Kiina Details
Title: キイナ
Title (romaji): Kiina
Tagline: 不可能犯罪捜査官
Tagline (romaji): Fukano Hanzai Sosakan
Tagline (English): Impossible Crime Investigator
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Detective, mystery
Episodes: 9
Viewership rating: 14.5 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-21 to 2009-Mar-18
Air time: Wednesday 22:00
Theme song: ChaNge the WoRLd by MiChi
Kiina Synopsis
At first glance Haruse Kiina is a completely normal 29-year-old. However, Kiina is the head of a special investigation unit nicknamed "Beppan" which deals with strange cases. With an unorthodox approach to solving crimes, she draws on her exceptional memory and powers of observation, and gets so absorbed in the pursuit of these cases that she forgets to eat or sleep til she solves the mystery.
Kiina Cast and Starring :
Kanno Miho as Haruse Kiina
Hiraoka Yuta as Yamazaki Takeru
Tsukaji Muga as Kudo Shinichiro
Koike Eiko as Endo Sakura
Tonesaku Toshihide as Hattori Koji
Sakura as Tamai Yumi
Takahashi Ryosuke as Hanada Yosuke
Sonoda Anna (薗田杏奈) as Uchida Maki
Kaneda Akio as Tsuda Akihiko
Kusakari Masao as Mitarai Shuji
Sawamura Ikki as Miyabi Kazuma
Kiina Guests
Shiraishi Miho as Koda Ayaka (ep1)
Katsumura Masanobu as Dr. Saginuma (ep1)
Kubota Masashi (久保田将至) (ep1)
Yamazaki Kenji (山崎健二) (ep1)
Kirishima Reika (霧島れいか) as Tanaka Shizuko (ep1)
Maido Yutaka (まいど豊) as Tanaka Hideo (ep1)
Nakamura Shuga (中村柊芽) as Tanaka Yuta (ep1)
Kawashima Umika as Fukada Yukino (ep2)
Otaka Hiroo as Fukada Yuzo (ep2)
Kato Kazuko as Fukada Akiko (ep2)
Kakazu Issei as Fukada Satoshi (ep2)
Konno Mahiru as Shibusawa Hitomi (ep3)
Yamazaki Shigenori as Shibusawa Keigo (ep3)
Matsuo Toshinobu as Kawano Hiroshi (ep3)
Minamino Yoko (ep4)
Maekawa Yasuyuki (ep4)
Kurosaka Mami (ep4)
Fukikoshi Mitsuru (ep5)
Asami Reina (ep5)
Nishio Mari (ep5)
Morisako Ei (ep6)
Izumi Masayuki (ep6)
Iriyama Noriko (ep6)
Eguchi Noriko (ep6)
Miyazaki Yoshiko (ep7)
Oginome Keiko (ep7)
Mikami Ichiro (三上市朗) (ep7)
Matsuoka Rinako (ep8)
Shishido Joe (ep8)
Hakamada Yoshihiko (ep8)
Yamaguchi Miyako (ep8)
Toji Takao (ep8)
Kato Masaya (ep9)
Yasoda Yuichi (八十田勇一) (ep9)
Otsuka Kazuhiko (大塚和彦) (ep9)
Fuku Matsumi (ふくまつみ) (ep9)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Yoshida Tomoko
Producers: Kato Masatoshi, Koizumi Mamoru (小泉守)
Director: Inomata Ryuichi
Music: Kanno Yugo
Kiina Photos :
Watch Kiina (キイナ) Episode 1 Video and Preview here
First Kiss Details
Title: ファースト・キス
Title (English): First Kiss
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 14.1 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2007-Jul-09 to 2007-Sep-17
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: Kokoro by Kazumasa Oda
First Kiss Synopsis, Story, and Preview :
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. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio's return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart.
