Fuji TV's Getsuku drama "Second to Last Love 3" (Mondays at 9pm), starring Kyoko Koizumi and Kiichi Nakai , will begin airing on April 14th. This is the Second to Last Love of this romantic, home-comedy series set in Kamakura, depicting the love story between Koizumi, who plays a TV station producer, and Nakai, who plays a civil servant working at Kamakura City Hall. The script was written by Okada Yoshikazu, who also wrote the first season in 2012 and the second in 2014. The latest series is set 11 years after the events of the second season. The first episode will be extended by 15 minutes.
Koizumi plays Yoshino Chiaki, who is 59 years old and approaching 60 years old, while Nakai plays Nagakura Wahei, who is 63 years old and has been rehired after retiring. They live next door to each other and have been clashing for some time now.
Kenji Sakaguchi plays Shinpei, the second son of the Nagakura family and Chiaki's "ex-boyfriend", Yuki Uchida plays Shinpei's twin sister Mariko, Naoko Iijima plays the eldest daughter of the Nagakura family, full-time housewife Noriko Mizutani, Aimi Satsukawa plays Shinpei's wife Tomomi Nagakura, Kazuyuki Asano plays Noriko's husband Hiroyuki Mizutani, Makiko Watanabe plays Chiaki's friend Sachiko Mizuno, and Hiroko Moriguchi plays Hiroko Moriguchi.
The theme song will be sung by Ayumi Hamasaki, following the first and second seasons.
The first episode is about Chiaki (Koizumi), who works in the drama production department on a hit series. She sighs as she attends a seminar for employees approaching retirement age. Having devoted herself entirely to her work, she can't imagine what life will be like after retirement.
Wahei, a supervisor in the Tourism Promotion Division of Kamakura City Hall, was exhausted from dealing with tourists visiting Japan and working overtime as usual.
On the way home that day, Chiaki and Wahei bump into each other again at Gokurakuji Station as usual. During a casual conversation with Wahei, Chiaki realizes, "I wish there was someone I get along with next to me."
One of the things that made me think this was a conversation the two had in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wahei asks Chiaki, who has contracted COVID-19, through a wall, "Get well soon. What do you want to do when COVID-19 is over?" Chiaki replies, "I'm going to blast Nagakura Wahei to smithereens," and they both laugh.
Now in 2015, Wahei's younger brother, Shinpei (played by Sakaguchi), and his daughter with his late wife, Erina (played by Ayana Shiramoto), work at Nagakura, an old-style cafe in Kamakura. Chiaki and the other members of the Nagakura family gather there.
Adults are confused by the changing norms of values and compliance with laws and regulations, but they are faced with the reality of life, aging, illness and death. Chiaki and Wahei are at a loss, saying, "I don't know if I'm old or new." Then they have an unexpected encounter...
