Not much to say! Let's take stock of the October 2021 autumn Japanese dramas!
The Sinking of Japan: A Man of Hope
Shun Oguri / Teruyuki Kagawa / An / Kenichi Matsuyama / Toru Nakamura / Eiji Wen
2021-10-10
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Komatsu Sakyo, introduced in 1973. It has been adapted several times, including a 2006 film version starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and an animated version was also released by Netflix in June 2020. This Japanese drama version will greatly adapt the plot, including the protagonist will have many original characters, with Tokyo in 2023 as the stage, telling a story that can only exist now, and seeing hope in the crisis.
True killer label
Hayato Kakita / Seiya Koda / Kota Saka / Kengo Yoshida / Kinako Kobayashi / Amaji Morita / Chito Takemori / BOB / Ryo Aoki / Miho Nakanishi / Yurie Atsumi / Ryo Machida 4 /Minami Ayaka / Kotaro / Horinouchi Satoshi / Tsugakawa Kiyohiko / Fukami Motoki / Sakoda Takaya / Oka Mitsuko / Hamada Akira / Komatsu Toshimasa / Koda Masahiro / Masahiro Hatada / Atsuko Hirata
The production team of "It's Your Turn" will be broadcast across two seasons! The story tells that an ordinary office worker, Rishisuke Aira (Hidetoshi Nishijima), became the "suspect husband" of the world because of the sudden disappearance of his wife Makoto (Riki Miyazawa), his daughter of a high school student, Mitsuri Ayora (Hara Naowa), and his son of a primary school student, Aira Tokutoshi (Yuhito Kobayashi). With the help of his reliable subordinate Mizuho Ninomiya (Kyoko Yoshine), he bravely confronts the "true murderer label" that has been erected and tries to expose the truth.
Solomon's perjury
Kami-Shiraishi / Miyazawa Icefish / Maika Yamamoto / Fukso Hiroki / Yuki Nomura
2021-10-03
The drama is based on Miyuki Miyabe's mystery novel of the same name, and in the early morning at Joto No. 3 Middle School, the body of a student is found on the white and flawless snow. The deceased's name was Takuya Kashiwagi, and he was a student in the second class of the third year. After the police examined the scene and judged, it was determined that Kashiwa died by suicide. The original incident fell silent, who knows how many denunciation letters have stirred up new waves. The letter said that Kashiwa was bullied by his classmates and was eventually killed. Since then, the media has repeatedly interpreted maliciously, and the parents are excited, so that the school is no longer calm. As the head of the class, Ryoko Fujino could no longer bear it, and she decided to organize a court on campus to track down the truth about Kashiwagi's suicide...
Miracle of the X-Ray Chamber 2
Tsubasa Honda / 广爩爱丽丝 / Hamano Kota / Maruyama Tomoki / Yano Koto / Yamaguchi Kouyaka / Koichi Kayado / Nobuyuki Makigi / Kazuyuki Asano / Akira Wakui / Tomito Yakaki
2021-10-4
The story of the second season begins two years after the protagonist of the genius radiology technician, Igarashi Masataka (Masataka Kuwata), who traveled to the United States to develop the reading aid software, but returned to Japan to find that for some reason, the size of the radiation treatment room at The Ganchun General Hospital had shrunk, and the members who had worked together in the past had left the hospital.
AVALANCHE
Tsuyoshi Ayano
2021-10-08
Set in Reiwa, where the problem of social morality is becoming more acute, the drama depicts a series of thrilling acts of the mysterious group "AVALANCHE" that demands justice for people, in which Ayano plays Seiichi Yu, a member of "AVALANCHE".
Samurai Mom
Shigeru Jojima / Dainishi Kazeya / Shinya Arino / Inoue Aikai
2021-10-11
Adapted from the manga work of Itabata, he is extremely suspicious that TOKIO has a female costume addiction, and after Matsuoka Masahiro plays the live housekeeper Mitsunohara, this time played by captain Shigeru Shiroshima to annoy the big mother, facing the son of the rebellion period and various events, developing a hilarious and warm family story. Although the protagonist of the original work is really a woman, Sehiroshima Leader unexpectedly has no sense of violation after dressing up (laughs), and I also said that I have no feeling of resistance to the character after the transformation, hoping that just like the parents and children in the work grow up together, they will grow up.
