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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)
Kaname Jun as Ryu Youichi (16-48)
Koike Eiko as Sawamura Megumi (22-52)
Suzuki Emi as Kawajiri Asuka (20)
Koyanagi Yuu (小柳友) 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)
Sato B-saku (佐藤B作) 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)
Arisaka Kurume (ep6)
Kawazu Haru (ep10)
Katagiri Hairi

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

Episode	Kanto	Kansai	Nationwide
01	08.8	11.1	??.?
02	10.1	??.?	??.?
03	08.5	??.?	??.?
04	08.5	??.?	??.?
05	08.4	??.?	??.?
06	08.3	??.?	??.?
07	08.4	??.?	??.?
08	07.8	??.?	??.?
09	07.2	??.?	??.?
10	05.9	??.?	??.?
11	08.2	??.?	??.?
average	08.19	??.?	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

External Links

Official site

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

@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 *'''Broadcast period:''' 2006-Oct-12 to 2006-Dec-21
 *'''Air time:''' Thursday 22:00
-*'''Theme song:''' ''"In The Mood"'' by BACCHUS feat. La Gauno
+*'''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. Adapted from Muneki Yamada's novel, the TV version comes in the wake of the movie of the same name, which starred [[Nakatani Miki]] in the lead role ([http://kiraware.goo.ne.jp/ official website]).
+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 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''
-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==
@@ Line 61: / Line 57: @@
 ==Production Credits==
-*'''Original writing:''' [[Yamada Muneki]] (山田宗樹) 「嫌われ松子の一生」(2003)
+*'''Original writing:''' [[Yamada Muneki]] (山田宗樹) ''Kiraware Matsuko no Issho'' (novel)
 *'''Screenwriter:''' [[Naruse Katsuo]] (成瀬活雄)
 *'''Producer:''' [[Kijima Seiichiro]]
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 ==External Links==
-*[http://www.tbs.co.jp/kiraware-matsuko/ Official Site]
+*[http://www.tbs.co.jp/kiraware-matsuko/ Official site]
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