Shuta Tamura

Drawn together by a mysterious film, high school students with completely different personalities and ideas about love. A youth ensemble drama where hidden feelings of friendship, romance, and longing intertwine! The finale of MBS’s 2023 Drama Shower slot is the completely original drama “My Strawberry Film.” With a script and direction team that includes Ryosuke Kawasaki, who directed the 2023 drama “Minato Shouji Coin Laundry 2” (TV Tokyo) and served as writer and director for “Zettai Meshi” (Kantele), along with other masters of youth dramas, this coming-of-age ensemble piece depicts the light and shadow of youth through the motif of film, brought to life by the fresh performances of four of today’s most exciting actors. Leading the cast is Ryusei Fukada, who has been selected for the ViVi “National Treasure-Level Handsome NEXT” category and is gaining attention rapidly, and is also expected to play Tonbo in the musical Kiki’s Delivery Service, starting in March 2024. He plays Ryo Ichikawa, a sensitive young man whose hobby is making music. Next is Rei Yabana, who, in addition to his work as an artist, appeared in the 2023 drama “Nare no Hate no Bokura” (TV Tokyo) and showed a sharp sensibility as an actor. He plays Hikaru Toyama, the mood maker of the group. Also, Ririka Tanabe, an exclusive Seventeen model who has appeared in buzzworthy works including the 2023 drama “The Teacher I Hired Recently, Is It Okay to Kill Students?” (Nippon TV) and is increasingly active as an actress, plays the beautiful girl in the film that Hikaru happens to find. And Mizuki Yoshida, a promising new star who has demonstrated her talent with leading roles in the films “Atsui Munasawagi” and “Kamuy no Uta,” as well as an appearance in the drama “Alice in Borderland” (Netflix), plays Chika Nakamura, who knows a great deal about antiques. The first-ever quartet lead in the Drama Shower slot! These much-talked-about actors bring the story to life with fresh energy.

The hugely popular gourmet drama “#Izakaya Shinkansen” returns with its long-awaited Season 2! Following its acclaimed run on the MBS/TBS Dramaism slot and other channels from 2021 to 2022, the gourmet drama “#Izakaya Shinkansen,” starring Hidekazu Mashima, has confirmed a Season 2! The drama “#Izakaya Shinkansen 2” will begin airing on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, in the MBS/TBS Dramaism slot, and will also air on Ch. Galaxy starting Saturday, February 10, 2024. Takamiya Susumu, a salaryman working in the internal audit department of an insurance company, secretly delights in local delicacies enjoyed inside the Shinkansen on his way home from business trips. He sets up carefully selected food and drinks he has discovered at his destinations on the train’s seat table. From local sake and snacks to ekiben and even sweets, the combinations are endless. On social media, if you search for “#Izakaya Shinkansen,” you’ll find fellow fans eagerly awaiting Susumu’s food reports. Tonight as well, the Izakaya Shinkansen is open for business! Continuing from Season 1, Hidekazu Mashima, who is active in drama, film, stage, and more, reprises his role as the protagonist Takamiya Susumu. Shifting the setting from the Tohoku Shinkansen in Season 1, Season 2 takes him to towns along the Hokuriku Shinkansen and Joetsu Shinkansen lines, including the much-talked-about extension between Kanazawa and Tsuruga. What kind of Izakaya Shinkansen will Susumu create? Please look forward to its opening!

Shie (Yuka Masuda) has a strong curiosity to get to know her partners through sex, and spends her days feeling happy as she sleeps with anyone she wants to sleep with. But as she approaches 30, she begins to worry that the number of her sexual partners is dwindling. For Shie, who enjoys her uninhibited sex life, the only friend she can truly speak honestly with is her coworker Takako (Yuzuki Akiyama). The two share candid sex talk in the sauna after work, but Takako also has her own concern: she feels she is unable to fall in love because of the so-called “curse of being highly educated.” Listening in on the two women’s candid sex lives is the company receptionist, Mako (Sakurako Ohkubo). She becomes close with Shie and Takako after a certain incident, but Mako has a particular inclination: she can only affirm herself through having an affair...

