"Drama 1 Week" brings together the main drama news of the week. This time (February 22-28), we talked about the final season of the popular detective drama series "Tokusou 9" starring Yoshihiko Inohara, which will begin airing on April 9th, and the third installment of TV Tokyo's "All Husbands Tremble" series, "Otousan, Won't You Die?", starring Yumi Adachi, Saki Aibu, and Sayaka Isoyama, which will begin airing in April. We will cover these topics in two parts.
On February 26th, it was revealed that the third installment of TV Tokyo's "All Husbands Tremble" series, "Husband, Please Die" (Mondays at 11:06pm), following the popular "Five Ways to Socially Erase Your Husband" and "Until I Destroy Your Husband's Family", will begin airing on April 7th. Yumi Adachi, Saki Aibu, and Sayaka Isoyama star in the triple lead role. Maya Komoto (Adachi), Riko Kagami (Aibu), and Yurika Sakaki (Isoyama), who all regret getting married, were classmates in college. They often went out drinking together to complain about their husbands and vent their frustrations. One day, Yurika told Maya and Riko that she had "killed her husband," and Maya's husband also disappeared, and the gears of destiny of the three people began to turn...
A press conference for TV Asahi's July drama "Happy Marriage" (Thursdays 9pm) was held on the 26th at the station (Minato Ward, Tokyo), where it was announced that Oishi Shizuka would be the scriptwriter and Abe Sadao would star. This will be Oishi's first drama script since last year's NHK Taiga drama "To Dear Radiance (Hikaru Kimi e)," and Abe's first lead role in a TV Asahi drama series. Abe will play Harada Kotaro, a popular lawyer who has won acquittals in many cases that have attracted public attention and who appears on a variety of TV shows. One day, Kotaro, who is a bachelor, has a "fateful encounter" and gets married in a surprise marriage, but his beloved wife is hiding a big secret, and Kotaro's fate takes an unexpected turn... This is the story.
It was revealed on the 26th that "Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari," a long-running home drama by the late Hashida Sugako, who was affectionately nicknamed "Wataru Oni," will be broadcast on BS-TBS from March 31st. Series 1 to 5 will be broadcast over the course of a year in 2025, the 100th anniversary of Hashida's birth. This is the first time that the station will broadcast series 1 to 5 all at once. "Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari" was written by Hashida Hisashi and produced by Ishii Fukuko, and was a popular series that aired from 1990 to 2011. It portrayed the family life of the five Okakura sisters, including Satsuki, played by Izumi Pinko, and attracted attention for its realistic portrayal of the various problems that occur in each household.
It was announced on the 26th that the final episode special "Monster and Holy Sword" of the popular detective drama "Aibou Season 23 " (TV Asahi, Wednesday 9pm) will be broadcast for two consecutive weeks on March 5th and 12th in two parts. Katsuya Maikuma, Jin Katagiri, Yusuke Hirayama, and Reika Aiki will appear as guests. This will be the first time for all four to appear in "Aibou". Maikuma will play the mysterious Urakamika who approaches Ukyo Sugishita (Yutaka Mizutani), Katagiri will play Ichioka Kou, the ambitious Tokyo governor, Hirayama will play Kihara Kenji, who holds the key to the case, and Aiki will play Hashimoto Rinko, a metropolitan assembly member who is the family member of a victim of an illegal part-time job robbery case. The final episode special will unfold as a large-scale investigation headquarters is set up to tackle the "anonymous floating crime group" whose damage is increasing year by year.
It was announced on the 27th that Kuriyama Chiaki will star in the drama series "If She Calls It Love" (Yomiuri TV/Nippon TV), which will start on April 3rd at 11:59pm. Co-stars include Ito Kentaro, Senga Kento, and Maruyama Tomomi, and the story depicts multiple love affairs. Kuriyama plays the main character, Ima, an illustrator for novels. While she is in sincere love with multiple lovers with their consent, she is also raising a high school-aged daughter as a single mother. The drama depicts a spicy and sweet human love story that shakes up the rigid notions of "normality" such as "this much is normal because we are a married couple," "because we are lovers," "because we are parent and child," "because we are wives," and "because we are mothers."
On the 27th, the local visuals for " Anpan ," the NHK Asadora drama starring Mio Imada , which will begin on March 31st in the first half of the 2025 fiscal year, were released on the NHK Kochi Broadcasting Station's official X (formerly Twitter). The visuals feature one-shot images of Imada, who plays the protagonist Asada Nobu, and Takumi Kitamura , who plays Takashi Yanai . A handwritten message to Kochi Prefecture, where the story is set, was also included, with Imada writing, "We bring you the story of Asada Nobu, who was raised in the great outdoors of Kochi and ran through life with Takashi. We hope that this will make everyone's mornings in Kochi even more brilliant! Please enjoy."
It was revealed on the 28th that the final season of the popular detective drama series "Tokusou 9" starring Yoshihiko Inohara will be broadcast every Wednesday at 9pm starting from April 9th. Counting from "Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Investigative Division 9 Unit", this is the 20th series and the final one, and Inohara said, "I feel like I've done everything I can." "Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Investigative Division 9 Unit", which aired from 2006 to 2017, starred the late Tsunehiko Watase, and "Tokusou 9" starring Inohara began in April 2018, taking over the role. The "final season", the culmination of the series, depicts the team leader of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Investigative Division 1 Special Investigation Team, Naoki Asawa (played by Inohara), as he tackles cases as team leader, and depicts the emotional connections and human drama between him and the characters.
It was revealed on the 28th that actor Suga Kenta, Takamatsu Aloha from dance and vocal group Bullet Train, and Yamaguchi Haruyo from idol group Hinatazaka46 will appear in the drama series "Shachikujin Yabu" starring Shinya Niiro , which starts on April 4th (BS Shochiku Tokyu, Friday 10:30pm, 30 minutes per episode, 12 episodes in total). The three join Well Black Corporation, a black company where unpaid overtime is the norm, salaries are kept constant, and employees are treated as nothing more than cogs in the company. They play young employees who are assigned to Sales Department 2, where Yabu Rinichirou (Niiro) is the section manager, and witness the life of a staunch corporate slave. The story is based on the manga "Shachikujin Yabu" (PHP Institute) by Nachi Izumi.
The 105th episode of the NHK Asadora drama "Omusubi " starring Kanna Hashimoto was broadcast on the 28th. In the episode, the wake of heroine Yui's (Hashimoto) grandfather Nagayoshi (Matsudaira Ken) was held, and former soccer player Ramos Rui appeared as himself as a mourner who had a past connection with Nagayoshi. During his lifetime, Nagayoshi had said that he had "given advice to an enka singer who appeared in the Red and White Song Battle" and "taught Ramos how to do a loop shot," but Yui and his family thought it was just a lie. However, in the episode, it unfolded that enka singer Yamauchi Keisuke and Ramos also visited the venue for Nagayoshi's wake... Ramos also appeared in the Asadora"Sakura" in the first half of 2002.
