^ Yes and two of my favourites in 1 series: Fukuyama and Amami Yuuki. I watched Amalfi too, but they didn't really have scenes together.

A happy belated birthday to her! Sent her a card through her agency. I know, fangirl
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Yuki Amami to be a detective in upcoming drama

Amami Yuki will be starring in TV Asahi's new drama "Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu" that is scheduled to air starting in January.

Amami who cut 20 cm of her hair first time in 10 years for the drama, will be playing a detective.

"Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu" is an original story written by a scriptwriter Inoue Yumiko ("GOOD LUCK!!", "Shiroi Kyoto", "14-sai no Haha"), and it's a new type of detective drama which takes place in the interrogation room.

The protagonist named "Makabe Yukiko" (Amami) is a female detective. She's helped crack various cases, and worked her way up to her position of being the first female chief on the Special Investigation Team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. However, she assumes full responsibility for the mismanagement in a certain case, and is ordered to transfer to a special team in crime squad 1 of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, called, "Kinkyu Jian Torishirabe Taio-han (Urgent case investigation correspondence squad)" --commonly called as 'Kintori'-- which is the team that interrogates suspects.

Makabe seeks the truth behind the cases, and eventually, she unveils a "shocking fact" in an unsolved case from the past.

Other "Kintori" members include Tanaka Tetsushi, Kohinata Fumiyo, Osugi Ren, and Denden. Hayami Mokomichi and Suzuki Kosuke will play detectives in crime squad 1 who have hostility toward the 'Kintori' team. Sasai Eisuke and Kusakari Masao will also be appearing in the drama.

"Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu" will air every Thursday at 9:00 pm on TV Asahi.

Source: Oricon

Yuki Amami to star in FujiTV 2016 Fall drama

Amami Yuki will be starring in the FujiTV Autumn 2016 drama "Chef ~ Mitsuboshi no Kyuushoku ~" (Chef ~ The 3-starred school lunch) which will begin its run from October in the Thursdays 10pm timeslot. The drama is based on an original script written by Hamada Hideya whose last work was "Naomi to Kanako" shown in winter this year.

Amami will play the role of Hoshino Mitsuko who is the executive chef of a Michelin three-starred French restaurant in Ginza and creates many ingenious dishes with her creativity and sensitive taste buds. However, due to a clash with the restaurant owner, she is fired from her job and has difficulty finding another position due to her pride as a celebrated chef. When Hoshino gets invited to prepare a school lunch for a primary school during a TV show, she fails miserably at impressing the children and this ends up being broadcast nationwide. Despite so, Hoshino decides to regain the stars she had lost by attempting to create delicious school lunches while coping with obstacles such as nutrition concerns, cost and taste bud differences between adults and children.

As Amami has to film many cooking scenes in this drama, she said that she plans to do as many of these scenes herself. This happens to be her first role as a chef where she had to wear a 34-cm tall cook's hat while shooting the poster for this drama. Amami said that when she was a kid, she already helped her parents with the cooking and cooked her own meals when she was in the Takarazuka. Even while she was busy with the filming of dramas, she would cook curries or soup-based dishes which could be heated up easily and makes pickles and umeboshi which she would store in tupperware boxes. Amami joked that although she is not great at cooking, she has to do it since she lives alone. However, she has never cooked French cuisine before so the reporters suggested that she should ask her junior from the same agency i.e. Hayami Mokomichi for help to which she said that she might resort to doing so. In preparation for the filming which begins in early September, Amami has been visiting some high-class restaurants and going for cooking class at Tsuji Chef Specialist School.

Sources: Sanspo / Yomiuri Hochi

Yuki Amami to star in movie "Chia Dan - Joshikousei ga chidansu de zenbei seihashichatta honto no hanashi"

Amami Yuki and Hirosue Suzu will be working together in the upcoming movie "Chia Dan ~ Joshikousei ga chiadansu de zenbei seihashichatta honto no hanashi" (Cheerleading Dance ~ The true story of how a senior high school girl conquers the whole of America with cheerleading dance) which will be shown in cinemas next March. The movie is based on the true story of how Fukui Commerical High School's cheerleading dance team "JETS" won the NDA National Championship in March 2009 in just three years since it was set up.

Hirose plays a first-year senior high school student Hikari who belongs to the cheerleading team which is subjected to the tough training and rules imposed by their advisor Saotome Kaoruko (Amami). Amami who had expressed strong interest in playing the character based on JETS' real coach Igarashi Yuko, agreed to the offer immediately and commented that the young actors like Hirose worked very hard to practice the cheerleading dances and she was really pleased to see how much they had improved in just a few months. During the filming in May this year, JETS and Igarashi went to Niigata to meet the cast where Amami observed how Igarashi treated her students strictly but with love so as to prepare for her character.

Co-stars also include Nakajo Ayami, Yamazaki Hirona, Fukuhara Haruka and Minamino Saki. Before filming was done in May and June this year, the actresses playing the cheerleading team members went through a few months of intensive dance training.

Sources: Sanspo / Sponichi / Eiga.com

Yuki Amami to star in TV Asahi drama "Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu 2"

Yuki Amami to star in TV Asahi drama Special

Yuki Amami will be starring the TV Asahi drama Special "Paddington hatsu 4 ji 50 pun - Shindai tokkyuu statsujin kiken" airing on March 24th at 9pm.

Amami plays Touko Amano a former police detective who is now a crisis management professional. Amami gets involved in a murder case on a moving train where the body has disappeared.

Other cast includes Mitsuko Kusabue as Amami's mother-in-law who witnessed the murder, Atsuko Maeda as a housekeeper who gets into the mansion where the body is supposed to be, and Sachie Hara who plays the eldest daughter of the family living at the mansion. Toshiyuki Ishida plays the chairman of a company who also lives at the mansion. Also in the cast is Ken Ishiguro and Tomoka Kurotani.

Source: Oricon

gaijinmark wrote:

Yuki Amami to star in TV Asahi drama "Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu 2"

And since it appears the writers are completely incapable of coming up with any new ideas, let's do a season 3: http://blog.asianwiki.com/japanese-dramas/yuki-amami-cast-in-tv-asahi-drama-series-emergency-interrogation-room

Well, there were six seasons of "Doctor X" so why not a fourth season of "Kinkyu".

Yuki Amami returns for fourth season of "Kinkyu Torishirabe Shitsu"

Yuki Amami will be back starring in a fourth season of "Kinkyu Torishirabe Shitsu". Also returning will be the rest of the cast, Tetsushi Tanaka, Mokomichi Hayami, Kosuke Suzuki, Denden, and Fumiyo Kohinata.

But judging from the synopsis this will be the final season (maybe). Synopsis: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department decides to disband the special interrogation team, Kintori. The team will be disbanded in 100 days, by September, but the the members of the team still do their jobs same as before.

The drama airs beginning in July, 2021.

After four seasons, they're wrapping it up (maybe) with a movie.

Yuki Amami to star in movie "Gekijouban Kinkyu Torishirabe Shitsu The Final"

Yuki Amami will star in the movie “Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final.” The film is a sequel to TV Asahi drama series “Emergency Interrogation Room,” that has aired for 4 seasons, and presumably the final installment in the series. Also cast for the movie are series regulars Tetsushi Tanaka, Mokomichi Hayami, Kosuke Suzuki, Koji Ookura, Muga Tsukaji, Denden, and Fumiyo Kohinata. The film will revolve around the special police interrogation team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. They interrogate and conduct psychological warfare with suspects.

“Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final” will be released June 16, 2023 in Japan.