At the beginning of October, here are the latest news from our Japanese neighbors. There are ten of them.On the program of the day you will have the choice between romance, comedy, action and much more. Good reading!
Hippocratic Oath
Original title: Hipokuratesu no Chikai – ヒポクラテスの誓い
Director: Akira Uchikata
Writers: Shichiri Nakayama (author), Eriko Shinozaki
Genre: medicine – mystery
Chain: WOWOW
Episode: 05
Release date: October 02 to October 30, 2016
Country: Japan
Main cast of Hippocratic Oath
Keiko Kitagawa
Role: Makoto Tsugano
More works: Akumu-chan, Your Home is My Business
Ikko Furuya
Role: Kojin Tsukuba
Other works: Doctor-X, Noboru Tachibana's Memorandum of Youth
Kyohei Shibata
Role: Tojiro Kosaki
Other works: 64, Lady Joker
Synopsis
Makoto Tsugano is an internal physician. She is recommended by doctor Kojin Tsukuba, whom she respects and receives training in a forensic class of medicine. After a while, she feels a weird atmosphere in the classroom. Professor Tojiro Kosaki leaves the room and Makoto is left alone. A young girl calls her, she wants an autopsy on the body of a woman who died in a car accident. His father was involved in the crash and police concluded that an autopsy was unnecessary, but Tojiro Kosaki insists. Makoto doesn't understand Tojiro, but the autopsy reveals a hidden truth.
We begin with a story about the Hippocratic Oath (hence its title) considered the founding text of medical ethics, which regulates the profession of doctor. We follow a young recruit, Makoto Tsugano, who will learn the job and its different facets. A drama that will appeal to fans of the genre.
Beppin-san
Original title: Beppin-san – べっぴんさん
Directors: Yoshiro Nagikawa, Shinzo Nitta, Mojiri Adachi
Scriptwriter: Chiho Watanabe
Genre: romance – comedy
Chain: NHK
Episodes : 151
Release date: October 03, 2016 to April 01, 2017
Country: Japan
Main cast of Beppin-san
Kyoko Yoshine
Role : Sumire Bando
Other works: Last Cinderella, Omotesando Koukou Gasshoubu!
Synopsis
Sumire is the second child in a wealthy family. She loves embroidery and sewing. Whatever Sumire decides to do, she always achieves her goal.During World War II, Sumire married and became pregnant, but her husband was sent to war. Just before the end of the war, the city of Kobe was attacked. Due to the attack, Sumire loses the property. While waiting for her husband to return, she began to make children's clothes.
We continue with a drama on a historical background, Sumire makes us discover his daily life and that lived by the Japanese during the Second World War.A good way to discover behind the scenes through the eyes of women of the time. The audio theme is composed by the cult band Mr.Children with Hikari no Atelier!
Pretty Proofreader
Original title: Simpleness Is Great!: Copy Editing Girl Etsuko Kono – Jimi ni Sugoi! Koetsu Garu Kono Etsuko – 地味にスゴイ! 校閲ガール・河野悦子
Director: Toya Sato
Writers: Ayako Miyagi (author), Mayumi Nakatani
Genre: comedy – work
Chain: NTV
Episodes : 05
Release date: October 05, 2016 to …
Country: Japan
Main cast of Pretty Proofreader
Satomi Ishihara
Role: Etsuko Kono
More works: 5-ji kara 9-ji made, Heartbroken Chocolatier
Synopsis
Kono Etsuko dreams of becoming an editor in a fashion magazine and thought of getting closer to her goal by entering a publishing house. Unfortunately for her, she finds herself assigned to the proofreading and correction service.She has the joys of tracking spelling mistakes and inconsistencies in novels or articles that are about to be published. Nevertheless, she does everything to fulfill her task as best she can, not hesitating to go to the other end of Japan to check that a novel respects its context or to conduct her own investigation into a case dealt with in a magazine article. Finally, Etsuko's new work may not be as uninteresting as it seems.
Spring: Nautiljon
We talk about working with Satomi Ishihara who tracks spelling mistakes in a publishing house.A lot of humor and funny situations are to be expected for this novice of the profession. But will she end up liking her new job?
