▲Shoko Sugata (Photographed on March 29, 2021)
The second episode of the Japanese television series "Miniseries Begin" (every Thursday at 10 p.m.), starring Shoko Sugata, aired on the 24th. According to the survey statistics on the 26th, the average rating of the second episode (Kanto region, rapid report value) was 8.6%.
The first episode had a rating of 8.9%.
The cast of the work is quite luxurious, bringing together popular artists such as Shoki Sugata, Jun Arimura, Taiga Nakano, Kotoko Furukawa and Ryunosuke Kamiki, and composing a youth group portrait drama centered on these five people.
Sugata, Kamiki and Nakano play the unpopular funny trio "Macbeth". Arimura plays a waiter at a family restaurant who the three frequent to create a satin, and Furukawa plays Arimura's sister in the play.
The show takes a whole new approach to storytelling. The "Macbeth" trio begins each episode with a skit and sets the stage for the next 53 minutes.
▲ "The Short Drama Begins" Stills Sugata Shoko & Jun Arimura
In the second episode, After Haruka (Shoko Sugata) announces that he is going to disband the "Macbeth" group, he is called out by the agency's agent, Nanmu. Nanmu hopes that Harudou will reconsider the dissolution. On the other hand, Junpei (Nakano Taiga) tells his ten-year-old lover, Natsumi (Kyoko Yoshine), about the dissolution of the group. Recalling the days when he and Chundou struggled to become a funny artist, Runping suddenly remembered that Chundou had a "secret".
In the midst of this, the other person in the group, Kitai (Ryunosuke Kamiki), somehow stands on the roof of the trio's former alma mater, filled with memories between him and Harudou. Unaware of this, Haruhi overhears Rihoko (Jun Arimura) saying that she has something to worry about, so the two return to the family restaurant where Tashiko works, where they find a "suicide note" written by Kōta. ChunDou said that this was just a prop written for the "rooftop" skit, but it seems that this is not the case...