Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Attention Please


* Title: アテンションプリーズ
* Title (English): Attention Please
* Genre: Comedy
* Broadcast network: Fuji TV
* Episodes: 11
* Viewership rating: 16.37%
* Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-18 to 2006-June-27
* Air time: Tuesday 21:00
* Theme song: "OH PRETTY WOMAN" by Kaela Kimura


Synopsis

Losing her mother at a young age, Misaki Yoko (Ueto Aya) was raised amongst three brothers. Yoko is a slightly boyish girl who is bullheaded and hates dishonesty. Ever since she was young, she enjoyed the company of boys over girls. She starts a band with four of her boy friends and becomes the lead singer. Then one day, one of the members of the band, Tsukasa, gets a job at a bank in Tokyo. Due to Tsukasa leaving town, the band breaks up and though Yoko finds herself lonely, she puts on a strong act in front of Tsukasa. She can't tell Tsukasa how she truly feels for him. On the day Tsukasa leaves for Tokyo, Yoko goes along with the band members to the airport to see him off. The guys get excited when they see some cabin crew ladies and Yoko has no idea why. She reminds them that even she can wear a uniform, but the guys only make fun of her. That's when Tsukasa tells Yoko he wonders what she'd look like dressed in uniform. This is when Yoko decides she wants to work as a Cabin Attendant.

Cast

* Ueto Aya as Misaki Yoko
* Nishikido Ryo as Nakahara Shota
* Maya Miki as Mikami Tamaki
* Aibu Saki as Wakamura Yayoi
* Uehara Misa as Hirota Saori
* Koizumi Kotaro as Tsutsumi Shuusuke
* Kohinata Fumiyo as Sakurada Shinya
* Otsuka Chihiro as Sekiyama Yuki
* Nanase Natsumi as Kinoshita Asami
* Ootomo Minami as Higashino Haruka
* Fueki Yuko as Asou Kaoru
* Takahashi Mariko as Kagawa Reiko
* Koichi Mantaro as Watanabe Makoto
* Asano Kazuyuki as Wakamura Shozo
* Inoue Jun as Dazai Shinichiro
* Mano Yuuko as Murayama Mizuho
* Hoshino Natsuko as Takemoto Rie
* Tanaka Sogen (田中聡元) as Ooki Mitsuya
* Ishikawa Maki (石川真希) as Chief Nagano

Guests

* Takaoka Sousuke as Tsukasa (ep1)
* Higashihara Aki as Tsukasa's girlfriend (ep1)
* Yamasaki Shizuyo as Yoshimura Chiemi (ep1, 11)
* Sai Ryoji as Saori's gym mate (ep3)
* Moriguchi Yoko as Katsuragi Shiho (ep5)
* Yatsu Isao as the taxi driver (ep6)
* Yamasato Ryouta as Okaba Goro (ep7, 11)
* Asami Reina as Kubota Rina (ep7)
* Yamaguchi Nikki (山口日記) as Oshima Megumi (ep7)
* Takuya (たくや) & Kazuya (かずや) as the twin passengers (ep9)
* Ichikawa Chieko (市川千恵子) (passenger, ep9)
* Arai Kazuo (新井量大) (passenger, ep9)
* Mori Koko (森康子) (passenger, ep9)
* Rui Hisashi (塁央) (passenger, ep9)
* Komuro Yuta (passenger, ep9)
* Kuroda Shiho (黒田志保) (passenger, ep9)
* Kimura Kaela (木村カエラ) as herself (ep10)
* Fujimoto Shizuka (ep10)
* Yamada Meikyou (passenger, ep11)
* Izumi Akiko (passenger, ep11)
* Shibuya Asuka as the newcomer trainee (ep11)

Awards

* 49th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Titleback


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Friday, April 14, 2006

Iryu Team Medical Dragon


* Title: 医龍 Team Medical Dragon
* Title (romaji): Iryu Team Medical Dragon
* Also known as: Team Medical Dragon
* Genre: Medical
* Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Season 1
* Episodes: 11
* Viewership ratings: 14.75%
* Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-13 to 2006-June-29
* Air time: Thursday 22:00
* Theme song: Believe by AI

Synopsis

Ryutaro Asada is enjoying his peaceful life in the countryside, when he is visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital.

Ryutaro is a genius surgeon who used to lead "Team Medical Dragon," a world-class NGO medical team. In harsh environments that lacked medicine and electricity, Ryutaro witnessed many lives pass away. At the same time, he saved many other lives, helping his matchless skill overwhelm other doctors.

As a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She has ambitions to be promoted to professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique — an extremely difficult type of heart surgery — and also by writing a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro's skills when he was an NGO doctor. That's why she recruits him and asks him to use the Batista technique. Since Ryutaro's arrival, urgent patients who would have been abandoned in the past, are miraculously saved by the "hands of God." --Fuji TV

Cast

* Sakaguchi Kenji as Asada Ryuutarou
* Inamori Izumi as Katou Akira
* Mizukawa Asami as Satohara Miki
* Koike Teppei as Ijyuuin Noboru
* Natsuki Mari as Kitou Shoko
* Kitamura Kazuki as Kirima Gunji
* Abe Sadao as Arase Monji
* Sasaki Kuranosuke as Fujiyoshi Keishi
* Kishibe Ittoku as Noguchi Keno
* Ikeda Tetsuhiro
* Mukaichi Mion
* Kanai Yuta (ep5-6)
* Shimizu Koji (ep8-11)

Recognitions

* 49th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Drama
* 49th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Musical Arrangement, Kono Shin (河野伸)
* 49th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Director, Kubota Satoshi (久保田哲史)

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