The 29th episode of the NHK Taiga drama " UNBOUND (Berabou) " (General TV, Sunday 8pm and others), starring actor Ryusei Yokohama , titled "Edo Nama Tsutaya Vengeance", was broadcast on August 3rd, and viewers were drawn to Tei ( AI Hashimoto) in her geisha outfit.
"UNBOUND (Berabou)" is the 64th taiga drama and depicts the life of Tsutaya Juzaburo(or "Tsutajyu" for short), who is said to have laid the foundations for Japan's media industry and pop culture. The script was written by Yoshiko Morishita, who is known for her work on the highly talked-about "Drama 10: Ooku," which aired on NHK two years ago.
In the 29th episode, Tsutaju (Yokohama) proposes to the playwrights and artists that he would like to create a yellow-covered book using the picture of the "handkerchief man" that Masanori (Furukawa Yudai) brought in.
Tsuruya (Shunsuke Kazama) appears and offers to lend Kyoden-sensei (Masayoshi) if he hits the jackpot. Masayoshi begins to think up a draft, but... Meanwhile, Okitsugu(Ken Watanabe) finds evidence that the Matsumae family has secretly accumulated wealth in Ezo, thanks to secret accounting books obtained by Tosaku (Kimura Ryo), and begins preparing to request confiscation.
In the second half of the play, Tsutae hands Daresode (played by Haruka Fukuhara ), who has become exhausted from cursing and is completely haggard, a completed yellow-covered "Edo Nama Enki Kabayaki" (Edo Raw Lustrous Kabayaki), saying, "This is my revenge."
Tsutaju then begins reading the story of the main character, Akukiya Tsuyujiro, to the audience, and the reenactment, or play within the play, begins. The play unfolds for about 10 minutes, with Tsutaju's friends, including Masaen, Koikawa Harumachi (Okayama Amane), and Houseidou Kisanji (Omi Toshinori), appearing one after another, and by the end, everyone has regained their smiles... and so it unfolds.
In the main story, Tei barely loses her demeanor as a serious, bespectacled girl, but in the play-within-a-play, she takes off her glasses and gives a passionate performance as a geisha. Viewers responded with comments such as, "I was wondering who this enthusiastic actor was, and it's Otei," "Otei-chan is also enthusiastic and cute," and " AI Hashimoto san not only didn't hold back, she was laughing so hard." Furthermore, reactions continued to pour in, with comments such as, "A great use of AI Hashimoto, " " AI Hashimoto looks so beautiful as a geisha!!," "AI Hashimoto Ai in the play-within-a-play was seriously the most seductive geisha, it was just too good...," "AI Hashimoto Ai looks so beautiful in her geisha outfit, it makes me laugh lol," and "Hashimoto Ai in her geisha outfit reminds me of Idaten!"
