* Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-18 start
* Air time: Saturday 21:00
* Theme song: Ashita no Kioku by Arashi

Synopsis
Sakurai plays the host of a live TV quiz program. On the show, contestants who achieve 7 correct answers win 10 million yen, and those who get 8 correct answers will have one of their wishes granted by the TV network. But while the questions start off innocently enough, as the game progresses, the questions gradually delve into the contestants' past crimes or indiscretions, presenting them with the dilemma of having to confess their guilt in order to win. Sakurai's character also has a mysterious past. Before becoming the show's host, an accident had left him in a vegetative state for six years, which also resulted in him losing most of his memories. --Tokyograph

Cast
* Sakurai Sho
* Yokoyama Yu
* Matsuura Aya
* Maya Miki

Production Credits
* Screenwriter: Oikawa Takuro (及川拓郎)
* Producers: Ikeda Kenji (池田健司), Moriya Takeshi
* Directors: Nagumo Seiichi (南雲聖一), Sakuma Noriyoshi (佐久間紀佳)

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Sho-chan still looks cute for such an evil smirk..
now this i wonder as to whether Arashi will provide the theme song..the drama is sorta Maou-ish IMO

I TOTALLY want Arashi to provide the themesong for this. For the fact that the drama is Moau-ish, the song would probably end up Truth-ish too, and heck,w e all love Truth don't we? And Smile isn't having Arashi singing the themesong either, so... yeah, I'm putting my hopes on this, especially since Door to Door will only be an SP, and i doubt there'll be a song.

Ooh! Sho and his evil smirk<333 After Yatterman, he challenges a disturbed childhood host of a disturbed bangumi? Total interest here.

What a spring dorama season!
Sho-kun and MatsuJun in their own doramas, and many others with amazing casts

LOVES!

some hot guys in suits..
http://sumoboy.livejournal.com/245388.html#cutid1
Sho-cha~~~~~n!! ♥♥♥♥

aaaaaahhhh!! theme song..by Arashi!! and NO, this ain't an April Fool's joke.. yatta!!
http://onlyjun.vox.com/library/post/%E6%98...8%E6%86%B6.html

some scans..
credits: baidu

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I'm excited that Arashi is doing another theme for Sho's drama! (And right after Believe too!) Can't wait for more news & photos! 明日の記憶 (Ashita no Kioku) sounds intriguing...Tomorrow's Memories...I wonder what that means?

Ashita Kioku sounds really promising! <333 And I'm seriously seriously hoping it'll end up like Truth or Believe. I heard the first episode, Sho will wake up from a hospital/white room sorta thing kicking and screaming? AHhhh!!! This drama sounds so promising, I already cant wait for it. Sho sounds totally hot in this drama, and... I WANT THE THEMESONGGG!

I want it so so so badly. Even a preview would do. T_T

im anxious as well about the drama AND the theme song..

seems that the presscon was held today..
and these were the only pics posted..
source: oricon

Matsuura Aya

Miki Maya

sadly, no Sho-chan and Yoko..Johnny's rule..tsk tsk tsk..
i was so excited to see them both in suits..*sigh*

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Aikawa Sho is the first contestant btw..

my impression on the drama, it's more like a detective type..xD
but using a quiz show as medium for it..looks wicked to me..
Yoko was pretty evil in there, but i like it, he looks hot..
evil=hot in my fangirl dictionary..lol
Sho-chan was also impressive being the MC, id say he's been improving on his acting..
besides the leads, i extremely favor Miki Maya..always gorgeous..
from the last part, seems like Honma knows Kamiyama's real personality?? and i think he's using Kamiyama in the quiz show for him to regain his memories?? because the first contestant, was somehow related to Kamiyama..accdg to his memory flashbacks..oohh, the suspense..
can't wait for episode 2!!
on the side note..i so so so love the theme song!!! Arashi's done it again..i can't wait to hear it in full..

hi there, regarding the pics tat been uploaded to the Quiz Show 2 album gallery. plz do make sure tat you rename each of the file pic before uploading bcoz all the recent uploaded pics have so really long file name till its spread to 2 lines just for each of the pic..

thank you.

