Japanese dramas or Doramas
as referred to by some are different from anime. For one thing they run in hour
time slot instead of a half hour ones. They run for10 to 12 episodes with a
definite ending, or at least that use to be the case. Lately I’ve seen some
shows running for more that 12 episodes as well as spawning second series.
Interest seems to have picked up in Dormas as well.
There are tons of new subtitled releases coming out.
I’ve added a few
Quality Rating is for video only and is very
subjective. Normally for other problems (i.e. audio or subtitles), I’ll add a
note describing the problem.
My Rating is my opinion on the show. i.e. a 5 rating means I really like the show and 1 rating
means I hated the show. So far I haven’t found a show I hated or even disliked.
For shows with a ??? under My
Rating, it means I haven’t watch the show yet.
For more info on Dorama
check out John Leo’s Renzoku Ren'ai
Dorama http://www.halfaya.org/dorama/renzoku.html
24hrs. Emergency Ward II 1-12 (6 tapes)

A
Little More Time (12 episodes total)
Kamisama, mou Sukoshi
Dake
Digital Remastered (1-6 by Blackdeath Studios) 7-12 (5 tapes total)
Quality Episodes 1-6 (-4), Episodes 7-12 (-2)
My Rating: 5
Description: This
a traject dorama
about a young high school girl who contracts the AIDS virus from doing
prostitution. A really great dorama
which is probably my favorite so far.
Starring: Kaneshiro Takeshi, Fukada
Kyoko, Nakama Yukie, Kato Haruhiko & Miyazawa Rie
Akimahende 1-11 (6 tapes)
A Measure of
Time 1-2 (1 tape)
Arrange
Marriage 1-2 (1 tape)
A Star no Koi (A Star Love) 1-10 (5 tapes)

A
Step into the Past
Episodes: 1-8 (4 tapes)
Quality: 4
My Rating: ???
Description: Drama based on
a novel by Huang Yi. First set in modern day
Starring: ???
Bakuyu Sentai Rangers 1-2 (1 tape)


Beautiful
Live (13 episodes total)
1-13/Oyaji 1 (7 tapes total)
Episodes: 1-11 (6 tapes) digital versions 12-13 (1
tape)
Quality Episodes 1-2 (4) Episodes 3+ (2/3)
My Rating: 3+
Description: Beautiful Life (futari de ita hibi)
Pretty-boy actor Kimura Takuya and soap
queen Tokiwa Takako join
forces in this highly rated new series. A bike-riding hair stylist meets a
wheelchair-bound woman who refuses to let her disabilities prevent her from
enjoying life. Neither gets a good first impression of the other. But as Shuji watches Kyoko deftly handle her job at the library,
and as Kyoko notices that Shuji doesn't treat her any
differently from other girls, their impressions improve.
Starring: Kimura Takuya, Tokiwa Takako, Mizuno Miki, Ikeuchi
Hiroyuki, Matoba Koji, Watabe
Atsuro
Beauty or
Beast 1-10 (5 tapes)

Be
Nice to People
Episodes: 1-11 (6 tapes)
Quality: 4
My Rating: 4-
Description: Three guys Qiantian Qian, Shantian Tailang and Daping Quan were known as the
toughest dudes in
Starring: Shingo Katori (Qiantian Qian), Mitsuru Matsuoka (Shantian
Tailang), Koji Kato (Daping
Quan), Kenta Suga (Wushilan Ming)

Brand
(11 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-11 (6 tapes)
Quality: 4-
My Rating: 3
Description: When the company tells Midori that she is worn out and to
take a week off, she has not yet quite absorbed that, at 35, she has become so
patently efficient at her job that she may be on her way out the door.
While floundering about looking for something to do with all that time, she
finds herself in front of the monkey compound at the zoo, where she runs into Koichiro. He has one year left of the three-year reprieve
he talked his father into giving him before he must return to his assigned cage
in the iemoto system, and he has just unsuccessfully
applied for a job at the zoo. His father has also chosen a fiance
for him, a traditional woman who is patiently awaiting his return.
Starring: Imai Miki & Eisaku Yoshida
Bright Girl
1-2 (1 tape)


