August 2019 19
Two Weeks
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Tuesdays, 16 July 2019
Station: Fuji TV
Scriptwriter: Yamaura Masahiro (Miss Devil, Zenigata Keibu Series, Umi ni Furu)
Original Work: Two Weeks by MBC
Genre: Suspense
Cast: Miura Haruma, Yoshine Kyoko, Higa Manami, Miura Takahiro, Inagaki Kurumi, Kondo Koen, Suzuki Jin, Buffalo Goro A, Kamio Yu, Kubota Yuki, Isomura Hayato, Hara Sachie, Ikeda Tetsuhiro, Takashima Masanobu, Kuroki Hitomi
Synopsis: Yuki Daichi (Miura Haruma) previously served time for attempted murder and now feels no hope in life. He spends each day just living for the moment. Then one day, his girlfriend Aoyagi Sumire (Higa Manami), who was the only one he ever loved deeply but told him they were over due to some incident, shows up. She says that she gave birth to their daughter whom she calls Hana (Inagaki Kurumi). Hana is now 8 years old and has leukemia. Although Yuki is bewildered this sudden revelation, he feels fondness as a father when he meets Hana for the first time at the hospital. As luck would have it, Yuki learns that he is a match with Hana and this gives him meaning in life once again. However, he is framed by someone and ends up getting arrested for a murder. With the bone marrow transplant surgery scheduled to take place two weeks later, Yuki goes on the run in order to save Hana’s life.
.Janus no Kagami
Date: From 16 August 2019 (updated on Fridays)
Station: Fuji On Demand
Scriptwriters: Aso Kumiko (Kakafukaka, Gosaigyou, Double Fantasy), Aoki Erika
Original Work: Janus no Kagami by Miyawaki Akiko
Cast: Sakurai Hinako, Shirasu Jin, Shiono Akihisa, Nimura Sawa, Mori Maria, Hagiwara Masato, Kokusho Sayuri
Synopsis: Ozawa Hiromi (Sakurai Hinako), a kind-hearted second-year high school student, lives with her strict grandmother Takako (Kokusho Sayuri) and her late mother’s older brother and wife. Grieved by the loss of her daughter, Takako’s education for Hiromi goes too far. Hiromi is robbed of her freedom by her grandmother and her high school life shrinks. Hiromi likes Shindo Kenichi (Shirasu Jin), the president of the student council. But at one point, Takako learns of Kenichi’s existence. In a fury, she locks Hiromi up in a storage room as punishment for the first time in years. An old mirror in the room triggers Hiromi’s flashbacks of the past and she faints. When she wakes up, she has changed into another person, Yumi, with a completely different personality.
Sagi Deka
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Saturdays, 31 August 2019
Station: NHK
Scriptwriter: Adachi Naoko (Kinou Nani Tabeta?, Toumeina Yurikago, Daibinbo)
Genre: Detective
Cast: Kimura Fumino, Takasugi Mahiro, Mashima Hidekazu, Shimizu Hiroya, Adachi Rika, Tamaoki Reo, Nagatsuka Keishi, Tsurumi Shingo, Kagawa Kyoko, Aoki Munetaka, Endo Kenichi, Izumi Pinko (guest star), Tsutsui Mariko (guest star), Ito Shiro (guest star)
Synopsis: Detective Imamiya Karen (Kimura Fumino) belongs to the Second Investigation Division which is in charge of white-collar crime. She thoroughly and single-mindedly investigates and tracks down criminals wherever they are on her motorbike. Her secret investigation pays off, allowing her colleagues including Moriyasu Shingo (Mashima Hidekazu) to burst into a secret operations base and successfully arrest the criminals behind a bank transfer scam. However, this bunch are at the bottom of the organisation and do not know anything about the higher-ups who have the large sums of money. Imamiya’s section chief Tezuka Kenzo (Endo Kenichi) proposes that Imamiya let Kaji Hayato (Takasugi Mahiro) go free in the hope that he will make contact with the top. This is the start of Imamiya’s long “game” with Kaji. There is also another reason why Imamiya wishes to do whatever it takes to arrest the ringleader … …
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