Just began watching the drama “Itsuka Kono Koi wo Omoidashite Kitto Naite Shimau” (Some Day, When We Remember This Love, We Will Surely Cry) starring Kasumi Arimura (whom I just finished watching in the cute movie Flying Colors) and Kengo Kora as two sensitive people from opposite sides of the tracks whom meet through a strange act and whom become sources of strength for each other.
Kengo Kora is Ren Soda, a young man working as a Mover in Tokyo trying to raise money to buy back land his grandfather got swindled out of. His no-good friend Haruta (Kentaro Sakaguchi) had crashed his pad and Ren is dismayed to find he has stolen a woman’s purse to catch a ride back to town.
Normally Ren would just leave things be, as he is a shy man who doesn’t like confrontation, but whne he finds a precious letter from the woman’s deceased mother among the things in the purse, he decides he must find the owner of the purse and return the belongings to her.
Finding out the town Haruta stole the purse from, he makes his was to the country, and using information in the purse, locates the woman. The woman is Oto Sugihara, and she is a person who has had a very hard life. She was orphaned at a young age and left with a grouchy and selfish man who doesn’t care anything about her and only cares for her as a person to work and bring in money.
When she meets Ren, she at first pretends she isn’t the woman he’s looking for, but in the end confronts him, calling him a thief for stealing her purse. it takes all his effort to prove to her that he isn’t the robber and had pure intentions.
Little by little she starts to believe him, and over conversations begins to open up to him.
As fate would have it, Ren has come at a pivotal point in Oto’s life: her greedy guardian has made a deal with an older man who will pay handsomely to have Oto as his bride. She doesn’t like this of course, and when she voices her objections, he lashes out at her. When she defies him, he takes her mother’s ashes and flushes it down the toilet. this finally breaks her and in tears, runs out to find Ren.
Ren is about to make his way back into town, and he immediately takes her in, and without any more connections to this world, Oto decides to leave with him and start a new life in Tokyo with him.
When they arrive in town the next morning, Oto has to take care of some things and Ren says he’ll wait for her by the van, Unfortunately, at that moment his childhood friend Konatsu (Aoi Morikawa) shows fup and tells him she needs his help right away. And so it is that when Oto returns, Ren is nowhere to be found…and the two end up living in town without knowing where the other is.
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I initially checked out Itsuka Kono Koi for actress Mitsuki Takahata whom I fell in love with from her adorable portrayal of the titular heroine in “Kahogo No Kahoko” but I was TOTALLY unprepared for the character I saw- far from the sweet, innocent, naive and adorable Kahoko, Mitsuki was playing a rich, beautiful, confident and SEXY woman named Kihoko, the sometimes-on and sometimes-off love interest of Ren.
Damn, Mitsuki was so alluring and gorgeous in this drama, I could scarcely believe she was the same actress from Kahogo no Kahoko!
But she wasn’t the ONLY one who shook me up with decidedly DIFFERENT personalities than I’d been used to: Kentaro Sakaguchi, whom I last saw as the weak, shy and introspective Satoru Hyuga in GOMEN AISHITERU is a loudmouthed bum who doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings or even common decency. He has no problem stealing a woman’s purse, inviting himself into Ren’s home and eating all his food. What a twist!
As well, Issei Takahashi, whom I loved as the caring and thoughtful in QUARTET, is just the BIGGEST jerk, as Ren’s co-worker at the Moving Company, he takes advantage of Ren, blames him for damaged inventory and sits back while Ren does all the work. GADS, do I HATE this guy, and I can’t believe he’s the same sensitive violinist I came to like so much!
Well, I don’t quite know how this show is going to end up, truthfully I am not a fan of these shows where the hero (and heroine) of the show are these constantly bullied and picked on people (really gets aggravating after awhile) but I do really want to know where the relationship between Oto and Ren will go, so for now I will have to stick with it and keep watching it!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com