Hyouchakusha~ "Drifter"

 A naked man (Takumi Saito) washes up on shore with no memory of who he is or where he came from. Upon being discovered, he utters the words “Winner take Nothing” before passing out.

When it is discovered that the quotes come from a book, he is dubbed Hemingway, after the author. With help from the girls who found him (Shiori Yoshida, Nao Ota, Kyoka Sumida), they use social media to alert the public to him in an effort to identify him. However, no one seems to know him.

At the same time Hemingway is in the news, a crime spree is also happening- a serial killer has been abducting and murdering young girls, and the latest missing child’s Mother is frantic.
While in his hospital bed, Hemingway’s hands sketch out an abstract scene of water and a child underground. When the girl is found, they are shocked to see that his drawing predicted the girl’s whereabouts perfectly!

Thus he is brought to the attention of the police (Namase Katsuhisa and Junki Tozuka) who suspect this man may have something to do with the abductions, and journalist Emi Shintani (Mai Shiraishi) who feels that there is something deeper to the story. And as they dig, they find themselves deeper and deeper into a bigger conspiracy…

Just began watching Hyouchakusha and it is an interesting one so far though it seems to me the sketch pad scribble prediction thing has been used many times before...We'll see where this one goes....

TRACE: Kasouken no Otoko

Wide-Eyed Nonna Sawaguchi  (Yuko Araki) is about to start her first day in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in the CSI Forensic Lab under the instruction of Ritsuko Kaizaki (Koyuki), where they provide evidence for the Police’s blustery star detective Ryohei Toramura (Eiichiro Funakoshi) and his team.

There is one man in the lab whose knowledge and meticulous attention to detail makes him a genius at CSI work, but his unfriendly behavior and outspoken opinions make him an outsider to the rest.

 His name is Reiji Mano (Ryo Nishikido) and his cold and seemingly arrogant demeanor has already made him an enemy of Detective Toramura- they butt heads over every detail of the evidence, and even worse, Mano goes beyond his duties in the lab and goes on to the site and does his OWN investigating!

Well, this is a problem to be sure, but Sawaguchi is stunned to find that her new position in the department will be to ACCOMPANY Mano is his on-field investigating and be his assistant with processing all the data he brings back!

Nonna isn’t thrilled by the news and her new colleagues express their pity to her, but things get worse when she is on site with Mano, when she stumbles upon the dismembered body of the missing victim.

From that day, Sawaguchi cannot get the images out of her head and, as she relates to her co-workers, has lost her appetite as well as sleep over it.

It’s only when Mano gently reminds her that the body she found was once a living, breathing girl who was waiting to be discovered by her.

This gives her strength and resolve to apply herself to the case, and with Mano’s partnership, the two sift through all the clues and rumors to get to the bottom of things. As Mano ultimately says, “The Lab Results ARE the Truth.”

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com

Kuroi 10-Nin No Onna 終わり

Oh my GOSH, I JUST finished watching the final episode of Kuroi 10-Nin No Onna, and DAMN if it wasn’t one of the BEST dramas I’ve seen EVER!!!  Such a FUN, wacky and MADCAP show, I haven’t laughed so much in a show’s final episode since Junichi Okada’s deathbed scene in KISARAZU CAT’S EYE! I love, love loved this drama!!!

 I’m telling you, this show started off with a bang with its wildly ridiculous storyline of the philandering Kaze and his 9 lovers (and wife) and just RAN with it all the way through all ten episodes and ending with a resounding TOUCHDOWN!!!

For people who only want a regular, serious drama, they need not stop by, but man for those of us who love the sharpwitted writing in the style of Miki Satoshi (Instant Numa, Adrift in Tokyo, etc) and Kudo Kankuro (Tiger and Dragon, Kisarazu Cat's Eye, Ikebukuro West Gate Park), this drama is the closest thing to HEAVEN!

Aw man, everyone in this drama was so darn great, I just want to flood this entry with screencaps of the 9 jilted lovers and wife extracting their revenge on the charmingly slippery Kaze, but for those of you whom haven’t yet checked out the drama, I didn’t want to spoil the “reveal” surprises of the latter lovers. (I thought it would be OK to show the first 6 since they are pretty much revealed in the first  two episodes anyway) but EVERY SCENE just dazzles with these 10 ladies! Man,what a show!!!  

I'm telling you, Kuroi 10nin No Onna is one drama ya just GOTTA check out!!!

PS: Just realized Kuroi 10-nin No Onna writer Bakarythm also wrote the awesome drama “Sutekina Sen Taxi”, one of my recent favorites, DAMN, looks like I’m going to have to keep an eye out on MORE of this guy’s writing!!! Kuroi 10 Nin No Onna is based on a 1961 movie starring Eiichiro Funakoshi’s FATHER Eiji Funakoshi in the role of Kaze…Man, I think I’ll have to seek this film out! 

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com