Ace wo Nerae!

Ace wo Nerae!

Disc(s): 4dvd

Tagline (English): Aim for the Ace!
Genre: Sports, human drama
Episodes: 9

Synopsis

“Ace”, an all time favorite comic book that sold 15 million copies is finally dramatized! A positive success story of an ordinary high school girl who gradually discovers her hidden talent of tennis through severe trainings designed by her strict coach. Can she every become an “Ace” tennis player?

Hiromi Oka decides to join the high school tennis club from the moment she saw the star player Reika’s (Matsumoto) excellent and smashing play. However, once the tennis lesson began, Hiromi finds herself bored in the succession of simple practice swings. One day, Munakata becomes appointed as the new head coach of the tennis team. His special training was nothing but original, extreme, and severe. In addition, he suddenly chose Hiromi, a tennis beginner, to be the member of the up coming tennis tournament Not only Hiromi, but also her teammates become confused and take the odd situation unfair. Jealousy of her friends and teammates mounted, and they started to talk behind her back. Finally, Hiromi decides to leave the team and run away from the uncomfortable reality, but the coach strongly refused. Instead, he gave her an even more severe and personalized training.

Cast

Ueto Aya as Oka Hiromi
Yoshizawa Hisashi as Todo Takayuki
Matsumoto Rio as Ryuzaki Reika
Sakai Ayana as Midorikawa Ranko
Ishigaki Yuma as Ozaki Yu
Kashiwabara Shuji as Chiba Takashi
Kaneko Sayaka as Otowa Kyoko
Morita Ayaka as Aikawa Maki
Uchino Masaaki as Munakata Jin
Becky as Houriki Saiko
Takahashi Katsumi
Takahashi Hitomi
Komoto Masahiro
Natsuyagi Isao

CHANGE

CHANGE

Disc(s): 4dvd
Genre: Human drama, politics
Episodes: 10

Synopsis

With the deaths of ruling party’s Fukuoka Member of Parliament and his eldest son, his heir apparent, in an plane accident, a by-election had to be held right away and, Kanbayashi Masaichi, the House secretary of the ruling party,conceived the idea of fielding the second son, Asakura Keita, and sent his secretary Miyama Rika to complete the task.

Keita was an elementary school teacher in Nagano and his hobby was star gazing.He had no interest in politics. At Rika’s persuasion and the pressure of his family, he reluctantly agreed to run for office but with no intention of winning. However, with the help of Nirasawa Katsutoshi, an election strategist, he went on to win by a narrow margin of just 164 votes.

When the Prime Minister was forced to resign over allegation of sexual harrassment, Kanbayashi concocted the idea of nominating the inept Keita to run for the party’s leadership and thereby becoming the next Prime Minister as he thought it would be easy to manipulate him and work the situation to his own advantage so he would become the next PM when Keita failed. However, the sincerity and hard work of Keita soon won over every sceptic and as Kanbayashi found out, he was not a puppet on his strings. Kanbayashi had to come up with another scheme to destroy Keita. How far would he go to realize his ambition? Could he succeed?

Cast

Kimura Takuya as Asakura Keita
Fukatsu Eri as Miyama Rika
Terao Akira as Kanbayashi Shoichi
Abe Hiroshi as Nirasawa Katsutoshi
Kato Rosa as Miyamoto Hikaru
Horiuchi Keiko as Tsukioka Rumiko
Kazama Morio as Kondo Mitsuki
Nakamura Atsuo as Onoda Asao
Kouyama Shigeru as Nihei Sakae
Obayashi Takeshi as Kakiuchi Tatsuhiko
Ishiguro Ken as Ubukata Tsuneo
Fuji Sumiko as Asakura Takae
Nishimura Masahiko as Momosaka Tetsuya
Hiraizumi Sei as Gunji Hideo
Yajima Kenichi as Nishi Seiji
Suzuki Kosuke as Akiyama Taro Kansuke
Ohkura Koji as Danbara Dan

Awards

12th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Spring 2008): Best Drama
12th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Spring 2008): Best Actor – Kimura Takuya
57th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actor: Kimura Takuya

Beautiful Life

Beautiful Life

Disc(s): 4dvd
Genre: Romance, human drama
Episodes: 11

Synopsis

Kyoko, a young woman with an unhindered spirit despite being physically bound to a wheelchair due to illness, and Shuji, a stylish and popular fashion magazine hairstylist, are brought together in a fateful traffic incident. Despite their confrontational meeting, they soon find themselves falling in love, with Shuji drawn to her courage and enthusiasm and Kyoko attracted to his ability to look beyond her physical limitations and into her heart. However, Kyoko’s protective older brother and her worsening condition begin to test the bounds of their love for each other and threaten to end their beautiful life together.

