Program

CAST

Marimo Mochizuki
...Aya Ueto
Shinpei Kirishima
...Kazuki Kitamura
Asami Inoue
...Sachiko Sakurai
Shosuke Okamoto
...Shingo Yanagisawa
Daigoro Konari
...Nenji Kobayashi


	Every Wednesday 10:00-10:54 p.m.
Teen actor and number one sensation Aya Ueto appears with a veteran cast including Nenji Kobayashi. What new side will Ueto show us? The popular and capable Kazuki Kitamura also appears - watch for his portrayal of Ueto’s father. The leads play a father and daughter who have drifted apart. A death brings them back together as they come to see what a real father/daughter relationship should be and realize the importance of life. This is not a hard-boiled story, but rather a soft touching one. Marimo Mochizuki (Aya Ueto) is a high school student who lives with her mother who dies leaving Marimo alone with her grief. She is going through her mother’s papers when she comes across an unfamiliar name - that of her father. Marimo sets off to meet him. When seeing him, she gets a big shock. He is way far from what she pictured as her father. His name is Shinpei Kirishima (Kazuki Kitamura) and is a 38-year-old would-be private detective. He claims to have no daughter, until he sees the paperwork - much to his surprise! Marimo doesn’t miss the expression on his face. She resigns herself to the fact that this is her father. She sees his disordered lifestyle and the first thing that escapes her lips is “The worst father in the world!”

CAST

Motoharu Akiyama
...Kenji Sakaguchi
Reiko Nishina
...Hitomi Kuroki
Risa Yamazaki
...Rei Kikukawa
Tetsushi Miyata
...Toshiro Yanagiba
Koichiro Hasumi
...Masao Kusakari


	Every Thursday 9:00-9:54 p.m.
What if there is no such thing in life as chance? What if every meeting is part of a plan created by God billions of years ago? This is a love story about a woman who, in search of true love, returns to the earth as a ghost and meets an astronaut in training. Worldwide sensation Sting has covered one of his own songs - “Moon Over Bourbon Street” - for this drama. This opening theme will become a sensation in its own right. Motoharu Akiyama (Kenji Sakaguchi) is an elite pilot who has just completed astronaut training at NASA. Something happened in his past that caused him to go out searching for the meaning and purpose of life. However, he hasn’t been able to find a satisfactory reply and the void in his heart has only expanded. But Akiyama has a meeting that changes his life. He meets Reiko Nishina (Hitomi Kuroki), a director at an investment bank, who is looking at investing in an attempt at the first Japanese space shuttle launch. Although the meeting was pure chance, it affects Reiko greatly. She realizes that although it looks like she has everything, there is something she wants that she doesn’t have. And this meeting has an effect on those around them also...

CAST

Seiji Omokawa
...Koichi Sato
Makoto Wakatsuki
...Masahiko Nishimura
Saori Honma
...Haruka Igawa
Shoichi Ishizuka
...Ken Horiuchi
Yuko Omokawa
...Kimiko Yo
Yuichiro Koike
...Bunta Sugawara


	Every Thursday 10:00-10:54 p.m.
Twenty-seven years ago TBS aired Taichi Yamada’s “Welcome to the High Plains.” It was very popular at the time across all ages and remains popular to this day. It tells the story of people interacting with other people and the complications that sometimes ensue in a warm and still relevant way. This is the first remake of Taichi Yamada’s story. The lead is played by Koichi Sato who is joined by Masahiko Nishimura, Haruka Igawa, Ken Horiuchi, Nobuyo Oyama, Muga Takewaki, Kimiko Yo and Bunta Sugawara in a grand cast. Seiji Omokawa (Koichi Sato) used to be the manager of a top hotel. He is entrusted with reopening a hotel in the high plains that has been boarded up and closed for years. He has been given a budget of \20 million. Omokawa interviews staff by himself, looking for interesting characters and starts work rebuilding the hotel. However, his attempts to get a top chef as a drawing-card fail. The staff members start worrying about the hotel’s future and try to leave. Yet at that moment, the hotel is visited by an elder man Koike (Bunta Sugawara) who used to be a chef at a top hotel but...

CAST

Shohei Asai
...Kazunari Ninomiya
Kengo Iwasaki
...Tomohisa Yamashita
Chie Owada
...Anne Suzuki
Hayato Udagawa
...Hiroki Narimiya
Koji Enami
...Shun Oguri
Kyohei Asai
...Yasunori Danda
Tomoko Asai
...Nagisa Katahira


	Every Friday 10:00-10:54 p.m.
“Stand Up!!” is the story of four schoolboys who are virgins and don’t want to be anymore. This is a story of summer - love, friendship, school, family, the hypocrisy of adults, complications of life, experience and failure... It is set in an everyday shopping district and shows through sex the clumsiness of children who have developed a little later than their peers. It’s a bright romantic comedy that both young and old can appreciate. Shohei Asai (Kazunari Ninomiya) is the shy but kind son of a pharmacist. Kengo Iwasaki (Tomohisa Yamashita) is the only one in the group with a girlfriend. Hayato Udagawa (Hiroki Narimiya) is an attractive boy, until he opens his mouth. Koji Enami (Shun Oguri) is an energetic stalwart but has no girlfriend. They all have one thing in common - they are virgins. And they don’t want to be anymore. It’s summer in 2003 and they find themselves the last virgins left at school. During the summer holidays, Chie Owada (Anne Suzuki), a girl they knew as children 11 years ago, moves back to the neighborhood. They all fancied her but she seemed out of reach. But she is a mere shadow of the “princess” they all knew...

CAST

Toji Kashiwaba
...Tsuyoshi Domoto
Makoto Saeki
...Ryoko Hirosue
Nao Hayakawa
...Rina Uchiyama
Toru Fujieda
...Kuranosuke Sasaki
Yumie Kashiwaba
...Yoshie Ichige


	Every Sunday 9:00-9:54 p.m.
He is happy to have got through the job-hunting season and to have secured employment. But his new job is a battlefield as his company competes for its future. As a new employee, he is on the frontline and has not a moment to spare. He has a new girlfriend and things are looking good, until his ex-girlfriend shows up. Tsuyosi Domoto plays this new salaryman in his first serial drama appearance in 15 months. Ryoko Hirosue and Rina Uchiyama play his ex- and current girlfriends respectively. Toji Kashiwaba (Tsuyoshi Domoto) is a manager of the daily dish section of a medium sized department store. He is new on the job and has a tough boss making every day a real struggle. Meanwhile he starts going out with Nao (Rina Uchiyama), an elevator girl he met at initial training and things seem to be looking up for him. One day, a new account manager from an advertising agency visits Toji’s food division - it’s none other than Toji’s ex-girlfriend from university, Makoto Saeki (Ryoko Hirosue). Toji is surprised to see her again but Makoto greets him as she has never met him before. Just at that moment, there is a problem in his section. Toji has to deal with his tough job, a forward Nao and Makoto who dumped him. He is caught in the middle.