Winners of the 11th Confidence Award Drama Prize (Winter 2018)

Here are the winners of the 11th Confidence Award Drama Prize for the Winter 2018 season:

Best Drama: Unnatural

Best Leading Actor: Shison Jun (Joshiteki Seikatsu)

Best Leading Actress: Ishihara Satomi (Unnatural)

Best Supporting Actor: Iura Arata (Unnatural)

Best Supporting Actress: Tanaka Yuko (anone)

Best Script: Nogi Akiko (Unnatural)

Best Newcomer: Shimizu Hiroya (anone)

Source: Confidence Award Drama Prize

Preview of "Joshiteki Seikatsu" - Winter 2018

Title: Joshiteki Seikatsu 女子的生活 (Life As a Girl)
Official website: here
O.A. Start Date: 5 January 2018
Timeslot: Fridays 10pm
Broadcast by: NHK
Original novel by: Sakaki Tsukasa
Transgender instructor: Nishihara Satsuki
Cast: Shison Jun, Machida Keita, Tamai Shiori, Hyunri, Koshida Fuuka, Haba Yuuichi

Press conference and screening event of new NHK drama series "Joshiteki Seikatsu"

The press conference and screening event of new NHK drama series "Joshiteki Seikatsu" was held on 15 December in Design Creative Centre Kobe which was attended by cast members Shison Jun, Momoiro Clover Z's Tamai Shiori, Hyunri and Haba Yuuichi. The drama which consists of 4 episodes, will begin its run from 5 January in the Fridays 10pm timeslot. The story is based on the same-titled novel by Sakaki Tsukasa and features Shison as a man who chooses to live as a woman and wants to date a woman rather than a man. While concealing the fact that she is a transgender, she leaves her hometown in the suburbs and works as an OL named Miki in a fashion apparel mail order company at the big city Kobe. She happens to bump into her ex-classmate Goto who is a guy and ends up living together with him.

Shison Jun to star in new NHK drama "Joshiteki Seikatsu" as a transgender

Shison Jun will be starring in the new NHK drama series "Joshiteki Seikatsu" (Life as a Girl) which will begin its run from 5 January 2018 in the Fridays 10pm timeslot. The story which is based on the same-titled novel by Sakaki Tsukasa, features Shison as a man who chooses to live as a woman and wants to date a woman rather than a man. While concealing the fact that she is a transgender, she leaves her hometown in the suburbs and works as an OL named Miki in a fashion apparel mail order company at the big city Kobe. She happens to bump into her ex-classmate Goto who is a guy and ends up living together with him. As such, Shison will appear as a woman throughout the entire drama. In order to look convincing as a woman, Shison underwent training by Nishihara Satsuki who was given the special award at the 2015 World Transgender Contest and learnt how to dress, speak and behave like a woman. Such training would usually take more than a year but Shison managed to learn everything in a month which made Nishihara very shocked and Sakaki very impressed with how he managed to pull this off.