The drama version of "Hirayasumi" will start on November 3rd

It has been announced that the NHK evening drama "Hirayasumi" (Monday to Thursday, 10:45 PM), starring actor Okayama Amane, will begin airing on November 3rd. The drama will consist of 20 episodes and will be broadcast over five weeks.

The drama is based on the manga of the same name by Shinzo Keigo, which has been serialized in Weekly Big Comic Spirits since 2021. Hiroto, a 29-year-old part-time worker, begins living with his 18-year-old cousin Natsumi, who moved to Tokyo from Yamagata, in a detached one-story house he inherited from a neighboring grandmother. The story follows the two of them as people with difficult problems gather around them.

Okayama will play the main character Hiroto, Mori Nana will play Hiroto's cousin Natsumi, who has moved to Tokyo to attend art school, and Riho Yoshioka will play Yomogi, a woman who works at a real estate company and whom Hiroto meets by chance.

An in-movie photo has also been released in advance. It was taken in April. It is a commemorative photo of two cousins, only a little distant from each other, taken in front of a single-story house. Natsumi (Mori), an art student who has just moved to Tokyo, is photographed looking awkwardly dressed in a suit and in a bad mood, while Hiroto (Okayama) is smiling and making a peace sign with an expression that says "It's okay" as if to affirm everything.