"Drama 1 Week" brings you the latest drama news from the past week. This week (August 16-22) featured the news that the new season of TV Asahi's popular detective drama "Aibou Season 24" will be broadcast over two seasons starting in October, and that Charlotte Kate Fox, who played the heroine in the NHK morning drama "Massan" in the second Asadora of 2014, has been announced to appear in a Asadora for the third time. This article will cover these topics in two parts.
On August 20th, it was announced that Koichi Sato and Wakana Matsumoto will appear in the October TBS Sunday Theatre drama "The Royal Family" (Sundays at 9pm), starring Satoshi Tsumabuki. Sato will play a humane horse owner, while Matsumoto will play Tsumabuki's ex-girlfriend. Sato will play Sanno, the founding president of the staffing agency Royal Human and a well-known horse owner in the horse racing world. Sanno's obsession with horses will have a major impact on Kurisu's (Tsumabuki) life. Matsumoto, making her Sunday Theatre debut, will play Nozaki Kanako, who runs Nozaki Farm, a racehorse breeding ranch in the Hidaka region of Hokkaido, with her father. Kurisu is a former lover from college, and they are reuniting for the first time in 10 years.
On the 20th, it was revealed that Akiyoshi Nakao will be appearing in the October drama series "Shin-Tokyo Suijo Keisatsu" (Fuji TV, Tuesdays at 9 PM), starring Ryuta Sato. Sato and Nakao became close friends after co-starring in the popular drama "ROOKIES" (2008/TBS) as a passionate teacher and a baseball club member, and will be reuniting in "Mizujo." Nakao will play Mitsuru Fujisawa, a detective at Tokyo Suijo Police Station. A former forensic scientist, he is a valuable asset at the Tokyo Suijo Police Station, which does not have a forensic scientist department. His role is that of the only member of the team who is married and lives with his wife and son. Also appearing in the series were Sayaka Yamaguchi, Ryu Saito, Sarutoki Minagawa, and Kippei Shiina.
On the 20th, it was revealed that Toshiyuki Someya and Eito Konishi will be co-starring in the October drama series "UNREAL - Absurd General Store" (TV Osaka and others). The fantasy drama is set in a suspicious antique general store, and after it airs, a stage production starring Someya and Konishi will also be performed. Set in the suspicious antique general store "UNREAL," the "daydream fantasy drama" depicts the mysterious events that unfold between the mysterious store owner Yagio (Someya) and a high school boy named Hamaya Muneya (Konishi) who works at a nearby cafe.
On the 20th, it was announced that Charlotte Kate Fox, who played the heroine in the NHK morning drama "Massan" in the second Asadora of 2014, will appear in the NHK morning drama "Bakebake," which will begin airing on September 29th in the second half of 2025. She will play a female journalist active in the United States and a colleague of Lefkada Heaven (Tommy Bastow). This will be Fox's third morning Asadora appearance, following "Massan" and "Beppin-san" (the second half of 2016). This time, she will play Eliza Belsland, a "perfect woman" with intelligence and the drive to travel the world, who encourages Heaven to move to Japan.
On the 21st, it was revealed that the music for the Asadora"Bakebake " (NHK General TV and others) will be composed by Kensuke Ushio , known for his work on the TV anime series " Dandadan" and "Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (Chi: Chikyu no Undo ni Tsuite)." Ushio debuted in December 2008 as a member of the solo unit "agraph" with his first album, "a day, phases." In recent years, he has worked on TV anime series " Dandadan" and "Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (Chi: Chikyu no Undo ni Tsuite)," the NHK anime special "Cocoon: From Girls of a Summer," and the soundtrack for the anime film "Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc," which will be released on September 19th.
On the 21st, former TBS announcer Miyoko Yoshikawa made a guest appearance on the drama series "Shiawase na Kekkon" (TV Asahi, Thursdays at 9pm), which aired the same day. This was Yoshikawa's first time appearing in a drama. She played the role of writer Sendo Shoko. Kotaro (Sadao Abe) and Nerula (Takako Matsu) visit an apartment to view with real estate company president Nagumo (Yamauchi Keiya) and meet Shoko there. Yoshikawa commented, "I was surprised when I was asked to appear and thought, 'Is this a mistake?' I received the script for episode 6 and was relieved to see that there were very few lines (laughs)."
On the 22nd, it was announced that the new season of the popular detective drama "AIBOU Season 24" (TV Asahi, Wednesdays at 9:00 PM), starring Mizutani Yutaka and Terawaki Yasufumi, will air over two seasons starting in October. "AIBOU," which debuted on Saturday Wide Theater in June 2000, reached its 446th episode last season. This year marks its "quarter century" anniversary. The first special episode of Season 24 depicts a murder case involving a Living National Treasure storyteller. This is the first time the series has focused on the world of storytelling. The story begins with the unexpected development that Ukyo Sugishita (Mizutani) becomes an apprentice to a Living National Treasure. While training as an apprentice, Ukyo searches for his master, and Kameyama Kaoru (Terawaki) wonders whether they can uncover the "light and shadow" of the Living National Treasure. The script for the first special episode will be written by series creator Yasuhiro Koshimizu.
