Official Website
www.ntv.co.jp/kigen

Broadcast
From 12.55 a.m., Sundays, 17 March 2019 (followed by movie in summer)

Network
NTV

Story
A wedding is said to be a minefield which ruins a woman’s good mood with 75% of couples fighting over the ceremony and preparations. University student Majima Ai is a part-timer working at a wedding hall. She has chosen to work at this place in order to gather data for the graduation thesis she is writing on the theme “Ways to restore a woman’s good humour because male and female brains are different”. On her first day, she is put in charge of a couple’s wedding ceremony together with Aoyagi Seiji, a passionate wedding planner who has been made her superior. Ai and Aoyagi drop by the waiting room with 15 minutes to spare before the new bride and groom enter the hall and immediately sense trouble brewing between the couple Kitazawa Mari and Yu. Only Ai notices that Mari is born with a sullen attitude. Meanwhile, an incident happens. Mari’s wedding dress is stained by wine. Aoyagi and Yu hurry to find an alternative dress for her to make it in time for the ceremony. However, Mari simply nods and says, “I’m fine with this. If this is not it …” As it’s well past the time to start, Yu who does not understand the reason for her fixation with the stained dress, unthinkingly raises his voice. Then the worst words come from Mari, “I’m not getting married!” Yu put her in a bad mood. At this rate, not only will the reception be in jeopardy, so will the wedding itself. Yu is at a complete loss as to what to do while Aoyagi is desperate. Then Ai speaks up, “What she wants is not a solution but empathy.” Will the reception take place without a hitch? Ai solves all sorts of problems between men and women with the latest neuroscience. Although she starts off dealing with issues in a business-like manner to gather data, her feelings gradually begin to change … …

Cast
* Hayami Akari as Majima Ai
* Hiraoka Yuta as Aoyagi Seiji
* Kitazawa Mari as Matsui Rena
* Kitazawa Yu as Saeki Daichi
* Mizusawa Erena as Kobayakawa Azusa
* Maeda Goki as Hayashi Tsuyoshi
* Asaka Mayumi as Kitazawa Harumi
* Hara Hideko as Shintani Satoko
* Kaneda Akio as Shintani Daigo

Scriptwriters
Hiruta Naomi
Yokozawa Natsuko

Original Work
Onna no Kigen no Naoshikata by Kurokawa Ihoko

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Official Website
www.htb.co.jp/channel/

Broadcast
From 11.20 p.m., 18 – 22 March 2019

Network
Hokkaido TV & Netflix

Story
Yukimaru Hanako is a rookie reporter with HHTV Hokaido, a local television station in Sapporo. She has made a string of blunders since she joined and keeps causing trouble to the people around her. In a debut battle with fellow presenters from the same batch, Hanako’s news story is just barely completed in time for the start of broadcast, and is also covered with an unbelievable number of misspelt characters. It’s an almost disastrous broadcast incident. Yamane Hajime, who joined the station at the same time and was assigned to the news department, always gets entangled in the uproar she causes and is also fed up with her repeated slip ups. However, Hanako is recruited for the station’s mysterious “fool” segment. Although Hanako is a troublemaker, strangely enough, she creates scoops or touching, dramatic scenes. A weather forecaster is enlightened by a word from her. An arson suspect who is on the run shows up where she has gone. Even Kanbara Masayoshi, a charismatic agricultural engineer who stays away from the media, as well as Katori, the information chief from HHTV’s rival network Higuma TV who constantly wins hands down in the ratings and typically pays no attention to HHTV, ends up getting taken by Hanako’s “storm” before they even realise it.

