Good Luck!! (2003)

The cockpit career drama in its purest form. Takuya Kimura plays Hajime Shinkai, a young All Nippon Airways pilot whose attitude gets him noticed for the wrong reasons as he works toward his captain's stripes, with scenes shot at the airline's Narita base. It was a phenomenon at home, averaging around 30 percent of Japanese viewers across its 10 episodes in early 2003 and peaking near 38 percent for the finale. The romance is pure prime-time, but the training checks and the hierarchy of the flight deck are taken seriously.