Cheap
Love
Episodes: 1-6 (3 tapes)
Quality Rating: 4
My Rating: 3
Description: Cheap Love (Chiipu Rabu) Junichi is a
scout for a hostess bar. He's been at the job for seven years, but he's too
softhearted to be a real success. Junichi and Nanami,
a music teacher, have a disastrous first meeting. However, by the fourth time
they bump into each other, Nanami begins to see Junichi
as the man who just might save her from a mediocre life.
Starring: Sorimachi Takeshi, Tsuruta Mayu, Sawamura Ikki and Naito Takeshi
Chou Seishin Gransazer 1-20 (4 tapes)
Condor Heroes
95 1-4 (HK Drama) (2 tapes)
Dai Rangers
1-5 (1 tape)
Dekichatta Kekkan
Shotgun Marriage
Episodes: 1-8 (4 tapes)
Quality Rating: 3-
My Rating: ???
Description: Ryoko Hirosue stars as Chiyo, 20, a department store clerk, whose first encounter
with Ryunosuke (Yutaka Takenouchi),
30, a carefree bachelor friend of her sister's, leads
to a pregnancy.
Starring: Takenouchi Yutaka, Hirosue Ryoko, Katase Nana, Abe Hiroshi, Ishida Yuriko

Delicious
Relations (10 episodes total)
Oishii Kankei
Episodes: 1-10 (5 tapes total)
Quality 3
My Rating: 3+
Description: Oishii Kankei
(Delicious Relationship) is one of my favroite
Japanese Dramas. It aired in the fall season of 1996 on the Fuji Network. It
deals with a woman named Momoe (Nakayama Miho) whos life has changed after the death of her father and an
encounter at a restauraunt named Petit Lapin meaning
Little Rabbit
Starring: Momoe Fujiwara
played by Nakayama Miho Oda played by Karasawa Toshiaki Head Chef of Petit Lapin with Starring Inamura Kanako played by Iijima Naoko, Kazuma Kimura
played by Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Takahashi Kaoru played
by Takuma Shin Chef of Amour also Oda's rival an Mori
played by Morimoto Leo Owner of Petit Lapin Father of Yumi
and Midorikawa Yoko as Yumi.
Farewell Firefly 1-6 (3 tapes)
Fighting Girls 1-2 (1 tape)
Files of Young Kindachi
III 1-6 (3 tapes)


aka Farewell from the Witches (11 episodes total)
Majo No Jouken
Episodes: 1-11 (6 tapes total) includes Love
Generation 1
Quality 4
My Rating: 4
Staring: Matsushima Nanako, Takizawa Hideaki, Bessho
Tetsuya, Nishida Naomi, Shirokawa Yumi
Info Aired in
Description: Michi, a
26-year-old high school math teacher, is dissatisfied with her everyday
existence. Hikaru is a student who has just
transferred from another school. Attraction turns to love, and soon a witch
hunt of sorts begins as Michi is attacked for her
“shocking” behavior.
Friends Movie (1 tape)
Gate of Destiny Movie (2 VCDs)

The
Glass Slipper (13 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-12b (7 tapes total) includes Refrain 1
Quality 4- (slight buzz in soundtrack)
My Rating: 3+
Description: The classic fairy tale of Cinderella comes alive in the
Nineties, but this time, with a little twist. Toru, the heir to a large apparel
company, falls in love with a beautiful librarian named Natsu.
Natsu's brother is a shoemaker whose livelihood
depends on Toru's firm. Toru asks Natsu to marry him,
but his mean stepmother interferes, making life miserable for Natsu and her brother. Throw in a mean sister, a best
friend-turned-traitor, a struggling artist-turned- blackmailer, and a fateful
pair of Ferragamo shoes and you have all the
ingredients for an unforgettable love story.
Starring: Kato Noriko,
Sano Shiro, Hosaka Naoki, Toyohara Kosuke, Tanaka Ritsuko & Kuroda Fukumi
Go 1-2 (1 tape)
Golden Bowl 1-10 (5 tapes)
Good Luck 1-8 (4 tapes)

