tv asahi Buyer's Catalogue
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Social experiment / Reality
The Dinner Table
A family of at least four must get together every night for 100 days at 7:00pm.
They have to start dinner at 7:00pm sharp every consecutive day to get a big money prize.

The challenges is followed not just by TV broadcasting, but also by social media.

It is time to bring the FAMILY back to the DINNER TABLE. Sharing dinner together can help ease day-to-day conflicts, as well as establish traditions and memories that can last a lifetime.
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Suspense, Medical
54min x 7ep, 69min x 1ep
2014
Truth of Zero
Mao Matsumoto, who has an IQ of over 150, is a mysterious medical examiner. She has no family and doesnft know love, fun, nor so-called happiness. Nothing interests her except the corpse.

On the first day of her career, a middle aged man who apparently fell from the scaffolding at a construction site is carried in.
His wife, who doubts the cause of her husbandfs death, visits Maofs office and asks the staff to reexamine the body, and finds the true cause of death.

Through the medical examination on the body, Mao finds out that his death was not a result of falling off the scaffolding after all.
Forensic evidence leads her to believe this was not an accident but a mysterious murder case!!
Emi Takei, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Miki Maya

Studio based / Game show
The BLOCKS
A physical game and a quiz show using "blocks and boxes in many ways."
A team of 4 members complete in a match game played in 3 stages.

The games in each stage requiring different knowledge and skills played in a visually fascinating block squares make the show attractive to all generations.
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Studio based / Quiz show
The FACTORY
An innovative quiz show presented in an unusual feature; a production line in a factory!

The 2 teams of "factory worker" head on their job at a factory where the more they work the smarter they get.

The team with more correct answers getting more points wins the match.
The winner can get their pays by throwing a "cash exchange dice" to convert their points into cash to go home with...
A visually exciting quiz show requiring speed, intelligence and team work.

Family
126min
2014
Time Never Stops (SP Drama)
Ryosuke lives in a seaside town of Tohoku area with his mother, wife and daughter, Chiaki.

One day, Ryosuke and his family visit Chiakifs fiancéfs family for a pre-wedding family get-together. But on March 11th, 2011, five days after the happy evening, the great earthquake and tsunami hit East Japan and topples the fates of the two families.

Ryosukefs family is all safe but three members of Chiakifs fiancéfs family including her future husband were killed and their house was swept away.
The fiancéfs father Katsumi is completely at a loss.

Ryosuke asks Katsumi, his father and his second son who survived the catastrophe to stay at his house but Katsumifs mind is totally shatteredc

Treasure Hunting Elevator
Challengers with physical strength will attempt to take back a treasure a demon has stolen and locked away in a castle. The only way up to the treasure is by an elevator. Challengers that succeed will be rewarded US$15,000!

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Documentary
1 episodes X 60min.
Spring, 2011
TSUNAMI 2011: Media Coverage from the Rubble
From the moment of the March 11th earthquake struck, TV Asahi and its affiliate stations covered the disaster non-stop, with no commercial breaks, for 74 consecutive hours. Amidst all the confusion, we continued to broadcast news of the tsunami, the growing death toll, and the nuclear crisis. Our cameramen continued to record footage despite the oncoming tsunami. But it wasnft easy for them: they recall the horrific scenes of people being washed away and not being able to do anything for themc What was happening behind the scenes of TV news coverage? Was TV able to provide the news people were looking for? What was TV able to accomplish? What was it not able to accomplish?

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Sports Comic book
Team Astro
This is the story of 9 ball players with baseball-shaped birthmarks, each with unique powers that complement each other. They are the chosen ones sent by Eiji Sawamura (the Japanese Cy Young) to form the ultimate baseball team for the ages. And their one goal: One Game, Full Throttle. Intense action mixed with comedy, guts, and drama. Available in All-Rights.

Takashi Hayashi@Ryuhei Abe@Yasuaki Seki

gTeam Astroh is based on a legendary manga series published from the Weekly Shonen Jump from 1972 to 1976, and the entire collection was re-printed in 5 books due to its intense popularity. This is a story of 9 superpower baseball players who are born with the same birthmark, ga baseballh, and assembled to become the world strongest team. The players are amazingly passionate, and their baseball skills are acrobatic and nothing but extraordinary. Broadcast, merchandising, mobile, publishingc Available in all rights!

Comedy, Human
Winter, 2012
Teppei 1990
If you could start your life again, what kind of adult would you like to bec?
Teppei Koike is a police officer who is working in the community safety section of a local police station. Since he had been dreaming to be a detective of an investigation division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department before he became a policeman soon after graduating from high school, he has been having difficulties to find the meaning of his current job.
Thinking about his life, he had 35th birthday and suddenly flew back to 1990, and found himself of 13-year old. He saw young-Teppei is not thinking about his future carefully, and decided to re-educate him so that he can have a wonderful life in the future. In order to make him go to a university to be a successful detective, he took him to a tutoring school, and met an English teacher Shoko, who is thinking that academic background is more important than anything.

Masahiro Matsuoka, Yu Yokoyama, Mirei Kiritani, Arata Furuta
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Mystery Comedy
9 Episodes ~ 55 minutes
Time Limit Investigator, Season2
The award winning series returns! Followed by the great success of the first season that received the honorable ATP Awards TV Grand Prix in 2006, Kiriyama (Jo Odagiri) makes a clear come back. Driven by his ever more outrageous ideas, he makes daring speculations to track down criminals.

Jo Odagiri@Kumiko Aso@Kosuke Toyohara@Ryo Iwamatsu


Turn Back
A game show where the guest challengers are sitting turning their back to the stage and play truth or false to guess if there is a real and awesome performance going on the show or not.

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