M: Ai Subeki Hito ga Ite
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Details
- Title: M
- Tagline: 愛すべき人がいて / Ai Subeki Hito ga Ite
- Tagline (English): I Have Someone to Love
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Drama
- Episodes: 7
- Broadcast network: TV Asahi, ABEMASPECIAL (Abema TV)
- Broadcast period: 2020-Apr-18 to 2020-Jul-04
- Air time: Saturday 23:15
- Theme song: M by Hamasaki Ayumi
- Insert song: Can't Stop This! by Beverly, FAKY, FEMM, lol, Yup'in, Anzai Kalen (安斉かれん)
- Original soundtrack: M: Ai Subeki Hito ga Ite OST
Synopsis
This drama is a biopic about Japanese diva Ayumi Hamasaki, focusing on her relationship with AVEX's CEO and founder Masato "Max" Matsuura. Max discovered Ayu and helped launch her career as a singer and subsequently songwriter. The tight bond between Ayu and Masa is tested time and again by betrayals and jealousies from the people around them. --by TV Asahi
User/Viewer Ratings
Cast
- Main Cast
- Anzai Kalen (安斉かれん) as Ayu (Hamasaki Ayumi)
- Yonemura Riko as young Ayu
- Miura Shohei as Masa (Matsuura Max)
- A VICTORY (AVEX)
- Takashima Masanobu as Ohama
- Tanaka Minami as Himeno Reika
- Shirahama Alan as Rukawa Sho
- Tanaka Michiko as Yoshida Asuka
- Niiro Shinya as Kira Tenmei (Komuro Tetsuya)
- Hina, Wada Hayate as Over The Fact / OTF (Every Little Thing / ELT)
- lol as USG (TRF)
- Yupi'n as Saeki Maki (Aikawa Nanase)
- People around Ayu
- Kubota Sayu as Tamaki Risa (Ayu's friend)
- Kawakita Mayuko as Nojima Mika (Ayu's manager)
- Ichige Yoshie as Sachiko (Ayu's grandmother)
- Ueno Natsuhi as Shiina Satomi (Ayu's mother)
- Den Ayaka (傳彩夏) as Nishitani Mari (Ayu's rival)
- Others
- Mizue Kenta (水江建太) as Sayama Naoki
- Takahashi Katsunori as Nakatani
- Guests
- Suzuki Ryujin as director (ep1)
- Mizuno Miki as Tenma Mayumi (Vocal trainer) (ep2,6-7)
- Moto Fuyuki as Kurokawa Makoto (ep4)
- Toyama Toshiya as Reika's father (ep4)
- Yamashita Yorie as Reika's mother (ep4)
- Otsuru Gitan as Mizushima (ep4,6)
- Katsuya as Yamamoto (ep4,6)
- Chris Peppler (クリス・ペプラー) as rental record shop owner (ep6)
Production Credits
- Original work: Novel M: Ai Subeki Hito ga Ite by Komatsu Narumi
- Screenwriter: Suzuki Osamu
- General Producer: Yokochi Ikuei
- Producer: Hattori Nobuyuki, Taniguchi Tatsuhiko (谷口達彦), Yamagata Ryosuke, Sato Masahiko (佐藤雅彦)
- Director: Kinoshita Takao, Aso Manabu
- Music: Sawada Kan
- Production Companies: Kadokawa Daiei Studio, TV Asahi, Abema TV
Episode Information
| Date | Episode | Subtitle | Ratings (Kanto) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-02 | 01 | Cross the rainbow I've made! | 5.6 |
| 2020-04-09 | 02 | Nice diamonds in the rough | 5.4 |
| 2020-04-16 | 03 | You're going to be an artist! | 4.4 |
| 2020-06-25 | 04 | Push the limits! | 4.5 |
| 2020-07-02 | 05 | This is God's answer! | 3.2 |
| 2020-07-09 | 06 | Ayu, you keep winning! | 2.8 |
| 2020-07-16 | 07 | It's the fate of Ayu, chosen by God | 4.8 |
| Average | 4.39 | ||
Source: Video Research, Ltd.
Notes
- Episode 4 was postponed from May 9, 2020 to June 13, 2020 due to COVID-19.
- During the postponement, the screenwriter rewrote most of the script, and removed a significant amount of Reika in the second half of the series.
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