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==Details==
*'''Title:''' 最後の弁護人
*'''Title (romaji):''' Saigo no Bengonin
*'''Also known as:''' The Last Lawyer
*'''Format:''' Renzoku
*'''Genre:''' Law
*'''Episodes:''' 10
*'''Broadcast network:''' NTV
*'''Broadcast period:''' 2003-Jan-15 to 2003-Mar-19
*'''Air time:''' Wednesday 22:00
*'''Theme songs:'''
**Opening song: ''Baby don't cry'' by hiro
**Ending song: ''Uso no nai uta'' by MILKRUN

==Synopsis==
Moved by television shows of lawyers she saw as a child, Ryoko Ishida dreamt of nothing more than becoming one herself. Though she studied hard she was never able to realize her dream. Resigned to her fate, Ryoko later went on to work for a bank where she was put in charge of going after defaulted loans, the most detested job of them all at the bank. Told not to come back to the bank until she'd collected from at least one of the many deadbeat borrowers she was assigned to pursue, Ryoko reaches Kazuaki Yudo, a heavily indebted lawyer and the last person on her list. Operating out of a dilapidated home office, lawyer Kazuaki's work  when he gets any  mostly involves him serving as a court-appointed attorney to defendants unable to afford legal counsel. In other words, Kazuaki makes no money. But that is not why he's a lawyer. Like his newfound partner Ryoko, whom he soon teams up with (remember, he still owes the bank money, so she tags along with him no matter where he goes), they both share an intimate desire to protect the weak and defend the innocent  he is the people's Last Lawyer! ''--NTV''

==Cast==
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*[[Abe Hiroshi]]
*[[Sudo Risa]]
*[[Imai Tsubasa]]
*[[Matsushige Yutaka]]
*[[Kaneda Akio]]
*[[Umemiya Masako]]
*[[Otaki Hideji]]
*[[Asano Yuko]]
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'''Guests'''
*[[Takasugi Mizuho]] (ep01)
*[[Nagato Hiroyuki]] (ep01)
*[[Arioka Daiki]] (ep2)
*[[Sakai Miki]] (ep03)
*[[Moriyama Mirai]] (ep09)
*[[Murata Mitsu]] (ep8)
*[[Kawata Nozomi]]
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==Production Credits==
*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Hata Takehiko]]
*'''Producer:''' [[Ito Hibiki]] (伊藤響), [[Otsuka Yasuyuki]] (大塚泰之)
*'''Director:''' [[Iwamoto Hitoshi]], [[Sakuma Norika]] (佐久間紀佳), [[Yoshino Hiroshi]], [[Umezawa Toshiyuki]] (梅沢利之)
*'''Music: ''' [[Haishima Kuniaki]] (蓜島邦明)

==External Links==
*[http://www.ntv.co.jp/saigo/ Official site]
*[http://jdorama.com/drama.713.htm JDorama.com]
*[[Wikipedia:ja:最後の弁護人|Japanese Wikipedia]]

{{SeasonRing|NTV|Wednesday 22:00|Autumn 2002|[[Psycho Doctor]]|Spring 2003|[[Shin Yonigeya Honpo]]}}

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