Teppan Shoujo Akane (JDrama 2006)

Title: 鉄板少女アカネ!!
Title (romaji): Teppan Shoujo Akane!!
Also known as: Teppan Girl
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Food / Family
Episodes: 9
Viewership ratings: 8.72%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2006-Oct-15 to 2006-Dec-10
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: "Sayonara" by Orange Range

Synopsis:
Kagura Akane (Horikita Maki) is the only daughter of a family who runs a teppanyaki place in downtown Tokyo. Akane had always been proud of her father Tetsuma, who was called the “No.1 teppanyaki chef in Japan.” Growing up in such an environment, she naturally acquired “teppanyaki skills.” However, when her mother died of illness, her father lost his energy to work and disappeared. Since then, Akane has managed and protected the restaurant all by herself. One day, out of the blue, she is visited by Erena (Katase Nana), the rich daughter of a major food company, who orders Akane to move out at once because her father had borrowed money against his restaurant. Though feeling disappointed, Akane makes up her mind to close the store. But when her father’s friend, Kurogane (Jinnai Takanori), shows her “Ittetsu,” a grilling plate that Akane’s father cherished, it reignites her passion towards teppanyaki.

In order to protect the restaurant, she embarks on a journey with Shinta (Tsukamoto Takashi) to search for her father, but wherever she goes, she ends up getting involved in culinary battles. "--TBS"

Episode Titles:
Ep 01: Cooking condition is the essence of cuisine!! Recovering Father's taste
Ep 02: Challenge!! Exquisite Yakisoba
Ep 03: Hokkaido's Delicious Dish, the No. 1 decisive battle: Crab vs. Potato
Ep 04: A School Festival's Diet Cooking Battle!
Ep 05: Goodbye Shinta...A Globefish Pan of Tears
Ep 06: Counterattack of Grandma Matsutake Mushroom
Ep 07: An enemy of Yokohama Chinatown, the Impact of the Lobster Confrontation!
Ep 08: Hamburger Steak Confrontation! Reason for Betrayal
Ep 09: All mysteries will be revealed tonight!

~ 1 DVD
External links for review & more informations about the drama:
# Teppan Shoujo Akane!! at DramaWiki

First Kiss (JDrama 2007)

Title: ファースト・キス
Title (English): First Kiss
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 14.1 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2007-Jul-09 to 2007-Sept-17
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: Kokoro by Kazumasa Oda

Synopsis:
A bitter-sweet and uplifting comedy drama about a young girl Mio and her brother Kazuki. To treat her illness overseas, Mio has been living away from her older brother Kazuki for the past ten years. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio's return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart.

Episode Information
01 My little sister was a devil!!
02 Gokon for the time-bomb girl
03 The beginning of my little sister's love
04 Today, my little sister gets her heart broken
05 Little sister! There's gonna be a confession today?
06 Now, love blooms
07 Tonight, my little sister becomes an angel
08 Goodbye, little sister
09 Don't go, little sister!
10 The brother and sister's last chapter
11 The letter that came from heaven

~ 2 DVDs
External links for review & more informations about the drama:
# First Kiss at DramaWiki

Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi (Mini) Season 1 (2006)

Title: 翼の折れた天使たち
Title (romaji): Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi
Also known as: Angels With Broken Wings / Fallen Angels
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Theme song: RESISTANCE by Nakashima Mika

Season 1

Ueto Aya, Horikita Maki, Yamada Yu, Ueno JuriEpisodes: 4
Broadcast period: 2006-Feb-27 to 2006-Mar-02
Air time: 23:00~23:45

~ 1 DVD

Iryu - Team Medical Dragon (JDrama 2006)

Title: 医龍 Team Medical Dragon
Title (romaji): Iryu Team Medical Dragon
Also known as: Team Medical Dragon
Genre: Medical
Broadcast network: Fuji TV

Iryu 1
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 14.75%
Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-13 to 2006-June-29
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: Believe by AI

Synopsis

Ryutaro Asada, a renegade but brilliant surgeon, was being framed for a misdiagnosis and let go by the North Japanese Hospital. He went into exile and lived in a seaside shack when he was visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital.

Despite being a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She was ambitious and set her goal to be promoted to full professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique — an extremely difficult type of heart surgery — and to write a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro’s skills when he was an NGO doctor and was impressed enough to seek his assistance in the Batista technique.

This drama exposed the difficulties encountered in the rigid Japanese medical professions in treating patients whereby decisions made were based more on protecting the hospitals than the patients.

Iryu 2
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 16.8(Kanto)
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-11 to 2007-Dec-20
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: ONE by AI

Synopsis:

In Iryu 2, Asada Ryutaro wages a new battle against the realities of Japan’s medical care system. The government has drafted legislation to tackle the recent inflation of medical fees; hospitals have entered an era in which they will go bankrupt if they aren’t independently run. At the same time, hospital mergers and takeovers are also taking place. Additionally, the obstetrics and pediatrics departments are being closed in succession, and there are inadequate doctors in the region - issues that are closely related to these hospital management problems. Now, hospitals, like the average corporation, face collapse if they are not profitable.

