A bitter-sweet and uplifting comedy drama about a young girl Mio and her brother Kazuki. To treat her illness overseas, Mio has been living away from her older brother Kazuki for the past ten years. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio's return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart. --groink

The drama is based on the popular manga of the same name by Nakajo Hisaya, which has already been dramatized in Taiwan. Horikita plays the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki, a Japanese girl in the U.S. who one day sees the young athlete Sano Izumi (Oguri) compete in the high jump on television. She begins to idolize him, and decides to move to Japan to attend the same school as him. However, Izumi goes to an all-boys school, so Mizuki disguises herself as a boy to achieve her dream of being with her idol. - Tokyograph

This home comedy tells the story of Kyoichiro (Tachi Hiroshi) and his teenage daughter Koume (Aragaki Yui). One day, the two ride a train together after visiting Kyoichiro's mother-in-law. He sees it as a chance to get to know his daughter better, but he ends up getting more than that - by some mysterious force, both Kyoichiro and Koume end up with their mind in the other's body! Unfortunately, they have no choice but to swap lives, pretending to be each other at school and work. -- Tokyograph

YBased on the manga series of the same name, Toda Erika plays an honest college student, Kanzaki Nao, who receives a hundred million yen one day, along with a card saying she has been chosen to take part in the "Liar Game". The aim of the game is to trick the other players out of their hundred million dollars. At the end, the winner gets the hundred million and the loser is a hundred million yen in debt. The next day, she receives notification that her opponent is her former teacher, Fujisawa Kazuo. She goes to him, seeking help, but ends up getting tricked into handing her money over. Desperate, she approaches the police for help, but they are unable to do anything. However, she is told of a mastermind swindler, Akiyama Shinichi, who is to be released from jail the next day. Desperate, she goes to him for help. -- Rikayla (Updated by Backalley)

Yamashita Tomohisa and Nagasawa Masami play a young man and woman who have been friends since elementary school. Yamashita's character, Iwase Ken, is obstinate and unskilled in love, but he fell long ago for the lively and cheerful woman, Yoshida Rei, played by Nagasawa. But Rei is about to get married to another man. While Ken and other friends from high-school attend the wedding ceremony, a fairy appears and sends Ken back in time, giving him a second chance to win the girl he loves.

Sakuragi Kenji is a destitute lawyer and one-time member of a motorcyle gang trying to guide failing high school students with an average score of 36 into Japan's most prestigious educational institution, Tokyo University (Toudai).

"If you want to change your life, get into Toudai!"

For no other reason than Sakuragi's personal ambition, he has advertised his intention to produce 5 successful Toudai applicants from the students of a nearly bankrupt failure of a school.

"If you want to change your life, get into Toudai!" He will get them from this lowest of all schools into Japan's number one!!

Our protagonist, Sakuragi Kenji, played by Abe Hiroshi in his first role as a high school teacher, is a must see in this summer's new show. This third rate lawyer soon becomes the homeroom teacher for the special advanced class aiming for Toudai University entrance. Hasegawa Kyouko costars as english teacher and Sakuragi's opponent, and Yamashita Tomohisa from NEWS and Nagasawa Masami also appear in the role of students. This awaited original work and fascinating world view is brought to you from the popular serialized comic in Shuukan Morning (Kodansha) and has even been updated!

In addition to revealing essential test taking techniques for everyone who wants to know how to get into Toudai, Dragon Zakura will also teach the essentials of living one's life.

Sakaki "Tornado" Makio (Nagase Tomoya) is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to force Makio to return to high school to receive his diploma and he asks an old friend who happens to be the principal (Iwaki Koichi) of a nearby school to admit Makio. If Makio doesn't graduate, the position of boss will be given to his younger brother Mikio (Kikawada Masaya).

Furthermore, he must pose as a 17-year-old during school hours and in the presence of any classmates or teachers outside of school. If his cover is blown, it would be the end of his high school career as well as his hopes to become boss. Things start out rough and tough as Makio's violent temper is tested. As the lessons and days go by he learns there is much more to school than just tests and studying.

Originally a novel by Yamazaki Toyoko, and later a 1974 movie. The book depicts the conflicts within the Manpyo family, which is famous in Kansai's financial circles, amidst the tumultuous reorganisation of the financial industry of the late 1960s. Unlike the book, the eldest son, Teppei, and not the father, Daisuke, will be the central character of the drama.

