The Fuji TV Wednesday 10pm drama "If This World Were a Stage, Where Would the Dressing Room Be?" (Wednesdays at 10pm) is written by Koki Mitani and stars Masaki Suda. The synopsis and stills for episode 7, which will air on November 12th, have been released.
Kube (Suda) has been spending his days rehearsing with the renowned actor Reizaburo Koreo (Asano Kazuyuki). A week has passed since the opening performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," but the audience numbers have not increased as expected, and sales are less than half of the target. However, Kube is excited to announce that next week they will be performing Shakespeare's masterpiece, "The Winter's Tale."
The manager, Asano Daimon's (Nozoe Yoshihiro) wife, Fre (Nagano Satomi), tells him that "running away is winning" and invites him to take the sales money and return to the countryside. However, Daimon is swayed by Hisabe's passionate argument that "Reizaburo Koreo's revival is big news for the theater world" and decides to "take a chance on you once again."
The next morning, the owner, Jessie Saiga (Sylvia Grab), comes in and Daimon hands her an envelope containing the sales quota, saying, "This week's sales," but in fact there is a trick up her sleeve...
The drama is a coming-of-age ensemble drama set in Shibuya in 1984, and is a completely original story that includes semi-autobiographical elements from Mitani. In a corner of Shibuya, a bustling center of youth culture, the drama depicts the struggles, setbacks, and sometimes love affairs of young people who are still unknown, in the full "Mitani world."
