Hokaben

* Title: ホカベン
* Title (romaji): Hokaben
* Format: Renzoku
* Genre: Law, human drama
* Episodes: 10
* Viewership rating: 8.1 (Kanto)
* Broadcast network: NTV
* Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-16 to 2008-Jun
* Air time: Wednesday 22:00
* Theme song: Namida wo Todokete by Tortoise Matsumoto

Synopsis

Domoto Akari is an idealistic lawyer who wants to "rescue the weak." She joins a large law office, though she is assigned to a lowly department whose only other member is her boss, who was transferred there after making a mistake during a case. --Tokyograph (http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-2536)

Cast

* Ueto Aya as Domoto Akari
* Kitamura Kazuki as Sugisaki Tadashi
* Kato Shigeaki as Katase Riichiro
* Toda Naho as Kuramoto Shiori
* Sasai Eisuke as Zaitsu Masato
* Nakayama Megumi as Yoshikawa Mizuho
* Ryo as Kudou Reiko
* Kato Kazuko as Domoto Miyoko
* Osugi Ren as Morioka Tetsuo

Guests

* Tomita Yasuko as Ikegami Ryoko (ep1,2)
* Sakata Masanobu (阪田マサノブ) as Ikegami Kazuhiko (ep1,2)
* Ishii Momoka (石井萌々果) as Ikegami Maki
* Ishimaru Kenjiro as Hamada Shinji (ep1,2)
* Mickey Curtis (ミッキー・カーチス) as Owner of restaurant (ep2)
* Sasaki Katsuhiko (佐々木勝彦) as President of company (ep2)
* Suzuki Sawa as Usami Chieko (ep3)
* Nakajima Kenko (中嶋けんこう) as Usami Takuo (ep3)
* Sato Yuki as Kawahara Tohru (ep3)
* Asaka Mayumi as Kawahara Tomoe (ep3)
* Tanaka Tetsushi as Osawa Hirofumi (ep3)
* Katsube Nobuyuki as President Urakawa (ep3)
* Takubo Issei as Prosecutor (ep3)
* Sunaga Kei as Judge (ep3)
* Ootomo Minami
* Endo Yuya (ep7)