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Posted by HPriest TH STAFF Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Prime Time Drama Preview � Spring 2014

TH STAFF
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The spring season for dramas is just around the corner and as usual we want to give you a short overview of the upcoming prime time dramas. Maybe you haven't heard about all of them yet, so we hope that this little overview helps put 1 or 2 more dramas up on your radar for the upcoming season.

Please note that all of the information is only based on the what is currently known (as of April 6th) and that taiga drama, midnight and late-night dramas, as well as dramas that premiered during winter 2014 and dramas of premium/pay-TV networks are not included in this preview.

Check out the Prime Time Drama Preview for the Spring Season 2014 below!

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Monday
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White Lab

Subtitle: Keishichou Tokubetsu Kagaku Sousa Han
Title: ???????????????????
Start: April 14th / Time: 20:00 / Channel: TBS
Script: Masumoto Takuya ('ONE PIECE', 'Kodomo Keishi')
Cast: Kitamura Kazuki, Miyasako Hiroyuki, Yabu Kouta, Tanihara Shosuke, Wakui Emi, and more

Summary: An individualistic group of scientists, crime scene investigators, and police investigators team up for a new special unit nicknamed "White Lab" in order to solve complex cases.

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Gokuaku Ganbo

Title: ?????
Start: April 14th / Time: 21:00 / Channel: FUJI TV
Original: Tajima Takashi ('Kabachitare!') and Kochi Takahiro
Script: Izumi Yoshihiro ('Sailor Suit and Machine Gun', 'ROOKIES')
Cast: Ono Machiko, Shiina Kippei, Miura Shohei, Kobayashi Kaoru, Miura Tomokazu, Naka Riisa, Odagiri Joe, and more

Summary: A young woman that has been living in poverty ever since her childhood and hits the very bottom crawls back up from the underworld thanks to her strong fighting spirit.

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Tuesday
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Bitter Blood

Title: ????????
Start: April 15th / Time: 21:00 / Channel: FUJI TV
Original: Shizukui Shusuke ('Closed Note', 'Hannin ni Tsugu')
Cast: Sato Takeru, Watabe Atsuro, Takahashi Katsumi, Kutsuna Shiori, Fukikoshi Mitsuru, Tanaka Tetsushi, Minagawa Sarutoki, KEIJI, and more

Summary: A kindhearted and emotional rookie cop partners up with his eccentric playboy father and solves cases while being at loggerheads with him.

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Silent Poor

Title: ????????
Start: April 8th / Time: 22:00 / Channel: NHK
Script: Sagara Atsuko ('Single Mothers', 'Welkame')
Cast: Fukada Kyoko, Kitamura Yukiya, Sakuraba Nanami, Sakai Maki, Yamaguchi Sayaka, Watanabe Daichi, Kagawa Kyoko, Ichige Yoshie, Yonekura Masakane, and more

Summary: A community social worker who becomes a member of the Shitamachi Social Welfare Council guides his junior on how to help the "silent poor" - people who are suffering not only from economic poverty, but also from "invisible poverty", such as loneliness and isolation from society - and protect their beloved neighborhood.

Teaser on official website!


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Naruyouni Narusa Season 2

Title: ?????????
Start: April 22nd / Time: 22:00 / Channel: TBS
Script: Hashida Sugako ('Oshin', 'Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari')
Cast: Tachi Hiroshi, Asano Atsuko, Shida Mirai, Yasuda Shota, Konno Mahiru, Watanabe Misako, Minamisawa Nao, Inoo Kei, Izumi Pinko, and more

Summary: In the first season, the kitchen and living room of the Nagashima family got remodeled into a cafe restaurant. They took in people with various problems and dreams as employees to make up for the vacant space their sons left after moving out of the house. The three employees from the first season finally moved on with their lives and so the cafe restaurant is ready to take in another group of troubled young souls.

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Black President

Title: ???????????
Start: April 8th / Time: 22:00 / Channel: FUJI TV
Script: Ozaki Masaya ('Doubles', 'Umechan Sensei', 'Kekkon Dekinai Otoko')
Cast: Sawamura Ikki, Kuroki Meisa, Kuninaka Ryoko, Nagai Masaru, Shirakawa Yumi, and more

Summary: A shrewd company president who goes back to college to study economics in order to help grow his big enterprise of over 1,000 employees that started as a small apparel company even further. He enjoys the campus life to the fullest while his company is being indicted of being a black company that exploits its employees for maximum profits.

Teaser on official website!


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Wednesday
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TEAM

Subtitle: Keishichou Tokubetsu Hanzai Sousa Honbu
Title: TEAM?????????????
Start: April 16th / Time: 21:00 / Channel: TV ASAHI
Script: Yoshimoto Masahiro ('Mama wa Idol!', 'Mou Daremo Aisanai', 'Anata Dake Mienai', 'Mou Namida wa Misenai')
Cast: Ozawa Yukiyoshi, Tanabe Seiichi, Kamio Yu, Watanabe Ikkei, Tsukamoto Takashi, Nishida Toshiyuki, and more

Summary: The protagonist is an elite of the elite, one of the 10 directors of the First Division of the MPD who stands at the top against serious crimes such as murder and kidnapping. He gets things done and drives an investigation forward by force, even if sometimes that means to betray the actual victims or his fellow comrades. For him, justice stands above them all.