Cast

Kimura Takuya as Okishima Shuji (Hairstylist at Hot Lip)
Tokiwa Takako as Machida Kyoko (Librarian)
Watabe Atsuro as Machida Masao (Kyoko’s brother)
Mizuno Miki as Tamura Sachie (Kyoko’s colleague & friend)
Ikeuchi Hiroyuki as Okabe Takumi (Hairstylist at Hot Lip, Shuji’s friend)
Hara Chiaki as Ozawa Mayumi (Hairstylist at Hot Lip, Shuji’s ex-girlfriend)
Nishikawa Takanori as Kawamura Satoru (Hairstylist at Hot Lip)
Matoba Koji as Miyama Kouzou (Volunteer)
Moro Morooka as Tsuchiya (Owner of Hot Lip)
Koyuki as Nakajima Satsuki (Shuji’s ex-girlfriend)
Omori Akemi as Machida Kuniko (Kyoko’s mother)
Kawarazaki Kenzo as Machida Yoshio (Kyoko’s father)
Katagiri Hairi

Awards

24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Drama
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actor: Kimura Takuya
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actress: Tokiwa Takako
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor: Watabe Atsuro
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting: Actress: Mizuno Miki
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Newcomer: Nishikawa Takanori
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Screenwriter: Kitagawa Eriko
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Director: Shono Jiro
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Theme Song
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Cast
24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Opening

Akai Ito

Akai Ito

Disc(s): 2dvd
Genre: Romance, human drama
Episodes: 11

Synopsis

The story was one of the best-selling novels of 2007, it revolves around the “red thread of fate” connecting the young pair Mei and Atsushi and the trials they face

Cast

Minamisawa Nao as Takemiya Mei
Miyatake Mio as young Mei
Mizobata Junpei as Nishino Atsushi (A-kun)
Sawaki Ruka as young Atsushi
Kimura Ryo as Takahashi Riku (Taka-chan)
Okamoto Rei as Yamagishi Mia
Ishibashi Anna as Tadokoro Mami
Sakuraba Nanami as Nakagawa Sara
Yanagishita Tomo as Fujiwara Natsuki (Natsu)
Suzuki Kasumi as Nakanishi Yuri
Tajima Ryo as Kamiya Mitsuru (Mitsu)
Iwata Sayuri as Takemiya Haruna
Yazaki Hiroshi as Shinozaki Yuya
Hirata Kaoru as Kawaguchi Miyabi
Yamada Gilson as Koota
Wakaba Ryuya as Yasuda Shu
Hayashi Kazuyoshi as Takahashi Tadaaki
Suzuki Kosuke as Dr. Ota
Yashiba Toshihiro as Inoue (homeroom teacher)
Hamada Manabu as Ishikawa Haruo
Yamaguchi Sayaka as Ishikawa Machiko
Matsuda Kenji as Murakoshi Koichi
Yamamoto Mirai as Nishino Natsumi
Ogi Shigemitsu as Morisaki Takamichi
Komoto Masahiro as Takemiya Toshihisa
Watanabe Noriko as Takemiya Sachiko

Sorry i love you

Sorry i love you

Disc(s): 4DVD

Genre : Human drama, romance
Main Casts : So Ji-seop, Lim Su-jeong, Chung Kyeong-ho, Suh Ji-young
Total Episodes : 16 eps

Synopsis

“A Story about Extreme, Death-Defying Love”

- This is a really sad love story.”Sorry, I Love You” is a story about Cha Mu-hyeok (So Ji-seop), who faces death everyday with two bullets stuck in the head, and Song Eun-chae (Lim Su-jeong), whose chance encounter with him develops into an extreme love affair.

- “Sorry, I Love You” begins with a man’s fight for revengeCha Mu-hyeok is a show business manager who plans to take his revenge on his birth mother for having abandoned him. After being abandoned by his mother, he was adopted by an Australian family at the age of two. He, however, left his foster home when he was 10 because of his adopted parents’ ill treatment. He is a man making a living as a henchman of a street gang, a pimp, or a drug pusher.

- “Sorry, I Love You” is a story about an extreme love affair of two men and a womanThough he has been hit with bullets in the head, Cha Mu-hyeok insists on going to Korea to see his birth mother determined to die in his birth country. Contrary to his belief that she abandoned him for poverty, his birth mother turns out to be a top movie star and his twin brother also a top star. In a plot to revenge himself on his mother, Mu-hyeok volunteers to work for his twin brother, Choi Yun (Chung Kyeong-ho), as his manager in a bid to run him. In the process, Mu-hyeok falls in deep love with Yun’s program coordinator, Song Eun-chae.

Cast

So Ji-seop
Cha Mu-hyeokMu-hyeok is a man like a wild dog. He has a rough manner and is full of vigor, but deep down he is quite nice in his love that nobody could imagine.

Lim Su-jeong
Song Eun-chaeEun-chae is a tender-hearted woman unbound to custom. She is destined to be in pathetic love between Cha Mu-hyeok and Choi Yun.

Chung Kyeong-ho
Choi YunChoi Yun is a top pop singer who loves both Kang Min-ju, a pop diva, and Song Eun-chae, his own program coordinator.

Suh Ji-young
Kang Min-juWhen she was young, Min-ju saw her mother dumped by her father. Since then, she has trusted no man. Man is nothing else but a game to her. On the contrary, she falls in love with Cha Mu-hyeok, but is dumped after she is taken advantage of.