Machiben
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Details
- Title: マチベン
- Title (romaji): Machiben
- Also known as: The Street Lawyers
- Genre: Legal
- Broadcast network: NHK
Season 1
- Episodes: 6
- Air time: Saturday 21:00-21:58
- Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-08 to 2006-May-13
- Theme song: Eien by EXILE
Synopsis
The drama portrays four lawyers at a small law firm struggling with the questions of what justice is and what it means to save people. Ryoko Amachi is an attorney who has once worked as a prosecutor. With the other three lawyers at the same firm, she tackles outdated laws and the public that criticizes the weak, and fights with prosecutors over a truth. Eventually, Ryoko faces up to the case of alleged false accusation in which she was involved as a prosecutor.
User/Viewer Ratings
Cast
- Esumi Makiko
- Yamamoto Koji
- Sawada Kenji
- Nakajima Tomoko
- Kobayashi Takashi
- Sawamura Ikki
- Yamamoto Kei
- Ryu Raita
- Yuki Saya
- Iwata Sayuri
- Itaya Yuka
- Kino Hana as Principal Morioka
- Matsuda Miyuki (ep1)
- Matsuyama Kenichi (ep1)
- Ohkura Koji (ep2)
- Okunuki Kaoru (ep2)
- Wakamura Mayumi (ep3)
- Ito Kazue (ep3)
- Kishibe Ittoku (ep4)
- Harada Natsuki (ep4)
- Tanimura Mitsuki (ep5)
- Takuma Takayuki
- Marie as Hashimoto
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
- Music: Yoshimata Ryo
Episode Ratings
- Ep 01: 08.0%
- Ep 02: 07.3%
- Ep 03: 06.4%
- Ep 04: 06.6%
Awards
- 49th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Script
Season 2
- Title: 新マチベン
- Title (romaji): Shin Machiben
- Also known as: New Machiben / Machiben 2
- Tagline: ~オトナの出番~ / Otona no Deban
- Episodes: 6
- Viewership rating: 9.6 (Kanto)
- Broadcast period: 2007-Jun-30 to 2007-Aug-04
- Air time: Saturday 21:00 to 21:58
- Theme song: Somewhere Sometime by Ueda Masaki
Synopsis
This season is about men in their 60s, who strike out on a new career path as attorneys halfway through life. Tokunaga Gentaro, a 60-year-old who has retired a newspaper company, decides to live the rest of his life as an attorney and passes the bar exam. At the legal training center, he meets two men of his age who have the same dream, and opens a law firm with them. The middle-aged novice attorneys with different backgrounds and life experiences encounter various clients and struggle together.
Cast
- Watari Tetsuya as Tokunaga Gentaro
- Ishizaka Koji as Sakaida Haruki
- Chii Takeo as Okamura Shigekatsu
- Tomosaka Rie as Tokunaga Nao
- Aso Yumi as Tokunaga's wife
- Sakashita Chiriko as Yuki
- Iinuma Chieko as Miho
Guests
- Kuroki Hitomi as Oikawa Reiko (ep1-2)
- Kohinata Fumiyo as Kawabata Hitoshi (ep1-2)
- Tsurumi Shingo as Doi Takeshi (ep1-2)
- Kouyama Shigeru as Doi Ichizo (ep1-2)
- Shinjitsu Ichiro (真実一路) as Reporter Takizawa (ep1,4,6)
- Miyashita Yuji as Attorney Ootomi (ep1-2)
- Fujita Sokyu as head of the legal training center (ep1)
- Matsuzawa Kazuyuki as the policeman (ep1)
- Era Jun as Detective Kinoshita (ep1)
- Onda Ai (恩田愛) as Kawabata Haruka (ep2)
- Tozawa Yusuke (戸沢佑介) as the Mammoth Electric employee (ep2)
- Sakaguchi Shinya as the Mammoth Electric employee (ep2)
- Natori Yukimasa as the Mammoth Electric employee (ep2)
- Takahashi Yumiko as Yonemura Maria (ep3)
- Izumisawa Yuuki as Yonemura Daichi (ep3)
- Irie Mai (入江まい) as Yonemura Michiru (ep3)
- Reizei Kimihiro (冷泉公裕) as the security guard (ep3)
- Yoshimi Kazutoyo (吉見一豊) as the child consultation officer (ep3)
- Nonomura Non (野々村のん) as the child consultation officer (ep3)
- Kasuga Junya as Sakamoto Eita (ep3)
- Takabayashi Yukiko as the judge (ep3)
- Nakahira Yoshio (中平良夫) as the judge (ep3)
- Itao Itsuji as Nagahata Kazunari (ep4)
- Maro Akaji as the homeless man (ep4)
- Ezawa Moeko as Nagahata Atsuko (ep4)
- Ishida Taro as Kuramochi Kensaku (ep4)
- Jaguar Yokota (ジャガー横田) as the tipster (ep4)
- Otaka Hiroo as the judge (ep4)
- Okuda Tatsuhito as the prison guard (ep4)
- Ueda Koichi as Otaki Masanobu (ep5-6)
- Tsumura Takashi (津村鷹志) as the vice principal (ep5-6)
- Shimizu Yutaka as Sugiyama Masato (ep5-6)
- Hiraguri Atsumi (平栗あつみ) as Sugiyama Shinobu (ep5-6)
- Urabe Fusako (占部房子) as Reporter Kawamura (ep5)
- Tomikawa Kazuhito as Isoda (ep5-6)
- Kawano Naoki as Yamauchi (ep5-6)
- Nomoto Gakuji (野元学二) as a teacher (ep5-6)
- Yagishita Kiri (柳下季里) as a teacher (ep5-6)
- Kosugi Yukihiko as a teacher (ep5-6)
- Suga Tomoyuki (須賀友之) as a teacher (ep5-6)
- Yamagami Kenji as a reporter (ep5)
- Inomata Hideto (猪岐英人) as a reporter (ep5)
- Masaki Hikaru (正希光) as a reporter (ep5)
- Matsukuma Tsurumatsu (松熊つる松) as a reporter (ep5)
- Watanabe Taeko (渡辺妙子) as a reporter (ep5)
- Miura Kiyomitsu (三浦清光) as a reporter (ep5)
- Muroi Shigeru as Shinjo Satomi (ep5-6)
- Akima Noboru (秋間登) as the judge (ep6)
- Matsuo Norio (松井範雄) as a detective (ep6)
- Shimizu Shin as a detective (ep6)
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
- Executive producers: Zeniya Masayoshi (銭谷雅義), Shirotani Atsushi (城谷厚司)
- Director: Mayuzumi Rintaro (黛りんたろう) (ep1-2,6), Kobayashi Takeshi (小林武) (ep3,5), Umibe Kiyoshi (海辺潔) (ep4)
- Music: Sumitomo Norihito
Episode Titles
- Ep. 01: A Beginning Lawyer at 60
- Ep. 02: A Beauty with a Vendetta
- Ep. 03: Can You Abandon Your Parents?
- Ep. 04: The Nameless Client
- Ep. 05: The Truth about the Bomb Threat Email
- Ep. 06: A Silent Message
Episode Ratings
| Episode | Kanto | Kansai | Nationwide |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 11.0 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 02 | 09.9 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 03 | 08.6 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 04 | 10.0 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 05 | 10.8 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 06 | 07.6 | ??.? | ??.? |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.
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