This drama is set in the late 1960s decade of Japan. The main rivalry depicted in the story is between Manpyo Daisuke (Kitaooji Kinya), a powerful banker, and his eldest son, Manpyo Teppei (Kimura Takuya), the executive managing director of a steel firm. For some reasons, Daisuke seem to dislike his own son and as Teppei seems to find out the reason for Daisuke's hatred, his whole life is turned upside down with fatal consequences.

Based on the hit comic book by Tomoko Ninomiya, this is a fun-filled quirky romantic story of 2 very opposite people.

Megumi Noda, or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a kindergarten teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized, takes baths several days apart and loves to eat, sometimes stealing her friend's lunchbox when it is filled with delicacies.

Shinichi Chiaki, is Momogaoka's top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he feels mired in Japan because of a childhood phobia.

They meet by accident. Nodame quickly falls in love, but it takes much longer for Chiaki to even begin to appreciate Nodame's unusual qualities. Their relationship causes them both to develop and grow. Because of Nodame, Chiaki transfers into the Conductor Division, leads a student orchestra and begins to have a broader appreciation of people's musical abilities. Because of Chiaki, Nodame faces her fears and enters a piano competition. Opportunities open up as both begin taking risks, stretching themselves far more than they ever thought possible.

* Ueno Juri as Noda Megumi aka Nodame (Piano)
* Tamaki Hiroshi as Chiaki Shinichi (Piano/Violin/Conducting)
* Eita as Mine Ryutaro (Violin)
* Koide Keisuke as Okuyama Masumi (Timpani)
* Mizukawa Asami as Miki Kiyora (Violin)
* Saeko as Saku Sakura (Contrabass)
* Uehara Misa as Tagaya Saiko (Vocal)
* Endo Yuuya as Ookouchi Mamoru (Conducting)
* Iwasa Mayuko as Ishikawa Reina (Piano)
* Takase Yukina (高瀬友規奈) as Tanaka Makiko (Piano)
* Kondo Kouen (近藤公園) as Tamaki Keiji (Clarinet)
* Sakamoto Makoto as Hashimoto Youhei (Oboe)
* Matsuoka Rinako (松岡璃奈子) as Suzuki Moe (Flute)
* Matsuoka Emiko as Suzuki Kaoru (Clarinet)
* Yamanaka Takashi as Iwai Kazushi (Contrabass)
* Kobayashi Kinako (小林きな子) as Kinjo Shizuka (Viola)
* Fukada Aki as Inoue Yuki (Cello)
* Kojima Tenten (小嶌天天) as Kanai Kento (Horn)
* Ibu Masato as Mine Ryuken
* Akiyoshi Kumiko as Momotaira Minako
* Toyohara Kosuke as Eto Kozo
* Nishimura Masahiko as Tanioka Hajime
* Takenaka Naoto as Franz Stresemann
* Kichise Michiko (吉瀬美智子) as Elise
* Hatano Hiroko as Kawano Keeko
* Oikawa Mitsuhiro as Sakuma Manabu
* Fukushi Seiji as Kuroki Yasunori (Rising Star: Oboe)
* Mukai Osamu (向井理) as Kikuchi Tooru (Rising Star: Cello]
* Hashizume Ryou (橋爪遼) as Kimura Tomohito (Rising Star: Violin)
* Namioka Kazuki (波岡一喜) as Katayama (Rising Star: Horn)
* Sakurai Chizu as Aizawa Maiko (Rising Star: Flute)
* Kimura Ryou as Takahashi Noriyuki (RS: Violin - new concert master)
* Kuroda Chieko as Miyoshi Seiko (Mama Chiaki)
* John Hesse as Kyle Dune (Kiyora's professor)
* Shiraishi Miho as Eto Kaori
* Morisako Ei as young Nodame (ep.9)
* Itou Ryuuta (伊藤隆太) as Segawa Yuuto (Nodame's childhood piano classmate)
* Manuel Doncel as Professor Auclair (Judge in Maradona Competition)
* Inoue Keiko

