In this season of Japanese dramas, "Tokyo Love Story" has been remade into a live-action series again after 29 years, in addition to this, the original author of the manga Shibamon Fumi has a classic work that has been put on the screen again in this season after 34 years, and Today, Buya Jun will introduce this new drama "Female Friends" that depicts the ambivalence of women who are wavering between love, marriage, and incompatibility.
Starring: Hara Sachi-e
Co-stars: Sayaka Kabayama / Yoshihiko Hakamada / Takenosuke / Kenta Tsubaki / Yuichi Yachida / Moemi Katayama / Rinmi / Soma Koshi / Makiko Watanabe
Synopsis:
Set in the context of the Reiwa era, it tells the story of the shoe designer Kanehi, who could not be severed after the divorce, and her good friend in high school, and the housewife Zhili who could not give up for her husband who cheated on many times.
In the Japanese manga industry, Shibamon Is definitely an outlier, she is not as concerned about the plot of boys and girls as other cartoonists, nor does she like to create a fairy tale atmosphere, she likes to interpret the emotions of men and women, most of her stories are sad, thousands of times, but not blindly dark, desperate.
Her heroine's face is always hung with Shimonbun's signboard, that is, brave, tenacious, always hopeful, extremely persistent about feelings, not afraid of injury, do not care about being disappointed, only responsible for her own soul, such as "Tokyo Love Story" Akatsuki Rika, "Love White Paper" Naomi Sonoda.
The heroine of "Female Friends", Koyuki (formerly Sachisaki), like Li Xiang, has a refreshing short haircut (Li Xiang in the original Tokyo Love Story manga is a short hair style), and at the age of 40, she is a well-known footwear designer, who is recognized by her boss at work and often appears in magazines.
On the other hand, her love life has not been very smooth, she has been divorced once, and is now dating a man a few years younger than herself, Hirai (Yoshihiko Hakata).
Due to the domestic violence of her ex-husband, she is afraid of close contact with men, and Hirai has been together for two years, almost no physical relationship, making her feel that she is not a qualified woman, but Hirai does not mind, always gentle with her.
But in fact, Hirai is a husband with a wife, that is, Koyuki and him are in a bad relationship, and his wife has discovered their relationship.
Koyuki usually goes to a Portuguese restaurant for drinks and chats, where her girlfriend Chiri (played by Sayaka Isoyama), who she has been playing with since high school, works here.
Koyuki often talks to her girlfriends, store managers, and clerks about her work and feelings in the store, and on this day she worries about whether to accept an invitation from the Italian head office and Hirai's wife knows about their relationship.
After several struggles, Xiaoxue finally decided to give up her relationship with Hirai, but Hirai did not want to let go (but had no intention of divorcing his wife), and at this time, Xiaoxue found out that she was pregnant....
"Tokyo Love Story" is about the love of young single men and women, while this drama is about the views of middle-aged men and women on marriage and love, in addition to the heroine, there is also a line of her girlfriend, showing the state of married women.
Zhili's husband Ah Guang (played by Takeki Nosuke) is a well-known photographer and a very popular person, often with models and actors to spread scandals, one day her husband did not return all night, so that Zhili is very worried.
She believes that as long as she pretends not to know that her husband is cheating, her husband will still return to her side to maintain the marriage.
So many times, she is turning a blind eye, perhaps without catching conclusive evidence, she can comfort her husband or love herself, and even feel that not acknowledging it is also where her husband's tenderness lies.
But this time, her husband's cheating made her feel the crisis.
Just when she was worried, when she returned home, her husband showed a very gentle side to her, which instantly dispelled her concerns.
The average man suddenly treats himself well, and it is the rhythm of having done or doing bad things.
Because I had to wait for the courier, the next day Zhili went out late, and there was a woman who knocked on the door of the house, this woman was her son's kindergarten teacher and the object of her husband's cheating.
In this regard, the evidence was conclusive, and the husband could not deny it, and Zhili was greatly shocked
I thought that my husband would break off the relationship with the woman, but the husband said with tears and affection that I loved both women.
Xiaoxue, who is suddenly pregnant, and Zhili, whose husband cheated, then look at how these two women deal with their relationship with two scummy and gentle men.
They also met a young girl, and it was interesting to start the collision of women's views of love in different eras.