Nice Movie

• Alternative Title: The Flower Shop Without Roses
• Genre: Human Drama, Romance
• Film Date: January, 2008
• Total Episodes: 11
• Japan Casts:
  Katori Shingo, Miura Tomokazu, Shaku Yumiko, Takeuchi Yuko
• Description:
  Shiomi Eiji is forced to become a single father when his girlfriend passes away while giving birth to their daughter, Shizuku. Desolate after the loss of the woman he loved, Eiji has little time or desire to even consider remarrying, working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The one thing that gives meaning and joy to his life is Shizuku, but even that begins to trouble him when Shizuku begins acting strange, hiding her face by putting a cloth over her head when around other people.One day after opening his flower shop, Eiji comes across a blind woman standing by the door, taking shelter from the rain. When he invites her to come inside the shop, she at first refuses, but later gives in to Eiji’s kindness. They become intimate friends and she slowly grows to depend on Eiji’s sincerity and goodheartedness. After rescuing her a following evening when she walks into the street and is nearly struck by traffic, Eiji himself inexplicably discovers the cold of winter that has saddled his heart all these years slowly melting away..

Attention please

• Alternative Title: アテンションプリーズ
• Genre: Comedy
• Film Date: April, 2006
• Total Episodes: 11
• Japan Casts:
  Aibu Saki, Koizumi Koutaro , Maya Miki, Nishikido Ryo, Uehara Misa, Ueto Aya
• Description:
  Losing her mother at a young age, Misaki Yoko (Ueto Aya) was raised amongst three brothers. Yoko is a slightly boyish girl who is bullheaded and hates dishonesty. Ever since she was young, she enjoyed the company of boys over girls. She starts a band with four of her boy friends and becomes the lead singer. Then one day, one of the members of the band, Tsukasa, gets a job at a bank in Tokyo. Due to Tsukasa leaving town, the band breaks up and though Yoko finds herself lonely, she puts on a strong act in front of Tsukasa. She can’t tell Tsukasa how she truly feels for him. On the day Tsukasa leaves for Tokyo, Yoko goes along with the band members to the airport to see him off. The guys get excited when they see some cabin crew ladies and Yoko has no idea why. She reminds them that even she can wear a uniform, but the guys only make fun of her. That’s when Tsukasa tells Yoko he wonders what she’d look like dressed in uniform. This is when Yoko decides she wants to work as a Cabin Attendant.

• Alternative Title: Asunaro Hakusho / Asunaro White Paper / Asunaro Confessions / Ordinary People
• Genre: Human Drama, Romance , School
• Film Date: October, 1993
• Total Episodes: 11
• Japan Casts:
  Ishida Hikari, Kaga Mariko, Kimura Takuya, Kurosawa Asuka, Nishijima Hidetoshi , Nishioka Tokuma , Sugiyama Ayako, Suzuki Anju, Tsutsui Michitaka
• Description:
  Five youngsters enter the same university and become very good friends. As they’re very close, they’re afraid of ‘hurting’ one another, and this results in even more tragedies. Both Tamotsu and Osamu, who fall for Narumi, keep holding back their feelings and giving way to each other. This complex love affair unintentionally causes Junichiro’s death. In the end, all left school due to one reason or another, leaving Narumi alone to complete the course. The happy days are gone, but they happen to meet one another again a few years later, and the story continues… –Snowflakes

Ame to Yume no Ato ni

• Alternative Title: Ame to Yume no Ato ni / After the Rain and Dreams/ 雨と夢のあとに
• Genre: Fantasy, Horror
• Film Date: April, 2005
• Total Episodes: 10
• Japan Casts:
  Asami Reina , Brother Tom , Hayami Mokomichi, Kimura Tae, Kyoko, Miho Jun
• Description:
  Based on a novel by Akutagawa Prize-winning author, Yu Miri, ‘Ame to Yume no Ato ni’ is a story about the supernatural and the bonds between a father and daughter.

  Sakurai Tomoharu is a single parent who has an extremely close relationship to his daughter. One of his hobbies is catching and collecting butterflies, and he has traveled to Taiwan to catch a very rare butterfly, the Troides magellanus. It’s so rare it’s been called the “phantom butterfly.” The legend goes that whoever catches this butterfly will become a phantom themselves.

  Back in Japan, Tomoharu’s daughter, Ame, hasn’t received a phone call from her father in days and begins to worry. However, when Tomoharu does return, he has no recollection of how he got back to Japan, or what happened at all. Ame notices strange things beginning to happen all around her . . .

