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This is a drama I’d normally be leery of-it’s an office drama, and described as being about a 39-year-old woman looking for love while she can still have kids-but checked out because it had Amami Yuki and Fujiki Naohito as the leads.
Ogata Satoko is a successful and extremely competent psychiatrist who is also 39 and single. At a class reunion, one of her best friends mentions that time might be running out if she still intends to marry and have childrenadoption doesn’t exist, especially if it isn’t an infant be but brushes it off, only to give the matter more consideration later. Satoko is rather set in her ways (and happy that way) and during a regular visit to a hot springs, she sees a woman dumping her boyfriend for being too penny-pinching. (He says it’s being economical.) Later, he’s hired as a therapist at the hospital she works for.
This is something that will probably never actually sound interesting in descriptions, but is. While the setup implies that the romance will be central, it’s actually a supporting factor, with the primary focus being on Satoko and her best friends Mizue (a housewife whose efforts are rarely noticed or acknowledged by her husband and son) and Nao (who never intended to marry, but changes her mind when she starts to fall for a handsome and ambitious businessman) trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. It’s also very strongly opposed to the idea that having a husband/kids will suddenly make a woman’s life better on its own. Satoko rejects a promising suitor early on because he’d expect her to give up her career, and both Mizue and Nao’s storylines explore the idea that marriage itself doesn’t create happiness, but that more is needed.
It reminds me a bit of a genderswitched Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, though none of the characters come near the extremities of Abe Hiroshi’s character there. (Fujiki Naohito’s Okamura has some similarities, but is mostly sweet and adorable, just a bit odd and eccentric.)But the comparison makes me want Abe Hiroshi and Amami Yuki to do a drama.
It’s a pretty good series, but one that’s a bit better suited to doses than bingeing, and probably not one for a lot of LJ/DW’s dorama crowd.
Ogata Satoko is a successful and extremely competent psychiatrist who is also 39 and single. At a class reunion, one of her best friends mentions that time might be running out if she still intends to marry and have children
This is something that will probably never actually sound interesting in descriptions, but is. While the setup implies that the romance will be central, it’s actually a supporting factor, with the primary focus being on Satoko and her best friends Mizue (a housewife whose efforts are rarely noticed or acknowledged by her husband and son) and Nao (who never intended to marry, but changes her mind when she starts to fall for a handsome and ambitious businessman) trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. It’s also very strongly opposed to the idea that having a husband/kids will suddenly make a woman’s life better on its own. Satoko rejects a promising suitor early on because he’d expect her to give up her career, and both Mizue and Nao’s storylines explore the idea that marriage itself doesn’t create happiness, but that more is needed.
It reminds me a bit of a genderswitched Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, though none of the characters come near the extremities of Abe Hiroshi’s character there. (Fujiki Naohito’s Okamura has some similarities, but is mostly sweet and adorable, just a bit odd and eccentric.)
It’s a pretty good series, but one that’s a bit better suited to doses than bingeing, and probably not one for a lot of LJ/DW’s dorama crowd.