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	Beautiful Life (Winter 2000) On his way to the library, Okishima Shuji (Kimura Takuya) runs into Machida Kyoko (Tokiwa Takako), a woman who makes no excuses for her physical disability. Although throwing Kyoko off balance by not giving her the sympathy she expects, Shuji learns to view the world from the height of 100cm, from what Kyoko calls her "second my car" - her wheelchair. Episodes 1-11 23Jul'00
	Boku ga boku de aru tame ni The members of SMAP play high school friends who were on the Ekiden (cross country relay race) team. They meet again 6 years later to find that things are no longer the way they were between them. 1 episode special 7Aug'99
	GTO Drama Special Onizuka Eikichi (Sorimachi Takashi) finally loses his virginity to Fuyutsuki Azusa (Matsushima Nanako), gets transferred to an all girls school & the fun starts...includes snippet of the GTO movie press conference held Feb'99.... 1 episode special 28Aug'99
	Imouto Yo Raining when Matsui Yukiko (Wakui Emi) an OL, goes to the train station to meet her brother Kikuo (Kishitani Goro), she bumps into Takagi Masashi (Karasawa Toshiaki), son of a big corporate businessman..... Episodes 1-6 2Sep'99
	Koori no Sekai (Autumn 1999) Hirokawa Eiki (Takenouchi Yutaka) during an insurance investigation on the death of a school teacher, meets the ice cold mysterious Eigi Toko (Matsushima Nanako) who's had three fiances die in the past 5 years....hot on her trail is Ujou Takeshi (Nakamura Toru), an ambitious career minded police detective intent on bringing her down....but is Egi Toko really a murderer.... Episodes 1-11  14May'00
	Lipstick (Spring 1999) Hayakawa Ai (Hirosue Ryoko) commits a crime which lands her in a correction facility for juveniles. There she meets & becomes firm friends with four other delinquents & falls in love with one of the wardens, Ariake Yu (Mikami Takeshi), an artist with secrets.... summary only  12Sep'99
	Love Generation (Autumn 1997) Uesugi Riko (Matsu Takako) falls in love with colleague Katagiri Teppei (Kimura Takuya) but he still has feelings for his ex-girlfriend Mizuhara Sanae (Junna Risa), who's also the fiancee of his older brother, Katagiri Soichiro (Uchino Masaaki).... Episodes 1-11 3Jan'00
	Majo no Jouken (Spring 1999) Hirose Michi (Matsushima Nanako), a high school teacher &  engaged to Kitai Masaru (Bessho Tetsuya), encounters resistance from family, friends & peers when she falls in love with one of her 17 year old students, Kurosawa Hikaru (Takizawa Hideaki). Episodes 1-11  3Nov'99
	Nemurenu Yoru wo Daite (Spring 2002) The Nakagawas move into their dream home in Motosumi City to start a new life in the country side. However before long, two families disappear mysteriously without a trace. Their disappearance seems to be related to a robbery that took place in the Australian Gold Coast on Christmas Eve 12 years before. & as Nakagawa Yuko (Zaizen Naomi) slowly discovers, everyone around her, including her husband Outa (Nakamura Toru), seems to have a hidden past........ Episodes 1-3 27Oct'02
	Nemureru Mori (Autumn 1998) Oba Minako (Nakayama Miho), happily engaged to Hamazaki Kiichiro (Nakamura Toru). Coming across some old love letters written to her by a boy she never knew, she returns to their Sleeping Forest, curious to meet him & finds Ito Naoki (Kimura Takuya), a mysterious man who knows everything about her, who has been silently following her, watching her for 15 years, waiting, for the terror about to strike Minako. Episodes 1-12 6Feb'00
	Ring ~ saishusho (Winter 1999) 13 days after watching a cursed video tape, four young people mysteriously die violent deaths at the very same moment. Asakawa Kazuyuki (Yanagiba Toshiro), during his investigations, inadvertently watches the same video tape. In a fight against time, he tries to uncover the source of the curse together with the his colleague Yoshino Akiko (Kyono Kotomi), medical professor Miyashita Rieko (Kuroki Hitomi) & a mysterious young man with strange powers, Takayama Ryuji (Nagase Tomoya). Episodes 1-12  10June'01
	Strawberry on the Shortcake (Winter 2001) No one knows that the glasses Irie Manato (Takizawa Hideaki) wears aren't the real thing. When he puts them on, it's as if he lives his life looking through a filter. Even if he's bullied at school, has no place either at school or at home, as long as he's playacting the script he writes, it's not the 'real' Manato, or so he thinks. When he realizes that the 'real' Manato has disappeared with his playacting, a strange girl, Mizawa Yui (Fukada Kyoko) appears in his life. Episodes 1-10 5May'02
	Semi Double (Spring 1999) Kazuma Misaki (Inamori Izumi), a model who's life changes when she gets breast cancer. Getting her thru the adversity is a book written by a taciturn psychology professor Jinguji Sho (Nakai Kiichi). Wanting to know more about the man, Misaki enters the university where he teaches....  summary only  4Mar'00
	Summer Snow (Summer 2000) Shinoda Natsuo (Dohmoto Tsuyoshi) runs Shinoda Cycle & takes care of his brother, Jun (Oguri Shun) who's hearing impaired & sister Chika (Ikewaki Chizuru) who's boyfriend Suetsugu Hiroto (Imai Tsubasa) seems to be walking on the wrong side of the tracks. At the same time, Natsuo meets & falls in love with Katase Yuki (Hirosue Kyoko). Not knowing that she's suffering from a heart problem, he starts taking her diving. Episodes 1-11 17Mar'01
	Taiyou wa shizumanai (Spring 2000) Although Masaki Nao (Takizawa Hideaki) was always at loggerheads with his mother when she was alive, his discovery of a surgical scalpel among her ashes causes him to look for the real reason behind her sudden death. With lawyer Kirino Setsu (Matsuyuki Setsu), he takes on the surgeons at Shoei Sogo Hospital....among them chief surgeon Isetani Keizo (Osugi Ren), father of the girl in love with Nao, Isetani Ami (Yuka). Episodes 1-11 1Oct'00
	Virgin Road (Winter 1997) Sakurai Kazumi (Wakui Emi) returns from New York pregnant & manages on the flight home to get a stranger, a free-lance writer, Kaoru (Sorimachi Takashi) to pretend that he's her fiance.... Episode 1 20Aug'99