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MBS’s Drama Shower, which has delivered a wide variety of BL dramas such as “April in Tokyo...,” “Koharu and Amagi-kun,” and “Eternal Yesterday,” is next taking on the mega-hit “JTAKAN YOHOU (A Forecast of Feelings),” which has surpassed 10 million cumulative downloads on Comic Cmoa and other platforms and won first place in the comic category of the “BL AWARD 2023” as well as the BL category of the “Electronic Comic Grand Prize 2023”! This highly provocative work, one of the most striking titles in Drama Shower history, will be led by main director Ayaka Kato, who previously helmed the smash-hit BL drama “Old Fashion Cupcake,” with rising young actors Kohei Higuchi and Atsuki Mashiko (GENIC) starring as a duo. “Since tomorrow will be clear, this man will probably sleep with me.” Mizuki Segasaki (Kohei Higuchi) is popular as a refreshing, handsome weather forecaster. But his true nature is that of an outrageous tyrant. He lives with Yo Tanada (Atsuki Mashiko), a struggling erotic manga artist, and has him do all the housework and more! This arrangement began with the promise that Mizuki would cover Yo’s food, clothing, and housing while he struggled to make it as a manga artist, but there’s a condition: Yo must “do everything Segasaki says”...!? Kohei Higuchi, who has been active across a wide range of roles as an actor, including starring in the Super Sentai series, plays Mizuki Segasaki, the refreshing handsome weather forecaster with a domineering personality who leaves all housework to his roommate Yo (Atsuki Mashiko). Higuchi came to Tokyo to pursue his dream of becoming a soccer player and became a J.League development player, but had to give it up due to an injury. After that, an opportunity from a talent agency led him into the entertainment industry, and he has expanded his career from modeling to acting. Atsuki Mashiko, a member of the seven-member mixed-gender dance & vocal group GENIC, plays Yo Tanada, the unsuccessful erotic manga artist who is completely at Segasaki’s mercy. Mashiko was selected as a finalist in avex’s “Boys Award Audition 2016” in 2016, and in 2020 he made his major debut with GENIC. He has also been active on stage and in dramas, attracting attention through many works and building a strong track record as an actor. And for this production, three talented creators have come together on the directing team! Ayaka Kato won acclaim with FOD’s “Old Fashion Cupcake” last year, and since then has directed one buzzworthy title after another, including MBS’s “You Want to Make Me Fall for You” (2023) and KTV’s “Zenra Meshi” (2023), earning high praise for her skill. Shinju Funabiki served as co-writer on the original drama MBS’s “Jack Frost” (2023), drawing attention from BL fans, and in this work she takes on both script and direction. Emi Yasumura has been highly regarded for her talent as a visual creator, having been selected for “100 Filmmakers 2020,” and has also been active as a director on NHK’s “Scary Picture Book” (2022) and BS Nippon TV’s “Babuchuu to Dari” (2022); this marks her first challenge directing a serialized drama.

"If I told you I liked you, would this relationship end...?" Unrequited love is always a series of choices. For me, who secretly thinks of you, there stands an invisible wall called “friends.” I want to break that wall, and I don’t want to break it... The manager chasing a dream, and the regular who has failed in his own. At this restaurant, all kinds of human drama unfold. Love, dreams—why do things with such sweet-sounding names hurt so much? Set in an unusual restaurant, it portrays each of them taking a step forward and growing.

A love comedy with a “bridge effect” between a trashy teacher and a negative JK! The smash-hit comic series currently running in Hakusensha’s “Hana to Yume,” with cumulative sales surpassing 3 million copies, will be adapted into a live-action drama, starring Ryo Hashimoto (HiHi Jets / Johnny’s Jr.) in his first solo lead role in a serial drama, and Akari Takaishi in her first terrestrial TV drama heroine role! “Falling JK and a Heinous Teacher,” which began serialization in Hakusensha’s “Hana to Yume” in August 2017, has been hugely popular with readers. Now it has been decided that it will air on MBS’s Drama Tokku block starting Thursday, April 6 (MBS: every Thursday at 12:59 a.m.; TVK: every Thursday at 11:00 p.m., and more), with Ryo Hashimoto (HiHi Jets / Johnny’s Jr.) as the lead and Akari Takaishi as the heroine! The original manga is the hit comic series, currently up to volume 15. With manga artist sora’s low-energy, surreal dialogue, its uniquely unmotivated characterizations, and the frustrating romance between two people who never cross the line because of their teacher-student relationship, it has struck a chord with many readers and become a runaway hit with over 3 million copies sold. The star of this work is Ryo Hashimoto (HiHi Jets / Johnny’s Jr.), who enjoys overwhelming popularity thanks to his striking looks and diverse talents, and who takes on his first solo lead role in a serial drama. He plays Jin Haiba, a physics teacher who is the textbook definition of a “hopeless adult”—unmotivated, addicted to gambling, constantly broke, and repeatedly engaging in reckless behavior unfit for a teacher. Nicknamed “Hai-jin” by his students, he is looked down on by them. The heroine is Akari Takaishi, a rising young actress attracting intense attention, making her debut as a serial drama heroine in this work. She plays Mikoto Ochiai, a high school girl who is academically excellent but deeply negative. “Wouldn’t you like to fall in love with me before you die?” — the trashy teacher Mikoto Ochiai (played by Akari Takaishi), who was about to take her own life over heartbreak, is interrupted by physics teacher Jin Haiba (played by Ryo Hashimoto). When he confesses to her, saying, “Wouldn’t you like to fall in love with me before you die?” Mikoto is thrown into confusion. Is it a lie to save her, or is it…? As she gradually finds herself drawn to the trashy teacher Jin, whom even the students look down on…!? Trashy teacher x negative JK: a low-energy romantic comedy destined for a fall! The directors are Munenari Moon for the drama “Anno Lyric” and the film “5 Billion-Yen Life,” and Meigetsu Takahashi for the films “Sayonara, Good Evening” and “How to Tell the Difference Between a Proper Bus.” The scripts are by Ayumi Shita of the dramas “My Beauty Transformation Won’t Stop!?” and “House Marriage Honey,” and Shota Gaijin of the dramas “Oshare-domo! The Fashion Sommelier” and “My Imaginative Meal I Want to Be Praised For.” This up-and-coming cast and staff take on the ultimate bridge-effect romantic comedy wrapped in surreal laughter.

