The sixth episode of the drama series "SKY Castle" starring Matsushita Nao (TV Asahi, Thursdays at 9pm) will air on August 29th.
◇The following contains spoilers from the previous episode
The original is the Korean hit drama "SKY Castle: Upper Class Wives" (2018-19). The story depicts the slushfest of celebrity wives in the upscale residential area of Sky Castle, competing for promotion for their husbands who work at a hospital, and the exam war for their children. Matsushita, Kimura Fumino, Higa Manami, and Takahashi Maryjun play the celebrity wives, while Koyuki plays an exam coordinator who has a 100% success rate in getting her students into their chosen schools.
In the previous episode... Asami Sae (Matsushita) is known to have come from an orphanage, and it is revealed that she has fabricated her glamorous past. She suddenly falls from her perfect celebrity life and becomes isolated in Sky Castle. Her eldest daughter, Ruri (Arai Miu), whom she has raised with great care, becomes infatuated with the exam coordinator Kujo (Koyuki), and loses her sense of purpose as a mother.
In episode 6... Kyoko (Higa), who once fought with Sae over the contract with Kujo, begins to question why the predicted questions for the school exams that Kujo gave Ruri have an astonishing accuracy rate, and also the "true humanity" of Kujo, who is skilled at winning people over. Feeling uneasy, Kyoko investigates Kujo's true nature with her fellow mothers of exam-takers, Izumi (Kimura) and Misaki (Takahashi). As she does so, shocking new facts come to light.
Around that time, an "incident" occurs at the Asami household that accelerates the breakdown of the family. This triggers Sae to learn that the struggling student Yamada Miku (Tamamaki Sora), who she is letting stay with, is her husband Hideyo's (Tanabe Seiichi) biological daughter...