Just stamped the marriage application
Kiyoyasai name / Kentaro Sakaguchi / Kana Kashina / Masahiro Takasugi / Mai Fukagawa
2021-10
The heroine, Akiha Ogato (Kiyono Naomi), is a modern woman who has no intention of getting married and only wants to put in work, but one day she is proposed by a handsome office worker who has only known her for 30 minutes, Hyakuse (Kentaro Sakaguchi). Because of some reasons, Hyakisa wants to get the identity of a married person, so he hopes to marry Akaba fakely, and Akaba accepts it because of his grandfather's illness and hope to keep the family business, so he accepts it under the condition of borrowing money from Hyakisa, and the two begin to live together, and slowly become attracted to each other.
Buddy 20
Akira Mizutani / Takashi Sorimachi / Koji Ishizaka / Tetsuta Sugimoto / Yue Nakaba / Kazuhisa Kawahara / Takashi Yamanaka
This first special episode, "Resurrection", will tell the story of former Cabinet Intelligence Investigation Office employee Tachibana Eiko (Oriko Tokachiyama) who was arrested on suspicion of killing IT giant Shumei Kasai (Kanji Ishimaru) and suddenly banned from meeting. Sugishita Ukyo (Mizutani Toyo) and Kanjo Takashi (Anti-Machi Takashi) investigate this suspicion, and the Chief Cabinet Secretary, Tsuyoshi Tsuruta (Kazuyuki Sagajima), appears at this time saying that Yongzi has committed suicide, suspecting that she was searched by the sealed special agent, but was involved in a complex and intertwined conspiracy, and Tsuki was arrested.
It's love! Bad boy with white cane girl
Sugisaki Hana / Sugino Haruaki / Nobuyuki Agigi / Nagi / Goro Kishitani
2021-10-6
Adapted from うおやま webcomic. The story tells that the protagonist, Yukiko Akaza (Sugizawa Hana), a high school senior at the School for the Blind who can barely see light and color, died a few years ago, and now lives with her father and sister, she needs to hold a white cane when she goes out, although she is competitive and poisonous, she also has a natural and cute side, and is very timid in love. One day she meets Kurokawa Morio (Haruori Sugino), a bad boy who is a feared boy who is stabbed in an important part by a white cane in Yukiko's hand because he is standing on a blinding brick. He was about to intimidate her into saying that she had a knife scar on her face, but she touched his face with both hands and asked if she wanted to rub the red potion. Although there was a cold attitude between them at first, Yukiko was gradually attracted to his bluntness, bringing a love drama of the heterochromatic combination of Street Fighter and a low-sighted female high school student.
I just wanted to say like you
Sakurako Ohara / Kainon Sakurai
2021-09-29
The story tells that the protagonist Chitose Tsushima (Sakurako Ohara), 24 years old, hated to be lying because he had been deceived as a child and was not good at seeing through lies. She suddenly transferred to an art studio as an agent, in charge of the potential actor Fujishiro Se (Sakurai Kaino), he has excellent acting skills, but in fact, he and Chitose are Aome Takema, and cheated on her when she was a child, but the agent and the actor gradually developed a forbidden love.
Doctor-X 7
Ryoko Yonekura / Yuki Uchida / Kazutoku Kishibe / Kenichi Endo / Masanobu Katsumura / Kosuke Suzuki / Toshiyuki Nishida / Mansai Nomura
Season Seven takes the once-in-a-century pandemic that causes medical collapse around the world, ushering in a new situation in Japan's highest teaching hospital, Totei University Hospital, which has made infection treatment and internal medicine a top priority and plans to postpone unnecessary emergency surgeries. Once-well-known surgeries were moved to the branch building, and physicians promoted chemical surgery without the use of scalpels, showing signs of emergence. The unknown son, swept up by the infection crisis and the new power of the Eastern Emperor, also embarked on his own path without flinching in the battlefield-like exhausting medical scene.
