"The Driver" (TV Asahi, Sun., 9 p.m.) is actually about two truck drivers. Joichiro (Seiyo Uchino) used to be a banker and still goes to work in a suit and tie. He is the more conscientious and diligent one. His partner, Kohei (Takashi Tsukamoto), is the opposite, more interested in where they'll eat for lunch than getting the job done. Their area of operations is the Kansai region, and one day after finishing a delivery they find a little girl sitting in their truck with an address on a piece of paper. They drive her to the address, but it has been vacant for a long time, so they take the girl to their office.

Their boss, Namiko, interrogates the girl and thinks she is from Kessennuma, which was mostly destroyed in the March 2011 tsunami. After giving Joichiro and Kohei a delivery in that direction the boss tells them to find the girl's family while they're up there.

In the new drama series, "5-9: The Priest Who Loved Me" (Fuji TV, Mon., 9 p.m.), Satomi Ishihara is Junko, who we first see attending the funeral of a neighbor. She's sitting on the floor in the traditional style but when it's her turn to offer a prayer she has trouble standing because her legs are asleep. She stumbles into the altar, spilling ash on the ground — and the priest.

Junko teaches English conversation and dreams about working in New York City. These dreams consume her, and her mother, Keiko, thinks she should be married by now. She comes up with a scheme and asks Junko to accompany her to an expensive restaurant where Keiko plans to meet a suitor. In truth, the suitor is for her daughter, and when Junko opens the door and sees the same priest (Tomohisa Yamashita) she's speechless, especially when he tells her, "I will let you become my wife."

CM of the week: Nisshinbo

The energy company Nisshinbo is back with some new "Dog Theater" commercials, which feature real canines in situational settings wearing human apparel and supplemented with human hands. They also feature a real celebrity for once. In one, Kyoko Fukada is on a train telling a companion that she's appearing in Nisshinbo's CMs and now understands what the company does, and it "has nothing to do with dogs." In an adjoining compartment two dogs dressed in business suits overhear her and get quite upset. Obviously, they didn't know what the company did either.