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90 Years Old - So What? 九十歳。何がめでたい

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©︎2024 "90 Years Old-So What?" Film Partners ©︎Aiko Sato/Shogakukan

Broadcast Date

Japan Release: 2024.6.21

Episode / Duration

99min

Director

Tetsu Maeda (前田哲)

Scenario Writer

Satomi Oshima (大島里美)

Cast

Mitsuko Kusabue (草笛光子)
Toshiaki Karasawa (唐沢寿明)

Aiko Sato is a 90 year-old award-winning writer, who retired from her writing job.
Since her retirement, she lived her life listlessly with her daughter and granddaughter.
One day, a geeky mid-aged editor man comes to ask Aiko to write an essay again. Aiko refuses his offer at the beginning, but the editor visits her every day with some treats...and finally, he has convinced her to agree to writing with his enthusiasm.
While the editor gets back his passion for his work again, he also faces a problem with his family. His wife wants to divorce since he works too much and keeps leaving his wife and daughter behind.
After a while, Aiko’s essay book is getting loved by many people and becomes a bestseller, although the book fills with her anger.
Aiko and the editor achieved success and became best buddies at work.
Yet, how would they cope with their own lives?

Action Heroine Cheer Fruits

アクションヒロイン チアフルーツ   액션 히로인 치어후르츠   動作女英雄 水果啦啦隊

30 min. × 12 eps.|12 episodes

What starts as a project for a small-town festival gains traction when local heroines begin getting scouted for popular TV programs. At the urging of her aunt, a prefectural governor in Hinano City, high school senior Misaki Shirogane signs up to become a "heroine fighter" for her area - but everything changes when she realizes that a local superhero show might be the way to rescue their town from serious financial jeopardy! But can they recruit all the girls and resources needed in the short time before the bills come due?

Big Wing

ビッグウイング   빅 윙   東京機場物語

60 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

Everyday 150,000 people pass through the Tokyo International Airport called “Big Wing.” Ever since she was a child, Kumiko Furukawa has wanted to work at Big Wing. Bright and positive, Kumiko’s only fault is her scatterbrained clumsiness which causes her to make mistakes. To many of her co-workers, Kumiko is a nuisance and an embarrassment, but she will have to use her relentless smile and boundless energy to change their minds and serve the Big Wing she loves!

Call me The Shadow : Adventures of a Housewife Detective

専業主婦探偵 〜私はシャドウ   전업주부 탐정~나는 그림자   家庭主婦偵探~我是影子

75 min x 1 ep / 60 min x 8 eps|9 episodes

Full-time homemaker, Serina, is madly in love with her elite securities manager husband, Takefumi. But ever since they got married two years ago as two incurably infatuated lovers, her husband has changed. He has begun to find her unmitigated affection towards him to be “over the top” and “irksome.” As a result, he has begun to avoid her. Then one evening returning from a dinner party, Serina finds herself caught up in a little incident where she encounters a private detective named Haruki. She ends up taking a job working at his office. Though somewhat clumsy and wielding no particular talent to speak of, Serina gradually realizes that she was made for detective work. And in the process of striving for the affection of the husband she loves, she too finds herself changing and growing into a beautifully strong and independent woman.

HANAMIZUKI ~May your love bloom for a hundred years~

ハナミズキ   하나미즈키   花水木

128 min.

High school student Sae Hirasawa lives a simple life with her mother in a peaceful northern fishing town but dreams of a life overseas. She has grown up in the shade of a dogwood tree planted for her as a young child by her itinerant and chronically-ill father, who knew he’d never see his daughter to adulthood. Sae is determined to make it into a top university and increase her chances of landing a job overseas when she meets Kohei Kinouchi, a boy from another high school. The two fall in love and together encourage each other to pursue their dreams, even as it pulls them apart: Sae to a prestigious university in Tokyo and Kohei to the open seas as a fisherman. Inevitably, the physical separation and the widening gap between their ambitions begin to strain their long-distance relationship. As Kohei misses, and increasingly regrets, not seeing Sae grow into a beautiful woman, Sae finds herself inching ever closer to her goal when she meets Kitami, an upperclassman who shares her same dream.

