Starry Starry Night: Sumire in "Kaidenshita no Gogh"

Kaidenshita No Gogh tells the story of an office worker named Miwako Kaburagi (actress SUMIRE) who doesn't’ care for art, though it was once her passion as a child. it’s only when she happens to attend a humble exhibit and sees a particular painting that her interest reawakens and she is motivated to try taking classes again.

Once she arrives there, she is met with the usual array of eccentrics in the art class, including the morose and serious Taira, who doesn’t say much during the class, but later tells her he resents someone like her, an affluent woman with a good job who is taking art “for fun” rather than the members of the class who are staking their lives on it.

Miwako intends to convince this man that she is indeed serious about it, and thus gets down to seriously studying, where the two will slowly get to know each other….

Actress Sumire sure is an unusual looking actress- ever since I first saw her in”Gunjyo Ryoiki” as the diabolical “other woman” of main iglr Eunkyu Shim, I thought she had this real eurasian look to her-“ are those her real eyes or are they contacts??” I wondered. But her Father’s Asano Tadanobu and her Mom’s singer CHARA, so apparently she’s pure japanese??

Anyway, saw her next as the author’s muse in the gripping “Iribito” and this was the first time I saw her in a more serious role and possibly someone to look out for! But by the time she was in Mahou no Rinobe, she’d been regaled to Haru’s best friend and so I thought she’d be back to bit parts. But it seems I was wrong, for here we have Sumire in her very own starring role in the new art-influenced drama “Kaidenshita no Gogh”!

Not sure if this drama is really my cup of tea, but will probably check out a few more…