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Yamashita Tomohisa, Karina and Toda Erika to star in the upcoming Getsu 9 drama
Where are Yamapi’s fans? *raises hand*
It has been announced that Yamashita Tomohisa (Nobuta Wo Produce, Kurosagi), Karina (Love Shuffle, Priceless) and Toda Erika (Liar Game, BOSS) will be starring in Fuji Tv’s upcoming drama untitled“Summer Nude”, this drama marks Yamapi’s return to Fuji TV’s Getsu 9 time slot after Proposal Daisakusen (2007) Buzzer Beat (2009) and Code Blue Season 2 (2010).
(For those who don’t know what Getsu 9 means: It’s the most popular time slot for dramas in Japan; Monday 9:00 PM. Fuji TV started the trend since 1995 by calling it “Getsu 9” as "Monday 9:00 PM drama is interesting" because at that slot, there were no baseball games or anything that would lure the intention from dramas that’s why every drama that aired at that time had the highest viewers ratings. Thus other stations started following Fuji TV and placed their popular dramas on Monday 9:00 PM).
Summer Nude will tell the story of Asahi Mikuriya; a 28 years old cameraman who owns a photography studio in a seaside town, he once dreamt about becoming a famous photographer but that didn’t end well. Moreover, his love life didn’t end well either, three years ago; he was dumped by his girlfriend (Nagasawa Masami who co-starred with Yamapi in Proposal Daisakusen and Dragon Zakura) without knowing the reason which made Asahi unable to get over her.
He then meets Natsuki Chiyohara (Karina) who works in a famous Italian restaurant in Tokyo; Asahi captures the picture of the most embarrassing moment of her life; when she was dumped by her fiancé on their wedding day. She then starts to work in a cottage by the sea owned by Mikuriya’s senpei and located near his studio: BANG they meet again! But no the story doesn’t end there! Hanae Taniyama (Toda Erika) enters Mikuriya’s life again; you see Hanae was Asahi’s junior classmate in high school and always held feelings for him but since he was never able to get over his ex-girlfriend, it was always an unrequited love from her side but now, it seems like a great chance to make him fall for her since a long time has passed ever since his girlfriend left him. Thus, a burning summer triangle takes place.
Murase Ken (The drama’s producer) revealed that the drama was set on the beach side in order to show off Yamashita’s well-toned physique that he was able to maintain ever since his role in “Ashita No Joe”: the man knows what fangirls want the most bwahahaha
So ladies and maybe “gentlemen”? Start marking your calendars; the 11 episodes Getsu 9 drama will start airing on July the 8[sup]th[/sup] every Monday at 9:00 PM (JST).
The shooting started few days ago: Here
My thoughts: Well, I know that everyone complains about Yamapi’s acting skills, I admit that he’s not perfect but I enjoyed watching him in several dramas such as Buzzer Beat and Kurosagi so I am not going to judge him cruelly, I will just wait and see his performance in here. The girls on the other hand (Karina and Toda Erika) are amazing actresses; I loved Karina in Love Shuffle and liked Toda in several dramas so I am having high hopes about their roles in here.
It’s a summer drama and I wasn’t very thrilled with last year's summer drama (Sprout) so I will try to keep my hopes low since the storyline doesn’t seem very special but I may be wrong and we will get our share of gripping romance and well written storyline, at least I hope so!
Is it on your list?
