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| Yoko Maki as Nao Miyaji |
Her life is turned on its head when she is scouted by a modeling magazine called VANITY by the editor, Junko Kurosawa (Yuka Itaya).
She sends her underling, Eri Okita (Ayumi Ito), who is a struggling writer for the magazine, to bring Nao in and teach her the ropes of the business.
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| Yuka Itaya as Editor Kurosawa |
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| Ayumi Ito as Eri Koita |
But turning this brash and loudmouthed tomboy into the lithe, alluring and captivating model that her peers all are will take some work, and when set up with the likes of Eriko Sato and Ema Fujisawa, Nao’s efforts make her stick out like a sore thumb, LOLOL!
Okita is constantly at odds with the rough Nao and it is all she can do to keep her patience as she tries to wrangle this woman into something the magazine can use! For her part, Nao does try, but she is at such a loss for the ways and means of the business that she’s already called it quits once…how long can she possible keep this up?
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| Sakashita (Eriko Sato)... |
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| Looking all kinds of Glamorous... |
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| Ema Fujisawa... |
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| Dainty and Demure.... |
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| While out hapless heroine Nao... |
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| ....looking less than stellar! LOLOL |
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| Hmm, someone doesn't belong here! |
Time and time again her expectations are let down, and though her family gives her their full support (very sweet to see how proud they are when she appears in a magazine for the first time), and she wonders if she should give it up.
It’s only when she meets the dazzling Yukako Hamaguchi (Michiko Kichise) that she finds in her heart a real desire to pursue the field of modeling. Like Nao, she has a son (and in fact they both go to the same school), and it’s looking at this woman that she sees the strength that can be had by attaining such status!
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| Kyoko Hasegawa as Maiko Yasunaga |
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| Michiko Kichise as Yukako Hamaguchi |
SO far it’s fun show and my heavens it’s worth it alone just for the amount of actresses in her that I LOVE and have gushed ad nauseum on this blog: Yoko Maki, Ayumi Ito, Yuka Itaya, Michiko Kichise, and the delectable Eriko Sato! I even got introduced to some new faces like Ema Fujisawa and Yuriko Ono (as Kurosawa's Able assistant Masami Koike)...
Everyone looks so gorgeous here, and it’s funny- Yoko Maki makes herself look SO believable as a gangly, tomboyish waif that I had to go back and look at my older posts of her just to assure myself that this is the SAME lady!
Simply amazing how she can fluctuate so smoothly from one end to the other!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