GTO Great Teacher Onizuka
(12 episodes total)
TV 1-12
& Movie (7 tapes total)
Qaulity 4
My Rating: 5
Description: Eiji Onizuka, a graduate from a
third-grade university and a gangster head, has always wanted to be a great teacher.
An opportunity has came when a school is short of a
teacher and he happens to get employed! Although his gangster status and
attitude create lots of headaches for many, his warmth towards teaching
gradually touchs them and gains their acceptance.
Starring: Sorimachi Takash


Heaven Cannot Wait (11 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-2 (1
tape)
Quality: 2
My Rating: ???
Description: Heaven
Cannot Wait (Tengoku ni Ichiban Chikai Otoko) Tendo Yoshimi is the
farthest thing from an angel you can think of. Dressed in black from head to
toe, he loves to tease and often acts rashly. He can work neither magic nor
miracles. So, why should a down-on-himself pessimist like Shiro
believe him when Tendo predicts he will die if he
doesn’t complete the tasks set out for him? Starring Jinnai Takanori,
Matsuoka Masahiro, Okina Megumi.
Starring: Jinnai Takanori, Matsuoka Masahiro & Okina
Megumi


Heaven's
Coin (12 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-12 (6 tapes total)
Qualtiy 4
My Rating: 4-
Description: Following on the heels of the popular drama series,
"Say You Love Me," KIKU-TV brings to
Starring:
Heaven’s Coin III 1-10 (5 tapes)

Hero Episodes (11 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-11 (6
tapes)
Quality: 4-
My Rating: 4
Description: Kuriyu Kouhei isn’t the picture perfect Prosecuting Attorney. He looks
more like a member of a jpop band,
however that doesn’t mean he isn’t competent and hardworking. Kuriyu will get his man, but he’ll ruffle quite a few
feathers getting him.
Starring: Kimura
Takuya and
Home & Away 1-10 (5 tapes)

Icy
World (11 episodes total)
Koori
no Sekai
Episodes: 1-11 (6 tapes total)with
Long Vaction 11-12
Quality 2
My Rating: 5
Description: A who done it that
will keep you thinking it could just about anyone in the cast. One of my
favorite shows as you can see by my rating.
Starring: Takenouchi Yutaka, Matsushima Nanako, Nakamura Toru, Uchida Yuki, Kaneko Ken, Katase Nana
I want to be in Love 1-4 (2 tapes)
Kairo Movie (2 VCDs)
Kamen
Rider 555
Episodes
1-40 (7 tapes)
Quality 4-
My Rating:
3+
Description: This is
your typical Good Guy in a power suit versus an evil organization. Except that
the good guys aren’t that likable. There’s allot reluctance in the main
character to even be a Kamen Rider and he has a cat’s
tongue, which makes the brunt of allot jokes. You can actually sympathize with
some of the bad guys. For a Tokusatsu (Special
Effects) show, this one isn’t too bad.
Kamen Rider Ryuki 1-5 (1 tape)
Kintaro 3-4
Kyoryou Kyoushi 1-4 (2 tape)


Le Bel Homme (10 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-10 (5
tapes)
Quality Rating:
4 (sounds is petty bad in episode 1, haven’t watch beyond that, so ?)
My Rating:
3+
Description: Beauty
(Utsukushii Hito) Misaki Kyosuke is a plastic
surgeon who lost his violinist wife four years previously in an accident while
she was on tour. His only wish now is to live a quiet life and watch his
teenage daughter grow up. He is faced, one day, with a moral dilemma when a
young woman comes to him for surgical help
Starring: Tamura
Masakazu, Tokiwa Takako, Morishita Aiko and Osawa Takao
Love Complex 1-2 (1tape)
Love & Fight
Episodes: 1-2 (1
tape)
Quality
Rating: 4
My Rating: ???
Description: "Koi wa Tatakai (Love is a battle/Love & Fight)" is a sort of Japanese version of popular American TV show "Sex and the City". One of the star in this Japanese version is Manami Hounjou (27). The story itself is a light-hearted romantic comedy and will revolve around unsuccessful love affairs and the straightforward way Honjou and the other women discuss their feelings. In the Japanese version, Honjou plays the part of a divorced freelance writer named Hanako Takamori
Starring: ???