First Kiss Cast and Starring :
Inoue Mao as Fukunaga Mio
Ito Hideaki as Kano Kazuki
Hiraoka Yuta as Yuki Akio
Matsuyuki Yasuko as Takagi Renko
Gekidan Hitori as Shindo Ichiryu
Abe Sadao as Nikaido Masaru
Takenaka Naoto as Banba Dai
Natsuki Mari as Fukunaga Rieko
Sakai Wakana as Saito Haruna
Warabino Tomoya as Shohata Takeo
Guests
Gashuin Tatsuya (ep1)
Marie (ep1)
Endo Yuya (ep2)
Kashiwabara Shuji (ep3)
Daito Shunsuke (ep5)
Watanabe Izumi (渡部いずみ) (ep5)
Iketani Nobue (池谷のぶえ) (ep6)
Shiba Toshio (ep6-10)
Sugawara Eiji (ep7)
Saito Yua (齊藤夢愛) (ep7-8)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
Producers: Wakamatsu Hiroki, Shikanai Tsugi
Directors: Takeuchi Hideki, Kawamura Yasuhiro (川村泰祐), Suzuki Kentaro (木健太郎)
Watch First Kiss Opening Theme song Kokoro by Kazumasa Oda
Proposal Daisakusen Details
Title: プロポーズ大作戦
Title (romaji): Proposal Daisakusen
Tagline: Operation Love
Genre: Romance
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Renzoku
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 17.3 (Kanto), 17.2 (Kansai)
Broadcast period: 2007-Apr-16 to 2007-Jun-25
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: Ashita Hareru Kana by Kuwata Keisuke
Insert song: Chiisana Koi no Uta by Mongol 800 (ep2, 8)
Proposal Daisakusen Synopsis, Story, and Preview :
Proposal Daisakusen is a touching, funny and beautiful romantic dorama about regret and having a 2nd chance to make things right. A young man Ken can only stand and watch as his childhood friend Rei is about to get married as he’s in love with her but he just hasn’t been able to tell Rei how he feels until a fairy gives him the chance to go back in time and change things around. Yamapi (Yamashita Tomohisa) and Masami Nagasawa are excellent in their roles but the chemistry and friendship of the main 5 characters are a joy to see. Apart from Abe Hiroshi, Yamapi is definitely one of my favourite Japanese male actors and he doesn’t disappoint in Proposal Daisakusen. He’s a gifted talented individual and Masami Nagasawa is delightful as his childhood friend Rei.
Iwase Ken and Yoshida Rei have been friends since elementary school. Ken, is obstinate and unskilled in love, but he fell long ago for the lively and cheerful, Rei. But Rei is about to get married to another man. While Ken and other friends from high-school attend the wedding ceremony, a fairy appears and sends Ken back in time, giving him a second chance to win the girl he loves.
Proposal Daisakusen Cast and starring :
Correlation Chart (Present Time, 2007)
Yamashita Tomohisa as Iwase Ken
Kitamura Kaito (third grade)
Nagasawa Masami as Yoshida Rei
Matsumoto Tamaki (third grade)
Hashimoto Kurumi (primary school)
Fujiki Naohito as Tada Tetsuya
Eikura Nana as Oku Eri
Hiraoka Yuta as Enokido Mikio
Hamada Gaku as Tsurumi Hisashi
Mikami Hiroshi as the Yosei/Fairy
Matsushige Yutaka as Ito Matsunori
Yamazaki Shigenori as Minorikawa Junzo
Morimoto Leo as Yoshida Takanori
Miyazaki Yoshiko as Yoshida Reina
Watabe Gota as Socrates
Hara Fumina as Matsuki Yuko
Kikuchi Kenichiro as Nishio Tamotsu
Traore Issa (トラオレ・イッサ) as the marathon runner
Takeuchi Tomoya (classmate)
Okawa Masahiro (classmate)
Arai Kenta (classmate)
Ikezawa Ayaka (classmate)
Masumoto Yuko (classmate)
Asakura Aki (classmate)
Kawakami Yu (classmate)
Guests
Sakai Toshiya as the taxidriver / staff of a university (ep1,5&11)
Toji Takao as the Koshien Umpire (ep1)
Sugiura Daisuke (杉浦大介) as Eri's boyfriend in highschool (ep1)
Minami Yoshihiro (南好洋) as the wedding receptionist (ep1)
Taira Chiharu (平良千春) as the wedding receptionist (ep1)
Matsumoto Rio as Cameron (ep3)
Hoshii Nanase as Nagase Misa (ep4)
Kobayashi Katsuya as Eri's boyfriend in College (ep5,6)
Natsuyagi Isao as Yoshida Futoshi (Rei's grandfather, ep5,10)
Hiwatashi Shinji (樋渡真司) as the post office clerk (ep6)
Horan Chiaki as Ito's friend (ep7)
Ogura Hisahiro as Chief Yasuda (ep9)
Shiina Taizo (椎名泰三) as President Kahata (ep9)
Hankai Kazuaki as the movie director (ep9)
Antonio Koinoki (アントニオ小猪木) as himself (ep10)
Doi Yoshio
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Kaneko Shigeki
Producers: Takiyama Madoka, Misao Reiko (三竿玲子)
Director: Narita Takeshi
Music: Yoshikawa Kei (吉川慶)
Watch Kuwata Keisuke - Ashita Hareru kana, the song of Proposal Daisakusen video
Tatta Hitotsu no Koi Details
Title: たったひとつの恋
Title (romaji): Tatta Hitotsu no Koi
Also known as: Just One Love / Love of my Life
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Drama, romance
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 11.61
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2006-Oct-14 to 2006-Dec-16
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Bokura no Machi de by KAT-TUN
Tatta Hitotsu no Koi Synopsis, Story, and preview
A story of pure love between the son of a man who runs a ship repair factory beset with financial troubles and the well-bred daughter of a national jewelry chain store owner. The backdrop of the story is Yokohama.
