Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Proposal Daisakusen


* Title: プロポーズ大作戦
* Title (romaji): Proposal Daisakusen
* Tagline: Operation Love
* Genre: Romance
* Broadcast network: Fuji TV
* Episodes: 11
* Viewership ratings: 17.3 (Kanto), 17.2 (Kansai)
* Broadcast period: 2007-Apr-16 to 2007-June-25
* Air time: Monday 21:00
* Theme song: Ashita Hareru Kana by Kuwata Keisuke
o Insert song: Chiisana Koi no Uta by Mongol 800 (ep2, 8)


Synopsis

Iwase Ken and Yoshida Rei have been friends since elementary school. Ken, is obstinate and unskilled in love, but he fell long ago for the lively and cheerful, Rei. 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.


Cast

* Yamashita Tomohisa as Iwase Ken
o Kitamura Kaito (third grade)
* Nagasawa Masami as Yoshida Rei
o Matsumoto Tamaki (third grade)
o Hashimoto Kurumi (primary school)
* Fujiki Naohito as Tada Tetsuya
* Eikura Nana as Oku Eri
* Hiraoka Yuta as Enokido Mikio
* Hamada Gaku as Tsurumi Hisashi
* Mikami Hiroshi as the Yosei/Fairy
* Matsushige Yutaka as Ito Matsunori
* Yamazaki Shigenori as Minorikawa Junzo
* Morimoto Leo as Yoshida Takanori
* Miyazaki Yoshiko as Yoshida Reina
* Watabe Gota as Socrates
* Hara Fumina as Matsuki Yuko
* Kikuchi Kenichiro as Nishio Tamotsu
* Traore Issa (トラオレ・イッサ) as the marathon runner
* Takeuchi Tomoya (classmate)
* Okawa Masahiro (classmate)
* Arai Kenta (荒井賢太) (classmate)
* Ikezawa Ayaka (classmate)
* Masumoto Yuko (classmate)
* Kawakami Yu


Guests

* Sakai Toshiya as the taxidriver / staff of a university (ep1,5&11)
* Toji Takao as the Koshien Umpire (ep1)
* Sugiura Daisuke (杉浦大介) as Eri's boyfriend in highschool (ep1)
* Minami Yoshihiro (南好洋) as the wedding receptionist (ep1)
* Taira Chiharu (平良千春) as the wedding receptionist (ep1)
* Matsumoto Rio as Cameron (ep3)
* Hoshii Nanase as Nagase Misa (ep4)
* Kobayashi Katsuya as Eri's boyfriend in College (ep5,6)
* Natsuyagi Isao as Yoshida Futoshi (Rei's grandfather, ep5,10)
* Hiwatashi Shinji (樋渡真司) as the post office clerk (ep6)
* Horan Chiaki as Ito's friend (ep7)
* Ogura Hisahiro as Chief Yasuda (ep9)
* Shiina Taizo (椎名泰三) as President Kahata (ep9)
* Hankai Kazuaki as the movie director (ep9)
* Antonio Koinoki (アントニオ小猪木) as himself (ep10)
* Doi Yoshio


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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Jodan ja nai!


* Title: 冗談じゃない!
* Title (romaji): Jodan ja nai!
* Also known as: You Gotta Be Kidding Me!
* Format: Renzoku
* Genre: Comedy
* Episodes: 11
* Viewership ratings: 13.4% (Kanto)
* Broadcast network: TBS
* Broadcast period: 2007-Apr-15 to 2007-Jun-24
* Air time: Sunday 21:00
* Theme song: Hug, Hug, by Oda Yuji

Synopsis

A forty-year-old man has married a pretty woman 20 years younger than he is. However, with their marriage as a turning point, his fate dramatically changes. The mother of his newly-wed bride is his old lover! What is worse, the mother voluntarily moves herself in with the newly weds. Their newly married life, which would have been honey-sweet, is becoming a roller-coaster ride. This is a comical drama portraying the triangle with reason of these three people. --TBS


Cast

* Oda Yuji as Takamura Keita
* Ueno Juri as Takamura Ellen
* Otake Shinobu as Hirose Rie
* Kusakari Masao as Hirose Sohei
* Naka Riisa as Hirose Karen
* Kanno Rio as Hirose Seren
* Morisako Ei as Hirose Miren
* Tanaka Kei as Tomoda Satoshi
* Tachikawa Eri as Iwasaki Mai
* Kobayashi Susumu as Sasaki
* Ishimaru Kenjiro as Jinji-buchou
* Iijima Naoko as Nonomura Saeko
* Umezawa Masayo as Oonishi-san
* Takabatake Kasumi (高畠華澄) as Akemi
* Takada Junji (高田純次) as Sugita Shuzo
* Taguchi Hiromasa as Yamada Motoo
* Arai Kentaro (荒井健太郎) as Yamada Akira
* Kikuchi Kinya as Fujiwara Takashi
* Ogasawara Wataru (小笠原亘) as the TV Station Announcer
* Yoshitaka Yuriko (ep8)
* Shirakawa Yumi (ep9)
* Tanaka Minoru (ep11)

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