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Hanasaki Mai ga Damattenai

Title: ?????????
Start: April 16th / Time: 22:00 / Channel: NTV
Original: Ikeido Jun ('Soratobu Taiya', 'Shitamachi Rocket')
Cast: Anne, Kamikawa Takaya, Namase Katsuhisa, Osugi Ren, and more

Summary: A bank teller window employee with a strong sense of justice gets transferred to a different department at the headquarters where she has to settle problems such as incorrect payments and missing money at the bank's branch offices as soon as word gets out of such mistakes.

Teaser on official website!


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Smoking Gun ~ Ketteiteki Shouko

Title: SMOKING?GUN???????
Start: April 9th / Time: 22:00 / Channel: FUJI TV
Script: Sakai Masaaki ('Zettai Reido', 'Perfect Report')
Cast: Katori Shingo, Nishiuchi Mariya, Nakayama Yuma, Ando Tamae, Hamada Kokone, Suzuki Honami, Kurashina Kana, Issey Ogata, Tanihara Shosuke, and more

Summary: A former ace of crime scene investigations starts working at a private crime laboratory where he can be sloppy and untidy without having to deal with regulations of the police. There he can still use his excellent skills to help other people.

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Thursday
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Keiji 110 Kilo Season 2

Title: ??110??
Start: April 17th / Time: 20:00 / Channel: TV ASAHI
Cast: Ishizuka Hidehiko, Nakamura Shunsuke, Hoshino Mari, Ishimaru Kenjro, Jinnai Sho, Inoue Waka, Takeshita Keiko, Takahata Atsuko, and more

Summary: The sharp perception and reasoning capabilities that our protagonist has polished during his 20 years working at a police box has come to the attention of the director of the First Investigation Division who picked him to directly work under her in a special group of detectives.

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Ginnikan

Title: ???
Start: April 10th / Time: 20:00 / Channel: NHK
Original: Takada Kaoru
Script: Moriwaki Kyoko ('Danryu', 'Dandan')
Cast: Hayashi Kento, Matsuoka Mayu, Ashida Mana, Ishiguro Ken, Kazama Shunsuke, Shiomi Sansei, Tsugawa Masahiko, and more

Summary: A young samurai, who lost his father in an act of revenge, ends up being attacked himself, but the owner of a gelatin shop happens to be in the same place and saves him with two precious silver coins that he collected for the reconstruction of the Tenmangu shrine. He abandons the way of the samurai, changes his name and becomes the apprentice of the shop owner.

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BORDER

Title: BORDER
Start: April 10th / Time: 21:00 / Channel: TV ASAHI
Original & Script: Kaneshiro Kazuki ('GO', 'SP' series)
Cast: Oguri Shun, Aoki Munetaka, Haru, Endo Kenichi, Furuta Arata, Takito Kenichi, Nomaguchi Toru, Hamano Kenta, and more

Summary: A skilled yet insensitive detective of the First Investigation Division gets shot in the head. However, he miraculously gets revived despite his injuries and having been at the border towards death, he now has the special ability of being able to talk with the deceased, but only until their cremation.

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MOZU Season 1 ~Mozu no Sakebu Yoru~

Title: MOZU Season1????????
Start: April 10th / Time: 21:00 / Channel: TBS
Original: Osaka Go ('Kadisu no Akai Hoshi')
Script: Nishi Kosuke ('Galileo Season 2', 'Kagi no Kakatta Heya')
Cast: Nishijima Hidetoshi, Kagawa Teruyuki, Maki Yoko, Namase Katsuhisa, Yoshida Kotaro, Ito Atsushi, Arimura Kasumi, Ikematsu Sosuke, Hasegawa Hiroki, Ishida Yuriko, Kohinata Fumiyo, and more

Summary: The ace inspector of public safety police loses his wife in an explosion that happened at a shopping district. He is eager to find the culprit no matter the cost or the opposition of his superiors. However, he gradually bonds with his direct superior and another female police sergeant and together they get close to the truth behind that explosion that reaches all the way behind the scenes of the police itself. Who really is an ally and who is an enemy? (The 2nd season is going to air on WOWOW during the summer season.)

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Saigokara Nibanme no Koi Season 2

Title: ???????????
Start: April 17th / Time: 22:00 / Channel: FUJI TV
Script: Okada Yoshikazu ('Churasan', 'Nakuna Harachan')
Cast: Nakai Kiichi, Koizumi Kyoko, Sakaguchi Kenji, Uchida Yuki, Iijima Naoko, and more

Summary: Romance, friendship, work and other problems depicted by a charming group of adults. The sweet next-door relationship between our two protagonists continues where it let off after the first season.