Heaven? My Restaurant, My Life

Heaven?~ご苦楽レストラン~   Heaven? 헤븐   Heaven? 天國餐館

70 min × 3 eps. / 60min × 7 eps.|10 episodes

“Loin d'ici”is a French restaurant oddly situated inside a cemetery, and run by a very eccentric owner who exhibits not a whit of desire to see it succeed except to fulfill her own hedonistic craving of “enjoying the pleasures of food and drink to her heart’s content”. She is surrounded by a colorful, like-minded staff of unique misfits, none of whom possess the refinement, flattery or tact needed. Yet through a string of mishaps and failures, they gradually find in the restaurant a sense of belonging and purpose, growing with the owner into an indispensable team and top-shelf restaurant. Savor this quintessential comical farce packed with laughs plus valuable hints for succeeding in life.

JUMP!!:The Heroes Behind the GOLD

ヒノマルソウル

115 min

The 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. Carrying the hopes of a nation, Japan’s was seeking its first ever gold medal in the Men’s Large Hill Team event. On the sidelines stood one man who harbored particularly strong emotions toward team ace, Masahiko Harada. That man was former Japan ski jumper, Jinya Nishikata.

In the previous Winter Olympic games at Lillehammer, Norway, Nishikata had appeared alongside Harada as a teammate. He had just made the team’s longest jump of 135 meters. Japan looked like it had the gold medal in the bag. But then Harada flubbed his jump. And they had to settle for second place, a silver medal. Vowing to erase that humiliation at the next winter games in Nagano four years later, Nishikata threw himself into training. But then he injured his back and was dropped from the team. His hopes crushed, Nishikata was, however, asked to participate in the Nagano games as a test jumper.

A test jumper’s job is check for any hazards on the hill prior to the event, and to make numerous jumps should it start to snow during the event to pack down the snow. Despite being resigned to a humiliating behind-the-scenes role, Nishikata gathered the other test jumpers, all with back stories of their own, and began preparing for the event.

And then it came. In the first round, Harada again made a poor showing. Team Japan fell to fourth place. But then a fierce blizzard blew in, stopping the action. If the event were to be called now, the first round results would stand.

Just then, the event judges called together all 25 of the test jumpers and said, “If you can all jump, we’ll resume the event.” Miraculously, Japan’s path to a gold medal lay open again, and in the hands of Nishikata and his 24 test jumpers.

Light of My Lion

ライオンの隠れ家   사자의 은신처   獅子的藏身處

60min × 11eps

Hiroto, a kind and earnest older brother and his autistic younger brother, Michito, led an ordinary life together - until one day, a five-year-old boy appeared at their doorstep claiming to be their nephew. This boy, who refers to himself as “Lion”, says he is the son of Hiroto and Michito’s sister, who they believed was dead. However, she was actually alive only to vanish again, entrusting her young son to the brothers’ care. The trio develop a strong camaraderie as they seek to unravel a thicket of lies and a grand scheme of love, surrounding the mysterious sister.

Our Love Song!

愛のうた!   사랑의 노래!   愛之歌

30 min. x 45 eps.|45 episodes

Aki loses her husband-to-be right before their wedding. What is left for her are the three children he had with his ex-wife. This story depicts the transition of Aki and the children instantly becoming a “family,” discovering love and bonds and building a true family. The new family of four heals their wounds of losing their loved one by gradually clearing up normal household issues and becomes true to themselves through their life in the nature of Nasu Heights.

The Wings of the Kirin

麒麟の翼   기린의 날개   麒麟之翼

129 min.

The book author Keigo Higashino describes as the masterpiece of his best-selling ‘Detective Kyoichiro Kaga’ series now comes to the screen! His novel “SHINZANMONO”, a brilliant achievement that in 2009 placed number 1 in the ‘This is a Great Mystery!’ and the Shukan Bunshun Mystery Awards, in 2010 became a wildly popular TV drama starring Hiroshi Abe. Its sequel, “The Wings of the Kirin” published in 2011, is a jewel of a mystery Higashino describes as the masterpiece of the Kaga series. “The Wings of the Kirin”, a ‘moving human drama’ starring Hiroshi Abe, Yui Aragaki, Kiichi Nakai, Junpei Mizobata, Tori Matsuzaka, Meisa Kuroki, Rena Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and other great names in Japanese film.

Ties of Shooting Stars

流星の絆

75min. x 2 eps. / 60min. x 8 eps.|10 episodes

“When we grow up… We’ll kill him together”. Koichi, Taisuke, and Shizuna are three siblings whose parents had been brutally murdered when they were just elementary school children, and they vowed to avenge the death of their parents. Fourteen years later, their vengeful plan unravels countless new facts. A shocking revelation leads to an overwhelmingly emotional ending. What will become of the siblings who have lived their lives solely in reliance of their bond alone?