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Downtown Rocket 下町ロケット   변두리 로켓   下町火箭

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Persistence is the key ingredient to achieving a lifelong dream. As a space science researcher, Kohei Tsukuda harbors such a dream. But when his father passes away, he finds himself returning home to take over his a small engine factory located in an old part of town. As the 2nd president of Tsukuda Works, Kohei enjoys moderate success at first, but the company is too cash-strapped to let him pursue the rocket engine of his dreams. Then everything begins to fall apart. He loses his biggest customer, the banks tighten credit and a major manufacturer files a patent infringement suit of $90 million, threatening the livelihoods of his employees and the future of the company. And then one day, a major conglomerate, Teikoku Heavy Industries”, learns of a valve system Kohei’s company has developed and approaches him with an offer of $20 million for its rights. But will it be enough to stave off disaster and keep the dream alive?
Rocket Dreams(Title) will conjure up your purest emotions and fill you with the determination to face tomorrow.
永不放棄。這是實現夢想的基本。
曾是宇宙科学開発機構研究員的佃航平選擇回到父親所留下在下町的工廠,以製作小型引擎的「佃製作所」的社長, 開啓他的第二人生。開所當時成長的業績隨著研究和開發火箭引擎的經費逐漸把公司的資金逼到窮路。接著又收到主要供應商要求停止交易的消息和銀行貸款的拖延以及大型機械製造商企業控訴遭受專利權侵害並要求法律賠償的危機。就在窮途末路的員工們面臨是生是死的時刻,日本首屈一指的大企業「帝国重工」提出向佃製作所購買專利的意願。而這筆交易金額高達20億日幣。這個交易究竟對佃製作所來說是凶是吉。還是・・・?
這是一部能讓收看的觀眾, 回歸到誠實面對夢想的心情,重新拾起明日活力的溫暖劇。
포기하지 않는다. 그것은 꿈을 실현시키는 기본이다.
우주과학개발기구의 연구원이었던 쓰쿠다 고헤이는 아버지가 남긴 변두리 공장으로 돌아와 소형엔진을 만드는「쓰쿠다 제작소」에서 사장으로 제2의 인생을 시작한다. 예전에는 실적이 좋았던 쓰쿠다 제작소였지만 로켓엔진 연구개발비가 회사의 자금융통을 압박하게 된다. 그리고, 돌연 거래처로부터 거래중지를 당하고 은행은 대출을 미룬다. 게다가 대기업 기계회사로부터 특허침해로 90억엔의 손해배상청구까지 받게 되어 사원들은 삶과 죽음의 궁지에 몰리게 된다. 때마침 일본을 대표하는 대기업「테이코쿠중공」으로부터 쓰쿠다 제작소가 가진 밸브시스템의 특허를 20억엔에 구매하겠다는 제안을 받게 된다. 이 제안은 고헤이와 회사에게 과연 좋은 소식이 될 수 있을까? 내일을 위한 활력이 될 드라마.

Black Forceps

ブラックペアン   블랙 페앙   黑色止血鉗

85 min × 2 eps / 80 min × 1 ep / 75 min × 1 ep / 60 min × 6 eps|10 episodes

A medical thriller based on Takeru Kaido's novel, Black Forceps 1988, protagonist Seishiro Tokai is a surgical genius whose perfect operational success rate has earned him the monikier, “The Demon of O.R.” at the Tojo University Hospital, a name that also points to his overbearing and solitary personality. He is countered by a rookie physician, Gonta Takashina, who comes to the hospital from a different medical university advocating hard for cutting edge medical technology that promises to render individual differences in surgical skill obsolete and level the playing field among surgeons. Naturally, a battle brews Takashina and Tokai who is adverse to the idea of machines taking over surgical procedures, particularly with regard to cardiac surgery. Tokai also confronts a powerful university hospital system that is rife with jealousies and political intrigue, and seeks to expose a hidden past and new technology corruption scandal in this highly entertaining medical drama.

Dark System: Battle for Love’s Throne

ダークシステム 恋の王座決定戦   다크시스템 사랑의 왕좌결정전   不擇手段追女生

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

How to win the greatest love by the worst means! The world of romance is not for the timid. For Jiro Kagami, who has never been popular with the girls, the only way to win the heart of his beloved Yuri is by beating out four rivals with the use of a so-called “dark machine” that he hopes will make up for his lack of a way with women.

JIN

JIN -仁-   仁醫

114 min x 1 ep / 85min x 1 ep / 65min x 1 ep / 60min x 8 eps|11 episodes

A brain surgeon, Jin Minakata, is hurtled back in time to the Edo period at the time of the fall of the Tokugawa government. He finds himself having to save lives without the luxury of modern medical equipment or medicine, and unwittingly thrown into the middle of the tumultuous political times. Taking to heart the words, “God only presents you with challenges that you can overcome,” Jin endeavors to make the most of his new lot in life, as if convinced that he will rediscover something in the past which he has lost in the present. Awash in a different time and a different world of epic scale and grandeur, Jin finds that history now turns on him.

