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Drama: Buzzer Beat - Gakeppuchi no Hero

Japanese: ブザー・ビート ～崖っぷちのヒーロー～

Director: Kozo Nagayama, Masaki Nishiura

Writer: Mika Omori, Shundo Okawa

Network: Fuji TV

Episodes: 11

Release Date: July 13 - September 21, 2009

Runtime: Monday 21:00

Language: Japanese

Country: Japan

“Love makes people strong”… reads the billboard outside an apartment building in Tokyo where two lives are about to become entwined. This is the story of a timid basketball player and a strong-willed violinist reaching for their dreams,and, although not knowing it at the beginning of the story, doing it together. Naoki Kamiya (Tomohisa Yamaa) had an impressive basketball career in his college days, yet, since turning pro, his inability to deal with pressure has been keeping him from playing up to his full potential. On the other hand, Riko Shirakawa (Keiko Kitagawa) is a freshly graduated violinist who has been unable to get the opportunity to turn professional. Early in the drama, Noaki leaves his cell phone on a bus he is riding with his friend Shuji Hatano (Mizobata Junpei); they just happen to be riding with Riko and her roomate Mai Ebina (Shihori Kanjiya). He runs after the bus and barely manages to let the two girls know through the window that he left his cell phone o