Mondai Bukken: Problem Property!

Rio Uchida and Takaya Kamikawa in Mondai Bukken

A young woman realtor in sales suddenly put in charge of problem housing, a young man obsessed with psychic phenomena, and a mysterious man with decidedly dog-like capabilities. Put them all together and you've got  “Mondai Bukken-“Problem Property”! Our story:

Emiko Wakamiya (Rio Uchida) is a young woman working for Oshima Real Estate who gets transferred to a small subdivision of the business called the Sales Exception Office, located not in the building but in a luxurious mansion in town!

There Emiko meets the young head of the department Masahiro Oshima (Ryubi Miyase) and his trusty dog Inuta.  A sudden transfer, she has no idea what this department does...or what they have in store for her!

She soon learns through the intermediary Katayama (Chikara Honda) that Emiko’s new job will be checking out troubled properties that the company owns, and thanks for Oshima’s geeky obsession with the macabre, the problems ALL seem to be of a ghostly and supernatural kind!

The first job she is given is to check up on a property which has had FIVE suicides within it and is considered “CURSED! "Cursed????! EEEK!" thinks Emiko!

As a real "scaredy cat” which she attributes to some kind of childhood trauma, Emiko totally balks at this new job prospect, but she is reminded that she was a mediocre worker in the company before, and if she expects to keep her job, she must apply herself here and get results!

Nervous and unsure of herself, Emiko finally sums up her courage and makes her way down to the cursed apartment. She doesn’t have a clue how to start this case, but she is met at the apartment by a strange, dashing man who seems to have a grip on the situation and a gift for sniffing out the facts!

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The name’s name is Kotaro Inugashima (Takaya Kamikawa), and he informs Emiko that he has been sent by the company to assist her, and has been briefed on the situation of the cursed property...and immediately takes control of the investigation!

Besides the very dog-like name, this “Inugashima” has many attributes that remind Emiko of a dog as well- heightened sense of both hearing and smell and able to run at high speeds, all of which help with the investigation but keep Emiko flustered throughout!

Together they work through the clues: the witnesses, the possible suspects who might set up such a scene ,etc, etc, and they even have the help of former police detective Jiro Arimura  (Kento Hamano) to help them on the case! 

By the episode's end, the crackerjack team has uncovered the truth about the supernatural goings-on at the supposedly cursed apartment, and the case is considered closed!  The tenants are free to resume their residence there, relieved of any ghostly apparitions or doomsday curses!

Back at the office the next day, Emiko gushes that she really couldn’t have done it without the help of Inugashima-and is SHOCKED to find that no one has heard of this person and that no one at the company has sent any agent to help her! 

EHHHH??? This leaves Emiko to wonder just WHO that Inugashima IS…and is it just her imagination, or does Oshima’s dog look strangely reminiscent of Inugashima himself….? 

It can’t be! Or...CAN it? 

LOLOL!

As you all know I love Rio Uchida and her role as the addled Emiko Wakamiya charms throughout and it's a kind of fun set-up, so we’ll see where this one goes!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com

The Sexy As Hell Rio Uchida

 For such a bawdy little show, Raise De Chanto Shimasu had very little by way of showing any actual sexiness. Oh sure, they'd TALK about naughty little things, and bras and panties galore were always strewn all over the the backgrounds, but when it came to actually SEEING anyone in said Bras and Panties, WELL, that was another thing!

So imagine my HAPPY surprise when checking out some posts on a aJ-idol forum and foudn these SCATHIUNGLY HOT lingerie pics from Rio Uchida jsut STEAMING UP the room!!!

Oh my heart, I always KNEW she had a SEXY side and am THRILLED to see her flaunt it!!

PS: Perusing galleries of Rio's for more sexy pics, and come across this cute shot of Rio astride a fancy bicycle rack...HEY, that place looks awfully familiar!! Is that shot here in HAWAII?

EDIT: Looks like downtown Kakaako, and taking a quick look over on googlemaps, looks like it IS!!! Here's a shot showing Cooke Street:

Seems like Rio was here at some point...judging by this second shot around the corner, it looks like around 2016:

... since that swimming mural has long since been repainted with a newer picture...

The Sexual Shenanigans Continue with the Playfully Promiscuous Momoe Omori in “Raise De Chanto Shimasu 2”

Momoe Omori (Rio Uchida) is back getting into even more sexual hijinks in this sequel to the bawdy (if still entirely “G” Rated) 2020 “Raise de Chanto Shimasu” along with her hapless (and equally active) co-workers!

Entertaining enough, but I dunno, seems like the writers forgot or erased every plot resolution in the first season because the cast is back mired in the exact same problems which plagued them before with seemingly no development of any kind... 

Kind of frustrating from a story-wise standpoint, but Rio Uchida is so cute as the free-spirited Momoe that I’ll give it a pass and watch it all anyway!

A Wild Reon Appeared!

Some of you may remember my post about legendary cheesecake idol Reon Kadena, where I reminisced about how great she was back in the day…and wondered whatever happened to her!

Well, I got a bit of a  happy update when she made a surprise cameo in an episode of the saucy Rio Uchida drama Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu as the bartendress (owner?) of a Lesbian Bar that Uchida’s Momoe blunders into with Ume (Lina Ohta) when Ume is trying to see if she might be gay.

Turns out she isn’t, but while they are there, they are met with several people including the bartendress who offers words of advice to an awkward Ume:

When she came into screen, my first thought was, “This lady looks SO familiar! Who IS she?” 

Funny thing, though, I was running through older ladies in my head and never once though she might be an ex—idol, so I was HAPPILY surprised when I looked up the cast credits and found it was Reon herself!!!

I wonder…is Reon gay in real life? seems so odd to have her cameo as the owner of a Lesbian bar, and the advice she offers Ume is a cryptic “Your sexual preference is one thing you can’t lie to yourself about…nor can you change” which makes me wonder even more!

It was so cool to see Reon again after all these years, and my GOSH, though a bit older, she still looks as pretty as ever!  

Sex And The Single Girls

 Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu (I'll Live Properly In My Next Life) follows the sexual lives (or lack thereof) of two girls working at a production company-

one, the extravagant and outgoing Momoe Omori (Rio Uchida) who juggles five different boyfriends every day...

...and the bookwormish Ume Takasugi (Rina Ohta), a self-professed virgin whose only loves are yaoi manga and crashing at the company.

The girls  really get detailed about their various desires and the conversations can get pretty racy, from scenes of Ume telling Momoe that her only passion is taking a dump...

...To Momoe's' giggly proclamation that she and her boyfriend have started doing Butt Sex!

LOL, Ume's facial reactions are the best here, HAHA
You'd think such a bawdy drama would be too hot for television, but it's done so cutely that, scorching dialog aside, is actually a fairly sweet show!

Truly, aside from the girls' engaging talk of  things like "Doing It Up the Butt"), the most scandalous you ever see are is a random brassiere hanging off a hanger! 

Even the sexually active Momoe is always dressed in very modest and innocent clothing, which adds to the shows' cute concept- in fact, feels very much like you're reading a manga!

Gotta see MORE of this one!! 
PS: I was POSITIVE I had seen Rina in something before. And poring over her asianwiki stats, sure enough, Rina was one of the four girls in the wacky Yuko Araki drama "Love Love Alien" that I watched JUST a few weeks ago in a fit of Yuko Araki fanboying!

GREAT to see Rina in a more starring role, I simply love her here!

Ninja Edit: Reading the MyDramaList synopsis, looks like despite my saying the that drama was about the two girls, looks like it will be focusing on FIVE characters, the two girls AND the three loser guys that work with them as well. My Bad.