^oops, sorry for that..
it just so happens that the video file is labeled in japanese characters..will edit for the next episodes..xD

3rd ep finished!
this sure is interesting one! and i'm really curious about Kamiyama's past..
Sho-chan is really impressive and Yoko, i like when he's like that, evil and really mysterious..
and they look so dam hot with the suits!♥

Ok so I just started this drama today and i have to say its really addicting.
Honma is a genius for this concept. though he kinda scares me when he gets all mad at Kamiyama...
speaking of which his character is amazing i really like him.
Yu he looks exactly the same as he did in yukan club so i was surprise i didnt realize that til later on in the drama anyways he is really good i love how smart he is. but i hope he doenst turn crazy and harm Kamiyama when the quiz show is all done....
Sho he was always my least favorite in Arashi idk i just didnt like him but now i adore him as an actor. he is so amazing... the way he struggled to remember and his happy devil attitude he has on stage. wow...

i hope too that Honma won't harm Kamiyama..
he seems to be in pain when he remembers something and that's so sad.. then i'd like to just hug him
and yeah Sho is amazing on stage being the MC! love that happy devil attitude

how come the 1st and 3rd epi they use ginja tv.. but for 2nd and 4th epi they are galaxy tv??

and... omg there is a season 1 of this show? i totally love it man...

I think the show in the drama they moved around... we see the PD lady having conflicts with the stations so they probably switched around.

so episode 4.
again poor kamiyama!
Honma is scaring me with what is doing to Kamiyama.
I hope all this doesnt come back and someone gets hurt.
that fortune teller lady she is a liar but she seems to know something about fortune cuz she was right about Kamiyama
cept when she says his parents would suffer and he says their already dead

it's been so long.. how come epi 5 not out yet?

no offense meant but i think it would be better to just wait for it.. subbers also have to deal with RL once in a while..as for me, i've only watched the subbed version of episode 1 till now and the rest are RAW..xD

im just starting this drama out..
but it looks interesting.. =)

this is so late..lol
i just finished watching episode 7, episode 8 tonight in Japan..
not knowing what they were saying makes it more saddening for me especially now that episode 7 totally is a BIG spoiler..lotsa things were revealed..
Kamiyama was so pitiful, suffering all throughout the show due to those memory flashbacks, it was indeed a mental torture, and Honma is just, well, cruel..
i never would have thought that Saejima also played a part in that unfortunate past, hence she'll be the next contestant on the show..episode 8 looks pretty intense already just from the previews..
on the other hand, let me be not the only one who thinks Sho-chan is so effing hot in this drama..with all those serious expressions going on, the glare, smirk..*squeal*

yup!
i still couldnt place Honma..
i mean is he Kamiyama's salvation or enemy...

but during the flashbacks, it keeps me wondering what is the relationship between Honma and Kamiyama?

this drama is really interesting.

I think that Honma' way of talking to Kamiyama is to make him remember what happened.
like u know how u scare someone and it cures them from w.e they have? i think its like that.
he acts like he doesnst care and is all mad but deep down i think he does care....

the girl that died idk what she is to Honma
i thought she was his lover but now i kinda think she is Honma's sister.

