Article: Dramas for mobile phones, now also for bigger screens.

Byline: Osamu Yamashita

Dec. 16--TOKYO -- In April next year, the terrestrial digital TV-broadcasting screen service "One-Segment" will start for mobile phones, focusing attention on whether a trend to enjoy pictures on a screen only a few centimeters wide will actually be deep-rooted.

The pay drama series for mobile phones "Yokohama Eighties" broadcast by SkyPerfect TV! between this year and last for the first time was told on a "One-Segment" screen lasting 150 seconds.

The performers included actor Mokomichi Hayami, popular in a program "Goku-Sen (Female Teacher Was Daughter of Mob Leader)," produced by Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV), ...

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