Okaeri Mone
Date: From 8.00 a.m., Mondays – Fridays, Spring 2021
Station: NHK
Scriptwriter: Adachi Naoko (Kinou Nani Tabeta?, Sagi Deka, Toumeina Yurikago)
Directors: Ichiki Masae, Kajiwara Toki, Kuwano Tomohiro, Tsuda Yasuko
Cast: Kiyohara Kaya, Uchino Masaaki, Suzuki Kyoka, Makita Aju, Fuji Tatsuya, Takeshita Keiko, Natsuki Mari, Sakaguchi Kentaro, Hamano Kenta, Denden, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Nagase Ren, Tsunematsu Yuri, Maeda Koki, Takada Hyoga, Asano Tadanobu
Synopsis: Nagaura Momone (Kiyohara Kaya) lives with her parents Koji (Uchino Masaaki) and Ayako (Suzuki Kyoka), grandfather Tatsumi (Fuji Tatsuya) and younger sister Michi (Makita Aju) on an island with a rich natural environment in Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. After graduating from high school in the spring of 2014, she moves to the inland city of Tome on her own. However, she fails every university entrance exam. While trying to figure out what to do with her life, Momone begins to work as a trainee forest guide. One day, she reaches a turning point. A famous weather forecaster Asaoka Satoru (Nishijima Hidetoshi) from Tokyo comes to Tome City. As Momone walks in the mountain with him, she is told that weather forecasting can read the future. Inspired by that comment, Momone resolves to become a weather forecaster. She studies hard to obtain the qualifications to become one. However, the pass rate for the exam is only 5%. Momone has never been good in studying and seems disheartened. With the support of Suganami Kotaro (Sakaguchi Kentaro), a young doctor involved in community healthcare, and the locals in Tome City, she finally passes the exam. Momone moves to Tokyo and starts working at a private weather forecasting company. She learns that weather forecasting actually covers a broad range of things and grows in her role. Several years later, in 2019, Momone who has become a full-fledged weather forecaster, sees a major typhoon hammer cities across Japan. Wanting to use the knowledge and skills that she has gained thus far to help her hometown, she decides to head to Kesennuma.
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Yo nimo Kimyouna Kimi Monogatari
Date: From March 2021
Network: WOWOW
Genre: Omnibus
Episodes: 5
Original Work: Yo nimo Kimyouna Kimi Monogatari by Asai Ryo
Scriptwriter: Watanabe Chiho (Wagaya no Himitsu, Beppin-san, 5-nin no Junko)
Director: Ikezawa Tatsuya
Cast: Kuroshima Yuina, Aoi Wakana, Sato Shori, Tanaka Rena, Ueda Tatsuya
Synopsis: In her quest for success as a freelance writer, Tagami Hiroko (Kuroshima Yuina) makes an attempt to do an undercover story on a sharehouse where four strangers live in order to delve into the reasons why independent working adults would live together when they have jobs, money and friends of their own. However, the real purpose for their communal life goes far beyond her imagination.
Website: www.wowow.co.jp/drama/original/monogatari
Kimi to Sekai ga Owaru Hi ni Season 2
Date: From March 2021
Station: Hulu
Genre: Survival, love mystery
Episodes: 6
Scriptwriter: Ikeda Natsuko (Zekkyou, Shinhannin, Miyazawa Kenji no Shokutaku)
Director: Sugawara Shintaro
Cast: Takeuchi Ryoma, Nakajo Ayami, Kasamatsu Sho, Iitoyo Marie, Otani Ryohei, Sasano Takashi, Makita Sports, Ando Tamae, Yokomizo Naho, Suzunosuke, Kim Jaehyun, Takito Kenichi
Synopsis: Mamiya Hibiki (Takeuchi Ryoma) works at a car maintenance shop. On the day that he intends to propose to his live-in girlfriend Ogasawara Kurumi (Nakajo Ayami), whom he has dated since high school, a tunnel caves in and he gets trapped. When Mamiya makes it out from the tunnel four days later, the world has completely changed. There is no one around. The transportation network is wrecked and he cannot get mobile signals. A directive for an emergency evacuation is repeated on the radio. There are traces of blood in the streets. It seems that the world has come to an end. Mamiya desperately searches for Kurumi but she is nowhere to be found. He eventually realises that the town has been sealed off as a security zone. Are the few survivors (Kasamatsu Sho, Iitoyo Marie, Otani Ryohei, Sasano Takashi, Makita Sports, Ando Tamae, Yokomizo Naho, Suzunosuke) a bunch who can pull through this hopeless situation together with him?
Website: www.ntv.co.jp/kimiseka
Twitter: twitter.com/kimiseka_ntv
Samayou Yaiba*NEW*
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Saturdays, May 2021
Network: WOWOW
Episodes: 6
Original Work: Samayou Yaiba by Higashino Keigo
Scriptwriter: Yoshida Noriko (Sono Onna Jiruba, Dying Eye, Kataomoi)
Director: Katayama Shinzo
Cast: Takenouchi Yutaka, Ishida Yuriko
Synopsis: Nagamine Shigeki (Takenouchi Yutaka) raised his only daughter Ema on his own after his wife passed away. However, one night Ema fails to return home from her part-time job and is later found brutally murdered. Several days later, a grief-stricken Nagamine receives an anonymous phone call telling him the names and address of the criminals. After some hesitation, he heads to the apartment where he finds a video capturing Ema’s gruesome murder while he rummages the place. When one of the criminals called Atsuya returns home, Nagamine kills him, and goes on to pursue Kaiji who is the main culprit. Both Kaiji and Atsuya are underaged youth that the death penalty does not apply to under the current law. Are Nagamine’s actions right or wrong? His flight and revenge is about to polarise public opinion.
Website: www.wowow.co.jp/drama/original/samayou
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Kareinaru Ichizoku*UPDATED*
Date: From 10.00 p.m., Sundays, 18 April 2021
Network: WOWOW
Genre: Family
Episodes: 12
Original Work: Kareinaru Ichizoku by Yamasaki Toyoko
Scriptwriter: Maekawa Yoichi (Kirin ga Kuru, Shizumanu Taiyo, Lady Joker)
Cast: Nakai Kiichi, Mukai Osamu, Fujigaya Taisuke, Yoshioka Riho, Matsumoto Honoka, Kaname Jun, Kudo Asuka, Mimura Rie, Sasamoto Rena, Fukumoto Riko, Aso Yumi, Takashima Masanobu, Ishiguro Ken, Manda Hisako, Tanaka Rena, Kato Masaya, Ishizaka Koji (guest star), Uchida Yuki
Synopsis: Manpyo Daisuke (Nakai Kiichi) is the owner and president of Hanshin Bank which is ranked in tenth place in terms of volume of deposits at a time when Japan is enjoying rapid economic growth. He heads the Manpyo group of companies which consist of Hanshin Steel, Manpyo Real Estate, Manpyo Trading and Manpyo Warehouses. The family has gained wealth and power through family connections in Kansai’s business circles. When Daisuke hears about the move to reorganise the city’s banks from his eldest daughter Ichiko’s (Mimura Rie) husband Ataru (Kaname Jun) who is an elite Ministry of Finance official, he swings into action with a plan to prevent Hanshin Bank from being absorbed by a higher ranked bank and to fight for survival. Behind the scenes, a love-hate drama unfurls within the family from discord between father and sons (Mukai Osamu, Fujigaya Taisuke) to wife (Aso Yumi) and mistress (Uchida Yuki).
Website: www.wowow.co.jp/drama/original/ichizoku
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