Hiroko Nakajima

God Bless You

청각 장애를 가진 권투 선수 케이코는 복싱클럽 관장과 코치의 도움 덕분에 프로 복싱계에 성공적으로 데뷔하고 승리를 이어간다. 매일 강도 높은 훈련을 묵묵히 반복하는 케이코, 하지만 복싱이 가진 폭력성에 익숙해지는 것은 아직까지 큰 숙제다. 경기 중 코치의 사인을 듣지 못하는 것도 어려움으로 작용하면서 계속 복싱 선수로 활동해도 될까 의구심이 생긴다. 엎친 데 덮친 격으로 훈련 받던 복싱 클럽이 문을 닫게 되고 관장의 건강 또한 심각하게 악화되는데 … 케이코는 다음 경기를 성공적으로 마칠 수 있을까?

A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by her once kind mother, Tome.

도쿄에 사는 중산층 부부 사토코와 키요카즈는 입양으로 만난 아들 아사토와 함께 행복한 나날을 보내고 있다. 어느 날 걸려 온 행복하던 일상을 뒤흔드는 의문의 전화 한 통. “제 아이를 돌려주셨으면 해요.” 자신을 아사토의 친모 히카리라 주장하는 낯선 여성이 등장하는데…

도쿄의 직장을 그만두고 10년 만에 고향으로 돌아온 ‘미츠오미’는 대를 이어 가구점 후계자가 되겠다는 다짐과 달리 방황한다. 그러던 어느 날 ‘미츠오미’는 구마이 할아버지의 양아들 ‘야마토’와 농원 일을 돕게 된다. 동갑내기지만 성격은 정반대인 두 사람이 함께 보내는 시간이 늘어날수록 ‘미츠오미’는 밝아 보이지만 아픈 상처를 지닌 ‘야마토’에게 점점 마음이 쓰이는데…

Rina Ichinose starts a busy work life at an advertising agency right after graduation. But the job doesn't go well and she has to work overtime every day. The nagging from her father after she goes back home drains her physically and mentally. So she resigns from the agency. Rina meets a charismatic therapist Karen at a job fair. Attracted by her vigor, Rina decides to become a therapist. But things do not go well at the beginning and she even infuriates a male customer, the former professional baseball player Usui. Usui was a preeminent professional baseball player but his contract was terminated by the club due to the sequela caused by a dead ball hit. Rina tries every means to help him come back to the field as a baseball player.

A popular high school band is scouted by a Tokyo-based record company. The band is involved in a car accident, however, shattering many hopes. The band receives a demo tape from a girl who lives on the navy base. They are reinvigorated.

유학을 앞둔 ‘사키’는 고등학교 친구들과 추억의 장소인 토시마엔 놀이공원에 가게 된다. 토시마엔에 도착한 그들은 장난으로 오래된 괴담 속 금기사항을 실행하지만 아무런 일도 벌어지지 않는다. 그러나, 시간이 흐를수록 그들을 둘러싸고 점점 미스터리한 일들이 하나 둘 벌어지고, 마지막 금기사항에 마주하기에 이르는데…

Set one year after drama series "Overprotected Kahoko." Kahoko is busy running her daycare center "Kahoko House" and also doing housework. Things at work and home are not going smoothly. "Kahoko House" is in financial difficulties and she isn't very good with housework. Her relationship with her husband Hajime is troubled and his career as a painter has been unsuccessful to date. Can Kahoko turn things around?

정부가 결혼 상대를 정해주는 연애 금지의 세계. 만 16살 생일에 거짓말같이 완벽한 남자 ‘소스케’가 나에게 다가왔다. ‘좋아하게 된 것 같아’ 오랜 시간 내 곁을 지켜 온 소꿉친구 ‘시바’. 이제 다시는 그를 볼 수 없다고 한다. 거.짓.말! ‘왠지 아쉬워’ 서툰 마음이 새어 나가는 지금. 나, 어디로 향하는 걸까​

After years of trying, Kyoko and her husband Takehiro are finally pregnant. But their joy at the prospect of becoming parents ends suddenly when they learn Kyoko has stage four cancer. They now must face agonizing decisions that force them to choose between the life of Kyoko or the health of their baby. Adapted from a true story.

자기의 신념을 지니고 농장 경영을 하는 남자에게 여자가 찾아오면서 생기는 이야기를 그린 드라마

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The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji Kuramoto who confesses to murdering his wife. While following Kuramoto's action in Yamanaka and being sure of his innocence, Yamauchi remembers his wife who passed away 12 years earlier.

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