Takanashi Asuka (Nishiuchi Mariya) is a twenty-something woman who works for a megabank and holds various professional qualifications in finance. Despite her successful career, she is extremely eager to get married and become a stay-at-home housewife. One day, she suddenly gets damped by her boyfriend of five years. Desperate to find her next potential husband, she immediately starts searching to find the “love of her life.” Then she meets Nanami Ryu (Yamamura Ryuta), a very popular TV newscaster. He appears to be the most ideal man for Asuka, except that Ryu is 100% against the idea of marriage and determined to never get married. However, despite their different views on marriage, they eventually fall in love and start their relationship. It seemed as though everything was going so well, but this was the beginning of their “Battle of Values.” Where is their romantic relationship headed? Will Asuka be able to announce her marriage and make her dream come true?

Koichi’s father killed his mother and his brother, then he took his own life—or so it appeared. In fact it was all a set-up. Koichi (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi), 9 years old at that time, was the only witness present at the scene and saw the face of the true murderer. Despite his repeated testimony, no one took him seriously. He was called a liar and even his relatives looked at him with suspicion and distrust. Growing up, Koichi learned to master the art of lying and turned into an extremely skilled liar.

Eventually, he moves to Thailand, changes his name, gets a fake identity and becomes an extremely successful conman. There he meets the murderer who killed his family 30 years ago. He swears himself to take revenge and returns to Japan…

Ando Ranko (Karina) is a police detective. She is single and has no boyfriend currently. Even though she is only 32 years old, Ranko is extremely capable at her job. With a track record of solving many difficult cases, she is regarded as one of the top detective of Metropolitan Police Department. She doesn’t listen to others’ advice, never cares what others think about her and does things the way she wants to.

Ranko starts working with a new partner Toshio Ooyama (Kato Shigeaki). Toshio, who has long dreamt of being a detective, has a strong sense of justice and is the complete opposite of Ranko. He cares what others think of him and tries hard not to be disliked. Working side by side with Ranko, Toshio comes to hate her for her arrogant attitude and willful behaviors. Will “the world’s most disliked female detective” Ranko and her overly self-conscious partner Toshio be able to learn to co-exist with each other and get their job done?

52-year-old Saenai (Tsutsumi Shinichi) is an ordinary middle management salaryman. One day, he is forcibly handed a super suit by a strange old man (Sasano Takashi) and reluctantly takes over as superman. With a wife from hell Enko (Koizumi Kyoko) and two children (Shimazaki Haruka, Yokoyama Ayumu), Saenai is stuck between world peace and domestic problems. Life does not go well just by becoming superman. What is justice, peace and happiness?

Without a single blood relative left in the world, the lonely Tabito pours his heart out on his job. Each case he solves brings him closer to Yukiji, Tei, and her daycare teacher Yoko, who all treat him like family. Wrapped in their warmth, his heart begins to melt.

Kamata Rinko (Yoshitaka Yuriko), 30 years old, is unmarried and doesn’t even have a boyfriend. Her job: (struggling) screenwriter.
With both her career and love life not going well, Rinko indulges herself in a string of “Girls Night Out” shindigs with close friends Kaori and Koyuki.

“When I become pretty, I’m sure an even better guy will come along!”
“If I fall in love with the guy, then I can marry him!”

Just when the ladies were absorbed in their lively “tarareba” (when-if) conversation, a young, blonde and handsome man suddenly shows up and scolds them “You tarareba women!” Just like that, the ladies are given a harsh reality check.

“I thought that if I really wanted it, I could get the ideal career and love life.”
“Are we no longer ‘girls’?”
Such was the painful truth that smacked them in the face.

Women across the generations will surely relate to these ladies, who search for happiness despite all the struggles in life. “Tokyo Tarareba Girls” is a drama that is sure to hit very close to home, 100% guaranteed!

