Archive for November, 2008
Eternal Summer(盛夏光年)
Synopsis: Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
Boys Before Flowers Heading To New York for Overseas Filming
The main cast and production team of KBS2TV Boys Before Flowers will head to America next week for overseas filming lasting for around 10 days.
Code Blue(コード・ブルー)
Synopsis: The drama’s full title is “Code Blue: Doctor Heli Kinkyu Kyumei.” The concept is based on Japan’s proposal for an emergency medical service using helicopters to quickly reach those in need.
Cinderella ni Naritai!(シンデレラになりたい!)
Synopsis: Kuramochi Bon works at a fast food burger joint, taking out the garbage. All his life he has been told he is ugly, and has never even held hands with a girl.
ChocoMimi(チョコミミ)
Synopsis: This drama is based on a fashion manga by Sonoda Konami about two schoolmate friends, Sakurai Choco and Nekota Mimi, and their daily lives.
Celeb to Binbo Taro(セレブと貧乏太郎)
Synopsis: Wealthy daughter of a hotel chain mogul meets poor widowed father of three.
Byakkotai(白虎隊)
Synopsis: A re-make of the 1986 hit, which scored 80-percent in the Aizu district of Fukushima prefecture.
Brother Beat(ブラザー☆ビート)
Synopsis:
Tanaka Misako stars as a woman struggling to raise her three sons – played by Tamayama Tetsuji, Hayami Mokomichi and Nakao Akiyoshi – after her husband dies. Kuninaka Ryoko will appear as Tamayama’s girlfriend, Chisato.
Mei-chan no Shitsuji(メイちゃんの執事)
A live-action television drama adaptation of Riko Miyagi’s Mei-chan no Shitsuji (Mei-chan’s Butler) shōjoFuji TV network this January. The manga has been running in Shueisha’s Margaret magazine since 2006, and seven volumes have been published. manga will premiere on Japan’s
Boys Este(BOYSエステ)
Synopsis: Akagi Hibiki is a high schooler who takes up a part-time job at an esthetic salon, and is said to have a “god hand” for his superb massaging technique.
Biyo Shonen Celebrity(美容少年★セレブリティ)
Synopsis: This series revolves around a salon called “Celebrity,” whose mission is to grant women their once-in-a-lifetime wish of becoming super beautiful.
Binbo Danshi(貧乏男子)
Synopsis: Koyama Kazumi is a poor but optimistic college student who firmly believing that there are more important things than money.
Best Friend(ベストフレンド)
Synopsis: This is story about a naive county girl who has dreamed about being a singer all her life. After graduating from high school, she heads off to Tokyo to make her dream come true.
Bambino!(バンビーノ!)
Synopsis: A drama adaptation of a popular comic written by Sekiya Tetsuji. After a year of working at a neighborhood Italian restaurant, Ban Shogo (Matsumoto Jun), an enthusiastic, cocky young college student from Fukuoka, comes to Tokyo to perfect his cooking skills as a chef in Italian cuisine.
Attention Please(アテンションプリーズ)
Synopsis: Losing her mother at a young age, Misaki Yoko (Ueto Aya) was raised amongst three brothers. Yoko is a slightly boyish girl who is bullheaded and hates dishonesty.
Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro(青と白で水色)
Synopsis: Uchiyama Kaede (Miyazaki Aoi) and Shiina Kasumi (Aoi Yuu) used to be best friends. Now in high school, Kasumi grew more popular than Kaede, which has led her to continually bully her ex-best friend.
Anna-san no Omame(アンナさんのおまめ)
Synopsis: Anna is everyone’s dream; beautiful, intelligent, kind and elegant. But in this drama, she is not the heroine… it is her best friend Lily.
Anego(アネゴ)
Synopsis: Naoko Noda, who works in a trading company, is called “anego” by her younger co-workers. What is “anego”? It means “older sister,” but in this case it is given as a nickname to Naoko because she is like a big sister to her coworkers, who depend on her to give them advice about everything.
Akihabara@Deep(アキハバラ＠DEEP)
Synopsis: Akihabara is a Tokyo district full of mangas, anime, electronics, video games, figurines, etc. It is a place that gathers fanatics of such themes, people who are commonly referred to as otaku.
14 Sai no Haha(１４才の母)
Synopsis: The drama concerns 14-year-old Miki Ichinose, who becomes pregnant with her boyfriend’s child. After struggling with the fact that she is pregnant, she decides that she will keep the baby and raise it by herself.
4 Shimai Tantei Dan(４姉妹探偵団)
Synopsis: This Japanese mystery series is based on the popular novel “San Shima Tantei Dan” written by Jiro Akagawa, centering around four sisters whose main passion is sleuthing.
First Kiss(ファースト・キス)
Synopsis: 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.
AnAn’s Male Ranking Hot List 2007
Not everyone in the ranking were featured in the magazine. Here are some pictures of the males who made the magazine and the rest of the list
Houtai Club / Bandage Club(包帯クラブ)
Synopsis: A group of six teens who call themselves The Bandage Club answer Internet requests to place bandages at various locations.
Sugar and Spice: Fumi zekka(シュガー＆スパイス 風味絶佳)
Synopsis: Shiro (Yuya Yagira) is a 17-year-old Fussa native, fresh from high school graduation, who finds himself standing in that ambivalent “no man’s land” between adolescence and adulthood, ready to strike out on his own but uncertain whether to trust his underdeveloped instincts.
Boku dake no Madonna(僕だけのマドンナ)
Synopsis: Kyoichi Suzuki is an average college student in his junior year. Although he’s not in one of the top universities, he’s satisfied with his college life studying architecture. Kyoichi left home and is finally on his own, living in a beat-up apartment in Tokyo.
