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Details

• Title: マチベン
• Title (romaji): Machiben
• Also known as: The Street Lawyers
• Episodes: 6
• Genre:
• Air time: Saturday 21:00-21:58
• Broadcast network: NHK
• Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-08 to 2006-May-13

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 With the other three lawyers at the same firm, she tackles outdated laws and the public that criticizes the weak, and fights with prosecutors over a truth.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

• Esumi Makiko
• Yamamoto Koji
• Sawada Kenji (沢田研二)
• Nakajima Tomoko
• Kobayashi Takashi
• Yamamoto Kei

Production Credits

• Scenario: Inoue Yumiko
• Music: 吉俣良