Shizuka's Japanese TV Dramas blog

Miman Keisatsu is a Japanese TV drama which was broadcast in 2020. This drama is based on the Korean drama " Midnight Runner ". The theme songs of this drama are "Run" sung by SexyZone and "Mazy Night" sung by King & Prince.  This drama takes place at a police academy. The title "Miman Keisatsu" means people who are students who aspire to join the police department.  The story of this drama is theoretical and physical buddies get involved in and solve a new case each time.  There are two heroes in this drama. Kai Homma acted by Kento Nakajima is a police academy student who has analytical skills. And Jiro Ichinose acted by Sho Hirano is a police academy student, too. He has enough stamina.  They somehow get involved in difficult cases, but with the help of their friends and detectives, they solve difficult cases. And they use the knowledge that they learned at the academy to solve them. Theoretical and physicalists with diametrically opposed...

Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato De is a Japanese TV drama which was broadcast in 2011. This drama is a TV adaptation of Tokuya Higashigawa's novel of the same title.  The heroine of this drama is Reiko Hojo acted by Keiko Kitagawa, who is an only daughter of the president of the Hosei Group, a world-famous corporate group. And the hero of this drama is Kageyama acted by Sho Sakurai, who is the butler and driver for Reiko. He is a perfect butler, but he often speaks angrily.  Reiko works as a new detective at the National Police Station while hiding her true identity, the "president's daughter". Whenever Reiko is faced with a difficult case, she tells the whole story to Kageyama who is serving her dinner. While serving perfectly, Kageyama points out Reiko's lack of deductive skills by saying, "With all due respect, Miss...., are you blind?" After saying that, he solves the mystery and gets to the bottom of the case.  Will Reiko be able to solve all cases with ...