Cast
* Yoshine Kyoko as Yukimaru Hanako
* Iijima Hiroki as Yamane Hajime
* Miyashita Kanako as Hanae Maki
* Osada Takuro as Kitagami Hayato
* Shima Taisei as Hattori Tetsutaro
* Takihara Hikaru as Tachibana Seiichi
* Oizumi Yo as Kanbara Masayoshi
* Suzui Takayuki as Suzuki Takayasu
* Saito Ayumu as Jogasaki Mamoru
* Ouchi Atsuo as Hasegawa Heizo
* Myo Hayato as Osada Keiji
* Yasuda Ken as Katori
* Morisaki Hiroyuki as Minoru
* Izumiya Shigeru as Takegasa
* Otoo Takuma as Goto
* Totsugi Shigeyuki as Investigator

Scriptwriter
Mori Hayashi (Setsuyaku Rock, Himomen, Saki Series)

Original Work
Channel wa Sonomama! by Sasaki Noriko

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Poison Daughter, Holy Mother
Date: Summer 2019
Network: WOWOW
Scriptwriter: Shimizu Yukako (Reverse, Fukigenna Kajitsu (2016), Onna Sore o Yurusanai)
Original Work: Poison Daughter, Holy Mother by Minato Kanae
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Terajima Shinobu
Synopsis: Actress Fujiyoshi Yumika has been troubled by her mother Yoshika (Terajima Shinobu) since young. She regards her mother who tries to control her the way she wants, as a toxic parent. Yumika runs to Tokyo in an act of rebellion but she is unable to break free. Yoshika’s machinations cause her to split up with a man and lose important work. Learning about this, Yumika accuses her mother on a talk show and this generates tremendous response. Meanwhile, the people who know Yoshika, regard her as a caring mother and certainly not a toxic parent. Yoshika reflects on her own life after hearing what Yumika said, and decides to let go of her daughter. But … …
Website: www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/poison

Soshite, Ikiru^*NEW*
Date: Summer 2019
Station: WOWOW
Scriptwriter: Okada Yoshikazu (Hiyokko Series, Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni, Kibougaoka no Hitobito)
Genre: Romance
Cast: Arimura Kasumi, Sakaguchi Kentaro
Synopsis: Ikuta Toko’s (Arimura Kasumi) parents died in a traffic accident when she was three years old. She was adopted by her father’s older brother who runs a barber shop in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, and grew up happily. Toko was sometimes active as an idol and eventually aspired to become an actress. Then when she turned 19, Toko decided to try for an audition that was being held in Tokyo. However, on 11 March 2011, the day before her performance, the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. That autumn, Toko participates in volunteer activities in Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture together with a Korean coworker at the cafe. This is where she meets Shimizu Kiyotaka (Sakaguchi Kentaro), a Tokyo University student who is a executive committee member of a student volunteer group. Kiyotaka runs operations on the ground quietly and systematically, but Toko feels something is off about his smile for some reason. She has no way of knowing his own cruel fate. As Toko and Kiyotaka spend time together in Kesennuma, they begin to develop special feelings for each other.
Website: www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/ikiru

No Side
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Sundays, July 2019
Station: TBS
Scriptwriter: Ushio Kentaro (Shitamachi Rocket Season 2, Black Pean, Chiisana Kyojin)
Original Work: No Side by Ikeido Jun
Genre: Corporate
Cast: Oizumi Yo
Synopsis: Kimijima Hayato (Oizumi Yo) is a mid-level salaryman who works for a large manufacturer Tokiwa Motor. He is said to be leading the field of candidates for an executive position. However, he is relegated to be the administrative manager of a regional plant as a result of opposing an acquisition led by his boss. This transfer is against his wishes but this is also the fate of a salaryman. As a disconsolate Kimijima takes up his position at the plant, he is ordered to double as the general manager of Tokiwa Motor’s rugby team Astros. Astros was once a mighty team. However, it has been mired in a slump. Rebuilding a team is a heavy burden for Kimijima who lacks knowledge and experience in rugby. He begins his battle to make a comeback with a struggling rugby team and no hope for career advancement.
Website: www.tbs.co.jp/program/nichi201907

