Completely captivated by the new crime drama TWO WEEKS which I just started watching today- simply amazing the way the story is spun- You are first introduced to the players of the story, who they are and what they represent- and as the story moves forward, they begin slowly revealing how each person is somehow connected to each other-I was blown away each time a new hidden relationship was revealed and had to sit back and admire how finely crafted this drama is!
TWO WEEKS tells the story of a man named Daichi Yuki (Haruma Miura), and from the moment we meet him, we see that he is a man of questionable character where things like gambling and prostituting are all a part of his everyday life.
He works at a dingy pawnshop nad is content to life the rest of his life this way…til an old girlfriend named Sumire Aoyagi (Manami Higa) and tells him that he has an 8 year old daughter who is in need of a bone-marrow transplant which she hopes he can provide.
On the other side of the law, we have Kaede Tsukishima (Kyoko Yoshine), an up and coming prosecutor in the courts, She is green and frequently chided by her superiors, but she has a passion for justice, and one of her big missions is to expose a corrupt businessman named Kaname Shibasaki (Masanobu Takashima).
Her best friend Ai Kashiwagi (Eri Tachibana) is an escort on a glitzy Caba-Club which Shibasaki frequents, and as his “main girl”, has promised to watch him closely and report back to Kaede if she happens to find anything suspicious that can bring him down.
In conversation, Ai happens to mention that there is a guy she’s keen on and has been dropping hints to, but what Kaede doesn’t know is that this guy is Daichi Yuki, an ex-convict who has connections to Shibasaki and will be playing a prominent role in her near future.
There is some good news for Daichi and his ex-girlfriend: His blood is a match and within tow weeks he is scheduled to give his daughter a transfusion which will save her life. As a man who once lived without aim, this chance meeting with his daughter for the first time has given him purpose, and he even manages to smile. But all of this will soon change.
A few days later, Kaede gets a frantic phone call from Ai- seems she’d discovered something about Shibasaki that can put him away and is desperate to get the info to her.
Kaede tries to meet up with her as soon as she can, but with a sense of impending doom about her, she runs to the pawnshop, and, giving the camera with the damning evidence on it, pawns it off to Daichi with a favor asking him “Please don't sell it- I’ll be back to buy it soon!”
With that in mind, Daichi slips the camera in his pocket instead of cataloging it with the rest of the supplies. But that night when he is asked to inventory the stock, he is struck from behind…
...only to wake up with a bloody knife in his hands and the murdered body of Ai lying in front of him! Daichi has NO IDEA how he got there or what transpired, but he knows one thing: he is being framed for the murder of this girl!
With his daughter’s transfusion only 14 days away, prison is an unacceptable fate, but with the evidence stacked against him and a burning desire by prosecutor Kaede to see him pay for his crimes, he will have to use all his wits and knowledge to clear his name!
A VERY intense drama done in a very gritty, realistic style, TWO WEEKS had been on my radar for months- We frequent an Izakaya which plays Japanese Programming on its TVscreens, and have been seeing the promotional commercial of it for weeks!
Once I saw a subbing team was going to pick it up, I wasted no time grabbing it, and with Anata No Ban Desu, Nagi No Oitima, and Lupin No Musume all wrapping up, looks like TWO WEEKS and the Tsubasa Honda drama CHASE are going to be my GO-TO shows for awhile! (at least til Tsubasa's new show CHEAT starts, which I expect to be a MAJOR BLAST!)
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
