The third episode of the drama series " The Great Passage ~ Watashi, Jisho Tsukurimasu ~" (NHK General TV, Tuesdays at 10pm), starring actor Elaiza Ikeda and Yojiro Noda of the rock band "RADWIMPS", will be broadcast on July 1st. Midori (Ikeda) rents a room in the former boarding house where Majime (Noda) lives with his spouse, Kaguya (Mimura)...
Just as she was getting acquainted with the "dictionary demon" Matsumoto-sensei (Kyōhei Shibata), who founded "Odokai", the outside editor Araki (Ryō Iwamatsu) and the dictionary editors, she received an angry call from Professor Akino (Masanobu Katsumura), the manuscript writer who had requested an explanation for Shigeru Mizuki words. In front of the bewildered Midori, Nishioka (Osamu Mukai), a former dictionary editor, appears...
The drama is based on Shion Miura's bestselling novel, and depicts the passion of people working on dictionaries from the perspective of Midori Kishibe, a young editorial staff member who has been transferred to the dictionary editorial department. Noda plays the protagonist of the novel, Mitsuya Majime, the head of the dictionary editorial department who is an extremely earnest person. The drama has been broadcast on terrestrial TV since June 17th in the "Drama 10" slot.
