Now onto another "revenge" drama in the style of JOKER~Yurusarezaru Sousakan, Alice No Toge, and even recent dramas like Final Cut, where the relative of wronged and deceased person goes out and systematically destroys each person involved in the crime.
The drama is BLACK REVENGE, and this time the main character is Saori Imamiya, played by Tae Kimura. Once upon a time she was the happy wife of a politician with a baby on the way, but when he is framed for taking bribes and cheating on his wife, he takes his life. The shock of it sends Saori into a miscarriage and thus she loses her baby and her husband in one swoop.
She ends up in a psychological institution where she spends her days staring into space...until the day a thumb drive arrives with a recording of her husband laying out just how he was framed...and naming the guilty people who executed it!
This gets her out of her funk and now, with revenge in mind, she rejuvenates herself, joins a scandal rag magazine, and with her savvy and connections aims to take down all the individuals involved in her husband's frame-up and death!
Well, like I mentioned before, this drama's set-up certainly isn't anything new and we've seen it over and over again, but Tae Kimura is charismatic as the calculating news reporter Imamiya, and WOW, I just LOVE her assistant Sakura Ashihara!!
Played by Maya Okano (whom we last saw as Midori in the Kazuya Kamenashi drama Boku, Unmei No Hito Desu), this is one BUBBLY, chatty, super-GENKI character, and since Imamiya spends most of the show brooding in silence, it's up to Sakura to fill the empty space, and BOY, does she!
She is so much fun that I fell in love with her from the moment she's paired up with Imamiya and groans, LOLOL. She steals every scene she's in!
Pretty interesting show so far, and we'll see where this drama takes us!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