Long
Vacation (12 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-11b (6 tapes total) with Koori no Sekai
Quality 2-
My Rating: 4
Starring: Sena Hidetoshi played by Takuya Kimura, Minami Hayama played by Tomoko Yamaguchi, Shinji Hayama, "Animal" played by Yutaka Takenouchi, Momoko Koishikawa played by Izumi Inamori,
Ryoko Okusawa played by Takako Matsu, Rumiko, Ru played by Ryo, Sugizaki played
by Kyosuke Toyohara and
Saito Takako played by ryoko
hirosue.
Description: Long Vacation is one of my favroite
Japanese Dramas. It aired in the spring season of 1996 on the Fuji Network. It
deals with a woman named Minami (Yamaguchi Tomoko) whos
life has changed after the disappearance of her soon to be husband Askura. While looking for her husband at hi old apartment
she meets a pianist named Sena (Takuya Kimura).

Love
Generation (11 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-11 (7 tapes total) with Farewell from the
Witches 11
Quality 4-
My Rating: 4
Staring Kimura Takuya, Matsu Takako, Uchino Masaaki, Junna Risa, Fujiwara Norika, Kawabata Ryuuta, Itsutsu Shinsuke, Hirata Mitsuru.
Info Aired in
Description: Story about the
relationship between Teppei Katagiri
(Kimura) and Riko Uesugi (
Love Concerto Movie (1 tape)
Marmalade Boy 1-6 (3 tapes) (HK Drama)
Matter of Customs (HK Drama)
Episodes
1-10 & 13-28 (13 tapes)
Quality: 4
My Rating: ???
Description: ???
Starring: ???


Merry Christmas in Summer
Episodes
1-10 (10 VCDs)
Quality: 3
My Rating: ???
Description: A boy and a girl grow up in an orphanage in
Starring: Takenouchi Yutaka, Nakatani
Miki, Kato Ai and Sugimoto Tetta

Meteor Garden II (HK Drama)
Episodes: 1-16 (8
tapes)
Quality: 4
My Rating: ???
Description: This
is a modern Cinderella story except for the fact that there is no wicked
stepmother and stepsisters. Instead, there is a very complicated and confusing
relationship between the female and male leads.The
female lead, Shan Cai, is a very strong and generous girl
who often stands up for her friends. However, when she enters Ying De
University, she becomes meek and tries to keep a low profile. That is because
in Ying De, there are four bullies who call themselves F4.
Starring: ???
Meteor Rain 1-3 & Extra (2 tapes)
Monkey King (HK Drama)
Episodes: 1-16 (8
tapes)
Quality: 3
My Rating:???
Description: The prodigy of the heavens, the
nemesis of the demon world, the saint of the universe
- Monkey King (Dicky Cheung) has been chosen to go to
the Xizhuang to retrieve the "Sanzhuang Sutras" in order to save the universe from a
forthcoming disaster and to rid the world of demons in the service of the gods.
In the heavenly palace Monkey meets Najia (Jimmy Lin)
and the two become an odd couple. One day Monkey wreaks havoc in the palace and
is punished by having to consider his actions for 500 years. The only way he
can be saved is to accompany Tang Sanzhuang (Edmond
Leung) to the west and retrieve the Sutra. On the way there Sanzhuang
adopts the White Dragon Horse (Andy Hui), Sandy (Sam
Li) and Piggy (Eric Kot) as disciples and the five travel together. Along the route they meet many demons and
spirits sent by the demon king and much hardship, but the five eventually
defeat them all and complete their mission.
Starring: Dicky
Cheung, Andy Hui, Edmond Leung, Sam Li, Eric Kot, Jimmy Lin, Choi Cheuk Yin, Chung Yan Tung, Kristy Yeung, Tsui Wai Yuk, Fan Do Ngoi, Suen Kai Kwan, Anita Yuen,
Tim Nau