So that teenage girl that works for the studio? the one that always talks to Honma at the end of each episode?
idk but i have this feeling she has a crush on him....

yep, Honma tries to make Kamiyama remember but i also think he wants to revenge.

haa i also think that the girl is Honma's sister!
she doesn't seems like lover..
and that other girl definitely has a crush on him and she doupts that everything is not right with Kamiyama and Honma..

it could be his sister...
but dont you think that its weird that Honma knows the people that Kamiyama meets during that certain time?
I mean... unless that Honma is also there with them, he couldnt possibly know that he meet those guys...

look at the third contestant. It was only Kamiyama alone who saw the guy drinking..

hmmm.... this is really mind boggling

also, i wanna know what is the female producer's relationship with Honma and Kamiyama?
seems like Honma didnt take the tv project for nothing...

if you've already watched episode 7, the answer is there..(i think..)

okay, after reading again, sorry i mistook it in a wrong context, you mean the questions Honma provides for each contestant?? despite the fact that he didn't even meet them right?? now that is..just have to agree with you, mind-boggling indeed..xD
sorry, not much of help either..

ohhh.. so thats the reason... thanks for enlightening me.. =)
impressive honma... he does that alone.

have you seen this drama raw? coz i couldnt find any with subtitles... i've finished episode 3 already...
this drama has its Maou-ish feel... dont you think?

i heard that this drama only have 8 episodes.. is it true?

yeap, till now, only watched episode 1 with subs, the rest are RAW..
it does reminds me of Maou..all those mystery and simply the revenge plot going on..
i read that the drama has 10 episodes..
for episode 8, contestant is the producer, 2 episodes left, maybe it'll be Honma and Kamiyama..

ooohhhh.. so the producer really has connection with Kamiyama....
this will be soooo exciting.... a face off between them...
couldnt wait to see it...

i hope that they get to update it soon... (i mean the ones with the subs)
=)

cynical
i've always wondered how he knows all those peoples!!
and that producer, it seems like there's somethig more hidden in that..
it really is mind boggling

meoinkie
oooh thank you for the information! i was dying to know what is going on
i've still watched only 4 ep and if there's not gonna be soon the rest subbed i'll have to DL them without subs and watch :/

yup, ive been wondering how Honma does that all by himself.




hehehe, i've answered your reply to meoinkie...
i envy you coz you could dl them but if it has no subs i dont want to watch.. hehehe.. coz you know with this kind of dramas you have to digest everything with it so you could understand more of what is going to happen.
i hope that they get to update the episodes with the subs.. and we are sooooo behind now.. i have finished watching episode 4 already and i am itching to watch until the 8th episode...

Honma is such a cutie of course the young PD girl would have crush on hm
though ever since episode 4 its hinted that she is gonna be the one that sees honma;s real plan...

I doubt the girl (masaki?) is honma's lover too because clearly she was with Kamiyama.

sometimes i wonder why Homna has to do the things he does. i mean why does he have to force Kamiyama to remembers all this?
he could easily do all this himself
he can get info on all the people that has ever met Kamiyama yet he can not take the time to find out what really happened to his sister?

right on!
it is her that could expose Honma's plans.. but is it really Kamiyama who killed Masaki?
hmm.. i really dont know what to think..
its so hard to get the gist of the story based on four episodes..
when oh when will they upload the next episodes.. =)

cynical
yep i wouldn't like to watch any ep without subs too, it's too troublesome try to understand what's happening
aa it takes so long.. i so wanna know more about everything, especially Kamiyama's past 8))

nikki
exactly!
this is getting quite weird..
but perhapse we'll know more when the rest episodes are updated with subs

well ive seen the other episodes after 4 but their all raw and i do know japanese but im not fluent yet.

so what i can say is that i dont think Kamiyama killed her.... instead she saved him and thats how she died.
On the other hand Honma is mad that she died regardless of how. he is mad she is dead and he wanna kno why so he has to get it out of Kimiyama.

all the people that he brings onto the show are the same people that Kamiyama and Masaki has met leading up to the accident.

again if honma can find all the people leading up to the incident how come he can do a tiny bit more work and find out what happens for reals?
someone is lazy

and that PD girl i kinda like hes cute. she really looks up to Honma i hope the fact that he is keeping kamiyama in a cell would makes her hate him..
wait what am saying? if i knew my boss was locking up my co worker would be scared out of my mind

i've thought it would go like that, Kamiyama didn't kill her and Honma wants to know how she died..
it makes sense
but as you said, is it so difficult to find out how she died? i think it's more difficult to find all the people that Kamiyama and Masaki have met..

