The seventh episode of the NHK Asadora drama series "Kaze,Kaoru " (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), starring Ai Mikami and Juri Kosaka , aired on April 7th, and viewers were particularly drawn to the performance of Takahiro Miura, who plays Kameki Okuda, the husband of Rin Ichinose (Mikami).
Rin, watched over by her mother Mitsu (Mizuki Mizuno), her younger sister Yasu (Miharu Hayasaka), and Nakamura ( Takashi Kobayashi), a former retainer of the Ichinose family, marries Kamekichi, who is 18 years older than her and runs a transportation business. At the wedding ceremony, Mitsu pours Kamekichi a drink and glances at the whole sea bream that he has devoured.
That night, a drunken Kamekichi lay sprawled out on the tatami mat in his formal kimono and hakama, grumbling, "I told you weddings are such a hassle," and "It's so stupid." He also mocked Nakamura, saying, "That old man is so annoying with all his formalities," and "He must have been really annoyed that Nakamura had to bow to me, a former courier." When Rin denied it, saying, "Nakamura-sama would never...", her mother-in-law, Sada (played by Negishi Kie), retorted sarcastically, "I guess daughters of samurai families are always so proud."
Rin tries her best to build good relationships with Kamekichi and Sada, but they tell her she doesn't need to work. Kamekichi doesn't seem to like Rin because she's well-educated, and the two of them can't seem to get any closer. Rin is worried about Kamekichi, who is a heavy drinker and becomes a different person when he's drunk, so she asks him to cut back on drinking, but Kamekichi doesn't listen and only becomes more ill-tempered.
Towards the end, Rin gives birth to a baby girl, but Kamekichi looks disappointed and spits out, "Sigh... a girl." When Rin asks, "What should we name this child?", Kamekichi coldly replies, "Do whatever you want," and leaves. Holding her daughter, Rin says, "Good morning. It's your mother..." and then, with tears in her eyes, she says, "Where's your father...? Where's your father...?" "I'm lonely..."
On social media, comments included: "He's such a scumbag husband!", "Does Kameki have some kind of inferiority complex because his wife is younger than him?", "His appearance is that of a nice young man, but his unpleasant acting is so hateful and brilliant!", "The best scumbag acting!", "He's so good at portraying an emotionally abusive husband!", "He's so good at playing a nasty guy lol", and "I think he's really good at portraying a complex feeling that goes beyond just being a nasty guy."
Furthermore, attention was drawn to Kamekichi's messy eating of the fish, and "how to eat fish" became a trending topic on X. Viewers commented, "It's brutal how the way he eats fish reveals a lot about his character," "I'm really curious about how he eats fish," and "It's clever how they show cultural differences through something so trivial."
