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==Details==
*'''Title:''' 嫌われ松子の一生 （きらわれまつこのいっしょう）
*'''Title (romaji):''' Kiraware Matsuko no Issho
*'''Also known as:''' The Life of Despised Matsuko
*'''Format:''' Renzoku
*'''Genre:''' Human drama, mystery
*'''Episodes:''' 11
*'''Viewership ratings:''' 08.19(Kanto)
*'''Broadcast network:''' TBS
*'''Broadcast period:''' 2006-Oct-12 to 2006-Dec-21
*'''Air time:''' Thursday 22:00
*'''Theme song:''' ''In The Mood'' by BACCHUS feat. La Gauno

==Synopsis==
A dark melodrama about a woman whose life descends into a downward spiral due to love, ill fate and recklessness. It's 2006. The dead body of 56-year old Kawajiri Matsuko ([[Uchiyama Rina]]), is found in a downtown apartment where she lived alone. Asuka ([[Suzuki Emi]]) is surprised that she had an aunt by the name of Matsuko. Her father tells Asuka to clean up Matsuko's place. In Matsuko's trash-filled room, Asuka discovers a photograph.Why did someone, surrounded by her family looking so happy, had to be killed?Asuka starts to follow Matsuko's life.

It's 1973. After graduating from a national university, Matsuko became a junior high school teacher. During a school trip, she covered up for a student who was caught stealing. But she suffered disgrace for her actions and was expelled from school. Driven into a corner, Matsuko choked her physically weak sister Kumi ([[Watanabe Natsuna]]) to death and fled from the house she was born and brought up in. Matsuko's father, Kozo ([[Shiomi Sansei]]), always doted on Kumi while he was severely strict with Matsuko. However, this was just the beginning of the downfall of a woman named Matsuko Kawajiri... ''--TBS''

==Cast==
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*[[Uchiyama Rina]] as Kawajiri Matsuko (23-56)
*[[Kaname Jun]] as Ryu Youichi (16-48)
*[[Koike Eiko]] as Sawamura Megumi (22-52)
*[[Suzuki Emi]] as Kawajiri Asuka (20)
*[[Koyanagi Yu]] as Watanabe Sho (20)
*[[Haga Kenji]] as Detective Shiomi (48)
*[[Hamada Manabu]] as Detective Goto (29)
*[[Nasubi]] as Ookura Shuji (30)
*[[Warabino Tomoya]] as Shimazaki Satoshi (22)
*[[Shiomi Sansei]] as Kawajiri Kozo (50)
*[[Negishi Toshie]] as Kawajiri Chiyo (44)
*[[Onoe Matsuya]] (尾上松也) as Kawajiri Norio (21-23)
*[[Watanabe Natsuna]] as Kawajiri Kumi (18)
*[[Yazawa Shin]] as Kawajiri Etsuko (23)
*[[Hongo Kanata]] as Ryu Youichi (15)
*[[Murasaki Maaya]] (村崎真彩) as Kawajiri Matsuko (10)
*[[Iwamoto Chinami]] (岩本千波) as Kawajiri Kumi (5)
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*[[Sato B-saku]] as Principal Tadokoro (55)
*[[Sasano Takashi]] as Vice-Principal Sugishita (50)
*[[Takasugi Mizuho]] as Saiki Shunji (25)
*[[Miyaji Masako]] as Todo Misao (40)
*[[Nukumizu Youichi]] as Ide Jiro (45)
*[[Arai Yasuhiro]] as Maruyama Eiji (51)
*[[Hagiwara Masato]] as Yamegawa Tetsuya (27)
*[[Tanihara Shosuke]] as Okano Keno (27)
*[[Suzuki Ranran]] as Ayano (28)
*[[Seto Saki]] as Reiko (20)
*[[Fukikoshi Mitsuru]] as Onodera Tamotsu (34)
*[[Kitamura Kazuki]] as Akagi Kenichiro (36)
*[[Takeno Isao]] (ep5)
*[[Arisaka Kurume]] (ep6)
*[[Noguchi Kaoru]] (ep6)
*[[Kawazu Haru]] (ep10)
*[[Katagiri Hairi]]
*[[Yoshino Kimika]] (ep7-8)
*[[Takeno Isao]]
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==Production Credits==
*'''Original writing:''' [[Yamada Muneki]] (山田宗樹) ''Kiraware Matsuko no Issho'' (novel)
*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Naruse Katsuo]] (成瀬活雄)
*'''Producer:''' [[Kijima Seiichiro]]
*'''Director:''' [[Sakai Masahiro]] (酒井聖博), [[Hori Hideki]] (堀英樹), [[Yamamoto Takeyoshi]]
*'''Music:'''

==Episode Titles==
*'''Ep 01:''' Though I was awkward, I loved it...A fall life theater of a junior high school teacher
*'''Ep 02:''' Suicide of a Lover
*'''Ep 03:''' Ultimate Job Change
*'''Ep 04:''' The Reason Why I Became a Murderer
*'''Ep 05:''' A Runaway Who Asks for Love
*'''Ep 06:''' A Woman sharing Living Quarters with People in Prison
*'''Ep 07:''' The Past that cannot be Erased
*'''Ep 08:''' Living with a Yakuza
*'''Ep 09:''' A Murderer to Return from the Start
*'''Ep 10:''' Everything in Flames...
*'''Ep 11:''' Heaven of Happiness

==Episode Ratings==
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"
! width=100 bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | Episode
! width=100 bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | Kanto
! width=100 bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | Kansai
! width=100 bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | Nationwide
|- align=center
| 01 || 08.8 || 11.1 || ??.?
|- align=center
| 02 || 10.1 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 03 || 08.5 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 04 || 08.5 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 05 || 08.4 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 06 || 08.3 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 07 || 08.4 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 08 || 07.8 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 09 || 07.2 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 10 || 05.9 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align=center
| 11 || 08.2 || ??.? || ??.?
|- align="center" style="background:#ffdead;"
! average || 08.19 || ??.? || ??.?
|}
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==External Links==
*[http://www.tbs.co.jp/kiraware-matsuko/ Official site]

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