hmm now i don't know if i really should watch the res without subs, i want to know what's happening :/

good for you!! =) hmm what you're saying makes sense. But if thats the case couldnt he be more.... i mean not that harsh towards Kamiyama, coz he also suffered and will continue to suffer once Kamiyama remembered all that has happened.




hahahaha... yes, i will be very scared and will give my resignation right away..

so this is kinda off topic but the guy that plays honma Yu. well he was in Yukan club and i swear he had the same hair style!
so when i started watching i was thinking... he looks so familiar! and then i realized that he is seishiro the genius of yukan club

anyways back to the drama..
yea idk why honma is so lazy. he can find those people nd he cant find out why one person dies?
all that intellegent is wasted

its so hard watching this with no sub cuz Kamiyama has really interesting lines!

Maybe honma is a sadist and he feels that to make himself feel somewhat better he has to make Kamiyama suffers too..
idk but in Yukan club seishiro is a sadist
Just kidding.
but yea maybe he never liked the fact that Masaki was with Kamiyama so thats why he wants to torture poor kamiyama. its a hidden deep hatred or something.

i kinda wanna think that he does care too cuz when Kamiyama collapses on stage he would look all concern. well he did the first time the second time he looked lke a real sadist

aaaahhhhh!! episode 8 is sooooo freaking good!! i don't know i was so thrilled while watching..xD
makes me want to watch it with subs now..
im not really sure about this, but Honma just referred Misaki as he and Kamiyama's "osananajimi" (childhood friend), reason im not yet sure is because this is what he said to Takasugi (assistant director) when she asked him about the girl in the picture..it could be just a lie to lead Takasugi away from his secret or so..even i still don't know as to who is Misaki to Honma and Kamiyama..(thanks to watching it RAW..xD)
as for the contestant, the producer..seems like she used Misaki?? the producer was once a reporter and she witnessed the plane crash, being a reporter, it's usually their duty to provide the hot news more over to be the very first one to report about it..the report was nice hence she was given an award for it..probably leading to her current job..
for that mistake, Honma and Kamiyama were outraged by it, especially Honma..he looks and has been behaving like a mad man throughout the show (after all, it was him who chose Saejima to be the next contestant)..as for the Dream Chance question, it's totally a risky question, more so the answer was really a heavy one..Saejima answered wrongly, but Kamiyama considered it a correct one, making Honma shocked and so mad afterwards, the first time Kamiyama disobeyed Honma's orders..and Kamiyama was actually even mocking him..
i still don't get as to why Honma wanted to see Kamiyama suffering so much..but i think he was blinded by the rage he felt due to Misaki's death..another spoiler, Misaki was stabbed by a sharp object, accidentally..as Kamiyama was carrying her and laid her on the shore, he found the object stabbed unto Misaki's body, he removed the object, and saw blood gushing out, that could have added to the shock, unknowingly Honma was behind him, seeing him carrying the object with blood hence Honma thought that Kamiyama killed her..even after the show, while Honma was talking to the previous producer of the show, Yamanobe-san, he declared that Kamiyama killed Misaki..
this is getting so exciting..xD
episode 9 is gonna be great as well, change of MC??

i decided to watch rest episodes RAW coz i'm so excited to know! XD
all those thing you guys have told makes me wanna see it on my own eyes..
so after watching i'll tell my opininon about what i think ;DD

im literally scratching my head now in utter shock, waaaaaaaaa!! i still can't believe it!! because im too excited to watch episode 9, i wasn't able to resist to read some spoilers..
and what can i say, some of my assumptions (as stated on my previous post) are totally wrong!! xD
i can't wait to dload episode 9..
this show is so twisted i tell you..

its good to see that dramacrazy has updated the subbed files of The Quiz Show..
im watching episode 5 now...
=)

will get back later.. =)

hmm.. in episode 5. the staff is wise-ing up.
all of them are looking into Honma and Kamiyama's background.
this is getting more and more interesting..

so... Honma and Kamiyama and Masaki are

It seems that Kamiyama finally fought back to Honma. its about time i swear Honma is a freakin sadist who just wants to see Kamiyama suffer
I saw the preview for ep 9 i wonder if Honma just locked up Kamiyama and then hired the new MC...

