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Kiraware Matsuko no Issho

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

Uchiyama Rina as Kawajiri Matsuko (23-56)
- Murasaki Maaya (村崎真彩) as Kawajiri Matsuko (10)
Kaname Jun as Ryu Youichi (16-48)
- Hongo Kanata as Ryu Youichi (15)
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)
- Iwamoto Chinami (岩本千波) as Kawajiri Kumi (5)
Yazawa Shin as Kawajiri Etsuko (23)

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 Iide 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)

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 Information

Episode	Subtitle	Kanto	Kansai	Nationwide
01	Awkward, But Loved... The Theatrical Play of a Junior High School Teacher's Demise	08.8	11.1	??.?
02	A Lover's Suicide	10.1	??.?	??.?
03	The Ultimate Job Change!	08.5	??.?	??.?
04	The Reason I Became a Murderer	08.5	??.?	??.?
05	A Fugitive Who Asks For Love	08.4	??.?	??.?
06	Sharing Living Quarters in a Women's Penitentiary	08.3	??.?	??.?
07	A Past That Cannot Be Erased	08.4	??.?	??.?
08	Living with a Yakuza	07.8	??.?	??.?
09	A Murder For The Sake of Returning to the Beginning	07.2	??.?	??.?
10	Everything in Flames...	05.9	??.?	??.?
11	Happiness of Heaven	08.2	??.?	??.?
average	--	08.19	??.?	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

External Links

Summer 2006	TBS	Winter 2007
Hanayome wa Yakudoshi	Thursday 22:00	Kirakira Kenshui

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 *[[Uchiyama Rina]] as Kawajiri Matsuko (23-56)
+**[[Murasaki Maaya]] (村崎真彩) as Kawajiri Matsuko (10)
 *[[Kaname Jun]] as Ryu Youichi (16-48)
+**[[Hongo Kanata]] as Ryu Youichi (15)
 *[[Koike Eiko]] as Sawamura Megumi (22-52)
 *[[Suzuki Emi]] as Kawajiri Asuka (20)
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 *[[Onoe Matsuya]] (尾上松也) as Kawajiri Norio (21-23)
 *[[Watanabe Natsuna]] as Kawajiri Kumi (18)
+**[[Iwamoto Chinami]] (岩本千波) as Kawajiri Kumi (5)
 *[[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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 *[[Takasugi Mizuho]] as Saiki Shunji (25)
 *[[Miyaji Masako]] as Todo Misao (40)
-*[[Nukumizu Youichi]] as Ide Jiro (45)
+*[[Nukumizu Youichi]] as Iide Jiro (45)
 *[[Arai Yasuhiro]] as Maruyama Eiji (51)
 *[[Hagiwara Masato]] as Yamegawa Tetsuya (27)
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 *'''Music:'''
-==Episode Titles==
+==Episode Information==
-*'''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
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 Source: [http://www.videor.co.jp Video Research, Ltd.]