Anata no Ban desu^*NEW*
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Sundays, July 2019 (continues from last season)
Station: NTV
Scriptwriter: Fukuhara Mitsunori (Gokudo Meshi, Makanai-sou Series, Shikaku Tantei Higurashi Tabito Series)
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Harada Tomoyo, Tanaka Kei, Nishino Nanase, Asaka Kodai, Nao, Yamada Maho, Mikura Kana, Otomo Karen, Kanazawa Miho, Tsubokura Yoshiyuki, Nakao Masaki, Koike Ryosuke, Isaka Ikumi, Araki Towa, Hakamada Yoshihiko, Katagiri Jin, Matobu Sei, Wada Soko, Nomaguchi Toru, Hayashi Yasufumi, Kataoka Reiko, Minagawa Sarutoki, Tokui Yu, Tanaka Yoji, Nagano Satomi, Sakata Masanobu, Okata Hisako, Minemura Rie, Takenaka Naoto, Ando Masanobu, Kimura Tae, Namase Katsuhisa
Synopsis: A newlywed couple move into an apartment near the Sumida River in Tokyo. Tezuka Nana (Harada Tomoyo) is a designer of sportswear. She was pursued by sports gym trainer Shota (Tanaka Kei) whom she met through work and they got married despite their 15-year age gap. What they share in common is a love of mysteries. Seeing the close families and couples, they imagine a bright and happy future for themselves. However, the fates of the Tezukas are rocked by a residents meeting that Nana attends. The residents of the apartment building start dying around them. Those with motives to kill have alibis and the murderers cannot be arrested in any of the cases. The riddle lies in a game that the residents are playing among themselves. 13 of them have written down the people they want to kill for offending them and started this murder game where these slips of paper are randomly drawn. At first, it was something that none of them took seriously. Then the people whose names were written started getting killed one after another and another threatening note is delivered with the warning, “You are next”. There is no turning back even if they have regrets.
Website: www.ntv.co.jp/anaban

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Official Website
www.fujitv.co.jp/heisei-story/

Broadcast
From 1.05 a.m., 19 – 23 March 2019

Network
Fuji TV

Story
It is close to the end of the Heisei Period. Mei works at a pet shop. When she is getting ready one morning, her husband Takahiro, who is an author, comes out of the room. He has forgotten that she has to go to work. This has always been the case. Mei is not particularly bothered about it and says she will come home after she collects the wedding rings they ordered. Several days earlier, Mei was informed by Rin who got married later than her, that she is pregnant. The sight of her happy-looking friend made Mei honestly confess that she was the one who said she wanted children first. Although Mei is happy, she feels slightly disappointed with Takahiro who shows no interest in a wedding ceremony or wedding rings much less children. Sensing her feelings, Takahiro declares that he will buy the rings and they go to a jewellery shop. The rings are modest but Mei is filled with happiness and believes these days will last. On an evening one month later, she happily returns home after collecting the rings. However, Takahiro is missing … …

Cast
* Yamazaki Hirona as Mei
* Kasamatsu Sho as Takahiro
* Shimizu Kurumi as Rin
* Takahashi Kazuya
* Mori Yusaku
* Yanagi Erisa
* Isahaya Kosaku
* Nakayama Kyuichiro
* Hosoi Manabu
* Iwaya Kenji
* Murakami Jun
* Okayama Amane (guest star)

Scriptwriter
Kato Takuya (Heisei Monogatari Season 1, Miki Clinic de Kanpai o)

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Official Website
fod.fujitv.co.jp/s/genre/drama/ser4g87

