The third episode of the NHK drama series "Tokyo Salad Bowl" (General TV, Tuesdays at 10pm), starring actors Nao and Ryuhei Matsuda, will be broadcast on January 21st. The subtitle of the episode is "Baby and Banh Mi (Part 1)". The preview shows the words "The Disappeared Baby" and "Who has the information?"
A young child with a Japanese father and a mother who is a naturalized Chinese is kidnapped. Yukino (Matsuda) acts as an interpreter for the mother and gets closer to the mysterious incident.
Meanwhile, Koda (Nao) goes undercover to arrest a shoplifter at a pharmacy and meets a Chinese man living in Japan named Wang Jianbin (Zhang Han) who is raising a baby. Koda understands the difficulties of raising a child and wants to help. However, in fact, there is a kidnapped baby in the apartment room where Wang and another woman live.
The drama is based on the manga "Tokyo Salad Bowl - International Investigation Case File" by Kuromaru, who is also known for "Kurosagi." Set in Tokyo, where about 700,000 foreign residents live, Nao plays a green-haired police officer in an international investigation, and together with Ryo Yukino, a Chinese interpreter played by Matsuda, they work together to pick up the lives of those who are on the verge of falling out of Japanese society. It is a socially conscious entertainment drama.