La Grande Maison Tokyo SPECIAL

グランメゾン東京 スペシャル   그랑 메종 도쿄 스페셜   東京三星夢 特別篇

125min × 1ep

Hayami became the first Asian female chef to earn a three-star Michelin rating within just a year of opening her restaurant. However, the spread of the new coronavirus caused a severe blow to her business. In a bid to survive, she returns to online sales of frozen dinners and recipes, which causes her dishes to focus more on appearance than taste, putting ‘Grand Maison Tokyo’ in danger of losing one of its Michelin stars. Meanwhile, the restaurant’s former top chef, Natsuki Obana, has disappeared somewhere in France. However, when Hayami visits a restaurant in Kyoto, rumored to soon be nominated as the world’s best French restaurant, she is convinced that Obana is there. Why has he mysteriously returned to Japan?!

Letter to Mom in Heaven

命〜天国のママへ〜   생명~천국의 엄마에게~   在天國的母親

120 min. x 1 ep.|1 episode

Haruki Mizunuma is a workaholic who runs a design office in Tokyo and has left the rearing of his grade school son, Ren, completely to his wife, Kyoko. But she becomes hospitalized for de-terioration health. Treatment fails to work and suddenly, she has departed from this world. Ha-ruki is not ready to be suddenly raising a son by himself, and Ren himself is devastated by his mother’s death and loses the desire to live. And then on the first anniversary of Kyoko’s death, Haruki and Ren pay a visit to her native home in the mountains where the family business of forestry has been maintained for 500 years. Haruki begins to seek the meaning of the “Tree of Happiness”, which Kyoko had written in her day planner. But first he must confront the cold treatment by his father-in-law, Shigeya, who had never approved of their marriage.

RIKUOH

陸王   육왕   陸王

120 min × 1 eps / 90 min × 1 eps / 85 min × 2 eps / 75 min × 2 eps / 60 min × 4 eps|10 episodes

Dramatization based on the novel “RIKUOH” by Jun Ikeido. Koichi Miyazawa is the CEO of the longstanding company which manufacture tabi(traditional Japanese socks). Due to a decrease of demand for tabi thesedays, the Company, Kohazeya, has fallen upon hard times. For the company's survival, Miyazawa strikes upon the idea of creating a new type of running shoe that utilizes “tabi” making techniques to make the user feel as if running in bare feet. But the road ahead for a cash-strapped local company with a small staff is steep, and Miyazawa runs into continuous roadblocks only to be saved time and time again by those around him. Will he succeed in launching his running shoe and saving his company? Follow Miyazawa in this uplifting tale of economic revitalization.

Send in Tenma!

天魔さんがゆく   텐마씨가 간다   天魔來了

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

An extremely fearful youth, Tenma Hokai, grudgingly runs a ghost extermination agency only because he hails from a long genealogy of those with special abilities to communicate with spirits. When a request comes in, he and his company colleagues strap on special devices and head for the haunted sites in what is a Japanese version of Ghostbusters. Or so one would hope. But alas, the weak-nerved Tenma can hardly bear the thought of encountering ghosts and tries instead to hear their grievances and rectify the problems that keep them in the corporal world, even through gentle persuasion. Meanwhile, Tenma must contend with a lady who follows him around, speak to his deceased father through dreams, a bothersome detective, a parade of quirky clients and spirits in what is far from a tale of horror but rather a hilarious comedy with comical interplay that also delivers a serious treatment on the meaning of "life" in a completely original drama.

The Reason

宮部みゆき『理由』   이유   懸疑小說-理由

140 min x 1 ep|1 episode

Based on a novel by Japan's premier suspense novelist, Miyuki Miyabe. Four people are found brutally murdered in a luxury high-rise condominium populated by the rich and famous. But none are residents and nobody knows who they are or from whence they came. Why were they found dead here? The investigation only uncovers increasing layers of mystery with everyone that appears in the story hiding something in what amounts to a thrilling, top-shelf mystery about knotty human relations.

The Snark Hunt

宮部みゆき『スナーク狩り』   스나크 사냥   懸疑小說-獵

120 min x 1 ep|1 episode

Entitled after a poem in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", about a hunter who was supposed to be hunt down and destroy a legendary monster called a Snark, but finds himself ruled by the thirst to kill, this vivid tale of suspense explores the frightful region of the human psyche that resides within us all. A man whose wife and child were brutally murdered loses all manner of reason and composure when the murderer gets of scot-free . Burning with homicidal anger, he himself transforms into a "monster" and plots an elaborate scheme which he is sure will exact perfect revenge.

The Stork Nest

こうのとりのゆりかご   황새의 요람   小鳥的搖籃

120 min x 1 ep|1 episode

May, 2007. The Jikei Hospital is a small clinic in Kumamoto Prefecture operating out of a pri-vate dwelling that begins accepting anonymous “deposits” (“Baby Post”) of unwanted infants abandoned by their parents for various reasons under the operational name, “Stork Nest.” Based on a true story, this moving human drama, fictionalized to protect privacy, depicts the passion and dedication of hospital staff as they rescue 92 abandoned infants over a period six years, all the while overcoming public criticism.