Name |
Cast |
Rating
(5-pt. system) |
Aired |
Synopsis |
| LIPSTICK |
Mikami
Hiroshi
Hirosue Ryoko
Ishida Issei
Nakamura Aimi |
|
Apr-Jun
1999 |
A drama
about rebellious youths... Hirosue Ryoko stars as a girl sent to a correctional center and
has to learn to deal with the rough crowd incarcerated in there. Meanwhile, she
finds unexpected support from the officer there (Mikami Hiroshi)... I'm told it is a very
depressing drama, and as the cast does not really appeal to me (I'm not a big fan of
Hirosue), I probably will not get around to watching it for a long long time... |
| LONG VACATION 
|
Kimura
Takuya
Yamaguchi Tomoko
Takenouchi Yutaka
Matsu Takako
Inamori Izumi
Hirosue Ryoko |
5.0 |
Apr-Jun 1996 |
One of the
all-time great classics!! The only problem is if you happen to hear all the hype, you may
find the first couple of episodes rather slow-going. Although there's no real
"action" per se, for some reason, the show grabs you from about the third
episode onwards, and you simply don't want to stop watching. It's got an all-star cast
too, so there's every reason to watch it! For those of you who missed out on the plot,
it's about a 29-yr old girl (Yamaguchi Tomoko) who gets ditched at the alter and meets
KimuTaku (her ex-fianc?s roommate) and circumstances force Yamaguchi Tomoko to move in
with KimuTaku and they start to develop a deep (albeit prickly) friendship. Matsu Takako
is KimuTaku's love interest, but Matsu Takako is attracted to Yamaguchi Tomoko's younger
brother, Takenouchi Yutaka. Read episode synopsis
(Nipolina) |
| LOVE GENERATION 
|
Kimura
Takuya
Matsu Takako
Fujiwara Norika
|
3.5 |
Oct-Dec 1997 |
This drama
is often twinned with other classics like LV, but personally speaking. I found LV to be
WAY superior. The story is basically about single people lleading ordinary
salaried lives living it out in the big city. Matsu Takako and Kimura Takuya meet
each other on the railroad tracks one night after both are too late to catch the last
train. They end up working in the same office, and eventually start going out with
each other, but KimuTaku is still in love with his ex-girlfriend, who is about to get
married to his elder brother. Read the episode
synopsis (C.J. Morikai) |
| LOVE STORY 
|
Nakayama Miho
Toyokawa Estushi
Kato Haruhiko
Katori Shingo
Yuka
|
|
Apr-Jun 2001 |
Nakayama Miho is assigned to be the book editor to a famous
novelist, Etsushi Toyokawa, who is a former best-selling author who has writer’s
block and hasn’t published anything for two years. He is a proud, difficult man who
has gone through many editors and Misaki soon angers Koh who fires her. But Misaki begins
to visit Koh's apartment to get him to write. She gets to know his neighbours like budding
illustrator, Shingo Katori, who lives next door and Yuka, who is a big fan of Toyokawa who
followed him to the capital and now works in the Sunset Cafe in the apartment building.
|