The sixth episode, "Qualifications for the Successor," of NHK BS and NHK BS Premium 4K's "Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge - Inheritance" (Sundays at 10 PM), starring Moeka Hoshi, will be broadcast on March 1st. Following a hiatus due to coverage of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, this will be the first broadcast in four weeks, and the nine-episode series is finally reaching its climax.
◇ When Tsuruko collapses, Moeka Hoshi, the "Raku"Moeka Hoshi.
"Kyoto People's Secret Pleasures Rouge - Inheritance" depicts the issue of "succession" at Kuraya Harunobu, one of Kyoto's most established Japanese confectionery shops, boasting a 240-year tradition. Miyako (Hoshi), who grew up in Paris, is approached by her father, Mikami Takeru (played by Kanji Ishimaru), who suggests she take over the long-established confectionery shop. Miyako (Hoshi), who grew up in Paris, moves into her stepmother, Miyako (Takako Tokiwa),'s family home, Kuraya Harunobu, and begins living with Miyako's mother, Tsuruko (played by Ginpocho). Miyako also returns from Paris to act as "tutor," and the three women begin living together.
In episode 6, Tsuruko, who had been suffering from an illness, suddenly collapses, and Raku is made painfully aware of his own powerlessness. The issue of succession to Kuragaya weighs heavily on Raku. At a bar, Raku meets Shiho's (Akiyama Natsuko) son, Kotaro (Hayashi Kento), and learns that in the world of gardening, the family does not necessarily inherit the family business. Kotaro, who had been training in England, says he returned to Japan because his master, Miyama Seibei (Ishibashi Renji), had called him. Meanwhile, Sanya visits her half-brother, Satoru (Fukimizu Motoki), who has returned to secular life from monkhood.
◇ Will the gardener's succession problem also affect "Kotaro" Hayashi Kento?
"Kyoto People's Secret Pleasures Rouge - Inheritance" is set at the long-established Japanese confectionery shop, Kuraya Harunobu. The story is set eight years after Sawafuji Sanya, the "Kyoto person among Kyoto people" depicted in "Kyoto People's Secret Pleasures," which aired five times irregularly from January 2015 to May 2017, left for Paris. The story centers around the new heroine, Mikami Raku, and Sanya, and depicts the burdensome issue of "succession" for Kyoto residents. Kento Hayashi, the gardener played by Kento Wakabayashi in "Kyoto People's Secret Pleasures Blue: In Training," which aired from 2017 to 2022, first appeared in episode 5, but it seems he'll have more screen time in episode 6, which focuses on the issue of gardener succession.
It has also been announced that Riho Yoshioka, who played the ceramic artist Miyasaka Yuko, and Katsuya Maikuma, who played Shoin Eiji, a vegetable farmer in Ohara, Kyoto, who appeared in "Kyoto People's Secret Pleasures Blue: Training," will also appear in this work. Kotaro and Yuko were dating again, but it was revealed in the film that they broke up for the second time while he was training in England. Yuko herself is also dealing with the inheritance of a kiln, so it will be exciting to see in which episode and in which scene she will be involved with Kotaro and Raku.