This show is just full of surprises... cuz its like there are two sides to both Honma and Kamiyama. eventually the two sides collide and they pretty much indirectly attack each other.

so dramacrazy. net has uploaded up to episode 8 of the quiz show all subbed so yay for them
pretty much i spent the whole morning watching.
Honma aka Yu has crooked teeth yet his smile is still beautiful sorry but I just had to say that. Sho is ok ok im done for reals with that.

So from what the episodes hints at all of the characters met on the same day on a plane trip that crashed because the plane did not have engine fuel. Misaki is the only one that died because where she Kamiyama and Honma drifted to, was a restricted area with an owner that refused to let anyone in so no one could save Misaki.

I think that Honma Kamiyama and Misaki were best friends and both of the guys fell in love with her but she clearly liked kamiyama more. Kamiyama and Honma were best friends so they never fought for her but honma was pissed off that kamayami let her died.
I really dont think think that Kamiyama killed her idk what he was holding but she didnt die cuz he stabbed her or something like what some images suggested.

The epsode with Saejima as the guest wow i wanted to cry. very good acting by both Sho and Yu.

Omo episode 8 is as of right now my favorite episode. I love how Kamiyama stood up to Honma who i think is crazy... its about time we see that Kamiayama stand back up and instead of be all weak around Honma.

dam! just when i got to DL the rest ep i noticed that dramacrazy had subbed those XDD
well now i'll now better what's gonna happen and i don't need to guess all the time
still haven't watched those ep but soon maybe..

the life of a reporter... its hard to separate your personal life from your working life. and i think it is because of she lost her baby due to that incident...




yup.. among the episodes (well until eps 8) this is the episode with heart and i agree with you..
at least the "crime" that she did was not as bad as the past contestant.
but i also agree with Kamiyama/Honma that she couldnt have use Misaki's death.

I think that Honma is the one who lost everything after that incident and not Kamiyama. for Kamiyama only lost his memories but he stays as he is.. but Honma who we think is normal lost himself to revenge and i think that he is beginning to lose his mind.

oooh... i want to see the face off between friends.. =)
waiting for the time that dramacrazy.net will post the remaining episodes..




hahahaha..
at least you got a copy for yourself. hehehehe..


yup!!!
i though so too..
its so hard to believe that Kamiyama was the one who stabbed Misaki.,.
you could see it in his eyes that he was not capable to do that.. and he's eyes are full of love whenever he sees Misaki.

really (sorry i was talking to the episode) ehehehe..
Kamiyama slept for six years after the incident..

so many questions but what goes through my head is that it was Honma who is somehow the reason that everything happened..


now i am interested to watch the Quiz Show season 1.

personally i believe that what Saejima did was not the best way to make news but she is a reporter so it is her job to report on those things. she just happened to include the story of how the restricted area killed the girl.
She did end up doing all this research on Misaki and i believe her daughter. Shinori, was adopted at the same orphanage Misaki was in because it shows her and the orphanage and later she arrived there to pick up the baby.

Honma is a crazy crazy man he needs some chill pill
Kamiyama still technically had Homna cuz from the flashback we see that Honma stayed wit him during the whole coma so it shows how close they really were but suddenly Honma turned crazy and wants to force the memories into Kamiyama like that...

there are only 2 more episodes so i hope someone does upload it online with subs soon