a big real estate company, and engaged to marry Sonoda Yuichi (Suzuki Ryohei), a physician. With 100 days to go before her wedding, she is diagnosed with a brain tumour and learns that it could put her life in danger. Then her mother, Kanako (Harada Mieko), who left home 28 years ago, suddenly shows up. A free-spirited and unconventional woman, she bolted out of the house, and then Japan to pursue her own dreams. But she has come back upon learning of her daughter’s marriage. Hitomi naturally cannot forgive her mother while Kanako will not let her daughter die and gets actively involved in her life. This equates the start of a 100-day battle between daughter and mother.
Honestly... it seems really good. But I always avoid to watch stuff about sick people, because I feel sad and I'm a little hypochondriac so... I avoid them. But it seems good.
And I LOVE Karina. She's not the best actress ever, but I find her so charming... I like to look at her XD And I'm curious to see her in this kind of role. Also whan am I reading? Yamamoto Yusuke in the cast?? I feel like it's been AGES since the last time I've seen him doing something! The last thing I watched with him was... Host Club? Oh God.
5-ji Kara 9-ji Made ~ Watashi ni Koi Shita Obousan
Trailer
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Mondays, 12 October 2015
Station: Fuji TV
Scriptwriter: Koyama Shota (Ishitachi no Renai Jijou, Subete ga F ni Naru, Bitter Blood)
Original Work: 5-ji Kara 9-ji Made by Aihara Miki
Cast: Ishihara Satomi, Yamashita Tomohisa, Tanaka Kei, Furukawa Yuki, Takanashi Rin, Saeko, Yoshimoto Miyu, Nagatsuma Reo, Tsunematsu Yuri, Hayami Mokomichi, Terada Kokoro, Nakamura Anne, Toda Keiko, Ueshima Ryuhei, Onodera Takehiko, Kaga Mariko
Synopsis: Sakuraba Junko (Ishihara Satomi), an English language school teacher, has had no boyfriend even before her 29th birthday and dreams of working in New York. But one day, she encounters a handsome monk in the worst moment when she attends a funeral service at a temple. Because of numbness in her legs, she grabs the altar and ends up emptying the ash from burning incense on him while he is chanting the sutra. Although a rueful Junko thinks they will probably not meet again, she is deceived by her family and made to go for a matchmaking session. The other party is none other than that monk, Hoshikawa Takane (Yamashita Tomohisa)...
It seems nice and funny, BUT I have a problem with both the leads. I've watched few things with Ishihara Satomi, and never liked her: not because she isn't good, but because she always plays characters I dislike. I feel like she's been typecasted a bit, so I'm afraid that here she'll be once again the pretty but shallow woman. And Yamapi... sorry, I don't like him. I even liked some of the dramas with him I watched (like Summer Nude), but not because of him or the character he played, just because the story and the rest of the cast were good.
What will you watch this fall? Does Ayano's smile make you cry too? Do you think "Omurice Sensei" is a way better title? How pretty is Mukai Osamu's face?
source: jdramas.wordpress
source: jdramas.wordpress