The third episode of the drama series "Shumaku no Rondo" (Kantele/Fuji TV, Mondays at 10pm), starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, aired on October 27th. The scene in which Makoto Mikuriya's (Yuri Nakamura) husband, Toshihito (Jun Kaname), has a secret rendezvous with a woman became a hot topic on social media.
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Toshihito is the managing director of Mikuriya Holdings. From a young age, he learned imperial studies from his father, Gotaro Mikuriya (Hiroaki Murakami), and was always given special treatment as he grew up.
While his mother Fumiko (Koyanagi Rumiko) expects him to be the successor, Toshito has declared to Makoto, "I won't have children, and I have no intention of having children in the future." One night, he has a secret rendezvous with a woman. It turns out to be Makoto's editor, Moriyama Shizue (Kuninaka Ryoko). As Toshito holds Shizue close on the bed, they kiss each other repeatedly.
On social media, people were talking about how "The end of episode 3 was too shocking.... A surprising development of an affair between Kaname Jun and Kuninaka Ryoko!", "Wow... so they were connected," "Kuninaka Ryoko is quite the bomb," "It's amazing how no matter how much you poke at Kaname Jun, there's no way to defend him," and "I thought he was cheating when he said he wouldn't undergo fertility treatment, but it's the editor he's cheating on. That's just plain disgusting."
This human drama follows Torikai Itsuki (Kusanagi), an estate organizer who lost his wife five years ago and has a young son, as he and his colleagues at the estate organizer company "Heaven's Messenger" work with families facing various circumstances.