If you feel you have lost the purity of your soul by watching stories about womanizers seducing impudent women, or by carrying out calculated maneuvers in your own love life, here is a story for you. A boy and a girl from highly different social backgrounds meet and fall in love. Their love, of course, faces a lot of obstacles. The setting is in Yokohama, a modern port city known for its romantic atmosphere. Hiroto Kanzaki (Kazuya Kamenashi) works hard every day and night for the survival of a small ship repair factory (inherited from his father) as well as the survival of his mother and younger brother, who are suffering from health problems. Living such an underprivileged life, Hiroto has forgotten how to smile. In contrast to him, Nao (Haruka Ayase) is the daughter of a popular jewelry shop owner in a fashionable street in Yokohama. She attends a prestigious exclusive women's college and grew up cheerful and blessed with affluent love. From the moment Hiroto meets her, his closed mind slowly opens up to Nao, who is so innocent that she utters whatever she thinks. Their three close friends, who are also 20 year old's, play an important role in their developing relationship.
The scriptwriter is Eriko Kitagawa, who earned the nickname "The Goddess of Love Stories." This classic love story enables those who are in the same generation to feel empathy, or be envious of the characters' lives; and the rest, who were once 20 years old's, to reminisce about their own "Love of My Life."
Tatta Hitotsu no Koi Cast and starring :
Kamenashi Kazuya as Kanzaki Hiroto
Ayase Haruka as Tsukioka Nao
Tanaka Koki as Kusano Ko
Hiraoka Yuta as Ozawa Ayuta
Toda Erika as Motomiya Yuko
Kaname Jun as Tsukioka Tatsuya (Nao's brother)
Saito Ryusei as Kanzaki Ren (Hiroto's brother)
Zaitsu Kazuo as Tsukioka Yasuhiko (Nao's father)
Tanaka Yoshiko as Tsukioka Mitsuko (Nao's mother)
Yo Kimiko as Kanzaki Akiko (Hiroto's mother)
Oshima Yoko (works in Hiroto's factory)
Taguchi Hiromasa (works in Hiroto's factory)
Guests
Takahashi Mai as Yuki (ep4-5)
Namioka Kazuki as Yamashita (ep4-6)
Anan Kenji (ep7)
Ikeuchi Hiroyuki as Saito (ep7-10)
Wakaba Ryuya (ep10)
Hiraizumi Sei (ep10)
Yanagita Erika (ep10)
Kato Yoshika as Nao's friend
Akita Makoto
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Kitagawa Eriko
Producer: Nishi Norihiko
Director: Iwamoto Hitoshi
Music: Ike Yoshihiro
Episode Titles
Ep 01: Love across classes
Ep 02: Holding hands
Ep 03: We're through
Ep 04: My rage, your tears
Ep 05: You won't be around
Ep 06: Our secret
Ep 07: But, I...
Ep 08: Goodbye
Ep 09: We can definitely meet again
Ep 10: Just one love
Photos of Tatta Hitotsu no Koi
Watch Tatta Hitotsu no Koi -[MV] Precious One video here
