My personal all-time favorite dramas:

-Unnatural (forensic suspense)

-Jin (medicine x SF)

-Legal High (lawyers doing interesting lawsuits )

-Ushijima the Loan Shark (depiction of the dark side of Japan)

-Yamato Nadeshiko (romance classic)

Today's Japanese words:

実写 (ji-ssha): live action

実写化 (ji-ssha-ka): live action adaptation

実写ドラマ (ji-ssha-dorama): live-action drama

実写映画 (ji-ssha-ei-ga): live-action movie/flm

原作 (gen-saku): original work

この作品は、漫画を原作にした実写ドラマです。

This work is a live-action drama adapted from(based on) a manga series.