The synopsis and stills for the seventh episode of the Fuji TV drama series "Ramune Monkey" (Wednesdays at 10pm), starring Takashi Sorimachi, Nao Omori, and Kenjiro Tsuda, which will be broadcast on February 25th, have been released.
Nihei Seikichi, the man Yoshii Yuta (Sorimachi) and his friends call "Rambo," was assaulted on Christmas Day 1988. When Officer Tsurumi (Hamao Noritaka) investigates, he discovers that the man who assaulted Rambo was a bamboo pole merchant named Torikai Hisao.
Torikai was a member of the local gang, the Hakurou-kai. Yuta, Fujimaki Hajime (Omori), and Kikuhara Kisuke (Tsuda) decide to hear the story from Abe, who knew Torikai at the time. According to Abe, Torikai took on dangerous jobs behind a bamboo pole shop, including murder, for money. The three remain silent as Abe tells them, "Women have an innocent face but are not afraid to do horrible things." Could Torikai also be involved in the disappearance of Matilda, aka Miyashita Misa (Kiryu Aso)...?
When Nishino Hakuba (Fukumoto Riko) asks the three what they were doing on Christmas Day in 1988, the day of the incident, they recall being in the clubroom editing a film. As they were engrossed in the editing process ahead of the screening on January 6th, a man they called "Trendy-san," Mochizuki Manabu, brought them a gift the day before Christmas.
Then, a certain memory comes back to Kisuke. On Christmas Day, three men appear in front of Matilda and confess their love to her. She ignores them and walks away. Kisuke deduces that "someone who was rejected by Matilda must have been holding a grudge against them."
Meanwhile, Hakuba comes across an image on social media, in which Matilda appears among a group of university students from around 1980. When Hakuba contacts the high school student who posted the image, he is offered to introduce him to her grandfather and grandmother, who were also in the photo with Matilda.
The original story and screenplay was written by Ryota Furusawa. The film is a "youth-recovering human comedy" that depicts the reunion and rebirth of two middle-aged men who were passionate about making kung fu movies together in their junior high school days in 1988, but now feel stuck in life and realize that "this isn't how it was supposed to be."
