Thursday, June 30, 2011

Trick Special 2006

TRICK THE MOVIE 2006




  • Movie: Trick The Movie 2
  • Genre: Mystery, suspense, comedy
  • Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
  • Assistant Director: Hisashi Kimura, Koji Kotoku
  • Writer: Koji Makita
  • Release Date: June 10, 2006
  • Runtime: 111 min


Ueda and Naoko accept to hear a proposal from a young man (Yuta Hiraoka) living in Fumo-mura village. The proposal is to bring back his childhood friend, Misako (Maki Horikita), who was taken away by a psychic, Hakogami Sawako (Nagisa Katahira), 10 years ago. 

Upon request, the pair head for Hakogami-jima where Hakogami lives. They succeed in bringing Misako back, however, it incurs the wrath of Hakogami and they are sucked into a situation that takes the pretense of a paranormal phenomenon. 

Naoko manages to see through the trick, and Sawako kills herself as a result. The incident reveals Sawako's sorrowful past as she was one of its victims as well.



  • Nakama Yukie as Yamada Naoko
  • Abe Hiroshi as Ueda Jiro
  • Muhammad Abedin - Jimmy
  • Yuta Hiraoka - Kazuhiko Aonuma
  • Maki Horikita - Misako Nishida
  • Tetsuhiro Ikeda - Harando Akiba
  • Nagisa Katahira - Sawako Hakogami



Trick Shinsaku Special 2005

TRICK SHINSAKU SPECIAL 2005




  • Movie: Trick Shinsaku Special 
  • Genre: Mystery, suspense, comedy
  • Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
  • Assistant Director: Hisashi Kimura, Koji Kotoku
  • Writer: Koji Makita
  • Release Date: November 13, 2005



Ueda Jiro together with 3 other scholars from different universities was invited in a TV program which features the super natural power of a fortuneteller. And of course, all of them were not convinced that such powers do exist. Midorikawa Shoko is known to predict how, when and where will a person dies. 

And due to some unexpected turn of events a certain man really did die when the show ended as to what Shoko predicted. Meanwhile, Yamada the super magician is once again fired from her job and coincidentally, she saw the TV program on her way home. 

Ueda phoned her about it and she insisted that she will never go with him no matter what, but because she was kicked-out from her apartment, she went with him nonetheless. And so, Ueda & Yamada went to Midorikawa's mansion and together with the 3 other scholars, they decided to expose Midorikawa Shoko's fraudulent act.


  • Nakama Yukie as Yamada Naoko
  • Abe Hiroshi as Ueda Jiro
  • Katsuhisa Namase - Kenzo Yabe
  • Yoko Nogiwa - Satomi Yamada
  • Nobuo Kyo - Aisuke Kikuchi
  • Tetsuhiro Ikeda - Haro Akiba
  • Masahiko Nishimura - Kumio Oshima



Monday, June 27, 2011

Trick Special 2002

TRICK THE MOVIE 2002



  • Movie: Trick The Movie
  • Genre: Mystery, suspense, comedy
  • Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
  • Assistant Director: Hisashi Kimura
  • Writer: Koji Makita
  • Release Date: November 9, 2002
  • Runtime: 119 min


Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. 

When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?



  • Nakama Yukie as Yamada Naoko
  • Abe Hiroshi as Ueda Jiro
  • Namase Katsuhisa as Yabe Kenzo
  • Kyo Nobuo as Kikuchi Aisuke
  • Nogiwa Yoko as Yamada Satomi
  • Shinji Yamashita as Akio Kanzaki
  • Miyoko Yoshimoto as Etsuko Minagawa



Trick 3 2003

TRICK 3 2003



  • Title (English): Trick 3
  • Tagline: Troisième Partie
  • Genre: Mystery, suspense, comedy
  • Broadcast network: TV Asahi
  • Episodes: 10
  • Viewership ratings: 15.62
  • Broadcast period: 2003-Oct-16 to 2003-Dec-18
  • Air time: Thursday 21:00
  • Theme song: Watashi to Warutsu wo by Onitsuka Chihiro


A unique duo of a beautiful female magician and a strange physician are back! After two successful TV series, a record high DVD sales record in the newly released drama category, a smash hit theatrical movie, the best selling novelized book, etc., the show has made a come back to a weekly prime time slot.