External links for review & more informations about the drama:
# Iryu at DramaWiki
# Team Medical Dragon at Wikipedia

Dragon Zakura (JDrama 2005)

Title: ドラゴン桜
Title (romaji): Dragon Zakura
Format: Renzoku
Genre: School, drama and comedy
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 16.41
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2005-Jul-08 to 2005-Sept-16

~ 2 DVDs

More photos of drama at:
# Dragon Zakura (Japanese Drama 2005) Reviews

External links for review & more informations about the drama:
# Dragon Zakura at Wikipedia
# Dragon Zakura at DramaWiki

Only You (Korean Drama 2005)

Title: 온리유 / On-ri Yu
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2005-06-04 to 2005-07-24

Synopsis
Eun Jae (Han Chae Young) was a stubborn and head-strong girl who had a passion for cooking. She did not have any interest in going to college and with the help of her hig school friend, Jung Hyun Sung (Lee Chun Hee)ran away to Italy to enroll in a cooking school. Jung Hyun Sung who loved her dearly went along with her.
Han Yi-Joon (Jo Hyun Jae) came from a wealthy family. He travelled to Italy looking for his mother and there he ran into Eun Jae, who had also been seeking the same person to learn the secrets to making great pasta. She comforted Yi-Joon, who was distraught over his mother's remarrying, and they ended up making love. Yi Joon left Eun Jae the next morning over some misunderstanding. Eun Jae became pregnant and had no choice but to give up her dream and to return to Korea.
6 years later, Eun Jae was working in low paying restaurant jobs, Yi-Joon atarted to take over the operations of his family's business, and Hyun Sung was working as a chef for one of the restarurants owned by Yi-Joon and managed by Ji Soo Yeon (Hong Soo Hyun). Hyun Sung was good with Eun Jae's son and he was helping out Eun Jae's whole family financially as they had fallen on hard times. Yi-Joon found out that he still had feelings for Eun Jae as they ran into each other when he was looking for a new chef for his restaurant. The dramatic tension unfolds as the four main characters worked out their feelings for each other.

~1 DVD

External links for review & more informations about the drama:
# Only You (TV series) at Wikipedia
# Only You (SBS) at DramaWiki
# Review by Los Angeles at Asian TV Series - spcnet.tv
# Review by BiInLurve at Asian TV Series - spcnet.tv

Kurosagi (JDrama 2006)

Title: クロサギ
Title (romaji): Kurosagi
Title (English): The Black Swindler
Genre: Action, Crime investigation, Romance
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 15.67
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-14 to 2006-Jun-23

Synopsis
Kurosaki is a young man whose family was destroyed by swindlers. Despite that, Kurosaki grows up to become a con artist known as Kurosagi. As Kurosagi, he swindles other con artists and returns the money to the original victim. He works with the master swindler Katsuragi Toshio even though Toshio had a hand in the destruction of Kurosaki’s family. Kurosaki's life begins to change when he meets Yoshikawa Tsurara, a young law student who disapproves of his disrespect of the law. Can she persuade Kurosaki to give up swindling and his quest for revenge?

~ 1 DVD

External links for review & more informations about the drama:
# Kurosagi at DramaWiki
# Kurosagi at Wikipedia

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (JDrama 2007)

Details:
Title: 花ざかりの君たちへ
Title (romaji): Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
Title (English): For You in Full Blossom
Tagline: イケメン♂パラダイス / Ikemen Paradise
Also known as: Hana Kimi
Genre: High school romance comedy
Broadcast network: Fuji TV

Renzoku:
Episodes: 12
Viewership ratings: 17.3(Kanto)
Broadcast period: 2007-Jul-03 to 2007-Sept-18
Air time: Tuesday 21:00
Theme songs:
Opening theme: Ikenai Taiyo by Orange Range
Ending theme: PEACH by Otsuka Ai
Insert songs: My Love by Kawashima Ai, Boom boom boom by Go Hiromi, Paradise Ginga by Hikaru Genji, Tomaranai Ha~Ha by Yazawa Eikichi, Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne
See Hanazakari no Kimitachi e OST for original soundtracks listing
Related drama: Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu

Synopsis:
The drama is based on the popular manga of the same name by Nakajo Hisaya, which has already been dramatized in Taiwan. Horikita plays the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki, a Japanese girl in the U.S. who one day sees the young athlete Sano Izumi (Oguri) compete in the high jump on television. She begins to idolize him, and decides to move to Japan to attend the same school as him. However, Izumi goes to an all-boys school, so Mizuki disguises herself as a boy to achieve her dream of being with her idol.

Episode Information:
01 Getting into the Forbidden Boys' Dormitory
02 Wrong Kiss
03 Bizarre Big Brother
04 Dangerous Three-Person Room
05 Hopeless Coast Story
06 The Beginning of Stormy Love
07 Suddenly in Bed
08 I Like Mizuki
09 Exposed!
10 Depend On Me
11 I'll Jump for You
12 We'll Protect You

External links for review & more informations about the drama:
# Hanazakari no Kimitachi e at Wikipedia
# Hanazakari no Kimitachi e at DramaWiki

~2 DVDs data file