"Drama 1 Week" brings together the most important drama news of the week. This time (May 24-30), it was announced that Kyoko Fukada will be appearing in the drama series "First Love DOGs" (Tuesdays at 10pm), which will be broadcast on TBS in July and will star Kaya Kiyohara, and that Hayato Isomura will be starring in the drama series "We Still Don't Know the School Rules of That Planet " (Mondays at 10pm), which will be broadcast on KTV/Fuji TV in July. We will cover these topics in two parts.
On May 24th, it was revealed that Joichiro Fujiwara of the popular group " Naniwa Danshi " will be starring in the July drama series "Laundering" (Kantele/Fuji TV). This will be Fujiwara's first time starring in a terrestrial TV drama series. Fujiwara plays Hiyama Eisuke, an unsuccessful actor with the special ability to "hear the voices of the dead", who steps into the darkness of society and struggles to support the lives of people who have died untimely deaths in this socially conscious mystery. The series depicts the lives of people who have been cast aside by society through a part-time job where they live in haunted properties for a while, proving that they can be lived in without any problems and laundering the image of the rooms.
On the 25th, it was announced that Yanai Wakana's manga "Cinderella Closet," which was serialized in "Bessatsu Margaret" (Shueisha), will be adapted into a live-action drama. It will be broadcast in July on TBS's late-night drama slot "Drama Stream" (Tuesdays at 12:58 a.m.). The protagonist, Haruka, moves to Tokyo with dreams of a fashionable college life, but she can't fit in at all with the glittering atmosphere of college and feels depressed every day. One day, she is suddenly invited to dinner by a senior student she admires, but Haruka, who only has jeans and a tattered T-shirt, has no clothes to wear and no knowledge of makeup. Just when she is in despair, a mysterious and extremely beautiful woman named Hikaru comes to her rescue. However, Hikaru has a "secret"... This is the story.
On the 25th, the 20th episode of the NHK Taiga drama " UNBOUND (Berabou) " (General TV, Sunday 8pm and others), starring Ryusei Yokohama , "Nebokete Soro", was broadcast, and viewers paid attention to the appearance of a popular voice actor. In the episode, Tsutaju (Yokohama), who was highly praised for his "Mitoku Ichi Sui Yume" and Koshodo, visits the home of Ota Nanpo(Kenta Kiritani) and Nanpo, who wrote "Kikujusou" (Chrysanthemum Flowers) by Ota Nanpo (Kotaro Satomi). Nanpo invites Tsutaju to a "Kyowa Kai" (Chinese poetry gathering). Then, Sume, the wife of the bathhouse owner Motono Mokuami(James Onoda), appears. Sume is played by Nana Mizuki. On social media, viewers responded with comments such as "It's Nana! The third voice actor to play Pretty Cure!" and "Nana's turn is only for a moment." Some people commented, "Another female kyogen performer with an unusually beautiful voice."
On the 26th, it was revealed that Fukada will appear in the drama series "First Love DOGs," which will be broadcast on TBS in July, starring Kiyohara. Fukada, who plays Miyase Yuka, a bossy dog cafe manager, is also known as a dog lover, and said, "Just hearing that I would be playing the role of a dog cafe manager made me feel like it would be fun." Yuka, played by Fukada, always looks like a "good woman" and unconsciously scatters pheromones around her. Despite her sexiness, she is a bold, compassionate, and "big sister" type who is loved by everyone. She is one of the few friends who knows the personal side of Shirasaki Kai (Ryo Narita), a veterinarian who stopped getting close to people after a certain incident, and is also involved in Kai's past love affairs, making her a key person in the story.
On the 26th, it was revealed that Isomura will star in the drama series "We Still Don't Know the School Rules of That Planet," which will be broadcast on Kansai TV and Fuji TV in July. This will be Isomura's first time starring in a commercial TV drama series. The protagonist, Kenji Shiratori (Isomura), who is timid and clumsy in everything he does because of his unique sensibility, is dispatched as a school lawyer to a private high school that is in turmoil due to the declining birthrate and becoming a coeducational school. He desperately faces the youth of young people whose problems cannot be easily solved by law or school rules in this school human drama. The original work is written by Mika Omori, and Yamaguchi Kento, who has worked on the dramas "Avalanche" and "Fake Marriage" (both Kansai TV and Fuji TV), will participate as chief director.
On the 26th, it was revealed that Masashi Ikeda, who gained popularity for playing Spider-Man/Jerame Brassieri in the Super Sentai series "Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger," and Natsuki Hori of the dance and vocal group "FANTASTICS" will co-star in the drama series "Ameagari no Bokura ni Tsuite " (TV Tokyo, Wednesday midnight 12:30), which will start on July 2nd. This is Ikeda's first time starring in a terrestrial TV drama series. Kanade Shinichiro (Ikeda), a working adult, has been hiding the fact that he is gay due to bitter memories from his school days. One day, he meets his high school best friend, Mashiro Kosuke (Hori), who he had a "special" crush on, for the first time in six years. It is a heartwarming boys' love story of awkward love that sometimes hurts each other but also loves each other clumsily.
On the 26th, the 41st episode of the NHK Asadora drama "Anpan " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM and others), starring Mio Imada , was broadcast. Hiroshi ( Yutaka Takenouchi ), who is immersed in his graduation project, receives a telegram saying "Chi-chi-kitoku, come back soon." Takashi, who has completed his graduation project overnight, rushes to Kochi, but Hiroshi has passed away. When Chiyoko (Naho Toda) tells Takashi Hiroshi's "will," Takashi bursts into tears... On social media, comments such as "It's going to be tough from Monday. Hiroshi's presence was too big," "His words at the end made me cry," and "I think I'll miss Hiroshi for a while."
On the 27th, it was revealed that Ihara Rikka will be starring in the July drama series "Renai Kinshi" (Yomiuri TV/Nippon TV, Thursday 11:59pm). The protagonist, Kimura Mizuho, played by Ihara, was in high school when she was worried about her parents' remarriage and while consulting her homeroom teacher Kurashima Takashi, the two of them grew closer and developed a romantic relationship. However, Takashi began to abuse her. After that, she came to Tokyo to escape Takashi and lived a peaceful life, but when Takashi showed up two years later, she impulsively killed him... Taiki Sato of FANTASTICS plays Mizuho's current boyfriend who supports her, and Keisuke Watanabe plays a private investor who has feelings for Mizuho and stalks her.
On the 27th, it was revealed that the title of the latest work in the "Occupy Series" (Nippon TV), in which Sakurai Sho plays the hot-blooded detective Musashi Saburo, is "Broadcasting Station Occupy" (Saturday 10pm, starting in July). Sakurai commented, "It's a place that's very familiar to me, so I was surprised that it turned out like this! Many people have never been there, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how it will be viewed. Please look forward to "Broadcasting Station Occupy"! "Broadcasting Station Occupy" is set one year after "New Airport Occupation" (broadcast in 2024). Musashi, who was a detective in the Kanagawa Prefectural Police First Investigative Division Violent Crimes Unit, is seconded to the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Affairs Division BCCT, but he gets caught up in an occupation case again and investigates with new colleagues.
