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The Beauty or the Beast
Thursdays, 10:00-10:54 p.m.
Beginning January 9, 2003
The Cast
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Played By: |
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Makoto Tamiya
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Nanako Matsushima |
| Hiromi Nagase |
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Masaharu Fukuyama |
| Teruhiko Kuze |
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Ikkei Watanabe |
| Kantaro Towatari |
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Norito Yajima |
| Hiroshi Kote |
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Kuranosuke Sasaki |
| Yukino Shirai |
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Miho Shiraishi |
| Takeshi Yamamoto |
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Masaru Nagai |
| Kacchin |
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Papaiya Suzuki |
| Fujiko Akiyama |
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Kanako Fukaura |
| Kyoichiro Sakuragi |
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Kiyoshi Kodama |
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After graduating from the Tokyo University School of Law, Makoto Tamiya
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. 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.
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