Broadcast
From 12.00 a.m., Tuesdays, 12 March 2019

Network
Fuji on Demand

Story
Morino Hotaru is a second year high school student who has had an unrequited crush on Otaka Ren since junior high school. One day, while on a school trip with Ren and her good friend Yamamoto Shiori, their bus gets into an accident. When Hotaru wakes up, a young man who is dressed fully in black appears in front of her. He is Kuro, a grim reaper. A shocked Hotaru shoves him away but he has shocking words for her, “I’m your guide. Morino Hotaru, listen carefully. You’re dead.” Hotaru learns that if she does not get over her attachment to three things within 49 days, she will end up becoming a ghost bound to a specific physical location and cannot rest in peace. She had slept for one month after the accident and has only 19 days left. And so, Hotaru sets out to settle the three lingering regrets with the limited time she has, in the company of Kuro. One of them is to confess her feelings to Ren, her crush of five years. However, when he is in front of her, she finds it impossible to tell him how she feels. As Hotaru settles her first lingering regret, dark clouds begin to gather over her and Kuro … …

Cast
Otomo Karen as Morino Hotaru
Koseki Yuta as Kuro
Kai Shoma as Otaka Ren
Kita Noa as Yamamoto Shiori

Scriptwriter
Motoyama Kumiko

Original Work
Itsuka, Nemuri ni Tsuku Hi by Inu Jun

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Date: From 9.00 p.m., 23 March 2019
Scriptwriter: Minamoto Takashi (Liquid, Kamisama no Boat, Tsugunai)
Cast: Uchino Masaaki, Emoto Tasuku, Nakamura Shido, Mizuno Miki, Fujimoto Takahiro, Moro Morooka, Fukami Motoki, Otaka Hiroo, Ise Shima, Furukawa Koji, Ikushima Yuki, Kusumi Kaoru, Nakagawa Haruki, Takahashi Aiko, Ishigaki Yuma, Mine Rantaro, Fukumoto Seizo, Hamada Akira, Sagawa Mitsuo, Honda Hirotaro, Ibu Masato, Ishibashi Renji, Satomi Kotaro
Synopsis: One day, a historical film studio in Kyoto receives a request from NHK which wants to make a new programme using the most advanced technology. Tadokoro Shinnosuke (Emoto Tasuku) is sent by NHK together with a pile of high-tech equipment. He grew up abroad but is a huge fan of historical dramas. When Tadokoro gets there, he says that he wants to dramatise the Ikedaya incident, which was a raid launched by the Shinsengumi against Imperial loyalists gathered at an inn called Ikedaya in Kyoto during the twilight years of the Tokugawa shogunate. This flabbergasts the people involved in drama production at the film studio. It can be a headache to use popular actors on a high-tech set where all sorts of problems are expected. So the head of the studio selects Murata Shigeo, otherwise known as Shige-chan (Uchino Masaaki), an actor of small parts who specialises in getting killed. He is supposed to film a punishing action scene filled with new technology. However, even though Shige-chan is stellar in choreographed sword battles, there is a reason why he has not gained much popularity. Furthermore, there are only elderly staff (Honda Hirotaro) handling the filming and they have no experience with technology. A series of problems occur and the climax they reach after overcoming difficulties is an unprecedented attempt at a 360° one-cut scene involving the world’s most advanced high speed camera and wire action for a scene where Shige-chan will fall down the stairs at Ikedaya. Will Shige-chan and the crew be able to surmount the high-tech challenges?
Official Website: www4.nhk.or.jp/P4031