  With the help of his neighbor Akiko, Tomoharu begins to piece together what happened back in Taiwan, and comes to a horrifying conclusion. –awrittensin

• Alternative Title: Zettai Kareshi / 絶対彼氏
• Genre: Romance
• Film Date: April, 2008
• Total Episodes: 11
• Japan Casts:
  Aibu Saki, Hayami Mokomichi, Irie Jingi, Maya Miki, Mizushima Hiro, Nakamura Shunsuke, Sasaki Kuranosuke
• Description:
  Izawa Riko is a temp worker in search of a boyfriend, and she ends up in possession of a “robot” known as Night Tenjo, who is programmed to be the perfect boyfriend. However, this creates a love triangle with a distinguished young man at her company who has feelings for her. 

Alternative Title: A Sleeping Forest / Nemureru Mori / 眠れる森
Genre: Mystery
Film Date: October, 1998
Total Episodes: 12
Japan Casts:
Kimura Takuya, Nakamura Toru , Nakayama Miho, Natsuyagi Isao, Okada Masumi
Description:

Kimura Takuya plays Ito Naoki, a mysterious man that seems to have some special connection with Oba Minako (Nakayama Miho) by their childhood. But Minako has lost her memory long ago and she won’t remember anything about her childhood or him. Naoki knows almost everything about her and he secretly invites her to the “Sleeping Forest”. From there on their story begins, into a mix of dark and romantic drama.

Gossip Girl initially received mixed reviews. Due to the show’s pedigree as an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel series, the show was considered to be one of the more anticipated new shows of the 2007-2008 television season. An August 2007 survey by OTX, a global media research and consulting firm, placed the show on the list of top ten new shows that viewers were aware of.^[16] Though the pilot was the recipient of positive reviews from publications such as Variety, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe, other reviewers described it as a guilty pleasure rather than an hour’s worth of must-watch television.^{[17][18][19][20]} Metacritic gave it a score of 54, based on the reviews of 26 different publications.^[21]

However, author Cecily von Ziegesar has expressed support for the show, noting that all of her major plot points were present in the pilot.^[22] The Parents Television Council has shown particular criticism of the series, especially with its “OMFG” ad campaign from April 2008.^[23] It also named the episode “Victor/Victrola” the worst television program of the week in which the episode originally was broadcast.^[24] Quotes from the Parents Television Council review, as well as negative quotes from the San Diego Union-Tribune, New York Post and the Boston Herald, were used on various advertisements for the second season. The Hartford Courant chronicled a variety of negative responses to the ads. The ads included quotes like “Every Parent’s Nightmare”, “Mind-Blowingly Inappropriate” and “A Nasty Piece of Work” in what appears to be an effort to continue the ‘rebellious teen’ style of the show.^[25]

As the show continued its first season, the response become considerably more positive, and by the second season critical response was favorable. Metacritic gave the new season an improved score of 71. “Summer’s been good to this girl,” claimed Entertainment Weekly, who awarded the series its highest grade of “A.” ^[26] The New York Daily News claimed the show had found its footing by stating “It knows exactly what it wants and needs its new hybrid product to be. The hockey fights video of teen romance drama.” Gossip Girl was designated the “Best. Show. Ever.” in April 2008, by NY Magazine.^[27] The show has also been met with criticism for over-glamorizing the Upper East Side and its residents.

• Vanessa Abrams is a budding filmmaker and the total opposite of most of hre classmates, sporting a shaved head and always wears black. She has a shaky relationship with Dan Humphrey, particularly after she ends up living with the Humphrey’s for a short time. At the end of the series, she is attending New York University.
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• Jenny Humphrey is Dan’s younger sister and an aspiring artist who wishes to be more like Serena, whom she eventually befriends. She often tries to fit in with the rich girls at her school, even though she does not hold a place in their social sphere. She is eventually kicked out of the Constance Billard School for Girls and sent to a boarding school where she reinvents herself as the “it girl”, a la Serena. Her move to the boarding school and her life there became the topic of a spin-off of the series, The It Girl.
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• Dan Humphrey is a thin, sensitive, caffeine-addicted poet who often sees the darker side of things. A romantic whose imagination runs off wildly at the worst times, he is also over-analytical and easily frustrated. He dated Serena for two years and experimented with homosexuality, before he began dating Vanessa Abrams. He is a published writer of poetry and songs. At the end of the series, he is attending Evergreen State College in Washington.
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