Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (HANA KIMI)

Synopsis

Based on a popular comic, this hilarious comedy follows the chaos, troubles and friendship at a boys’ boarding school after a girl-disguising-a-boy joins. Ashiya Mizuki has just come back to Japan from California where she was raised. She fell in love with Sano Izumi, a hopeful high jump hero, who has quit after an accident. As she wants him to go back to the sport once again, she enters the same high school as a boy! With a short hair, flattened chest and lowered voice, she starts sharing the same room with Sano.

Hanazakari No Kimitachi e (2011)

Synopsis
This drama is a remake of the popular school drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e that was aired on Fuji TV in 2007.


Cast
Maeda Atsuko as Ashiya Mizuki
Nakamura Aoi as Sano Izumi
Miura Shohei as Nakatsu Shuichi
Kiriyama Renn as Nanba Minami
Yanagishita Tomo as Kayashima Taiki

Hitsudan Hostess

Synopsis

The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-one hostess in Ginza despite being deaf.  "Hitsudan Hostess" was published by Kobunsha this past May, and so far it has sold roughly 115,000 copies. The book depicts the life of Saito, who was born in Aomori and became deaf at the age of 1 due to an illness. She rebelled against her strict parents, and she ran away from home several times as a youth. At a local club, she began taking an interest in "hitsudan" (communicating through writing), which she later made use of when she moved to Tokyo and became a popularhostess at a Ginza club. --Tokyograph