Straight News

Details

• Title: ストレートニュース
• Title (romaji): Straight News
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Human drama
• Episodes: 10
• Broadcast network: NTV
• Broadcast period: 2000-Oct-11 to 2000-Dec-31
• Air time: Wednesday 22:00
• Theme Song:
  • Don't Look Back by Globe
  • Kimi ni Kiss by Hitomi

Synopsis

The storyline revolves around the newly appointed news director of the network's 11 p.m. Straight News program. Yajima, played by Hiroshi Mikami, is a veteran journalist just back from six years in such places as Bosnia and Kosovo, and he is determined to take the evening crime and government PR spiel that masquerades as the news and turn it into real broadcast journalism. --NTV

Cast

• Mikami Hiroshi as Yajima
• Harada Tomoyo
• Otsuka Nene
• Yonekura Ryoko
• Kaneko Ken
• Kurotani Tomoka
• Taguchi Hiromasa
• Kurozawa Yu (黒澤優)
• Maya Miki
• Moro Morooka
• Fukikoshi Mitsuru
• Asano Yuko

• Tonesaku Toshihide
• Shiomi Sansei
• Fukami Motoki
• Takasugi Ko
• Nakagoshi Noriko
• Shibata Rie
• Morimoto Leo
• Takenaka Naoto
• Nakamaru Shinsho
• Nakamura Mami
• Terada Minori

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Ban Kazuhiko
• Producer: Ito Hibiki (伊藤響)
• Director: Sato Toya, Amemiya Nozomu (雨宮望), Naganuma Makoto
• Music: Ootsubo Naoki (大坪直樹)

External Links

• JDorama.com

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Summer 2000	NTV	Winter 2001
Okuman Choja to Kekkon Suru Hoho	Wednesday 22:00	Face