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| Tamaki Hiroshi as Ex-Yakuza Tatsu |
His Yakuza Tanto Blade, once a sign of fear...
...for making cute bentos!!
Sadly Wife Miku (Haruna Kawaguchi) is running late and can't stay...
...So breakfast ends up just Tatsu and Himawari!
A peaceful mealtime!
His fastidiousness has made him a hit with all the neighborhood wives, including Tanaka (Megumi) and Ota (Michiko Tanaka) who hilariously take advantage of Tatsu’s skills (and naive sense of camaraderie) to get him to help with all sorts of housewive things!
His past cannot help but creep back into his life, however. There is unrest within the Yakuza families and his former clan boss Kikujiro (Naoto Takenaka), Hibari (an almost unrecognizable Izumi Inamori) and Tatsu’s former kohai Masa (Jun Shison) are desperate to have him back and help abolish their foes.
Masa finds Tatsu out grocery shopping and cannot believe the once mighty warrior has been reduced to becoming a Mother Hen!
Tatsu would like to ignore things and stay committed to his family, but a confrontation with a rival gang lets him know that some Mob altercations are unavoidable and that he may have to step in…
This is a problem because though wife Miku is a scatterbrained and seemingly sweet natured woman on the outside (who can’t even make dinner without reducing the kitchen to rubble, LOL)…
…once she hears about Tatsu interacting with his old Yakuza colleagues, transforms into a LION and properly lays him OUT! Seems there’s ONE person whom Tatsu can only bow his head to, and that’s his lovely wife!!
So far seems like a pretty good dynamic, with shades of Ayase Haruka’s “Okusama wa, Tori Atsukai Chui” or Chiaki Kuriyama’s “Himitsu Chohouin Erika”, though a LOT more on the slapstick side!
...is now used to slice veggies...
Love the running gag of how lazy Miku can be in regards to housework, there’s this scene where Tatsu’s folding t-shirts and she tries to "help” in this utterly useless way that had me laughing out LOUD!
Also love the way that naughty Himawari keeps getting Tatsu into trouble by tattletaling on him, she is such a rascal! Loved her roles in “Nagi No Oitoma” and the recent “Kanojo ga Joubutsu Dekinai” and she continues her adorable troublemaking here!
PS: Jun Shison surprised me in this role as kohai Masa- when I first saw him in Heaven Gokuraku Restaurant, he was SO flamboyantly girly that I thought it was the ONLY kind of role he could play! Nice to see him in a straightforward role for a change!
Hey, come to think of it, he’s ALSO in Hanbun Aoi , as one of the manga employees!!!
And speaking of Hanbun Aoi, Kenichi Takito is in this drama TOO, as another yakuza sprung from prison! Chalk up two MORE actors linked to that fateful asadora!
posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