Teaser on official website!


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Friday
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Maruho no Onna ~Hoken Hanzai Chousain~

Title: ??????????????
Start: April 11th / Time: 20:00 / Channel: TV TOKYO
Script: Hata Takehiko ('Dragon Zakura', 'Hokaben', 'Hidarime Tantei EYE')
Cast: Natori Yuko, Aso Yumi, Ukaji Takashi, and more

Summary: A wealthy rookie insurance investigator teams up with another female colleague who has an extraordinary memory and an incredible intuition. Together they even put the police investigators to shame when it comes to intelligence gathering in order to find out whether people lie to the insurance company.

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Alice no Toge

Title: ?????
Start: April 11th / Time: 22:00 / Channel: TBS
Script: Takahashi Maki ('Osen', 'Oh! My Girl!!')
Cast: Ueno Juri, Odagiri Joe, Kuriyama Chiaki, Nakamura Baijaku, and more

Summary: After losing her mother at a very young age and then losing her father, a pediatrics surgery professor, during an emergency operation after he suddenly collapsed, the protagonist had to live in an orphanage. One day she receives an anonymous letter that tells her that her father died due to a medical error and decides to get revenge on the university hospital and the person who operated on him.

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Shinigami-kun

Title: ????
Start: April 17th / Time: 23:15 / Channel: TV ASAHI
Original: Endo Koichi
Script: Hashimoto Hiroshi ('Shomuni', 'Water Boys', 'Juui Dolittle', 'Unmei no Hito')
Cast: Ohno Satoshi, Kiritani Mirei, Suda Masaki, Matsushige Yutaka, and more

Summary: A god of death usually only pronounces the death sentence to the person in line to die, persuades them not to commit suicide, and prevents unforeseen casualties that would disturb the order. The judgements of the new rookie god of death named #413 tend to lean towards humans and he actually urges them to keep on living depending on the situation, although it's their time to die, which is why his "boss" isn't too happy about his actions.


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Saturday
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Long Goodbye

Title: ?????????
Start: April 19th / Time: 21:00 / Channel: NHK
Original: Raymond Chandler
Script: Watanabe Aya ('Carnation')
Cast: Asano Tadanobu, Ayano Go, Koyuki, Furuta Arata, Emoto Akira, and more

Summary: A private detective undergoes a violent interrogation after he helped his friend, who becomes a murder suspect for killing his wife, escape to Taiwan. Then a mysterious lawyer tells him that his friend committed suicide as soon as he arrived in Taiwan. Now he is filled with doubts towards the media mogul and father of his allegedly dead friend's late wife, who hushed up the matter, and has to face the darkness that lies beyond this incident.

No teaser available yet.


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Yowakute mo Katemasu

Subtitle: Aoshi-sensei to Heppoko Koukoukyuuji no Yabou
Title: ??????????????????????????
Start: April 12th / Time: 21:00 / Channel: NTV
Original: Takahashi Hidemine
Script: Kuramochi Yutaka ('13-sai no Hello Work')
Cast: Ninomiya Kazunari, Aso Kumiko, Fukushi Sota, Arimura Kasumi, Nakajima Yuto, Ichikawa Ebizo, Yakushimaru Hiroko, and more

Summary: A Todai graduate, who has become a rookie teacher, starts working at a high-level school that sends many students to Todai every year. He is a composed character who can't leave things undone and eventually becomes the manager of the school's poor baseball club. With his extraordinary theory, he tries to gain a victory for the team and lead them to the finals at Koshien.

Teaser on official website!


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First Class

Title: ?????????
Start: April 19th / Time: 23:10 / Channel: FUJI TV
Script: Watanabe Chiho ('Akai Ito', 'Ikimo Dekinai Natsu', 'Saki')
Cast: Sawajiri Erika, Nakamaru Yuichi, Sasaki Nozomi, Nanao, Hirayama Hiroyuki, Miura Rieko, Itaya Yuka, and more

Summary: A young and ambitious woman from Tochigi goes to Tokyo in order to achieve her dream of working in the fashion industry. At first she starts working at a simple clothing material shop, but soon she ends up in the editorial department of the famous fashion magazine "First Class". However, reality isn't as beautiful as she has always imagined.

No teaser available yet.


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Sunday
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Roosevelt Game

Title: ???????????
Start: April 27th / Time: 21:00 / Channel: TBS
Original: Ikeido Jun ('Soratobu Taiya', 'Shitamachi Rocket')
Script: Yatsu Hiroyuki ('Hanzawa Naoki', 'Sugarless')
Cast: Karasawa Toshiaki, Dan Rei, Ishimaru Kanji, Tatekawa Danshun, Eguchi Yosuke, Yamazaki Tsutomu, and more

Summary: A management consultant suddenly gets promoted to managing director by the company's president and founder, which earns him a lot of enemies among those who were actually expecting to get the promotion themselves. Moreover the company is on the verge of bankruptcy due to the intense competition. Will he be able to save the company?

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