The drama series " The Reluctant Preacher " (Nippon TV, Saturday 9pm) starring actress Alice Hirose . The synopsis and stills from the 4th episode, which will air on May 3rd, have been released.
"Reimi Shizuka is a murderer." Posters insulting Shizuka (Hirose) are posted all over the walls of the hallway, causing an uproar in the school. While the principal, Kyoko (Kimura Yoshino), is away on a business trip, Shizuka is confronted by the vice principal, Shinjo (Kote Shinya), who asks her to explain if she has any idea what might have happened, but she is unable to answer.
According to Moriguchi (Atsushi Ito), the school reform committee chairman, the culprit had pasted the notice in the blind spot of all the security cameras installed in the school, and his figure was not caught on any screen. In other words, the culprit was an insider who knew the location of the cameras...? In the classroom of class 10, among the students who assumed Shizuka was a murderer, Kaito (Rintaro Mizusawa) was the only one who defended her, saying, "She's not that kind of person." Kaito confronted Tazawa Taichi (Ryunosuke Shimamura), who had taken a photo of the notice and posted it on social media, telling him to "delete it!", and they glared at each other.
The parents who heard about the situation came to the school. Shizuka was asked for an explanation by Tazawa's mother Naoko (Nakajima Arisa), who is also an officer of the parents' association, and she followed Moriguchi's instructions to deny the contents of the notice. Although they managed to avoid a fight, Shizuka felt bad that she had swept the issue under the rug with such careless words.
Meanwhile, in class 10, Tazawa says that Kaito hit him behind the gym. Kaito denies it, but when Kaito's mother Maki (Akiko Hinagata) is contacted, she completely admits, "I think that boy was the one who used violence," without even listening to his explanation. In fact, Kaito had committed an assault in middle school. Kaito, who was on Moriguchi's "list of candidates for expulsion," is in danger of being expelled...
The drama is an original script by Okura, who has worked on " Nursing Aide At Your Side" and "Yips". It is a school entertainment with the theme of "lecturing".