* Ep 01:
o Presto agitato from Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 no. 2 "Moonlight" Sonata [Chiaki]
o Adagio cantabile from Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique" [Nodame]
o Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen from Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" (The Magic Flute) [Saiko]
o Allegro con spirito from Mozart's Sonata in D major for two Pianos K 375a (K 448) [Nodame/Chiaki]
* Ep 02:
o Allegro from Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Violin in F major, Op. 24 "Spring" [Nodame/Chiaki/Mine]
o Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 [A Orchestra]
* Ep 03:
o Poco sostenuto - Vivace from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 [S Orchestra]
o Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 [A Orchestra]
* Ep 04:
o Poco sostenuto - Vivace from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 [S Orchestra]
o Allegro con brio from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 [S Orchestra]
o Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 [A Orchestra]
o Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (Piano) [Nodame]
* Ep 05:
o Moderato Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 [Chiaki/A Orchestra]
o Allegro scherzando Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 [Chiaki/A Orchestra]
o Geshwin's Rhapsody in Blue [S Orchestra]
* Ep 06:
o Moderato Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 (2 Piano) [Chiaki/Nodame]
o Allegro scherzando Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 (2 Piano) [Chiaki/Nodame]
* Ep 07:
o Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66 C sharp minor [Tanioka Hajime's pupil]
o Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 [Kiyora]
o Allegro aperto Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 [R☆S Orchestra]
o Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - meno Allegro Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 68 [R☆S Orchestra]
* Ep 08:
o Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - meno Allegro Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 68 [R☆S Orchestra]
o Rondo: Allegretto Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 [R☆S Orchestra]
o Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - meno Allegro Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 68 [R☆S Orchestra]
o Adagio - Più Andante - Allegro non troppo ma con brio - Più Allegro Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 68 [R☆S Orchestra]
* Ep 09:
o Allegro con spirito from Mozart's Sonata in D major for two Pianos K. 375a (K. 448) [Nodame]
o Moderato Schubert's Piano Sonate in A Minor, Op. 42 (D. 845) [Nodame]
o Rondo: Allegro vivace Schubert's Piano Sonate in A Minor, Op. 42 (D. 845) [Nodame]
o Chopin's 12 Etudes Op. 10 No. 4 in C-sharp minor [Nodame]
o Claude Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse, L. 106 [Nodame]
* Ep 10:
o Chopin's 12 Etudes Op. 10 No. 4 in C-sharp minor [Nodame]
o Claude Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse, L. 106 [Nodame]
o Saint-Saëns's "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso", Op. 28, "Introduction" (Violin) [Takahashi]
o Brahms's Paganini variations, Op. 35 [Segawa]
o Schuman's Sonata in G minor, Op. 22 [Nodame]
o Danse russe. Allegro giusto Stravinsky's Petrushka - 3 movements [Nodame]
* Ep 11:
o Moderato Schubert's Piano Sonate in A Minor, Op. 42 (D. 845) [Nodame]
o Chopin's 12 Etudes Op. 10 No. 4 in C-sharp minor [Nodame]
o Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25, [R☆S Orchestra]
o Poco sostenuto - Vivace from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 [R☆S Orchestra]
o Allegro con brio from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 [R☆S Orchestra]

* Jodan ja nai! (TBS, 2007)
* Nodame Cantabile (Fuji TV, 2006)
* Bokutachi no Sensou TBS (2006)
* Tsubasa No Oreta Tenshitachi Fuji TV (2006)
* Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo~Kyuuketsuki Densetsu Satsujin Jiken NTV (2005)
* Yagate Kuru Hi no Tame ni Fuji TV (2005)
* Engine Fuji TV (2005)
* Sayonara, Ozu Sensei (Special) Fuji TV (2004)
* Orange Days TBS (2004)
* Teruteru Kazoku NHK (2003)
* Okaasan to Issho TBS (2003)
* LifE NHK (2002)

* 7 Gatsu 24 Nichi Toori no Christmas 7月24日通りのクリスマス (http://www.724-christmas.com/index.html) (2006)
* Shitsugatsu Nijyuuyokka Toori no Christmas (http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200606/gt2006060701.html) (2006)
* Shiawase no Switch (http://ameblo.jp/shiawaseno-switch/) (2006)
* Deguchi no Nai Umi (http://www.deguchi-movie.jp/) (2006)
* Michael no Warau (http://www.michael-movie.com/) (2006)
* Niji no Megami Rainbow Song (http://rainbowsong.jp/start.html/) (2006)
* Summer Time Machine Blues (http://stmb.playxmovie.com/) (2005)
* Kame wa Ogai to Hayaku Oyogu (http://www.kamehaya.com/) (2005)
* Swing Girls (http://www.swinggirls.jp/index.html) (2004)
* Joze, the Tiger, and the Fish (http://jozeetora.com/index_f.html) (2003)
* Chirusoku no Natsu (http://www.chirusoku.jp/) (2003)