Ms.
Know-It-All (Ms. Nanisama) (11 episodes total)
Episodes
1-11 (6 tapes or 11 VCDs)
Quality: ???
My Rating: ???
Description: Izumi, an Italian food expert, is a beautiful, intelligent, and hard-working career woman. She is known to have driven her former male assistants to their mental break-downs. Futaro is hand-picked by Izumi herself to be her assistant in opening a new Italian restaurant for their food company. Her reasons for picking him are that “he doesn’t seem to have any desire to claw his way up the corporate ladder,” “he has stamina,” and “he’s not the type of man I’d ever fall in love with.” Will she break him, too?
Starring:
Kishitani Goro, Matsuyuki Yasuko, Watabe Atsuro, Watanabe Ikkei
My Husband


Episodes
1-12 (6 tapes)
Quality 4-
My Rating: 4
Description: Mega Idol
Yuchiro isn’t quite as cool as his stage persona. In
fact he is totally different in reality. He is definitely not cool. He secretly
marries into Sakura Family. However they aren’t quite the normal family either.
Plus there a dark secret in Sakura’s family that comes back to haunt. This is a
fun show with a tragic twist thrown in toward the end of the series.
My MVP Valentine 1-10 & 21-22 (6 tapes)
Narita Rikon 1-10 (5 tapes)

Overtime
(12 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-4 (Digital Versions) 5-12 (Tape Version) 6 tapes total
Quality 3
My Rating: 4
Staring Sorimachi
Takashi, Esumi Makiko, Kimura Yoshino, Shiina Kippei, Ishida Yuriko,
Nishida Harumi, Kato Haruhiko
Info Aired in
Description: A story about Soichiro (Sorimachi Takashi) and Natsuki
(Esumi Makiko) that are about as opposites they
get. They get along and you know where
this is going.

Oyaji
Episodes 1-11 (11 VCDs or 6
tapes)
Quality 3
My Rating: 4
Description: Tamura Masakazu brings his unique acting/personality to this story about
a family. Tamura plays the "oyaji" - the
stubborn head of the household with his strict rules and high expectations. He
has a devoted wife and three children each of whom causes a family crisis that
threatens to drive the family apart. In the mist of these various family issues
the oyaji continues to flirt with a hostess at a
hostess bar he frequents which also threatens his marriage. With all of the
forces pulling at the family will they be able to remain a family or will they
all go their separate ways?
Starring: Tamura Masakazu, Hirosue Ryoko, Oikawa Mitsuhiro
and Okada Junichi
Perfect Bride
1-11 (6 tapes or 11 VCDs)

The
Perfect Bride (11 episodes total)
Epsidoes
1-11 (6 tapes or 11 VCDs)
Quality: ???
My Rating: ???
Description: It's a dilemma
many young women face--they want to get married, but don't want the
responsibilities of a daughter-in-law. Kimura Yoshino stars as Miyuki, an
engineer working for a construction firm, who is forced to try to find a way to
shuffle a career and housework. When her new husband is sent to work on a
project in
Starring: Kimura Yoshino, Morita Go, Nishimura Masahiko, Asada Miyoko, Hashizume Isao


Pretty
Girls (9 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-8 (8 VCDs or 4
tapes)
Quality: 3
My Rating: ???
Description: Pretty Girls Inamori Izumi stars in this comical fantasy about Hana, a bright and cheerful heroine who works at Andrews, a
huge department store in
Starring: Inamori Izumi, Yonekura Ryoko, Katase Nana, Tanabe
Seiichi, Katahira Nagisa
and Utsui Ken.
Reaching Out
1-4, 7-8, 11-26. 29-32, 35-36 & 39-40 (15 tapes)