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Date: From 9.00 p.m., 23 & 24 March 2019
Scriptwriter: Hasegawa Yasuo (Kubo Ibuki, Ano Koro Kimi o Oikaketa, Tantei Mitarai no Jikenbo Seiro no Umi)
Original Work: Futatsu no Sokoku by Yamazaki Toyoko
Cast: Oguri Shun, Tabe Mikako, Naka Riisa, Muro Tsuyoshi, Kora Kengo, Arata Mackenyu, Yo Kimiko, Aso Yumi, Matsushige Yutaka, Beat Takeshi, Shofukutei Tsurube, Nakamura Toru, Tanaka Tetsushi, Lily Franky, Ikeda Eliza, Hashimoto Manami, Emoto Tasuku, Komoto Masahiro, Negishi Toshie, Izumiya Shigeru, Nakamura Masatoshi, Morley Robertson, Thane Camus, Kent Gilbert, Atsugiri Jason, Harry Sugiyama, Daniel Kahl, Dave Fromm, George Williams, Murasame Tatsumasa, Oda Nobunari
Synopsis: Amou Kenji (Oguri Shun) is a second-generation Japanese who was born in the United States. His father (Matsushige Yutaka) migrated to the US from Hiroshima at the age of 19 and now runs a laundry shop in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. Kenji studied at UCLA after receiving an education in Japan. He has been working as a journalist with a Los Angeles-based Japanese newspaper, Kashu Shinpo, since his graduation. Kenji states in an editorial that striving to be a good Japanese, makes a worthy American citizen and tries to practice this himself. Imoto Nagiko (Tabe Mikako), a colleague at his workplace, is dating his classmate Charlie Tamiya (Muro Tsuyoshi) from ULCA days. Charlie is an ambitious man with emotional attachment to Japan. Although Kenji has mixed feelings about their close relationship, he goes on to marry Emi (Naka Riisa), Nagiko’s friend who is also a second-generation Japanese. However, when the Pacific War breaks out, Kenji’s circumstances completely change. Kenji, his father and mother (Aso Yumi) and those of Japanese descent are sent to the Manzanar War Relocation Centre where they are forced to live under restrictions. Before long, some among them are drafted into the US army. Which country should these second-generation Japanese pledge their allegiance to? America or Japan? They have to make a tough choice. Kenji’s youngest brother Isamu (Arata Mackenyu) volunteers for a unit made up of troops of Japanese descent while Kenji himself takes a position in military intelligence as a Japanese language instructor and code breaker in an attempt to swiftly bring an end to the war through information warfare. Meanwhile, their second brother Tadashi (Kora Kengo), who had been getting a university education in Hiroshima at the time the war began, is called up for military service by the Japanese army and sent to the battlefront in the Philippines. Kenji also heads to the Philippines as an intelligence officer. What is his destiny?
Official Website: www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/futatsunosokoku

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Official Website
www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/zekkyo

Broadcast
From 10.00 p.m., Sundays, 24 March 2019

Network
WOWOW

Story
The dead body of a woman is discovered in an apartment in Kokubunji, Tokyo. It has been eaten up by a number of cats until it is beyond recognition. Although the case is treated as one of the many solitary deaths, detective Okunuki Ayano finds it strange that the cats seem like pets but have not been toilet trained. She finds the name Suzuki Yoko in a passbook picked up from a goldfish bowl and traces her life. Meanwhile, Kokubunji Police Precinct’s crime squad is investigating the brutal murder of Kamishiro Takeshi who heads the nonprofit organisation Kind Help. There is no connection between the two cases. However, a woman called Suzuki Yoko soon emerges. Yoko was an ordinary woman who grew up in a typical family. Because of that normality, her younger brother Jun was bright in comparison and their mother Taeko doted on him. Yoko secretly felt forlorn that she was not loved by her mother, and she concealed that loneliness as she worked as an office lady. However, her life took a turn for the worse after her father, who was in debt, disappeared one day. Unfortunate incidents stacked up. Yoko was steadily driven into a corner and her life went into a downward spiral. She wanted to be loved, to be financially independent and recognised – feelings that any woman would have – and this tormented her. At some point, she was forsaken by society and turned to killing people for insurance money in order to survive.

Characters
Ono Machiko as Suzuki Yoko
A mysterious woman whose dead body is found in an apartment. It becomes clear that she turned to crime in order to live.

Yasuda Ken as Kamishiro Takeshi
The head of Kind Help, a nonprofit organisation. He was found stabbed to death. An enigmatic man who lived in the underworld and went on a violent crime spree.

