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Title (romaji): Sasaki Fusai no Jingi Naki Tatakai
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy
Episodes:
Viewership ratings:
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan
Air time: Sunday 21:00

Synopsis
Inagaki and Koyuki play the Sasakis, two lawyers with opposite personalities. They’ve been married for three years, but their heated quarrels lead them to the courtroom to settle a possible divorce, with the two representing themselves.

Cast

Inagaki Goro as Sasaki Horin
Koyuki as Sasaki Ritsuko
Koide Keisuke
Sakai Wakana
Nishimura Masahiko
Fujita Makoto
Yamamoto Koji
Furuta Arata

Credits: DramaWiki

Title (romaji): Atsu-hime / Atsuhime / Atsu Hime
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Jidaigeki
Episodes: Est. 49
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-6 start
Air time: Sunday 20:00

Synopsis
The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is Atsu-hime. Miyazaki Aoi plays the role of Atsu-hime, the wife of Tokugawa Iesada (1824-1858), the 13th Shogun.

Cast

Miyazaki Aoi as Atsu-hime

Credits: DramaWiki

Title (English): Full Swing
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human
Episodes: 6
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-19 to 2008-Feb-23
Air time: Saturday 21:00 to 21:58
Theme song: by Natsukawa Rimi

Synopsis
Full Swing is based on the life of Takabatake Michihiro, who once played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks but was best known as a batting coach who worked for seven teams over the course of his career. At the age of 58 he became a high school teacher, the drama focuses on his career as a teacher.

Cast
Satomi Kotaro
Takahashi Katsumi as Takabatake Michihiro
Ito Ran
Fukiishi Kazue
Hagiwara Masato
Tsukamoto Shinya
Honda Hirotaro
Kobayashi Katsuya

Credits: DramaWiki

Title (romaji): Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi
Also known as: The Fantastic Deer-Man
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan to

Synopsis

Tamaki plays a good-for-nothing teacher who gets assigned to a girls’ high school in Nara. He becomes a “deer man,” working to prevent the downfall of Japan under the orders of the deer of Nara Park. Ayase plays his partner, a teacher in the social studies department that is a “history otaku.”

Cast
Tamaki Hiroshi
Ayase Haruka

Credits: DramaWiki

Title (romaji): Hachimitsu to Kuroba
Also known as: Honey and Clover
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, friendship
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan to

Synopsis
Honey and Clover follows the lives of five college students and their love triangles

Cast
Narumi Riko as Hanamoto Hagumi
Ikuta Toma as Takemoto Yuta

Credits: Drama Wiki

Title (romaji): Hatachi no Koibito
Also known as: 20-year-old Lover
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romantic comedy
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-14 to 2007-Dec
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Opening theme: Because It’s Not Love by The Pipettes
Insert song: Pick It Up by Fergie
Synopsis

Hatachi no Koibito tells the story of Inoue Keisuke, a married salaryman. At the age of 50, he begins thinking about his purpose in life. By chance, he encounters Sawada Yuri, a 20-year-old graphic design student full of hopes and dreams for the future. Because of her resemblance to his girlfriend from long ago, he finds his heart unexpectedly beating faster..

 Cast
Akashiya Sanma as Inoue Keisuke
Nagasawa Masami as Sawada Yuri
Tsukamoto Takashi as Kawamura Yukio
Morishita Aiko as Inoue Sayuri
Kimura Midoriko as Nakajima
Kurose Manami as Inoue Risa
Koizumi Kyoko as Sawada Eri
Megumi Toshiaki as the convenience store employee
Ichimura Masachika as Suzuki Futa

-From Drama Wiki

Genre: Taiga drama, period drama
Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-7 to 2007-Dec

Synopsis
The 46th Historical Drama is a life story of Yamamoto Kansuke, a lonely genius of strategy at the Age of the Civil War in the 16th century. Kansuke works under Takeda Shingen and pursues his dream of unifying the whole country through aiding the warlord of Kai. At the same time, Kansuke supports Shingen’s concubine Yu from his selfless affection for the woman who hates but eventually loves the warlord who killed her father and family. With the aid of Kansuke’s strategies, Shingen expands his power northward, where he is destined to fight with Kenshin Uesugi, the warlord of Echigo. The drama portrays how those who fight for their dreams face their destinies in the turbulent age.

-From Drama Wiki

Title (romaji): Chiritotechin
Episodes: (15 mins. each)
Genre: Family drama
Air time: Monday through Saturday at 8:15
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-1 to 2008-Mar-?

Series Synopsis
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father’s hometown. Kiyomi-B’s grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro’s factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.

Cast
Wada Family
Kanjiya Shihori as Wada Kiyomi (heroine)
Wakui Emi as Wada Itoko (Kiyomi’s mother)
Matsushige Yutaka as Wada Masanori (Kiyomi’s father)
Enami Kyoko as Wada Koume
Yonekura Masakane as Wada Shotaro
Kyomoto Masaki as Wada Kojiro
Hashimoto Atsushi (橋本淳) as Wada Shohei
Kabira Jay as Wada Hideomi
Sato Megumi as Wada Kiyomi

-From Drama Wiki

Broadcast period: 2007-Nov-03 to 2007-Dec
Genre: Action suspense
Tagline (romaji): Keishicho Keibi Bu Keigo Ka Daiyon Kakari
Format: Renzoku
Episodes: 11

Synopsis
Okada plays Kaoru Inoue, a member of a police escort division. Ever since losing his parents at a young age, he has possessed heightened senses and a photographic memory. He also has other skills, such as analyzing footprints. His boss is being played by Shinichi Tsutsumi.

Cast
Okada Junichi as Inoue Kaoru
Tsutsumi Shinichi as Ogata Soichiro
Maki Yoko as Sasamoto Eri

-From Drama Wiki

Tagline (romaji): Shima no Saibankan Funto Ki
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Law
Episodes: 5
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-6 to 2007-Dec-1

Synopsis
A drama about a judge who is seemingly-undependable, but is filled with a strong sense of professional mission. Misawa Kyosuke, a 36-year-old city-bred judge, is transferred to a southern island where he is the only judge. He is forced to handle every case from family matters to murder cases. The drama features how the young judge builds up his career through his interaction with the local people and their domestic problems.

Cast
Nishijima Hidetoshi as Misawa Kyosuke
Toda Naho as Misawa Reiko
Ono Takehiko as Nomiyama Shu
Matoba Koji as Tanigawa Junichi
Ichikawa Miwako as Kumiko
Kokusho Sayuri as Hira Masaaki
Terada Minori as Ikeda Satomi
Matsuo Toshinobu as Izumi Takayuki
Hashizume Ryo as Seto Yukihiko
Asano Atsuko as Hata Natsumi
Masuoka Mei

-From Drama Wiki