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New releases in Malaysia (updated 19 March 2007)
J-Dorama:
1) Sailorfuku to Kikanjuu/Sailor Uniform and the Machine Gun (TBS)
Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ken Ogata, Akiyoshi Nakao
Date aired in Japan: October-December 2006
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Official website: http://www.tbs.co.jp/kikanjyu2006/
Link to synopsis: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Sailor_Fuku_to_Kikanjuu
Format: VCD (Malay & Chinese subs)
A remake of a 1982 FujiTV drama starring Tomoyo Harada. It follows the story of a female high school student who inconceivably becomes the leader of a group of gangsters.
Masami Nagasawa starred in the TBS autumn drama, "Sailorfuku to Kikanjuu" (Sailor Uniform and the Machine Gun) which is also a remake of the original popular movie starring Hiroko Yakushimaru 25 years ago.
Subsequently, Tomoyo Harada also acted in the same-titled drama series. Nagasawa will play the same role Izumi Hoshi, who becomes the chief of a gangster group after her father's death.
Dorama Special (SP):
1) Busu no Hitomi ni Koi$hiteru SP/Falling in Love with the Eyes of the Unpretty SP (Fuji TV)
Cast: Goro Inagaki (SMAP), Tomoko Murakami, Yuri Ebihara
Date aired in Japan: 26 December 2006
Rating: 12.3%
Official website: http://www.ktv.co.jp/busu
Format: DVD (Malay, English & Chinese subs)
A continuation episode from the drama aired from April to June 2006.
2) Ooku ~Episode 0~ (Fuji TV)
Cast: Kyoko Fukada, Reiko Takashima, Yuki Matsu$hita, Tae Kimura, Haruka Igawa, Yuko Asano
Date aired in Japan: 29 December 2006
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Format: DVD (Malay, English & Chinese subs)
3) Kindaichi Kousuke ~Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku~/The Demon Who Plays the Flute (Fuji TV)
Cast: Goro Inagaki (SMAP), Ryoko Kuninaka, Hiroki Narimiya, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Masato Ibu
Date aired in Japan: 5 January 2007
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Official website: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/akuma/index.html
Format: DVD (Malay, English & Chinese subs)
This is Kindaichi Kousuke SP series' 4th installment.
For those who don't know, Kindaichi Kousuke novel series was written in the 1940s, and had always been the most popular detective series in Japan. In the 1990s, some manga authors created a new character related to Kindaichi Kousuke, Kindaichi Hajime, his grandson, and made his adventure stories to a manga series. Later, what we all know adapted to dorama series, acted in turns by KinKi Kids' Tsuyoshi Dohmoto (1995 and 1996 series), ARASHI's Jun Matsumoto (2001 series) and KAT-TUN's Kazuya Kamenashi (2005 SP).
The Kindaichi that Goro Inagaki has acted since 2004 is Hajime's grandfather, Kindaichi Kousuke.
The first installment was "Inugami-ke no Ichizoku" (The Inugami Clan) in April 2004. Co-starring Ai Kato and Hidetoshi Nishijima.
The second installment was "Yatsuhaka Mura" (The Eight Tomb Village) in October 2004. Co-starring Tatsuya Fujiwara.
The third installment was "Jooubachi (Queen Bee) in January 2006. Co-starring Chiaki Kuriyama and Mitsuhiro Oikawa.
Inagaki said that these Kindaichi Kousuke SP series production has always been made in a large scale and very detailed, with a big budget, but for this fourth installment, it must be the largest production among other installments, with the biggest budget too.
4) Ruri no Shima SP/Ruri's Island SP (NTV)
Cast: Riko Narumi, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Manami Konishi, Mitsuko Baisho, Ken Ogata
Date aired in Japan: 6 January 2007
Rating: 10.3%
Official website: http://www.ntv.co.jp/ruri
Continuing where the drama left off, "Ruri no Shima" illustrates the first love that blossoms between Narumi Riko's and Kamiki Ryunosuke's characters when Ryunosuke comes to the island.
5) Attention Please SP (Fuji TV)
Cast: Aya Ueto, Ryo Nishikido (Kanjani8, NEWS), Saki Aibu, Miki Maya, Koutaro Koizumi
Date aired in Japan: 13 January 2007
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Official website: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/AP
Format: DVD (Malay, English & Chinese subs)
This drama special shows Yoko (Aya Ueto) training for international routes, and the unexpected trouble she gets into on her first trip abroad.
6) Onna no Ichidaiki SP (Fuji TV)
Cast: Miho Kanno, Ei Morisako, Ken Ishiguro, Rosa Kato
Date aired in Japan: 12 January 2007
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Format: DVD (Malay, English & Chinese subs)
Real-life experiences of women in their prime over the last century.
7) Saigo no Nightingale/The Last Nightingale (NTV)
Cast: Kyoko Hasegawa, Riko Narumi, Yui Ichikawa, Saeko, Sayuri Iwata, Kippei Shiina
Date aired in Japan: 22 August 2006
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Format: DVD (Malay, English & Chinese subs)
NTV aired "Saigo no Nightingale" (Aug. 22, 9 p.m.) based on the life of a fictional young midwife and substitute teacher, Michiko (Kyoko Hasegawa), and her female students, who were forced to serve as war nurses in Okinawa Prefecture.
The prefecture was the only place in the nation where there were ground battles during the Showa War. It is said that more than 2,000 local minors of both sexes were dispatched to the battlefields in the prefecture and that more than 1,000 of them died.
The Saigo no Nightingale project was initiated by scriptwriter Kazuhiko Yukawa, known for his war drama Satokibi Batake no Uta, which aired on the network in 2003. It also featured the battles on the islands in the prefecture.
This time, Yukawa tried to depict not only the tragedies local people suffered but also the joy of living, as symbolized in a scene of the birth of a baby Michiko helps deliver, he said.
Atsushi Sato, producer of the drama, said he supposed that many people think of a war monument called Himeyuri no To in the prefecture whenever they hear about schoolgirl nurses during the war. The monument was established in memory of the deaths of members of a student nurse corps called Himeyuri Gakutotai. |
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