Konishi Manami as Ayano
A detective who feels that there is more to Suzuki Yoko’s death than meets the eye and pursues the case. She gradually begins to identify with the darkness of Yoko’s heart.

Katagiri Jin as Yagi Tokuo
A homeless man who was picked up by Kamishiro Takeshi and became an accomplice in the crimes that he planned.

Maekawa Yasuyuki as Kusunoki Kazuma
The deputy chief of Kokubunji Police Precinct’s Criminal Affairs Division. He is in charge of investigating Kamishiro Takeshi’s murder.

Sakai Wakana as Juri
A call girl who works for a call girl for hire business. She struck up a friendship with Suzuki Yoko who was a coworker.

Kaname Jun as Haga Kenichi
The manager of Shinwa Life Insurance’s Fuchu branch where Suzuki Yoko worked. He was overbearing in the way he gave guidance to her.

Aso Yumi as Suzuki Taeko
Suzuki Yoko’s mother. She loves Yoko’s younger brother Jun who was outstanding and gives Yoko the cold shoulder.

Scriptwriter
Ikeda Natsuko (Shin Hannin, Miyazawa Kenji no Shokutaku)

Original Work
Zekkyou by Hamanaka Aki

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Date: From 8.00 p.m., 25 March 2019
Scriptwriter: Asano Taeko (Tasogare Ryuuseigun, Gomen Aishiteru, Dakara Kouya)
Cast: Kimura Fumino, Osawa Takao, Koike Eiko, Hamabe Minami, Minamino Yoko, Kishii Yukino, Washio Machiko, Yamaguchi Kaori, Kubota Maki, Asano Yuko, Kitamura Kazuki, Tanihara Shosuke, Katsurayama Shingo, Matsuzaka Keiko, Suzuki Honami 　　　　　
Synopsis: Tokugawa Yoshimune (Osawa Takao), the eighth Tokugawa shogun, instituted the Kyoho Reforms aimed at rebuilding the government’s finances. He is called the ancestor who restored the Tokugawa family and is also well-known as the “wild shogun”. Born the fourth son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, who was the second feudal lord of Kii Province, Yoshimune hailed from one of the three branches of the Tokugawa family, and was a great grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Following the death of his father and elder brothers, he became lord of Kii. He did everything he could to turn around the finances of the province and achieved results. Then the death of the young seventh shogun, Tokugawa Ietsugu, saw the male bloodline since the second shogun Hidetada Yoshimune come to a sudden end. For the first time, a member of a branch family was adopted by the main branch and became the eighth shogun. However, Yoshimune’s succession as shogun was not entirely through his own might, but the machinations of the women of the inner palace including Teneiin (Suzuki Honami), the legal wife of Ienobu, and Gekkouin (Koike Eiko), Ietsugu’s biological mother. Behind this man who became one of the greatest Tokugawa shoguns in history was his concubine Kume (Kimura Fumino) who was his pillar of emotional support. Yoshimune lost his sickly legal wife Masako who hailed from the main Tokugawa family. After that, he took Kume, the daughter of a low-ranking samurai of Kii, who served his mother Joenin (Matsuzaka Keiko), as his concubine. He loved her deeply for her simple and gentle nature. Yoshimune had children with three concubines who passed away. Kume loved them as if they were her own and believed she would live happily together with Yoshimune and Joenin forever. However, the decree from Edo Castle to put Yoshimune forward to be the eighth shogun completely changed Kume’s ordinary but happy life. She had to give up the life she was accustomed to in Kii and move to the inner palace of Edo Castle. Although she felt a touch of anxiety, she gave Yoshimune a push, thinking that it would be a waste for a man of his ability to just be the feudal lord of a domain. After the decision was made, Kume naively looks forward to the splendid images painted on the sliding screen doors and household furnishings of Edo Castle. However, Teneiin and Gekkouin wage a battle for power on all fronts, and the inner palace where 1,000 beautifully dressed women go head-to-head in their attempt to seduce Yoshimune, shatters Kume’s naivety. Will she be able to protect Yoshimune and their three children from the intrigues of the inner palace?!
Official Website: www.fujitv.co.jp/oh-oku2019
Preview: Ooku Saishushou CM

