While trying to deal with this, she meet Takumi Saiki (Kotaro Koizumi), the husband of the mistress. He also is dealing with the weight of their significant others’ affairs, and in time the two get close.
Yo Yoshida plays Yuko Hayashi, a highly succesful Ad executive with a stay-at home husband who has left work to focus on his (admittedly piddling) writing career. At work, one of her young underlings Akasaka (Hayato Isomura), becomes attracted to Hayashi’s elegant and mature aura and begins making a play for her.
Riisa Naka play Mari Kanbara, a spritely mother of three who finds out her husband Shigeki (Reo Tamaoki) is having an affair behind her back with a canny lawyer in his firm, Noriko Yamashita (the always devilishly seductive Misato Morita in yet another sexy role), even as she is being wooed by a famous rakugo star (Sadao Abe).
As the three women’s songs go to the same school, the mothers meet from time to time and begin to seek out each other for advice and friendship. This is the story of the turning point in their lives and how each of them deals with it.
Gotta say, at the halfway point, I’m only really interested in Kimura Yoshino’s story. She’s the most sympathetic out of the three and the one I want most to experience happiness.
The yoshida Yo story is OK but I don’t like the guy that much- an arrogant and pushy guy that has NO PROBLEM ruining Yuko’s life if he can have her. But Yuko seems turned on by this, maybe this is a female secret fantasy and that as a guy I just don’t “Get?”
I REALLY don’t like Risa Naka’s story. Not only do I not find her romance with Abe Sadao believable in the least, but she turns on her friends when they try to help her. 
At first I thought the drama was going to be about how these three women have each others’ backs and together they can get through anything, but it seems like they only show that when it is convenient...When Mari accuses An of “laughing at her behind her back” i was waiting for a scene where she apologized to An or at least acknowledged her harsh judgement, but it went RIGHT to the three meeting up like nothing. Mehhhh.....
As long as the Yoshino Kimura storyline entertains I will continue to watch. It’s been awhile since I have seen her in a likeable and warm role. The recent shows that I’ve seen her in like Jimi Ni Sugoi , Boku no Yabai Tsuma and Miss Devil she’s been such a morose personality…nice to see her play a character whom I like instantly again.
My, seems like just the other day I was seeing her for the first time in “Riso No Joshi”!!
PS: Is “Coco Every” a real Convenience Store chain in Japan? I thought it was a made-up business for “Kono Koi Atatamemasuka” , but Kimura’s character An cites it as a favorite place to get food?
So is Coco Every real, or is this just a nod from one TBS show to another?