Yuusha Yoshihiko to Michibikareshi Shichinin
Original title: Yuusha Yoshihiko to Michibikareshi Shichinin – 勇者ヨシヒコと導かれし七人
Director: Yuichi Fukuda
Scriptwriter: Yuichi Fukuda
Genre: humor – comedy – fantasy
Chain: TV Tokyo
Episodes : 12
Release date: October 07 to November 10, 2016
Country: Japan
Main cast of Yuusha Yoshihiko to Michibikareshi Shichinin
Takayuki Yamada
Role: Yoshihiko
Other works: Nobunaga Concerto, Arakawa Under the Bridge
Shin Takuma
Role: Danjo
Other works: Kami no Shita wo Motsu Otoko, Blood on the Tracks
Haruka Kinami
Role: Murasaki
Other works: The Sparks, Kari Kare
Tsuyoshi Muro
Role: Merebu
Other works: Juhan Shuttai! Ouroboros
Synopsis
Several hundred years after Yoshihiko and his friends saved the world, a new evil enemy threatens to plunge Earth into darkness. Hotoke once again resurrects the legendary heroes to protect the planet.The adventurer Yoshihiko, the warrior Danjo, the thief Murasaki and the mage Mereb set off on a new epic quest.
Spring: Nautiljon
A drama full of humor and geek references, after two seasons in 2011 and 2012 we did not really expect a sequel… However, we find our crazy heroes in a new adventure still twisted of which only the Japanese have the secret.
https://youtu.be/ASFwalX1cJ8
The Last Cop
Original title: The Last Cop – THE LAST COP ラストコップ
Directors: Ryuichi Inomata, Noriyoshi Sakuma, Hiroto Akashi, Makoto Naganuma
Writers: Robert Dannenberg, Stefan Scheich, Tomoharu Sato
Genre: comedy – detective
Chain: NTV
Episodes: 03
Release date: October 08 to 22, 2016
Country: Japan
Main cast of The Last Cop
Toshiaki Karasawa
Role : Kosuke Kyogoku
Other works: Toto Nee-Chan: Fatherly Sister, Save Our Town!
Masataka Kubota
Role: Ryota Mochizuki
Other works: MARS, Algernon ni Hanataba wo
Synopsis
More than thirty years ago, Yokohama young police officer Kyogoku Kosuke slipped into a coma after a mission gone wrong.When he wakes up, he learns that his wife has remarried his former colleague Suzuki Makoto, but he can't bring himself to leave the police and returns to duty with a new partner Mochizuki Ryota. However, to the great misfortune of the latter, Kosuke is attached to his good old methods of the 80s.
Remake of the German series Mick Brigsau started in 2010 and of which a French adaptation known under the title of Falco had emerged from 2013.
This drama is the sequel to season 1 released in 2015. The cast has not changed and our duo still seems as dynamic as ever.We find Masataka Kubota as a modern policeman facing his partner stuck thirty years back; Humor and action will be waiting for you!
Toga
Original title: Thorn: Petit Bourgeois Haruyuki Kuranaga's Counterattack – Toga Kuranaga Haruyuki no Gyakushuu – とげ 小市民 倉永晴之の逆襲
Directors: Keita Motohashi, Junichi Okajima
Writers: Koshi Yamamoto (author), Tsuzuko Mikuni, Rieko Obayashi, Masue Ogawa
Gender: work – family
Fetters: Fuji TV, Tokai TV
Episodes: ongoing…
Release date: October 08, 2016 to…
Country: Japan
Main cast of Toge
Seiichi Tanabe
Role: Haruyuki Kuranaga
Other works: Kenja no Ai, Dear Sister
Synopsis
Kuranaga Haruyuki works for the Citizen Consultation Centre at Wani no Kuni Municipal Office. In the three years since his transfer, he has led a stressful life battling stomach aches every day. Polite, methodical, cowardly and calm by nature, he is sandwiched between his subordinates, the still shy boss and the citizens who come with requests and complaints that are impossible to deal with. The only respite for Kuranaga is to grumble at the tropical fish bar where he can drink a beer. It is following an emergency that his sense of justice awakens and he begins to fight problems in the workplace.
We follow the daily life of Haruyuki Kuranaga working at the municipal office. Nothing is simple for him who is too kind and who refuses nothing to the citizens asking for his help.But will his thirst for justice get the better of him? What reactions will the inhabitants have to this new man?
https://youtu.be/Me4f5A9qmZ0
Rent-a-Rescue
Original title: Rental Savior – Rentaru Kyuseishu – レンタル救世主
Directors: Shintaro Sugawara, Shunsuke Kariyama, Yuma Suzuki
Scriptwriter: Yusuke Watanabe
Genre: family – comedy
Chain: NTV
Episodes : 05
Release date: October 09 to November 06, 2016
Country: Japan
Main cast of Rent-a-Rescue
Ikki Sawamura
Role : Yugo Akenabe
More works: Kibogaoka no Hitobito, Fake Marriage
Ryusei Fujii (member of 7 WEST)
Role : Denjiro Aoi
Other works: Samurai Sensei, Your Story
Synopsis
Deceived by a former colleague, Akenabe Yugo finds himself in debt up to his neck and fired from his company. Having no choice, he is hired by a somewhat shady company that rents its customers the services of "saviors" in charge of any mission, from the simplest to the most perilous.For his first job, Yugo is tasked with delivering a certain Momochi Reiko who has been kidnapped.