The drama takes place at a remote mountain village bound by convention. In each episode, a beautiful female magician and a strange physician witness various supernatural phenomena far beyond their imagination. Just as the previous series, the two will try to investigate and seek what lies behind these paranormal events and logically prove what the tactful trick would be, only, if any. 

Now reaching its third series, the drama assures an ever more emphasis on the performance of the unique casting, stronger and original scripts, and more fun delving into the mysteries of this favorite title!


  • Nakama Yukie as Yamada Naoko
  • Abe Hiroshi as Ueda Jiro
  • Namase Katsuhisa as Yabe Kenzo
  • Kyo Nobuo as Kikuchi Aisuke
  • Nogiwa Yoko as Yamada Satomi
  • Oshima Yoko as Ikeda Haru (Yamada's landlady)
  • Abedin Mohammed as Jami-kun (Johnny)
  • Seto Yoichiro as Yamada's secret fan



Sunday, June 26, 2011

Trick 2 2002

TRICK 2 2002



  • Title (English): Trick 2
  • Genre: Mystery, suspense, comedy
  • Broadcast network: TV Asahi
  • Episodes: 12
  • Viewership ratings: 10.57
  • Broadcast period: 2002-Jan-11 to 2002-Mar-22
  • Air time: Friday 23:15-24:10
  • Theme song: Ryuseigun by Onitsuka Chihiro


Trick 2 keeps on describing the strange relationships of Yamada Naoko, a skilled and unemployed magician, and Ueda Jiro a physics teacher who doesn't believe in supernatural powers. 

Each story gives us the opportunity to meet these funny characters including Police Officer Yabe and Naoko's mother.



  • Nakama Yukie as Yamada Naoko
  • Narumi Riko as the young Naoko
  • Abe Hiroshi as Ueda Jiro
  • Namase Katsuhisa as Yabe Kenzo
  • Maehara Kazuki as Ishihara Tatsuya
  • Nogiwa Yoko as Yamada Satomi



Trick 1 2000

TRICK 1 2000



  • Title (English): Trick
  • Genre: Mystery, suspense, comedy
  • Broadcast network: TV Asahi
  • Episodes: 10
  • Viewership ratings: 7.94
  • Broadcast period: 2000-Jul-01 to 2000-Sep-08
  • Air time: Friday 23:15-24:10
  • Theme song: Gekko by Onitsuka Chihiro


Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real.

Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. 

Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...



  • Nakama Yukie as Yamada Naoko
  • Narumi Riko as the young Naoko
  • Abe Hiroshi as Ueda Jiro
  • Namase Katsuhisa as Yabe Kenzo
  • Maehara Kazuki as Ishihara Tatsuya
  • Nogiwa Yoko as Yamada Satomi



Friday, June 10, 2011

Taiyou No Uta

TAIYOU NO UTA


  • Title (romaji): Taiyo no Uta
  • Also known as: Song of the Sun
  • Format: Renzoku
  • Genre: Romance, Human drama
  • Episodes: 10
  • Viewership ratings: 10.26%
  • Broadcast network: TBS
  • Broadcast period: 2006-Jul-14 to 2006-Sep-15
  • Air time: Friday 22:00
  • Theme songs: 
  • Opening: Invitation by Shibasaki Kou
  • Insert: Taiyou no Uta by Kaoru Amane
  • Insert: Stay With Me by Kaoru Amane



While working at a seaside inn with his high school buddies, Fujishiro Koji meets Kaoru Amane, a street musician. Kaoru is suffering from an incurable disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum), and can’t be exposed to the sun. 

Under the sun, the two would never have met. Still, destiny brings the two together. Since the day he suddenly lost his job, Koji has lost sight of his dreams. But when he meets Kaoru, who is making positive efforts to become a singer, Koji regains his long-forgotten passion for music.



Yamada Takayuki as Fujishiro Koji
Sawajiri Erika as Amane Kaoru
Matsushita Nao as Tachibana Asami
Tanaka Kei as Onishi Yuta
Sato Megumi as Matsumae Misaki