The fifth episode of the TBS Friday drama "Fake Mummy" (Fridays at 10 PM), starring actors Haru and Rina Kawaei, aired on November 7th. The insanity of Shingo Motohashi, the president of Mitsuhashi Foods, played by Masaru Kasamatsu, became a hot topic, with viewers saying he was "too scary."
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Shingo becomes hostile towards RAINBOWLAB, whose president is Hidaka Mamie (Kawaei), due to the popularity of its popular product "Rainbow Juice." He sets out to find the cracks in the company.
The fresh juice sold at an event at Yanagiwa Academy, where his son Keigo (Takashima Ryunosuke) attends, looks exactly like "Niji Juice," and he finds it strange that the "Hidaka Mairie" who came up with the recipe is actually Kaoru (Haru).
After investigating, Shingo became convinced that Iroha was his daughter. He suddenly visited Makie and showed her a photo of Iroha that he had saved on his smartphone. Without giving her a second thought, he stared intently at Makie and asked, "Iroha is my child, right?" There was also a scene where Shingo coldly told Keigo, "Keigo, you really do look like your mommy, don't you? You don't look like your daddy at all."
On social media, comments such as "What? Kasamatsu Masaru is too scary," "Kasamatsu Masaru suits the role of a scary guy lol," "Kasamatsu Masaru is so good at acting like a villain that it's scary," "Kasamatsu Masaru is the best at playing unpleasant characters," and "Kasamatsu Masaru's madness is incredible. It's scary because it seems like there really is someone out there who would tell their own child that they don't look like them."
The drama is a serial adaptation of the winning work by Sonomura Mitsuru, who won the grand prize at the first TBS NEXT WRITERS CHALLENGE screenplay competition. Kaoru, who is struggling to find a new job, meets Hidaka Makie, the company president and single mother, at an interview at the venture company RAINBOWLAB. Makie invites Kaoru to a parent-child interview as a stand-in for her daughter Iroha, who is applying to a prestigious private elementary school.
