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| Shihori Kanjiya and Hongo Kanata in REPEAT |
She is a shy and reserved person, and it was only through her love of books that she even had the courage to talk to and eventually date him, and is excited at the prospect of becoming his wife.
One night home from work, Ayumi receives a strange phone call, telling her that there will be an earthquake in Tokyo in a few hours. She doesn’t know who the caller is, and decides that it must be a prank of some kind.
But that evening, she is shocked when there is indeed an earthquake in Tokyo, at the exact time the caller predicted. She then gets a call from the mystery man who tells her that he told her his predication so she’d believe him when he said he could time jump from the future to the past via an experience he calls REPEAT. If she’s interested, she is told to meet up at a certain restaurant in a few days where all the other recipients (who, like Ayumi, seem to have been chosen at random) where she will learn more.
Meanwhile, a moody man named Keisuke Mori (Kanata Hongo) is having an equally undesirable life. He works as a waiter at a Hostess bar and returns home to a deluded and sadistic girlfriend (gleefully played by Haruka Shimazaki). When the tremors hit, he asks no one in particular, “Hey…did you feel that? Was that an earthquake?” Clearly HE’s gotten the call, too.
The day of the meetup happens and Ayumi and Keisuke are the last of the guests to arrive. They don’t get off on the right foot, with Keisuke bumping into Ayumi and grumbling that she’s in the way.
They make their way to the table, where they see six other guests of all different walks of life waiting...
There is Tendo (Gori), a Cafe Owner.
There is Takahashi, a truckdriver, and Yokozawa, a Housewife (Satomi Tezuka).
There is elegant Omori (Yumi Adachi), a Food Chemist.
There is Gohara, a businessman.
There is Tsuboi, a Prep Student.
And finally, there is the mystery phone predicter himself, Kazama (Seiji Rokkaku), who makes his grand entrance once everyone is seated!
Kazama explains to the eight guests that his “Repeat” system is not so much Time Traveling back and forth, but the ability to jump your MIND back into your past self. Thus you can’t bring along anything with you. Furthermore, it is a set time frame of 10 months you can go back! Some complain that that isn’t enough time to do anything worthwhile, but Kazama points out the benefits.
He says he will give them one more proof of his abilities: one more earthquake prediction, due to hit in 7 days. If they are convinced and ultimately decide they want to timeslip back, he will call with the details.
On the way out, Ayumi admits that she doesn’t have any need to time jump back to her past, as she is completely satisfied with her life, and most likely won’t return. But when her boyfriend arrives home from his trip. she changes her mind. She’d thought he was going to propose to her on his return…instead he’s come to dump her!
He says that he feels the “timing just wasn’t ever right” for them, and confesses that he’d even planned on proposing to her some time ago…but she didn’t show up and after that things went south. Ayumi remembers that day. She’d had to deal with a bratty child who caused her to drop her phone in the water and then hurt himself running away. Oh, if only she could go back and change that…
That night, the earthquake hits as predicated, and Ayumi makes the decision to join the others and make the jump to the past. But will changing things that already happened make things better? Can she mold events to give herself a perfect life? Or is one’s life planned out fo them and will fate step in to keep what has already transpired as fact...and what PRICE will they ultimately PAY for this gift? Only by jumping will she learn!
Aw man, I really, really love Kanjiya Shihori, and it’s great to see her headlining a show again (well, with a ensemble cast, but still…). Her drama “Kimi Hannin Janai yo ne?” is still one of my all-time favorite dramas and REPEAT looks like yet another awesome show!
Also bonus points for Tezuka Satomi, whom I has a severe crush on once upon a time (back when she was playing the frustrated mother of twins in the NHK Asadora “Futarikko”) and always love seeing, and former child-actress Yumi Adachi, who seems to be getting prettier and prettier as time goes on!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