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Date: From 9.00 p.m., 26 March 2019
Scriptwriter: Ozaki Masaya (Signal, Chinmoku Houtei, Omukae Death)
Cast: Inohara Yoshihiko, Ueto Aya, Matobu Sei, Iitoyo Marie, Takada Sho, Sakai Maki, Shirasu Jin, Aso Yumi, Yoshiyuki Kazuko
Synopsis: One spring day, an elderly woman (Yoshiyuki Kazuko) who has been confined to her hospital bed, summons her four grandchildren including Emi (Iitoyo Marie) and Shinichi (Takada Sho) and starts talking to them about her parents and siblings. The family she grew up in 70 years ago was quite unlike any other family. Back in 1937 in Osaka, Suzuki Juzaburo (Inohara Yoshihiko) was an associate professor at Osaka University of Science and a botanist. Juzaburo and his cheerful, gentle wife of 10 years, Seiko (Ueto Aya), were not blessed with children. However, he accepted this and the couple got along well. Nevertheless, Seiko’s desire to become a mother did not go away. A farewell party for Kazuya (Shirasu Jin), the son of Juzaburo’s elder sister, Osawa Noriko (Matobu Sei), who was being posted to Manchuria, reinforced her strong desire to have children. Several days later, Seiko saw children playing in the garden of an orphanage run by Mamiya Kimiko (Aso Yumi) and discussed the adoption of orphans with Juzaburo. Although he initially expressed a lack of confidence in raising children, her eagerness overwhelmed him and they adopted Kota as their child. While Seiko treated Kota kindly, Juzaburo remained awkward but gradually learned to scold and praise the boy, and grow as a father. From someone who lived only for research, Juzaburo found a new purpose in life and his world completely changed. He only had to laugh for Kota to laugh. This quiet man who hardly expressed his feelings, smiled more and more. And then one day, he mumbled that maybe their son would be happy if he had siblings. Seiko responded that they could get that done quickly. Six years later, the Suzukis had become a big family with five children, Kota (Watanabe Ao), Setsuko (Ito Shiho), Kensaku (Ishizawa Shuto), Toranosuke (Harada Keita) and Tomeko (Takenoya Saki). Before long, Juzaburo’s research assistant Yoshida Shiro (Ryusei Ryo) received draft papers and the Pacific War also affected Juzaburo’s surroundings. Life for the Suzukis became increasingly difficult. Even so, Juzaburo and Seiko kept on smiling and so did their children. However, the war steadily cast a shadow on the family’s future … …
Official Website: www.ktv.jp/bokugawarauto

