is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by Hideo Iura. It is the story about Takeda Masami, a new lawyer and fellow lawyer Kuzu Motohito, who Takeda is teamed up with, and how they deal with different court cases. It was serialized in '' Big Comic Original'' from 2003 to 2009.

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics ( manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the ...

compiled it into ten ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...

'' volumes released between July 30, 2004, and January 29, 2010. A second series, , was published from 2010 to 2014; its first volume was released on December 25, 2010. In 2007, ''Bengoshi no Kuzu'' won the 52nd

Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being given since ...

in the General category. The manga was adapted into a 12-episode

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, which was broadcast on

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between April 13, 2006, and June 29, 2006.

Cast

Etsushi Toyokawa is a Japanese actor. Biography Born in Yao, Osaka, he studied at Shimizudani High School, and eventually dropped out of Kwansei Gakuin University to pursue a career in acting. He began by joining the sho-gekijo theatrical troupe "Under T ...

as Kuzu Motohito *

Hideaki Itō is a Japanese actor. Biography Ito is best known for starring in the hit franchise ''Umizaru'' film series which consistently topped the Japanese box office of the year. He has also head-lined many other major Japanese films such as Takashi M ...

as Takeda Masami *

Aki Hoshino is a Japanese bikini idol. She has appeared in various men's magazines, such as '' Sabra'' and television shows. In 2010, she was named one of the "7 most irresistibly cute Japanese idols" by the Thailand version of the men's magazine FHM. Bio ...

as Omata Yuka * Fuyuki Moto as Kunimitsu Yuujiro * Soichiro Kitamura as Shiraishi Makoto * Reiko Takashima as Kato Tetsuko

Awards

*49th Television Drama Academy Awards Best Leading Actor: Toyokawa Etsushi *49th Television Drama Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor:

References

External links

Official TBS ''Bengoshi no Kuzu'' website
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