Bijo ka Yajuu

Details

Title: 美女か野獣 / Bijo ka Yajuu
Also known as: The Beauty or the Beast / Kiss? or Fight?
Episodes: 11
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2003-01-09 to 2003-03-20
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Theme song: Ginga to Meiro 銀河と迷路 by TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA

Synopsis

After graduating from the Tokyo University School of Law, Makoto Tamiya (Matsushima Nanako) goes on to Harvard University where she earns an MBA. She later works at one of the "big three" networks in the United States as a news reporter. While covering a story on an international symposium in Paris, Makoto is scouted to work for JBC Television in Japan. The news producer at JBC wants to use Makoto to help raise low viewer ratings. He persuades her to work for him for an absurdly high salary, and also gives her the right to hire who she needs.

While Makoto is being brought in to be the savior of the News Department, one man gets transferred from the Variety Department. His name is Hiromi Nagase (Fukuyama Masaharu). Since joining JBC Television, all he has done is variety programs. Although Hiromi has done everything he possibly could to ensure his programs are a success, his boss just could not could take any more of Hiromi's behavior which ranged from getting caught up in scandals with female television personalities, punching-out assistant directors, to taking kickbacks from production companies. His boss finally tells Hiromi to make a fresh start in the "hard nosed" News Department.

So now the News Department has Makoto who thinks high ratings are the meaning of life, and Hiromi who values the success of a program as just a tool for the full enjoyment of life. These two totally different personalities mix it up and somehow reach a mutual understanding, creating a delightful "light comedy" for adults. --Fuji TV

Cast

Matsushima Nanako as Tamiya Makoto
Fukuyama Masaharu as Nagase Hiromi
Watanabe Ikkei as Kuze Teruhiko
Yajima Norito as Towatari Kantaro
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Kote Hiroshi
Shiraishi Miho as Shirai Yukino
Nagai Masaru as Yamamoto Takeshi
Suzuki Papaiya as Kacchin
Fukaura Kanako as Akiyama Fujiko
Kodama Kiyoshi as Sakuragi Kyoichiro

Production Credits

Producer: 長部聡介, 現王園佳正, 井口喜一
Director: 西谷弘
Screenwriter: 吉田智子
Music: 沢田完, 久保田光太郎

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