Super Rich
Tokuko Eguchi / Keiji Akatsuki / Keita Machida
The story tells the story of Aigami Akira (Noriko Eguchi), the president of three star books, a 40-year-old startup who was born into a wealthy family and never bothered about money, although she won social praise as a professional woman, but because she lost her parents at an early age, she has been living a life of longing for love. At this time, Yu Haruno (Keiji Akachu), a poor student who accepted the "THREE STAR BOOKS" exam, came to her company for an internship, and the two of them will spend time together through the difficulties faced by the company, and Eguchi, who is from Hyogo Prefecture, will also use kansai dialect throughout the show. The head of personnel at E's company and her loyal right-hand man, Miyamura Kō (Keita Machida), but his relationship with Eji will gradually collapse with the appearance of his intern Haruno Yu.
Unlucky Girl！
Haruka Fukuhara / Yumi Wakatsuki / Hisashi Iku / Akira Takanashi / Takumi Kisu / Minoru Asai / Mizuo Itagaki / Maira Arai
2021-10-07
The story revolves around the "world's most unfortunate" 3 women, who are constantly in trouble, but still strive for happiness, becoming an original "unfortunate comedy" that ends in one episode. One of the three unfortunate women, Fukuhara Haruka (Fukuhara Haruka), a 25-year-old who works at a lottery ticket sales office, has extremely bad luck, especially money luck. In addition, there are 31-year-old Asakura Ka (Yumi Wakamizuki), who has no men's luck or noble luck, and Ayami Ko(Takanashi Rin), a 35-year-old who has no job at the extreme of career luck. The three of them met because of the commotion that occurred during the sale of lottery tickets, and they were also involved in different disasters. Later, they meet a mysterious man who claims to be a lawyer and a fortune teller, and the 3 of them act according to their divination, but they become more unfortunate, and eventually there will be an unexpected little luck? Stupidism will challenge him for the first time to serve as a narrator.
The Labyrinth of Spirals: A Scientific Search of DNA
Kei Tanaka / Akira Yasuda / Kana Kurako / Keiko Matsusaka / Kazuki Watanabe
Adapted from the manga of the same name, Kei Tanaka plays a talented genetic scientist who can record hundreds of millions of lines of nucleic acid sequences, and he will solve various strange cases with Yasuda's hot-blooded criminal policeman Ando Genji.
Favorite
Yuriko Yoshitaka / Kohei Matsushita / Arata Iura
The story tells that 33-year-old New Drug Development Company President Iriya Sanada (Yuriko Yoshitaka), who spent her youth in her hometown 15 years ago in 2006, has been smiling all the time, because her father is the dormitory director of the university's athletics department dormitory, and she has also become a kanban lady in the dormitory. She then enrolled in the Faculty of Pharmacy at a university in Tokyo for her future goals, and at the age of 30 became the president of Sanada Health, a subsidiary of Sanada Holdings run by her mother, and attracted the attention of the world for "30 generations of presidents who can change the world." In 2021, people related to the disappearance of 15 years ago appear one by one in front of the industrialist's eyes, so that the events that have been sealed for many years are activated again, and then she is listed as a major suspect in the serial murder case, the criminal police who pursued her are her first love 15 years ago, plus a lawyer who will do whatever it takes to protect Li Yanghui, and the three of them will bring out unpredictable story developments.
The men of the Wada family
Masaki Aiba / Kuranosuke Sasaki / Yasunori Duanda
It tells the story of the three generations of the Wada family who are engaged in media work but have differences in professional ethics and values, Masaki Aiba plays Yuwata, who has become an online news reporter due to unemployment due to the epidemic, Kuranosuke Sasaki plays his father who works as a producer in a television news program, and Annuta Duanda plays his grandfather who serves as a commentator in a news agency, and three generations live under the same roof, and the three of them have a very interesting dialogue due to differences in professional ethics and values.
Scars Bar
Tochiyo Harada
The story is set in a nightclub called "Scar Bar", where only people who are injured in family, workplace, and love will come, and there will be no alcohol in the store, which is a bit strange and unbelievable. The hostess, Tako (Chisei Harada), will bring them warm drinks, delicious dishes, and even singing songs to heal the wounds in the hearts of these guests.
