Just finished these dramas in order,
Beautiful Life (2000), Good Luck! (2003) and Pride, all japanese dramas. They all starred very beautiful female lead, tokiwa Takako, Shibasaki Kou and Takeuchi Yuko. they all have one thing in common, male lead, Kimura Takuya. I can understand why he is a Japanese Hearthrob, but he is also a good actor.
He plays a kool guy in those show, makes my think "Aniki!" too. He's kakkoii.