Stunning "Ghost Writer" Captivates!

Nakatani Miki and Mizukawa Asami in Ghost Writer

Holy CRAP, I just blew through half of the 10-episode suspense drama Ghost Writer in ONE SITTING! Those who know me know that I’m usually not one to watch so many episodes at once (I prefer to pace myself and watch one episode per day and give some time to think about it), but this show had me firmly attached to the edge of my seat from the minute it began, and before I knew it I had gone through FIVE episodes in a ROW! 

Risa Tono and Assistant (and ghost writer) Yuki Kawahara

Thankfully, Episode 5 ended on such a stunning cliffhanger that felt like the end of “Part One” and so before I began “Part Two”, I thought it was a good time to stop for the day, catch my breath, and write up this piece full of GHOST WRITER gushing!

Innocent Newbie Writer Yuki Kawahara

Veteran Celebrity Writer Risa Tono

  Starring Nakatani Miki and Mizukami Asami, Ghost Writer tells the tale of a struggling newbie writer named Yuki Kawahara (Mizukawa) who, after years of trying to “make it” in Tokyo without success, is about to give up, marry, and move back home. But a chance meeting with her idol, the hugely successful writer Risa Tono (Nakatani) puts her right in the middle of where the action is, and she ends up working as Tono’s assistant.

What Kawahara is shocked to find out, however, is that Risa Tono, besides being a cold, selfish, and manipulative woman, is suffering from writer’s block and has been running on fumes for the past few years. She sees potential in Kawahara’s writing, however, and, under the guise of “nurturing” her, begins to use her writing in her own pieces. Soon Kawahara is working in the shadows as Tono’s ghost writer, and here’s where things really heat up!

Tono’s agent (the always weaselly Tanaka Tetsushi) is an unscrupulous man who believes only in money and plays the two women against each other to his own advantage-using naive and innocent Kawahara’s writing to boost expired Tono’s writing slump and making each one believe the other is acting only for his own benefit. 

The "Always-Up-To-No-Good" Tanaka Tetsushi

Soon the two women have a psychological game going on between each other and MAN! Do these two chicks GIVE IT to each other!!!! Risa think Yuki's only in it to advance her own writing career, Yuki thinks Risa's using her because she's washed up as a writer. As each camp tries to figure out what the other 's ultimate plans are, they pull underhand moves on each other, til you don't know WHO the "right" person is and who the "wrong" party is! All they DO know is that when the two of them are working together, they produce best sellers!

  Such an awesome show- both Asami Mizukawa and Miki Nakatani are just AMAZING at their jobs-every scene with them is so damn brilliant!! In addition, the show is helped by a really great supporting cast, including Miura Shohei as a literary agent who befriends Yuki, Kimura Midoriko as Tonou’s able secretary/manager and OH MY GOSH, the seductive and succulent Nanao as Oda’s co-worker Tsukada in the publishing house. 

Miura Shohei as Oda

Nanao as Tsukada and Miura Shohei as Oda

 Aw man, I’m REALLY fighting to urge to watch MORE of the Ghost Writer but I really should pace myself , if ONLY to make this GREAT drama last a little LONGER!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com