Koichi, a cheerful and popular class favorite, and Min, a brilliant student who struggles with socializing, are two high school boys who are strongly drawn to each other precisely because their personalities are so different. But one morning, Koichi is involved in an accident right in front of Min. Koichi gets back up on the spot and smiles as he always does, so he is certainly “alive,” yet his classmates gradually begin to forget that he exists...!? As the two shine with all their hearts during the limited time before Koichi disappears, this youth romance is so moving it will leave you in tears.

The smallest place where true feelings can’t be hidden… that’s on the bed! The smallest place where the difference between men and women shows… that’s on the bed! Will even a normally chatty man fall silent? Or will a woman say something so shocking it’s downright off-putting? A story set entirely in a private room, told only through conversation on the bed. A 15-minute pillow talk drama unfolding on the bed. Is this a comedy? A suspense story? Or the real deal in heart-pounding romance!? Focusing on two people in a variety of relationships, the story unfolds through nothing but “bedside conversations and inner thoughts.” Amid probing each other, we’ll show how misunderstandings and crossed signals arise between the two.

The first completely original work in the Drama Shower slot! Kyoya Honda as Okusawa Ritsu, an illustrator who has lost his memory, and Kosuke Suzuki as Ikumiya Ikumiya, who lies in order to win back love. A sparklingly bittersweet, achingly frustrating love story of mutual unrequited love, where frozen memories remain unchanged as they fall in love once more. Mori Shuto, who is currently generating a great deal of buzz, has been cast as Shuji Kirihaze, Ritsu’s younger brother, who has lost his memory, played by Kyoya Honda! The sixth collaboration between MBS’s Drama Shower slot, which has delivered a wide variety of BL dramas such as “Takara-kun and Amagi-kun,” “Eternal Yesterday,” and “Candy Color Paradox,” and KADOKAWA’s BL drama label “Tunku” is finally the first original production! A new “amnesia” BL drama is born, created by up-and-coming film directors Yuka Yasukawa and Mei Takahashi! The two rising young actors, Kyoya Honda and Kosuke Suzuki, take on the lead roles in this highly anticipated project. Jack Frost, the frost fairy from an English fairy tale, is said to be mischievous and to bring the cold. Set in wintertime Tokyo, this love story follows Ritsu (Kyoya Honda) and Ikumiya (Kosuke Suzuki) as their hearts are shaken by memories. A story of mutual unrequited love—sparklingly bittersweet, painfully frustrating—brought to life in an original work by two talented directors.

A game in which you can earn a cash prize depending on how long you evade the hunters within a limited area. If you can keep running until the game time runs out, you can win a large prize. “Hunters are scary,” “but I want the money.” Will you choose to turn yourself in? Or keep running to the very end for money or pride!? A “psychological escape drama” that reveals the inner thoughts of the fugitives.

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Koichi, a cheerful and popular class favorite, and Min, a genius who struggles with people, are high school students strongly drawn to each other despite their opposite personalities. One morning, however, Koichi is caught in an accident right in front of Min. Koichi gets back up on the spot and laughs as usual, and while he is certainly still “alive,” their classmates gradually begin to forget his existence...!? A youth love story that will leave you “so moved you can’t stop crying,” portraying the two as they brilliantly cherish the limited time until Koichi disappears.