Winner of February ~ Absolutely qualified classroom ~
Ryoya Yanagi / Mao Inoue / Seisuke Kato
2021-10-16
Adapted from the manga of the same name by Takase Shiho. The story tells that the star lecturer of the well-known middle school test cram class of the theoretical school, Kuroki Hideyoshi (Yumi Yanagi), went to a middle class cram school with sluggish performance as the principal. As soon as he took office, he told the students who had just entered the 6th grade that "everyone will definitely be admitted to the first choice." Calling the cram school a place to sell children's futures, students as golden veins, and parents as sponsors, he relies on keen insight and action to see through the essence of students, while also solving the anxieties of parents.
The first love that was erased
Doe Branch Junyou / Meguro Lotus
2021-10-9
Adapted from the manga of the same name by アルコ画, ひねくれ渡原作. The story tells the story of Aoki (Michieda Junyu), a pure and gentle high school student, who has a crush on a female classmate in the neighborhood and the angel in the class, Rishitaka Fukumoto. One day Aoki borrowed an eraser from the bridge, and found that the name of the volleyball hard school classmate of the same class, Ida (Meguro Lotus), was accidentally dropped when he was holding this eraser, just picked up by Ida, after seeing the name on the eraser, he thought that Aoki liked him, Aoki although he wanted to deny, but did not want him to know that Hashimoto was secretly in love with him, so he claimed that the eraser was his own, because this misunderstanding gradually triggered an unexpected triangle relationship.
Do you have to swear to love each other even though?
Marika Matsumoto
Based on hagiwara's manga of the same name, the series is about the troubles of women who have been married for 8 years, have been sexless for 5 years, and have no children.
Asakusa Koko
Hiroshi Oizumi / Yumi Yanagi / Shinyuki Tsuchiya / Munwaki / Nanami Suzuki
2021-12-09
The film is based on takeshi Kitano's autobiography of the same name, with Yumi Yanagi playing Takeshi Kitano and Hiroshi Ozumi playing his master Chisaburo Fukami. In Asakusa, Tokyo in the Showa 1940s, Kitano tookshi from Chisaburo Fukami, and since then his legendary acting career has begun.
newspaperman
Ryoko Yonekura
2021
It tells the story of Asuna Matsuda (Ryoko Yonekura), a journalist from the Ministry of Social Affairs of Dongdu, who is known as a "journalistic heretic", who constantly challenges and excavates the truth behind social issues.
The Goldfish Wife
Ryoko Shinohara
The series is based on the manga of the same name, the heroine Hiraga Sakura (Shinohara) gave up her dream due to an accident, married her husband who runs a beauty salon, and lives together in a high-rise apartment, but her husband imposes domestic violence on her, but she cannot escape such a family. She thought she was like the goldfish trapped in the fish tank, unable to escape. One day, because of this goldfish, she met a wonderful man, so Hiraga Sakura began an affair with him...
The shore is dewy and motionless New works
Issen Takama / Manrie Tsubasa / Masashi Kasamatsu / Sarunosuke Ichikawa / Rio Uchida
Based on Araki's original work "Shore Dew Is Motionless", a live-action drama adapted!
Morning drama
Come Come Everybody
Yuri Fukatsu / Moe Kamishiroishi / Rina Kawaba / Hokuto Matsumura / Nijiro Murakami / Mt. Koda / Akira Odagiri / Akiko Ichikawa / Taichi Saotome / Shofukutei Laughing Bottle
2021-11-01
The story describes the beginning of Japanese broadcasting at the end of the Taisho period, the grandmother Yasuko was born in Okarayama Prefecture's Washiko shop, the gentle and straightforward Anko is surrounded by the aroma of red beans every day, and wishes for the happiness and longevity of the family in the future, but the war took away her husband, and she was also affected by the English radio program that began, leaving her daughter Yui alone in Japan to chase her dreams. In the 1950s, Ryo hated her mother for her and the English language that separated the two, but fell into the world of jazz and felt redeemed. Later, Hinata's daughter Hyuga was born in an era of peace and economic boom, and Hyuga, who has always admired the era drama, finally found herself positioning in English broadcasting, and the three grandchildren listened to the same English radio program at the same time, opening the way to the future.