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Motoko (Yuko Asano) handed in her resignation from the bank where she had worked for many years. Whilst her male colleagues from the same intake were being promoted, her boss, Murai (Kenjiro Ishimaru), and the branch manager—who had long regarded the veteran Motoko as a hindrance—were delighted to be rid of her. Two months later, it emerged that Motoko had embezzled 170 million yen from the bank’s accounts. When Murai pressed her to repay the money, Motoko showed him a notebook listing the bank’s fictitious accounts and the real names of their clients, and threatened to make the information public.

松本清張特別企画 黒革の手帖

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Discover Magazine

Discover Magazine is a 1992-2000 documentary television series that aired on the Disney Channel from 1992-1994 and then on The Science Channel from 1996-2000. The series is named after the magazine of the same name, Discover Magazine. The Disney Channel series was narrated by actor Joseph Campanella. The Science Channel series was hosted by Peter DeMeo from 1996-1998. The series was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informational Series" in 1996, 1997 for "Outstanding Non-Fiction Series", and 1 other time The series was created by producer-director Les Guthman at the Walt Disney Company in 1991, after Mr. Guthman licensed the television rights to Discover Magazine from Family Media in 1990. Mr. Guthman produced the series for two seasons on The Disney Channel, 1992-1994, and then working with Disney President and CEO Frank Wells sold the series to Discovery Communications in late 1994, after The Disney Channel abandoned its family-adult prime time schedule.

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Revolution

Four-part series Revolution mapped sweeping social and economic change in New Zealand society in the 1980s and early 1990s. Judged Best Factual Series at the 1997 NZ Television Awards, it collected together archive footage, and interviews with the major players. Said producer Marcia Russell: “We wanted to make Revolution because we believed that unless we re-run and re-examine our recent history we are in constant danger of forgetting, and forgetting can render us passive about the present and slaves of the future.

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Local Heroes

Local Heroes is an award-winning science and history television programme in the United Kingdom, presented by Adam Hart-Davis. Made by Screenhouse Productions and directed by Paul Bader, it was first aired on the ITV regional network Yorkshire Television in 1991. In the show, Adam Hart-Davis, dressed in the pink and yellow cycling clothes that would became the show's trademark, rode around the YTV region on a matching pink and yellow bicycle, stopping in a particular area to tell the stories of scientists that lived or were born there. These stories were embellished by experiments, performed on the street by Hart-Davis, generally using bits of wood and junk from a trailer on his bike.

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Break the Science Barrier

Break the Science Barrier is a 1996 television documentary written and presented by Richard Dawkins, which promotes the viewpoint that scientific endeavour is not only useful, but also intellectually stimulating and exciting. Featuring interviews with many well-known figures from the world of science and beyond, it was originally broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom — the first of a series of collaborations between Dawkins and the station — before being released on DVD more than a decade later. The documentary contains many of the themes later expounded in his book Unweaving the Rainbow, which was published two years after the initial broadcast.

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The Lost Case

The stingy man "Fathi" marries "Su'aad" after the death of his first wife, he rents rooms of his house and has permanent differences between his family members and him due to his stinginess within a comedy mold. The story revolves around a lost bag that roams between several characters in a humorous way, and affects the lives of each of them in a surprising way. The plot depends on the consequences of losing and recovering the case, which creates a range of comedic situations and paradoxical situations that put the characters in sometimes embarrassing situations, and sometimes in funny situations.

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A Romance in Shanghai

A Romance in Shanghai is a modern television serial jointly produced by MediaCorp and a China television production company. Starring Singaporean actress Fann Wong in her first non-Singaporean production, the serial is set in modern-day Shanghai where she plays a rich girl on holiday in the romantic city to reunite with her American-based Singaporean boyfriend. When she discovers he has been unfaithful to her, she seeks solace in the company of a Shanghainese divorcee.

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Beauty and the Beast

The program sees controversial radio broadcaster, Stan Zemanek, matching wits with a panel of beauties including Belinda Green, Jeanne Little, Johanna Griggs, Julia Morris, Donna Gubbay, Lisa Wilkinson, Prue MacSween, Maureen Duval and Ita Buttrose. When they are not tearing strips off each other in the battle to have their opinion heard, Stan and his panel offer sound advice to viewers seeking answers to life's toughest questions. The opinions and the advice offered are as diverse as the guests, and no topic is taboo.

Beauty and the Beast

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