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| A cautious Abe Sadao approaches the fiery Kiko Mizuhara |
On a Kiko Mizuhara high right now and so when Hamanosilence suggested the 2015 drama Kokoro Ga Pokitto Ne with Kiko as the headlining actress, my curiosity was piqued, and when I read up on it and found Tomoko Yamaguchi also starred in it, well, I just HAD to have it!! And sure enough, from the very first scene with Kiko spazzing out over getting fired from her job, I knew I was gonna DIG this one!
Kokoro Ga Pokitto Ne tells the very wacky story of a man named Kojima (Sadao Abe) who hates interaction with others and refuses to love.
This is because in the past he had a nervous breakdown at his job and lashed out at his wife. His world crashed around him: he lost his job, his wife, his home, and, in fact, his sanity! Eventually ending up as a homeless man, it was only through the help of a kind man named Shin Otake (Naohito Fujiki) who took him in and gave him a job at his secondhand store that he began to life again. But he is so afraid that he might slip back to the angry , abusing man he once was, that he tries not to talk to others and make contact. To be alone is the only way to insure he won’t hurt anyone.
His life of solitude is shaken to the core when he meets the explosively lively, loud and energetic Miyako Hayama (Kiko Mizuhara)!
Bumping into him one night, she makes quite an impression on the awkward and reserved Kojima, and when they cross paths again at his workplace, they become friends, or at least, if Kiko has her way, anyway.
For Kojima, despite his efforts to be alone, finds that not only is his entire time occupied with her, he even feels the twinges of attraction~this cannot be! He tries to keep his distance, and fight his feelings, but Miyako is too full of life to resist!
Furthering the stress, his home life is shaken when Otake’s fiancee moves in upstairs. Where the nights were once nice and quiet, they are now filled with the thumping sound of boxes and furniture moving, dishes clattering and loud laughter.
But nothing can prepare him for the biggest shock of all when he finally meets her, and he finds that Otake’s fiancee Shizuka (Tomoko Yamaguchi) is none other than his ex-wife! And when Miyako (who conversely has a crush on Shin) is ALSO invited to live at the Otake house, all manner of wacky hijinks ensue!
Watch with delight as the four characters attempt to have a nice dinner and pretend nothing is going on when beneath the skin every person (save the simple minded Shin) is raging with nervousness! LOLOL
Well! This is one ZANY show! Very entertaining as an all-out comedy,and Kiko Mizuhara is a whirlwind of spazzy energy in every scene she's in!
Also very entertaining is Eri Tokunaga as Kojima's overproctective co-worker Fumi Itoyama, who has a crush of Kojima and hovers over him at work like a hawk, driving his nervousness to its limit! So funny!
And special mention must be made of Tomoko Yamaguchi... she's so great! Her "machine gun reparte" reminds us why she was so great as Minami in the classic Long Vacation!
Kind of hard to accept that Tomoko’s character of Shizuka is supposed to be the abused wife of Kojima’s since she dominates over him in every scene she’s in, and also hard to take how dense Fujiki’s character of Shin is supposed to be! But if it’s just about SILLINESS, then Kokoro Ga Pokitto Ne is the way to go!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