Refrain
(12 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-12 (6 tapes or 12 VCDs)
Quality: 3
My Rating: 4
Description
Refrain (Meguriai) They say we all
have one unforgettable love in our life. For Eri, he
is Shuji. Tokiwa Takako stars as a dancer whose career is cut short by an
accident. And Fukuyama Masaharu plays the love of her
life. Although they are strongly drawn to each other, circumstances conspire to
tear them apart. Still, fate brings them back together time and again like a
bittersweet refrain.
Starring: Tokiwa Takako,
The Returner Movie (2 VCDs)
Ring (12 episodes
total)
Episodes:
1-12 (6 tapes)
Quality 3+
My Rating: 4
Description: This
drama is based off the book and movie of the same name, but with a different
ending and some new characters. The basic story is about a video tape that will
kill you 12 days after you’ve watch it.
Starring: Yanagiba Toshiro, Nagase Tomoya, Kyono Kotomi, Kuroki Hitomi & Yada Akiko
Romantic President Movie (1 tape)


Sensei Shiranaino
(12 episodes total)
Episodes:
1-12 (6 tapes total)
Quality
3+
My
Rating: 3
Description: Fifth-graders can be a handful, especially if you’re the new
teacher on the block. Rookie teacher, Kinoshita Yusaku,
has a lot to learn and his 30 kids are happy to teach him a few lessons. Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, of the popular group SMAP, stars as a
former delinquent who’s trying to live down his reputation as he learns the
ropes as a teacher.
Starring:
Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Shinohara Tomoe & Sugawara Bunta
Seikei Bijin 1-8 (4 tapes)
Sleeping
Shomuni (12
episodes total)
1-12
(6 tapes)
Quality
3+
My
Rating 4+
Description: This drama also known
as "Power Ladies". The life of female office workers is given a comic
slant in "ShomuNi" (The Second General
Affairs Section, Wednesday,
Starring: Esumi Makiko, Hosho Mai and Morimoto Leo
Shomuni
II (12 episodes total)
1-12
(6 tapes)
Quality
3+
My
Rating 4+
Description: The second series of Shomuni follows in the footsteps of the first series. This time around will the OL be able to save the company.
Starring: Esumi Makiko, Hosho Mai and Morimoto Leo
Shota no Sushi (17 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-17 (9 tapes or 17 VCDs)
Quality:
3
My
Rating: 3
Description: A story of a Shota (Kawashibara) who dreams of becoming the #1 chef in
Starring:
Kashiwabara Takashi, Kitahara
Masaki, Sugimoto Tetta, Kimura Yoshino, Hirosue Ryoko, Kaneko Ken & Ide Kaoru
Shotgun Marriage 1-11 (6 tapes)
Stairway to Heaven 1-6 (3 tapes)

Strawberry
on the Shortcake (10 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-10 (5 tapes)
Quality 4/3 from computer files
My Rating: 4
Description
: Manato
is a young boy who is being bullied in school. To deal with the bulling he
pretends he’s play acting. Then he meets a strange young girl named Yui, who helps him recover the real him. Later he finds out
that Yui is going to be his new sister, since his dad
is remarrying. But its too late Manato has already
fallen in love with Yui.
Starring: Fukada Kyoko & Takizawa Hideaki
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Summer Snow (11 episodes total)
Episodes:
1-11 (6 tapes)
Quality:
4
My
Rating: ???
Description: Summer Snow A love story between a young man
who has been forced to grow up too quickly and a young woman with an ailment
that has placed restrictions on her life. Natsuo (Domoto Tsuyoshi) has been looking after his younger brother
and sister since the death of their parents. He has also been running the
family bicycle shop. Yuki (Hirosue Ryoko) becomes the only person in the world in whom he can
confide. For Yuki, Natsuo becomes the catalyst that
has her trying to break out of her cocoon.
Starring:
Domoto Tsuyoshi, Hirosue Ryoko, Imai Tsubasa & Ikewaki Chizuru
The Switch 1-6 (3 tapes)
Take My Word for It 1-12 (6 tapes)


