Drama Grand Prix: “CHANGE” and “Last Friends” win for Fuji TV

Nikkan Sports has completed its Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix for the spring season, which counts as the first quarter of the 2008 awards. A total of 8,350 votes were gathered during the first ten days of July.

Fuji TV’s Monday night series “CHANGE” took two awards. It edged out “Last Friends” by 129 votes to be named Best Drama, and Takuya Kimura overwhelmed “ROOKIES” star Ryuta Sato by a margin of almost 2,200 votes in the race for Best Actor.

Yuki Amami was voted Best Actress for her role in “Around 40.” The next closest choices were Aoi Miyazaki and Yukie Nakama.

“Last Friends” picked up the remaining two categories, Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Ryo Nishikido only collected 1,100 votes, but it was enough to defeat Hiroshi Abe and the rest. Juri Ueno, considered only a supporting cast member to Masami Nagasawa, pulled in more than 2,500 votes, with Eri Fukatsu slightly less than 400 votes away.

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Nikkan Sports