Hokaben

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Table of contents

1 Details 2 Synopsis 3 Cast 3.1 Guests 4 Production Credits 5 Episode Ratings 6 External Links

Details

• Title: ホカベン
• Title (romaji): Hokaben
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Law, human drama
• Episodes: 10
• Viewership rating: 8.1 (Kanto)
• Broadcast network: NTV
• Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-16 to 2008-Jun
• Air time: Wednesday 22:00
• Theme song: Namida wo Todokete by Tortoise Matsumoto

Synopsis

Domoto Akari is an idealistic lawyer who wants to "rescue the weak." She joins a large law office, though she is assigned to a lowly department whose only other member is her boss, who was transferred there after making a mistake during a case. --Tokyograph (http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-2536)

Cast

• Ueto Aya as Domoto Akari
• Kitamura Kazuki as Sugisaki Tadashi
• Kato Shigeaki as Katase Riichiro
• Toda Naho as Kuramoto Shiori
• Sasai Eisuke as Zaitsu Masato
• Nakayama Megumi as Yoshikawa Mizuho
• Ryo as Kudou Reiko
• Kato Kazuko as Domoto Miyoko
• Osugi Ren as Morioka Tetsuo

Guests

• Tomita Yasuko as Ikegami Ryoko (ep1,2)
• Sakata Masanobu (阪田マサノブ) as Ikegami Kazuhiko (ep1,2)
• Ishii Momoka (石井萌々果) as Ikegami Maki
• Ishimaru Kenjiro as Hamada Shinji (ep1,2)
• Mickey Curtis (ミッキー・カーチス) as Owner of restaurant (ep2)
• Sasaki Katsuhiko (佐々木勝彦) as President of company (ep2)
• Suzuki Sawa as Usami Chieko (ep3)
• Nakajima Kenko (中嶋けんこう) as Usami Takuo (ep3)
• Sato Yuki as Kawahara Tohru (ep3)
• Asaka Mayumi as Kawahara Tomoe (ep3)
• Tanaka Tetsushi as Osawa Hirofumi (ep3)
• Katsube Nobuyuki as President Urakawa (ep3)
• Takubo Issei as Prosecutor (ep3)
• Sunaga Kei as Judge (ep3)
• Ootomo Minami
• Endo Yuya (ep7)

Production Credits

• Original writing: Nakajima Hiroyuki (中嶋博行) Hokaben (manga)
• Screenwriters: Aso Kumiko (阿相クミコ), Hamada Hideya (浜田秀哉), Marumo Amane (丸茂周)
• Producers: Yamamoto Yoshio (山本由緒), Koizumi Mamoru (小泉守)
• Director: Sakuma Noriyoshi (佐久間紀佳)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Subtitle	Ratings (Kanto)	Ratings (Kansai)	Ratings (Nationwide)
01	The law doesn't protect anyone! The lawyer's ideal and reality	08.8	??.?	??.?
02	The one and only law that saves the mother and child	09.3	??.?	??.?
03	What the juvenile law tries to protect	07.4	??.?	??.?
04	Accused for the miss in the law case!? The trap of the indebted man	06.3	??.?	??.?
05	I will uncover the truth!! The accidental death of the young boy	07.8	??.?	??.?
06	Murder by bullying!? Save the future of the young boy	08.4	??.?	??.?
07		08.4	??.?	??.?
08	Protect the smiling face of the mother! The medical malpractice lawsuit	07.0	??.?	??.?
09	An attorney defending an attorney! I am going to resign	09.6	??.?	??.?
10		08.9	??.?	??.?
average	--	08.1	??.?	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd. (http://www.videor.co.jp/)

External Links

• Official site (http://www.ntv.co.jp/hokaben/)
• Japanese Wikipedia

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