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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

Machiben 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 With the other three lawyers at the same firm, she tackles outdated laws and the public that criticizes the weak, and fights with prosecutors over a truth.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.

Cast

Production Credits

Scenario: Inoue Yumiko
Music: 吉俣良

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

Shin Machiben

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 (飯沼千恵子) 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 (宮下裕治) as Attorney Ootomi (ep1-2)
Fujita Sokyu (藤田宗久) as head of the legal training center (ep1)
Matsuzawa Kazuyuki (松澤一之) as the policeman (ep1)
Era Jun (江良潤) 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 (坂口進也) as the Mammoth Electric employee (ep2)
Natori Yukimasa (名取幸政) 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 (春日潤也) as Sakamoto Eita (ep3)
Takabayashi Yukiko as the judge (ep3)
Nakahira Yoshio (中平良夫) as the judge (ep3)
Itao Itsuji (板尾創路) 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 (奥田達士) as the prison guard (ep4)
Ueda Koichi (上田耕一) as Otaki Masanobu (ep5-6)
Tsumura Takashi (津村鷹志) as the vice principal (ep5-6)
Shimizu Yutaka (清水優) 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 (小杉幸彦) as a teacher (ep5-6)
Suga Tomoyuki (須賀友之) as a teacher (ep5-6)
Yamagami Kenji (山上賢治) 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 (住友紀人)

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.

External Links

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Tsunagareta Ashita	Saturday 21:00	Dillon ~ Unmei no Inu

Previous	Season 2	Next
Konnichiwa, Kaasan	Saturday 21:00	Benkyo Shiteitai!

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 *[[Kawano Naoki]] as Yamauchi (ep5-6)
 *[[Nomoto Gakuji]] (野元学二) as a teacher (ep5-6)