This winter, TBS brings you its Sunday drama about the doctors that face the precious lives of their patients. Love, desire, friendship, envy and pride all collide in this human love story set in Danjo Memorial Hospital.
Okita (Kimura Takuya) comes back from America after 10 years away to perform cardiac surgery on his mentor and hospital director – Toranosuke (Emoto Akira). However, Okita’s return raises an awkward relationship among Toranosuke’s daughter and pediatric surgeon – Mifuyu (Takeuchi Yuko) and her husband Masao (Asano Tadanobu), the hospital’s deputy director. Okita and Mifuyu used to date, but Masto – one of Okita’s childhood friends – married Mifuyu after Okita left to America and now helps run the hospital.
Meanwhile, director of the first surgery department, Hamura (Oikawa Mitsuhiro) is opposed to Toranosuke’s surgery, a young doctor, Igawa is skeptical about Okita’s direction of the surgery, and scrub nurse – Yuki begins to have an interest in Okita.
Watching over Okita’s work on the day of the operation with the hospital’s consulting lawyer, Minori (Nanao), Masao realises how much Okita has developed his surgical skills. The operation seems like a big success, however..

Four men and women have a “chance” encounter – each of them on a shallow downward slope of life without ever having reached a peak or fulfilled their dreams. They form a quartet and live together in Karuizawa. But there is a secret behind the “chance” encounter…
Scriptwriter Yuji Sakamoto – the master of human dramas – joins forces with a cast of popular actors such as Matsu Takako, Mitsushima Hikari, Takahashi Issey and Matsuda Ryuhei to create a bitter-sweet love story and human suspense.

Maki (Matsu) and Tsukasa (Matsuda) arrive at a cottage in Karuizawa where they find Suzume (Mitsushima) and Yutaka (Takahashi) waiting for them. They are all musical performers who decided to form a quartet after first meeting in a karaoke booth in Tokyo. When arriving to perform live in a restaurant, the quartet come across Benjamin Takita, a pianist with “9 months to live”. Then suddenly Maki comes up with a wild idea.

Sakurai Shinichi (Abe Sadao) is a junior high school graduate who works for a mid-sized real estate company. His wife, Kanako (Fukada Kyoko), is also a junior high school graduate, and they are blessed with a daughter – Kaori (Yamada Mikuu). Even though the family isn’t wealthy, they live happily together.

One day, however, Kaori receives the horrific result she scored on a nationwide exam. “Will my daughter be just a junior high school graduate as well?” Shinichi asks. After deciding to send Kaori to an elite school, worried Shinichi soon realizes his daughter will be in the bottom class in a cram school which makes it impossible for her to pass the school entrance exam.

Shinichi names the study room at home as “My cram school” and studies together with Kaori to make a way for her to enter a competitive school.

Kaburagi Wataru (Sorimachi Takashi) goes back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department after finishing training at the police academy, but he is assigned to the Public Relations Division headed by Yashiro Miyako (Nakama Yukie) and not to the Special Missions Section.

Meanwhile, Kurusu Hatsue goes to the no. 1 investigation division and claims to have killed Miyata Futoshi. Three days ago, Futoshi’s dead body was found at an irrigation channel and the police concluded that he died by accidental drowning. Kurusu asks to be punished for his actions. Ukyo (Mizutani Yutaka) takes an interest in Hatsue’s appeal and begins an investigation by himself.

Kiyota Kiyokazu (Kitaoji Kinya), Tachibana Shigeo (Izumiya Shigeru) and Arimura Norio (Siga Kotaru) are childhood friends. Upon reaching the retirement age, Kiyota had to retire from his job, only to take up contract work at a Game Center. Shigeo owns an izakaya (Japanese pub) and used to run it until recently, having handed over the reins to his son, Kosei. Norio is a manager of a machinery equipment manufacturing plant. Back in high school, the three of them were part of the “Three Bad Boys” group. Kiyota is an expert in Kendo, while Shigeo has a black belt in Judo, and Norio is an ex-military strategist. All in their 60’s now, the 3 of them get together to form a vigilance committee, and patrol the neighborhood at night.