"Drama 1 Week" brings together the most important drama news from the week. This time (April 2-4), it was covered by the press conference that Sayaka Isoyama attended for the drama series "Otto yo, shinde kurenai ka" (TV Tokyo, Mondays 11:06pm), and by the fact that Kasumi Mori will be co-starring with Haru Kashiwagi of the dance and vocal group "Bullet Train" in the drama "Tossed Around by a Younger Virgin (Cherry Boy)" that will air in the MBS "Drama Tokku" time slot (Thursdays 12:59am and others). We will cover these topics in two parts.
On April 2nd, the third episode of the NHK Asadora drama "Anpan " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 am and others), starring Mio Imada , was broadcast, and viewers were drawn to the child actor who plays the heroine Nobu Asada's (Nagase Yuzuna) classmate Usako Ogawa. The role of Usako is played by child actress Nakano Midori. Born on August 24th, 2015, she is 9 years old and in the Asadora"Kumkum Everybody" in the second half of 2021, she played the childhood of the second heroine Rui (Fukatsu Eri), which became a hot topic. On social media, there were comments such as "Isn't that little Rui? She's grown up so much!" and "I thought her best friend Usako was beautiful, but it was a young Rui."
On the 3rd, TV Asahi began streaming a podcast for the drama "Shiawase na Kekkon" (Thursdays at 9pm), which will begin airing in July. This is the first attempt at this type of drama for the network, and will continue streaming until the end of the drama's run, with the cast and staff sharing behind-the-scenes stories and private conversations. Episode "#0", which aired on the 3rd, featured lead actor Sadao Abe and screenwriter Shizuka Oishi. Abe talked about his memories of the day he auditioned for the theatre company "Otona Keikaku", as well as an episode that changed Oishi's life as a screenwriter.
On the 3rd, Isoyama appeared at a press conference for the drama series "Otto yo, shinde kurenai ka?) held in Tokyo. She had a comical exchange with actor Tsukamoto Takashi, who plays the "morally abusive husband." Regarding her role, Isoyama explained, "I am troubled by my emotionally abusive husband, and have an ideal image of the family I want, but things don't go as I want them to and I end up going out of control." Looking back on the filming, Isoyama revealed, "Tsukamoto's emotional abuse was really intense," to which Tsukamoto, who plays the husband, hurriedly denied it. When Isoyama corrected him, saying, "Not Tsukamoto! As a character," Tsukamoto joked to the gathered reporters, "Don't write it in a weird way! Please don't cut it out at this point." The drama will start on the 7th.
On the 3rd, the entrance ceremony of Rikkyo University (Toshima-ku, Tokyo) was held, and cast members of the drama series "Itsuka, Hero" (ABC/TV Asahi, Sunday 10:15am) Kenta Kiritani, Ryubi Miyase, and Neru Nagahama attended. The surprise, which had not been announced to the students, caused a huge cheer from the approximately 800 new students. Kiritani smiled and congratulated them, saying, "Congratulations on your admission!" Looking back on the time when he was the same age as the new students, he said, "I came to Tokyo wanting to become an actor, so I just focused on what was in front of me." Miyase, who is the same generation as the new students, commented, "I also try to do my best at what is in front of me." Nagahama said, "When I was about your age, I had to make a lot of decisions. I think it's about how you spend your time after you make your choice."
On the 4th, it was revealed that Mori will be co-starring with Kashiwagi from Bullet Train in the drama "At the Mercy of a Younger Cherry Boy" in the MBS "Drama Special Zone" slot. The drama is a heartwarming romantic comedy about a sexually uninhibited 29-year-old adult woman who is at the mercy of a younger virgin boy with no dating experience. Mori plays Imai Karen, who works hard as a PR professional for a cosmetics company. Unable to overcome past trauma, she tells herself that it's pointless to fall in love seriously. One day, at a drinking party with friends, she meets Domae Teito (Kashiwagi), a lackluster glasses-wearing second-year graduate student at the University of Marine Science and Technology... and so the story unfolds. The drama will start on the 24th.
