The NHK drama series "Shiawase wa tabete nete mate" starring actress Yuki Sakurai will begin airing on April 1st in the NHK Drama 10 time slot (General TV, Tuesdays at 10pm). The main character, who is struggling with health, work, apartments, and future plans, regains her body and mind through delicious medicinal food and the gentle human relationships of the housing complex, and realizes the happiness that is close to her and depends on her. It's a heartwarming story that will warm you from the bottom of your heart.
Satoko Mugimaki, played by Sakurai, suffers from a lifelong illness (collagen disease), quits her company, and ends up barely making ends meet by working part-time four days a week. Although she can still live a normal life, her body cries out when she pushes herself too hard. She gives up on renewing her apartment lease and starts living in a housing complex with a rent of 50,000 yen. She hesitates because her landlord lives next door, but what makes her decide is the soup and medicinal food made by the mysterious freeloader, Tsukasa. She has many scars, including stress from her previous workplace, but little by little, as the seasons change, change comes.
Mariko Kaga plays Suzu Miyama, the landlord and next door neighbor of Satoko's rented room, and Hio Miyazawa plays Hio Miyazawa, Suzu's roommate who is a mysterious man who doesn't talk much about himself. Seiji Fukushi, Tomoko Tabata, Yuto Nakayama, Aoi Okuyama, Kii Kitano, Jun Nishiyama, Shiori Doi, Shiori Doi Nakayama, and Mayumi Asaka also appear in the film.
In the first episode, Mugimaki Satoko, who has developed a lifelong illness, tries to survive on her own by working part-time four days a week. Giving up on her dream of buying an apartment, she finds a 45-year-old apartment complex with a rent of 50,000 yen. The landlord is 90 years old. Since she became ill, Satoko has been hesitant to socialize, and is weighed down by this. However, she is saved by the warm soup made by the mysterious Tsukasa, who is staying with the landlord. Satoko is interested in the two, who have incorporated medicinal food into their lives, and decides to live in the complex.
