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| + | *[[Sakai Masato]] as Suzuki Gen | ||
| + | *[[Ono Machiko]] as Toshiro Natsumi | ||
| + | *[[Ishiguro Ken]] as Tsukagoshi Yoichi | ||
| + | *[[Suzuki Kosuke]] as Jingu Satoshi | ||
| + | *[[Ito Ayumi]] as Tashiro Megumi | ||
| + | *[[Takahashi Ku]] (喬橋來) as Tashiro Shinji | ||
| + | *[[Kaku Tomohiro]] as Kimura Kazuharu | ||
| + | *[[Nakamura Atsuo]] as Oizumi Ryusaku | ||
| + | *[[Ibu Masato]] as Sakakibara Michitaka | ||
| + | *[[Takahashi Katsumi]] as Kuroiwa Tadashi | ||
===Production Credits=== | ===Production Credits=== | ||
Revision as of 10:43, 15 April 2014
Contents
Details
- Title: パンドラ
- Title (English): Pandora
- Genre: Suspense
- Format: Renzoku
- Broadcast network: WOWOW
- Air time: Sunday 22:00-23:00
Season 1
- Episodes: 8
- Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-06 to 2008-May-25
- Theme song: The Good Life by Tony Bennett
Synopsis
Suzuki is an eccentric at university hospital who has been conducting a research to come up with a miracle drug for cancer on his own. One day, Suzuki finally succeeds in developing a new type of anticancer drug that completely hinders the self-renewal of all cancer stem cells. However, his colleagues do not seem to share his excitement, and he is not even allowed to carry out clinical trial on humans. Suzuki is disheartened and completely at a loss by this but then he comes across a girl, Manami, who is suffering from terminal cancer. With help from her, he successfully carries out clinical trial. Yet, things take an unexpected turn. What will become of Suzuki, Manami and all the others around them? What is the fate of this new drug? Pandora's box released all the evils as soon as it was opened. What is it that is ultimately left inside? --Fuji TV
Cast
- Mikami Hiroshi as Suzuki Hideki (41)
- Yanagiba Toshiro as Matoba Shinichi (42)
- Konishi Manami as Iida Sayoko (28)
- Kunimura Jun as Otaguro Shigeyuki (52)
- Tanimura Mitsuki as Mizuno Aimi (17)
- Yamamoto Koji as Tachikawa Haruo (34)
- Ono Takehiko as Fukami Jinichiro (55)
- Hirata Mitsuru as Tomota Shogo (50)
- Yamamoto Kei as Midorikawa Fujio (66)
- Uehara Misa as Kadowaki Chika (22)
- Kichise Michiko as Katsura Hitomi (37)
- Aijima Kazuyuki as Numabe Yoshihiro (43)
- Yamane Kazuma as Mamoru
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
- Producer: Ogura Hisao
- Director: Kawake Shunsaku, Wakamatsu Setsuro, Kobayashi Yoshinori
- Music: Sato Naoki
Episode Titles
- Ep 01: Discovery
- Ep 02: Desire
- Ep 03: Betrayal
- Ep 04: Sin
- Ep 05: Trap
- Ep 06: Rage
- Ep 07: Death
- Ep 08: Love
Awards
- 1st Tokyo Drama Awards: Grand Prix (Renzoku)
- 1st Tokyo Drama Awards: Best Screenplay - Inoue Yumiko
- 1st Tokyo Drama Awards: Best Director - Kawake Shunsaku
Season 2
- Title: パンドラII 飢餓列島
- Title (romaji): Pandora II: Kiga Retto
- Episodes: 7
- Broadcast period: 2010-Apr-18 to 2010-May-30
Synopsis
Food crisis occurs worldwide from the rise in grain prices due to conversion to biofuel and crop failure due to climate change due to global warming. Japan relies on imports for most of the major crops. Japan's government recently found that you fall into a serious state of starvation within half a year if imports were stopped. At that time, the agronomist Suzuki Mamoru is the one who succeeded in the development of genetically modified corn to grow at a rate of four times the normal. This miracle corn developed successfully over seven years in a laboratory deep in the mountains isolated from all surroundings. Suzuki named this corn "God Corn." Fund companies to try to monopolize the money tree that produces the God Corn. Government heard rumors of successful development of "God Corn", and tries to get the rights to this God Corn, and the huge profits that are bound to come with it. Suzuki is suddenly caught up in a swirling world of conspiracy.
On the other hand, Yagisawa Chikako of the Criminal Investigations Unit harbors a suspicion about the burned bodies of men found in the riverbed. This starts the investigation, and it might be murder rather than suicide or accidental death.
Pandora's box has certainly been opened.
Cast
- Sato Koichi as Agronomist Suzuki Mamoru
- Suzuki Kyoka as Yagisawa Noriko
- Katsumura Masanobu
- Yamamoto Koji
- Tetsuya
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
Season 3
- Title: パンドラIII 革命前夜
- Title (romaji): Pandora III: Kakumei Zenya
- Episodes: 8
- Broadcast period: 2011-Oct-02 to 2011-Nov-20
Synopsis
Following in the same theme of dangerous discoveries, the "Pandora's box" for the new series will be a medical treatment invented to prevent suicides. Eguchi plays Suzuki, a neuroscience researcher in a wheelchair who develops the treatment out of his desire to counter Japan's high suicide rate. --Tokyograph
Cast
- Eguchi Yosuke as Suzuki Seiji
- Uchino Masaaki as Yuda
- Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Kaburaki
- Yamamoto Koji as Tachikawa
- Kamikawa Takaya
- Itaya Yuka
- Fukuda Mayuko
- Izumiya Shigeru
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
Season 4
- Title: パンドラ~永遠の命~
- Title (romaji): Pandora ~Eien no Inochi~
- Episodes:
- Broadcast period: 2014-Apr-27 to 2014-May-04
Synopsis
Cast
- Sakai Masato as Suzuki Gen
- Ono Machiko as Toshiro Natsumi
- Ishiguro Ken as Tsukagoshi Yoichi
- Suzuki Kosuke as Jingu Satoshi
- Ito Ayumi as Tashiro Megumi
- Takahashi Ku (喬橋來) as Tashiro Shinji
- Kaku Tomohiro as Kimura Kazuharu
- Nakamura Atsuo as Oizumi Ryusaku
- Ibu Masato as Sakakibara Michitaka
- Takahashi Katsumi as Kuroiwa Tadashi
Production Credits
- Producer: Ogura Hisao
- Director: Kawake Shunsaku
- Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko, Kawake Shunsaku
- Music: Sato Naoki
External Links
- Official site (season 1)
- Official site (season 2)
- Official site (season 3)
- Official site (season 4)
- Japanese Wikipedia