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Date: From 7.57 p.m., 28 March 2019
Scriptwriter: Komine Hiroyuki (Suits, Himomen, Kaseifu no Mitazono Series)
Original Work: Suna no Utsuwa by Matsumoto Seichou
Cast: Higashiyama Noriyuki, Nakajima Kento, Tsuchiya Tao, Nomura Shuhei, Sakurai Hinako, Sugimoto Tetta, Izumi Pinko, Kitaoji Kinya (guest star), Takashima Masanobu, Kuroki Hitomi, Emoto Akira
Synopsis: During Halloween in October 2018, the streets of Shibuya in Tokyo are full of young people in masquerade. A middle-aged man is found dead in a place behind the subway station where no one will notice. An investigation task force is set up in Shibuya Nishi Police Precinct with detective Imanishi Eitaro (Higashiyama Noriyuki) also part of the team. The face and palms of the dead man have been smashed, and he remains unidentified. The police manage to obtain an eyewitness account from a youth in a bloodstained white shirt near the crime scene. However, is the youth the murderer or simply someone in masquerade? In addition, there is an eyewitness report of two men on a deserted street leading to the crime scene. One of them is presumed to be the victim while other young man is seen as a likely suspect but he cannot be clearly identified because it was dark. However, according to the eyewitness, the victim spoke with an accent from the Tohoku region and it is revealed that he said “Kameda hasn’t changed one bit” during the conversation. Imanishi teams up with the young detective Yoshimura Hiroshi (Nomura Shuhei) and they head to the vicinity of the crime scene to investigate. But they are unable to obtain clues on “Kameda”. Meanwhile, the talented composer Waga Eiryo (Nakajima Kento) who has started gaining public attention, announced his first concert after his return to Japan and performs a new piece titled Destiny. He refuses to talk about his past and private life even when he gives interviews. Waga was the culprit in the case that took place in Shibuya last night. He tells himself that his plan was perfect and has a good time with his fiancee Tadokoro Sachiko (Sakurai Hinako) and her father Shigeki (Kitaoji Kinya) who is currently a minister. On the night of the murder, Waga had actually visited his lover Naruse Rieko (Tsuchiya Tao) who lives in an apartment near the crime scene, and she had given him shelter. Just as the investigation looks like it will hit a dead end, Imanishi finds the fixation on Tohoku odd and visits a linguistic scholar to ask about dialects. That is how he learns that a part of the Izumo region has an accent that is similar to Tohoku too. Furthermore, it also has a place with the name Kamedake. Imanishi achieves a breakthrough after Shimane Prefectural Police identify the victim as a missing man called Miki Kenichi (Takashima Masanobu). He and Yoshimura go around the crime scene asking about Miki. Miki worked at an orphanage and volunteered in various activities. All the people who knew Miki told them that he was like Buddha and not a single person hated him. Why was such a good man killed? The investigation stalls yet again. However, Imanishi discovers a newspaper column written about a woman who scattered confetti from a train window, and he instinctively feels that this could be the criminal’s shirt. He hunts for the place where this confetti was scattered and finds scraps of it. It is soon established that the fabric has blood stains and the blood matches that of the victim’s. The woman is a bartender in Ginza and Waga’s lover Rieko. Waga learns that the police is closing in and grows desperate as he focuses on completing his new piece like a man possessed. Imanishi continues to trace Miki’s movements and discovers a connection between Waga and Miki. Then he stumbles upon the existence of Waga’s father Motoura Chiyokichi (Emoto Akira) … …
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Date: From 10.00 p.m., 29 March 2019
Scriptwriter: Ishihara Rieko
Cast: Okayama Amane, Iitoyo Marie, Minagawa Sarutoki, Shuhama Harumi, Kamimura Yoriko, Endo Kenichi 　　
Synopsis: Takahashi Naoto (Okayama Amane), a regular employee of a bento chain, gets caught between his boss Morita (Minagawa Sarutoki) and part-timers including Narumi (Shuhama Harumi). He has to handle the paperwork alone and often works late. Although Takahashi toys with the idea of resigning, he is pressured by his father (Endo Kenichi) and gets through the days with no courage to quit. One day, a young lady called Aoki Hana (Iitoyo Marie) around the same age as Takahashi comes to interview for a part-time position. She is single, lives alone and has no dream. With a slight aura of mystery, Hana smiles and requests a three-day week, and Takahashi ends up falling in love with her at first sight. The kitchen staff are puzzled by Haru who works part-time even though she is young and says she likes kokeshi dolls. When Takahashi asks whether she can survive on a three-day week, she replies that she is doing a three-day week in order to survive. Wanting to get close to Haru, Takahashi lies that he likes kokeshi dolls too. That results in the two of them going out for a kokeshi event. Takahashi’s attraction to Haru grows as she happily teaches him about the beauty of kokeshi dolls. Then one day, he makes a big mistake at work due to exhaustion from continuously working late … …
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