Spring: Nautiljon
A rather original idea that this rental of "rescuers" and Yugo Akenabe does not yet know what he has put his feet in.However, he has no other solution and may have plenty to do. A drama that intrigues us because we do not ask what his missions will be!
Medical Team: Lady Davinci no Shindan
Original title: Medical Team: Lady Davinci's Diagnosis – Medikaru Chimu Redi Davinchi no Shindan – メディカルチーム レディ・ダ・ヴィンチの診断
Director: Kazunari Hoshino
Scriptwriter: Shinichi Tanaka
Genus: medical – mysterious
Fetters: Fuji TV – KTV
Episodes: ongoing…
Release date: October 11, 2016 to…
Country: Japan
Medical Team Main Cast: Lady Davinci no Shindan
Yo Yoshida
Role: Shiho Tachibana
Other works: Naomi and Kanako, Dr. Storks
Katsunori Takahashi
Role: Masayuki Kitabatake
Other works:Iryu: Team Medical Dragon 4, Summer Nude
Synopsis
Tachibana Shiho is a renowned neurosurgeon, but after hallucinating during an operation, she decides to drop the scalpel. One of his former teachers then asked him to join a team at his hospital, specializing in diagnostic establishment. The particularity of his new work team? All feminine! The first case Shiho has to deal with is that of a little boy vomiting blood.
Spring: Passionjdrama
Another drama about medicine that this time will not show the operations. How will this team of women get along?A promising cast including Saki Aibu and Shigeyuki Totsugi to name a few.
https://youtu.be/6A5ZhFyweEs
We Married as Job
Original title: Runaway is Ashamed But Helpful – Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu – 逃げるは恥だが役に立つ
Director: Fuminori Kaneko
Writers: Tsunami Umino (manga), Akiko Nogi
Genre: comedy – romance
Chain: TBS
Episodes : 05
Release date: October 11, 2016 to…
Country: Japan
Main cast of We Married as Job
Yui Aragaki
Role: Mikuri Moriyama
Other works: The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami, Legal High 2
Gen Hoshino
Role: Hiramasa Tsuzaki
More works: Yube no Kare Ashita no Pan, Odd Family 11
Synopsis
Despite graduating, 25-year-old Moriyama Mikuri can't find a stable job. So she lives with her parents and takes on temporary jobs. Her last job is to be a housekeeper for a businessman, named Tsuzaki. She would like to work in the same field as him.Mikuri's aunt, Yuri, who regrets never marrying, does not wish the same for her niece and pushes her to find love. Things will accelerate when Mikuri's parents want to move to the countryside. Without serious work and therefore always dependent on them, Mikuri has no choice but to follow them. But another option is available to her with Tsuzaki. Indeed this brilliant salaryman does not want to lose his housekeeper. In order not to create a scandal by living under the same roof as a single woman, Tsuzaki will propose a paper marriage (white marriage) to Mikuri. It's a new life for Mikuri!
Spring: Manga News
This time we dive into a romantic comedy where our two singles might not stay that way for very long.The pitch promises to be quite banal but promises a rapprochement that should not take too long to evolve.Given the duration of the drama it promises to be fun and funny!
Aibou: Season 15
Original title: Aibou: Season 15 – 相棒 Season 15
Director: Seiji Izumi
Scriptwriter: Yasuhiro Koshimizu
Genre: police – action
Chain: TV Asahi
Episodes : 19
Release date: October 12, 2016 to…
Country: Japan
Main cast of Aibou: Season 15
Mizutani Yutaka
Role: Sugishita Ukyo
Other works: Queen's Castle , A Boy Called H
Sorimachi Takashi
Role: Kaburagi Wataru
Other works: Genkai Shuraku Kabushiki Kaisha, Cheering Beat For Tomorrow
Synopsis
Wataru joined the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department after completing his training at the police academy, but was assigned to the public relations division and not the investigation department.Meanwhile, Hatsue Kurusu goes to Investigation Division No. 1 and claims to have killed Futoshi Miyata. Three days ago, Futoshi's body was found at an irrigation canal and police concluded that he died by accidental drowning. Hatsue Kurusu asks to be punished for his actions. Ukyo decides to help Hatsue and opens an investigation.
We end with a drama that is primarily aimed at fans of the series Aibu which is back for a fifteenth season.A detective drama, led once again by a well-established duo and the return of some recurring characters.
We hope that all its novelties have interested you. We look forward to seeing you next week for new releases on the Japanese side. Good viewing!
