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April 13, 2008

NHK's New Classic Car Drama?

Japan's government-funded media giant NHK typically broadcasts programming that's about as exciting as watching grass grow, but it looks like they may have actually made something worth watching...for classic car fans at least.

"Top Sales", the new NHK series or "drama" as they are called in Japan, is set in the 1970's and follows the story of a young woman who leaves her job to become a car salesman. The story follows her eventual rise to president of the company as she deals with working in the male-dominated industry.

Naturally, since the series is about car sales and is set in 1970's Japan, there should be quite a bit of vintage Japanese machinery that appears in the story.

The first episode debuted this past Saturday night but I missed the original broadcast. Fortunately, there are sites like D-addicts where you can download episodes of Japanese TV shows.

I'm not sure exactly how much of the show is car-related, but it should be an interesting series nonetheless.

Hopefully someone will do do some subtitling for foreign viewers.

UPDATE:

Here are a few screen caps from the first episode. The car company in the show is the fictional "Omiyake Motors", but all of the cars they show are renamed Nissan's, Toyota's, etc.