Shojiki Fudosan (2022)

Funny AND interesting

So, it's about a real estate agency and there's this saler, who is the best. Why? Because he is lying all the time. But he is soon to be cursed by the god of truth (or something like that) and he can't lie anymore. And yes, it's like this movie with Jim Carrey, and yes it's the same plot BUT how did they manage to make this drama so entertaining? One word :acting. Yamashita Tomohisa play the male lead and, damn he is perfect and hilarious.
The female lead, Fukuhara Haruka, play a rookie agent, and she's so honest and real!
The story is quite simple, it's mostly about day to day sales, with a little bit of spice (war with another agency, spy and so on).
And, you learn about real estate in Japan (if you want to move there one day) and it's interesting? Idk why but it's interesting.

It's short (10 ep of 44mn) and it's refreshing!

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This "Shoujiki Fudousan" was an entertaining watch altogether, with some good points and some minor problems though. All imho, as always.

First things first, what I've liked:

- The story was a clean one, with a nicely proper, ethical message (exactly what I would expect from an NHK production, and that was comforting in itself ^__-)
- The female cast was very good; I'm quite a fan of Fukuhara Haruka so I knew I was gonna get a great performance from her, but also Kurashina Kana and Daichi Mao were great, not to mention the lovely Izumi Rika!)
- The music and the "packaging" were totally OK too

On to the things I wasn't enthusiastic about:

- The male cast; I must confess not being a big fan of Yamashita Tomohisa, but I'll say this: he still was, like, the only male who gets a passing grade here, imho; the rest were all below par (though in all fairness, I couldn't say how much of that was the actors' own fault and how much actually depended on the script - I'm willing to give the actors the benefit of the doubt and blame it on the scriptwriter and/or on the original manga authors
- The hair stylists; this is a problem this drama shares with many other J-dramas adapted from a manga: crazy hairstyles that work on paper get too faithfully portrayed in the live-action, resulting simply too weird; take for example this drama's villain, he was supposed to be scary and all, but due to the hairstyle being a kinda mix between Elvis and a Leningrad Cowboy, the guy ended up looking just ridiculous, imho. (oh, and that hairstyle on Kurashina Kana was a crime against humanity, seriously...T_____T)

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