Just wrapped up the highly entertaining Saretagawa no Blue, a drama about seemingly happily married husband Noburo Tagawa (Inukai Atsuhiro) whose life get turned upside down when he discovers his beloved wife Aiko (Miona Hori) is cheating on him.
Aiko is having an affair with her superior Mori (Toru Iwaoka),leaving the naive Noburo at a loss of what to do, but a chance meeting with Mori’s wife Kozue (Rin Takanashi) gives him a an ally to rely on as they cooperate in dealing with this tragedy in their lives.
Sounds like a by-the-numbers cheating spouse drama, and it is that, but it’s elevated by actress Miona Hori’s spritely take as the selfish, self-centered and altogether naughty Aiko, whose every scene-stealing action seems justified in her mind if it will get her what she desires!
At first seeming coy and covert, she soon shows her true colors as the maddeningly manipulative cheater she is, not since Saiorse Ronan’s role in Atonement has there been a character you love so much to HATE!
A very short drama (only 8 episodes) with a lean cast, the drama is rounded out by Keisuke Nakata and Aya Kitai as Noburo’s concerned friends as well as pretty Hitomi Kaji as the slighted spouses’ busy lawyer!
PS: True, Aiko is as bad as can be, but you do spend a large chunk of the show thinking that Noburo is the dumbest and most clueless airhead of all time as he’s tricked time and time again by his weaselly wife’s wiley ways! LOL
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
