From Japan Today:
Six actresses promote their new TV drama, "Dear Friends," that starts from April 19 at 10 p.m. on Fuji TV. Front row, from left: Sayaka Aoki, 33, Izumi Inamori, 33, and Yumiko Shaku, 25. Standing from left are Rieko Miura, 31, Asami Ishikawa, 27, and Naomi Kawashima, 41.
The information in the blurb isn't completely correct, the title of the drama is "Magri Kado No Kanojo" (which roughly menas "A Woman About To Turn A Corner"), rather than "Dear Freinds", which is the theme song or the band that sings it (I'm not sure). I happened to catch this drama's first episode last week, and since Tuesday night is a night that I usually stay in I'm going to try and watch it from start to finish with a dictionary in hand to learn new vocabulary. The star, Izumi Inamori, was in the first drama I tried to watch "Happy Mania" (circa summer of 98') with the lovely Norika Fujiwara, also a favorite. I am also an admirer of Yumiko Shaku, who used to be on an English language learning variety program that I often watched called Eigo Shaberu or something like that.
The story centers around a Birdget Joneish 33 year old hotel worker (her co-workers, friends, and family), who is trying to improve her life and is constanlty making lists about her new goals. This week she vowed not to sleep with anymore married men, her first boyfriend in the show was a married chef, and thus learned the word "furin" which means adultry or immorality. It's topical in the sense that the media/entertainment world has been obsessed with the "maki-inu" (loser dogs), which they have branded women over 30, and Inamori is far from aloser inthis series she plays a confident woman willing to go agianst societial labels. I'm intersted to see what they do with this drama , which is completely over-acted and silly most of the time (which is related to why I don't watch a lot of Japanese TV).
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