Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix: fans’ stupidity ?

According to Nikkan Sport, via Tokyograph:

The fall 2007 winners of the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix have been announced. A total of 12,540 ballots were cast, resulting in “Yukan Club” taking 4 of the 5 awards.

It beat “Galileo” for Best Drama by 3,652 votes. It also took Best Actor (Jin Akanishi), Best Supporting Actor (Junnosuke Taguchi), and Best Supporting Actress (Yu Kashii), winning each category by more than a thousand votes.

For Best Actress, Miho Kanno (”Hataraki Man”) was #1.

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Yama Onna Kabe Onna [J-Drama] (Itoh Misaki, Fukada Kyoko)

Details

  • Title: 山おんな壁おんな
  • Title (Romaji): Yama Onna Kabe Onna
  • Also known as: Mountain Woman, Wall Woman
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Broadcast network: Fuji TV
  • Broadcast period: 2007-Jul-5 to
  • Air time: Thursday 22:00-22:54
  • Theme song: Toki no Kakera by EXILE

Synopsis

Based on Atsuko Takakura’s manga of the same name, “Yama Onna Kabe Onna” tells the story of a department store girl (Misaki Ito) who is good at her job but suffers from a complex, due to the flat chest that has earned her the name of “kabe onna” (”kabe” meaning “wall”). Her situation only worsens when she is joined by a new girl (Kyoko Fukada), who is a much more well-endowed “yama onna” (”yama” meaning “mountain”). Tokyograph

Cast

  • Itoh Misaki as Aoyagi Emi
  • Fukada Kyoko as Mariya Marie
  • Oikawa Mitsuhiro as Okuen Masayuki
  • Koike Eiko as Ooyama Haruka
  • Tanihara Shosuke as Tamura Takehiko
  • Nishijima Hidetoshi as Iguchi Shouhei
  • Kawata Hiroki as Matsubara Toorujin
  • Miura Rieko as Kokuban Rika

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