The ninth episode of the drama series "The Hot Spot" (Nippon TV, Sunday 10:30 pm), starring actress Mikako Ichikawa, was broadcast on March 9th, and the average viewer ratings (according to Video Research, Kanto region, same below) were 6.7% for households and 3.9% for individuals, the highest figures for the show. The drama will air its final episode on March 16th.
This work is a reunion of Bakarhythm, who wrote the script for the popular drama "Brush Up Life" (same station), and the production staff of the same drama. Set in a town in Yamanashi Prefecture at the foot of Mount Fuji, the story follows the protagonist Endo Kiyomi (Ichikawa), a single mother who works at a business hotel, who meets an alien by chance and asks for help solving small problems in her work and private life without upsetting him.
In episode 9, the business hotel where Kiyomi works is about to be demolished, and the hot springs that are the source of life for the alien Takahashi (Akihiro Kakuta) will be lost. Can they stop the hotel from being sold in order to save Takahashi?
