Cast: Kimura Takuya, Matsu Takako,
Producer: Wada Kou
Writer: Ootake Ken, Fukuda Yasushi
Network: Fuji TV Click here for official site
Showtime: Monday nights at 9 pm, starting January 8
Kimura is a public prosecutor from the Aomori District Court who has been transferred south to serve the cause of justice among Tokyo's elite. He never graduated from high school but managed to pass the bar exams to qualify. Kimura's maverick approach leads him to behave in ways that are alien to his more conventional colleagues, including career climber, Matsu Takako. But his lack of professionalism is countered by his achievements, and she is slowly won over to his approach. Interesting subplots involving legal intrigues and courtroom dramas.
Cast: Takizawa Hideaki, Fukada Kyoko, Kubozuka Yosuke, Uchiyama Rina, Ishida Yuriko
Producer: Ito Kazuhiro; Director: Doi Nobuhiro, Matsubara Hiroshi
Writer: Nojima Shinji
Network: TBS Click here for official site
Showtime: Friday nights at 10 pm, starting January 12
Theme of the drama will be unrequited love, taking place within a high school setting. Takizawa Hideaki is a loner who is withdrawn into his own world, but after meeting Fukada Kyoko, a brash and upfront girl who believes in grasping at everything life has to offer, he starts to become drawn to her. But his love is doomed to be unrequited, as Fukada Kyoko turns out to be his step-sister and in love with someone else...
Cast: Tokiwa Takako, Fukatsu Eri, Jinnai Takanori, Okada Yoshinori, Shinohara Ryoko, Yamashita Tomohisa
Producer: Yamaguchi Masatoshi
Director: Takeuchi Hideki
Writer: Oomori Mika
Network: Fuji TV Click here for official site
Showtime: Thursday nights at 10 pm, starting January 11
Story revolves around two females (Tokiwa Takako and Fukatsu Eri) with very different outlooks on life. Tokiwa Takako plays a character who take things as they come, and her mute acceptance and lack of fighting spirit frustrates Fukatsu Eri, a strong person who refuses to be defeated by circumstances and believes in asserting her rights.
Cast: Uchida Yuki, Kashiwabara Takashi, Sakai Maki, Taguchi Hiromasa, Kurotani Tomoka, Nogiwa Yoko
Network: TBS Click here for official site
Showtime: Friday nights at 9 pm, starting January 12
Based on the manga, where Uchida Yuki works at the tour desk in Narita airport, and helps travel-worn passengers with hotel and travel bookings. Unlike most people in her position, she is all fired up with enthusiasm, but on her very first day at the Big Wing company, her willingness to help leads her into all sorts of trouble...
Cast: Oda Yuji, Yusuke Santamaria, Ichikawa Somegoro
Network: Fuji TV Click here for official site
Showtime: Wednesday nights at 9 pm, starting January 10
Story evolves from the chance meeting of three typical salarymen in their 30's. Oda works at a travel agency but harbours the dream of going into space, after having watched Stanley Kubrick's 2001 during his school-days. Yusuke works in the food business while Somegoro is an elite businessman - and the three meet as a result of an accident in the ball-park and become friends.
Cast: Kanno Miho, Tanabe Seiichi, Oshio Manabu, Katase Nana
Director: Nakajima Satoru
Writer: Noe Miyuki
Network: Fuji TV Click here for official site
Showtime: Tuesday nights at 10 pm, starting January 23
Storyline seems similar to Yamaguchi Tomoko's "29-sai no Christmas", in which Kanno Miho is dumped by her boyfriend on Christmas eve in the year 2000, and she makes a resolution to find happiness in the coming 2001 year.
Cast: Nakai Masahiro, Takeuchi Yuko, Kamikawa Takaya, Hara Sachie
Network: TBS Click here for official site
Showtime: Sunday nights at 9 pm, starting January 14
Aiken Roshinante no Sainan - Mukai Ryuuta no Doubutsu Nikki
(The Disaster of My Dog Roshinante - Mukai Ryuuta's Animal Diary)
Cast: Domoto Tsuyoshi, Mizuno Maki, Ogata Ken, Abe Natsumi, Akiyama Jun, Kitamura Soichiro
Network: NTV Click here
for official site
Showtime: Saturday nights at 9 pm
Starts January 13
Cast: Mizuno Miki, Tomosaka Rie, Ito Hideaki, Sato Aiko
Network: Fuji TV Click here for official site
Showtime: Tuesday nights at 9 pm
Starts January 9
Wakaresaseya
Cast: Murakami Rikako, Okina Megumi, Nakamura Shunsuke, Nogiwa Yoko, Watase Tsunehiko, Naitou Takashi
Network: YTV Click here for official site
Showtime: Monday nights at 10 pm
Starts January 8