The NHK Asadora drama "Bakebake " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM and others), starring Akari Takaishi , will air its first week, "Umami Musume, Urameshi." in the second half of 2025. In the fifth episode on October 3rd...
" Bakebake" is the 113th morning Asadora. Based on the life of Yakumo Koizumi(Lafcadio Hearn) and his wife Setsu, the story follows the heroine, who loves ghost stories, as she lives her ordinary, everyday life with her foreign husband. The story is not based on an original novel, but is an original work by screenwriter Mitsuhiko Fujiki, who has worked on NHK's drama "Asagaya Sisters' Relaxed Life" and WOWOW's "Shooting Break Series."
The fifth episode is set in 1886. Toki (Akari Takaishi) works at a weaving factory run by her relative Den Ushimizu(Shinichi Tsutsumi) to pay off her debts.
However, Toki and the Matsuno family are struggling to survive in the face of enormous debts. Then, debt collector Moriyama (Iwatani Kenji) appears and demands that Toki work at a brothel to repay her debt. Toki proposes that she take a husband who will work for her in order to repay her debt. First, she decides to have a famous love fortune told with her coworkers Chiyo (Kurasawa Anna) and Sen (Adachi Kino), but... Scene cuts have also been released.
