The drama series " The Reluctant Preacher " (Nippon TV, Saturday 9pm) starring actress Alice Hirose . The synopsis and stills from the third episode, which will air on April 26th, have been released.
"With your help, we will expel the 75 students specified here." Shizuka (Hirose) is left speechless by the words of Moriguchi (Ito Atsushi), who has become the head of the reform committee. Moriguchi is actually the nephew of the chairman of the board, and is scheduled to become chairman next year. "In the year until I become chairman, I will build a brand that is even stronger than Meishin was before," says Moriguchi, who says he will eliminate all students with bad behavior who could tarnish the Meishin Academy brand. Moriguchi tells them to find an excuse to expel the students, and promises a raise to anyone who submits a useful report.
Shizuka, not wanting to get involved in any trouble, tries to watch from the sidelines, but the principal, Kyoko (Kimura Yoshino), who opposes Moriguchi but is unable to overturn the board of directors' decision, dumps her with the idea, telling her, "You should solve the students' problems before reporting them to Professor Moriguchi!"
There were ten students in Shizu's class on the list of candidates for expulsion. Among them was Miyazawa Keita (Yoshida Haruto). Shizu was puzzled as to why Miyazawa, who has excellent grades and a good attitude towards life, was a candidate for expulsion, but according to Urami ( Shota Watanabe), Miyazawa's family was a single-parent household and financially struggling. Moriguchi intended to cut off students from financially difficult families as well, as they were sources of trouble.
However, for some reason, Miyazawa, whose family is supposedly tight on finances, wears a luxury watch. Shizuka, who found out about Miyazawa's "sugar mom activities," tries to solve the problem to prevent him from being expelled, but the situation gets worse...
The drama is an original script by Okura, who has worked on "Nursing Aide At Your Side" and "Yips". It is a school entertainment with the theme of "lecturing".
