Saturday, December 3, 2011

Saigo No Bansan ~Keiji Tono Ikko to 7-nin no yogisha~ 最後の晩餐 〜刑事・遠野一行と7人の容疑者〜 (2011)

Synopsis
11 customers are invited to an Italian restaurant, Osteria Da Vinci, on its opening day and get embroiled in an arson murder that takes place there. Why was that restaurant targeted? Who is the criminal and what is the objective? There were at least nine customers at the time of the incident. There are a total of six victims, including the deceased and those injured. But from the situation at the scene, the possibility emerges that several guests had quietly disappeared. It is a case with many puzzles. The unconventional detective Tono (Sato Koichi) interviews the owner and chef, Yagisawa (Narimiya Hiroki), and the other confirmed survivors (Kuroki Hitomi, Ishiguro Ken, Nishiyama Teruyuki, Adachi Yumi, Hongo Kanata, Nakao Akira) to reveal the truth of the case.

Quartet カルテット (2011)

Synopsis
Shun (Fukuda Saki), who has tattoos and piercings all over her body, is the third generation descendant of a Japanese orphan left behind in China during World War II. Takeru (Matsushita Yuya) is a lonely and reckless hooligan whose family was murdered when he was a child. Shun, Takeru and a third youth with an equally troubled past and background, become collaborators in police undercover operations in the city of ‘Midori’, a neighbourhood for illegal residents. They infiltrate a criminal gang to investigate, and find illicit human drug experiments and slave treatment staring them in the face. They grow to trust one another and mature through this experience.

Propose Kyoudai プロポーズ兄弟 (2011)

Synopsis
This drama is a love comedy that follows 4 very different types of guys who grew up in a very normal household, a first child, a middle child, a youngest child, and an only chid. This drama portrays the transformation of the guys as they meet someone and begin to realize their own weaknesses and their strengths, and are able to find true happiness. -- Fuji TV

Ouran High School Host Club 桜蘭高校ホスト部 (2011)

Synopsis
First is lineage and second is money for the host club at Ouran High School, one of the private and most prestigious schools in Japan which boys and girls from a privileged segment of society attend. The host club is a magnificent play group where well-off girls with too much time on their hands, are entertained by six good looking guys (Yamamoto Yusuke, Daito Shunsuke, Ryusei Ryo, Chiba Yudai, Takagi Shinpei, Takagi Manpei) who are equally free. Fujioka Haruhi (Kawaguchi Haruna) is the only commoner to enter Ouran High School on a scholarship because of her high scholastic standing. One day, Haruhi breaks the host club’s 8 million yen flower vase. Stuck with a debt, she is assigned by Suou Tamaki (Yamamoto Yusuke) to make her host debut in order to pay off her debt. However, it turns out that Haruhi is a girl. Tamaki’s heart thumps hard in reaction to her lovely smile...

Okujou No Aru Apaato 屋上のある アパート (2011)

Synopsis
Katsuragi Asako, 27, having recently lost her job at a small publishing company, decides to change her life by moving out of her parent’s home and into her own apartment which comes with a rooftop. That move brings with it a mix of new and old friends as well as a new job and the potential for new loves. But moving to an apartment of her own isn’t the only thing it will take for Asako to make the changes she needs to make in herself...

Muscle Girl! マッスルガール! (2011)

Synopsis
Azusa Shiratori (Yui Ichikawa) is the only child of the president of "Shiratori Girls Pro Wrestling" - a small female professional wrestling league. After the death of her father from an illness, Azusa struggles to keep the wrestling league afloat. The company is near bankruptcy with large debts. On the day of a wrestling match, the referee leaves behind a brief note stating that he quit. He also disappears without a trace. Azusa is now in a serious jam, needing a replacement referee.

Azusa then stumbles across a Korean guy (Lee Hong-Ki) she meets on the street. She persuades the man to become a referee for just one day. Unbeknown to Azusa, the man is also a popular star in South Korea.

In order to keep "Shiratori Girls Pro Wrestling" afloat, they then join forces to go up against a rival pro-wrestling organization.

Misaki Number One!! 美咲ナンバーワン!! (2011)

Synopsis
One day, all of a sudden, Misaki, the number one hostess of a club in Roppongi becomes a high school teacher! Of all classes, she is appointed as the homeroom teacher for Class 2Z, a special class for the troublemakers at the school. But, with her positive power, she takes the students head-on, without ever giving up!