To Heart (12 episodes
total)
Episodes:
1-12 (6 tapes)
Quality:
3
My
Rating: ???
Description: To
Heart (Koishite Shinitai) Believing
that the end of the world is near, Miura Toko, a
crepe stand worker, dreams of falling in love. She bumps into Tokieda Yuji, a promising rookie professional boxer, at a
video shop. Toko soon falls in love with Yuji, while
he has feelings for Kaori, his boss at the flower shop. The situation becomes
even more complicated as Junko, a conniving elevator operator, tries to make
Yuji hers.
Starring:
Domoto Tsuyoshi, Fukada
Kyoko, Hara Sachie, Akai Hidekazu,
Azechi Reiko
Triumph in the Skies 1-4 (2 tapes)
Water Boys 1-8 (4 tapes)

Wedding Planner (10
episodes total)
Episodes:
1-6 & 9-10 (4 tapes)
Quality:
3
My
Rating: ???
Description: The three
stars mentioned above operate an agency named "Sweet Bridal", started
by Yuusuke after he was laid off from his company. He
had been stood up at the altar a year before, and wants to make marriage a
dramatic moment for his clients.
Starring:
Iijma Naoko, Yuusuke Santamaria & Kimura Yoshino

Where is Love (11 episodes
total)
Episodes 1-11 (6 tapes or 11 VCDs)
Quality: ??
My Rating: ???
Description: In a world where e-mail and the Internet have become common means of communication, the personal touch--person-to-person contact--has grown all the more important. Fate brings together seven lonely strangers, of varying ages, each with dreams of falling in love.
Starring: Watabe Atsuro,
Mizuno Miki, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Tokoro
George.
Winter Sonata 1-6 (3 tapes T160?)

With
Love (12 episodes total)
Episodes: 1-12
Quality
My Rating: 3
Description: This story is about Hasegawa Takashi(Takenouchi Yutaka) and Murakami Amane
(Tanaka Misato) meet each other numerous times in person but don't know that
they are also e-mail buddies. "With Love" is a love story based on
their relationship by e-mail and in real life. Will they ever know each other's
true identity? (Synopsis from Shuji's
Drama Index - With Love).
Staring: Takenouchi Yutaka, Tanaka Misato, Fujiwara Norika,
Kawaoka Daijiro,Oikawa
Mitsuhiro

Yamato Nadeshiko
(11 episodes total)
Episodes:
1-11 (6 tapes)
Quality
3+
My
Rating: 3
Description: Matsushima Nanako plays a
character of Sakurako Jinno
who grew up poor. Her wish is to grow up and never be poor again. So, her wish
is to marry into a family that is rich and that has blinded her from truly
finding a good man. Tsutsumu plays Nakahara Osuke, a brilliant academic who won an award for mathematics
but throws away his future to take over his father's fish shop. What happens
when Sakurako dates Nakahara with the assumption that
he is a very rich man?
STARRING: Matsushima
Nanako, Tsutsumu Shinichi, Yada Akiko & Mikihasa Azuma
Yanpapa
Young Father (10 episodes
total)
Episodes
1-4 & 7-10 (4 tapes)
Quality:
3
My
Rating: ???
Description: [From Japan Times]: In the opening episode, which
aired Oct. 9, 25-year-old Yusaku (Nagase) was about
to marry Yu, a famous manga artist to whom he was
apprenticed. However, Yu had three children by a previous marriage,
all of them resented her relationship with the much younger Yusaku
and disapproved of the coming wedding. In fact, the three kids also disliked
Yu, since she was always busy at work: They were raised by her older sister.
After having already registered their union at the local municipal office, Yu,
on the morning of the wedding, also changes the beneficiary in her life
insurance policy to Yusaku. Then, on the way to the
ceremony, she is killed in an accident. After coming across Yu sketches for a
planned new manga series, Yusaku
realizes that she wanted to use the marriage as a means of making a new life,
one in which her children would be at the center. He decides that he must
fulfill her legacy and, to the shock of the three smartass kids and their aunt,
moves into their lives as head of the household. The oldest daughter,
horrified, tries to sell the house.
Starring: Nagase Tomoya
Taiho
Shichauzo
You’re Under Arrest
Episodes:
1-6 (3 tapes)
Quality:
4
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