Virgin Road

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Details

• Title: バージンロード
• Title (romaji): Baajin Roodo
• English Title: Virgin Road
• Genre: Romance, family drama
• Episodes: 11
• Viewership ratings: 21.1%
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Broadcast period: 1997-Jan-06 to 1997-Mar-17
• Air time: Monday 21:00
• Theme Song: Can You Celebrate? by Amuro Namie

Synopsis

To pursue her dreams, Sakurai Kazumi (Wakui Emi) quits her job and goes to New York to study jewelry design, against the objections of her naggy and stubborn but well-meaning father (Takeda Tetsuya). As part of remaking herself, she changes from spectacles to contact lenses, even though she has problems adapting to them. When she accidentally drops her contact lenses, a mysterious man helps prevent them from being stepped on, but he walks away before she can talk to him.

Some years pass, and Kazumi is on a plane home after receiving a letter from her brother Taku saying their father is critically ill. She has morning sickness and has some run-ins on the plane with a sloppily-dressed man, and it is only when she drops her contacts and the man helps her in a similar way that she recognises him (Sorimachi Takashi). She chases after him and asks, "would you like to do some work (arubaito)?" It turns out that Kazumi in her last letter from New York had written that she was in a relationship with someone and that they might soon marry, but since then she has broken up with him, and she didn't want to make her father upset by coming home alone. The man, a freelance journalist named Yoshimi Kaoru, agrees to pretend to be her fiancé.

On reaching home, Kazumi discovers that her father is not actually on his deathbed (he just had minor surgery), and everyone discovers that Taku had written that letter back to Kazumi where their father says he's happy about the relationship. But the biggest shock comes when Kazumi admits that she's pregnant, and that she wants to have the baby...

Cast

• Wakui Emi as Sakurai Kazumi
• Sorimachi Takashi as Yoshimi Kaoru
• Hosho Mai as Onda Kiri
• Terawaki Yasufumi as Arikawa Jun
• Kitahara Masaki as Sakurai Taku
• Furuoya Masato as the bar owner
• Sera Masanori
• Yo Kimiko as Michi
• Takeda Tetsuya as Sakurai Hikari

Production Credits

• Producer: Kurihara Miwako
• Directors: Mitsuno Michio, Kimura Tatsuaki
• Screenwriter: Tatsui Yukari

Episode Titles

• 1.「一晩だけの婚約者…失恋、父の危篤そして妊娠… Hitoban dake no konyakusha... shitsuren, chichi no kitoku soshite ninshin / Fiancé for only one night... Lost love, father's critical illness, then pregnancy
• 2.「婚約者の謎、嘘の恋のはずなのに…Konyakusha no nazo, uso no koi no hazu nanoni... / The fiancé's secret; it was supposed to be a fake relationship
• 3.「実は運命の人…嘘と本気で揺れる心Jitsu wa unmei no hito... uso to honki de yureru kokoro / He's actually the fated man... the heart that's wavering between the lie and seriousness
• 4.「子供の命の危機！突然の父親の出現Kodomo no inochi no kiki! Totsuzen no chichioya no shutsugen / The crisis of the baby's life! And the father suddenly appears
• 5.「再会、衝撃のプロポーズSaikai, shougeki no puropoozu / Meeting again, the shocking proposal
• 6.「嘘が発覚！愛の決断の時Uso ga hakkaku! Ai no ketsudan no toki / The lie is discovered! The time of decision for love
• 7.「新たな恋，嫉妬，裏切りArata na koi, shitto, uragiri / New love, jealousy, betrayal
• 8.「運命の場所で哀しい別れ…隠された出生の秘密Inochi no basho de kanashii wakare... kakusareta shussei no himitsu / The sad split at life's point... the concealed secret of (Kazumi's) birth
• 9.「傷ついた孤独な夜に衝撃の愛の告白kizu tsuita kodoku na yoru ni shougeki no ai no kokuhaku / The shocking confession of love on a lonely and hurtful night
• 10.「最後の約束…二人の涙の決意と誓いSaigo no yakusoku... futaru no namida no ketsui to chikai / The last promise... A couple's tears of determination and a vow
• 11.「幻の花嫁，彼だけを思って…哀しみの一歩運命の扉を開ける時Maboroshi no hanayome, kare dake wo omotte... kanashimi no ippo unmei no tobira wo akeru toki / The bride of dreams, only the man thought... the moment of opening fate's door in a step of sadness

External Links

• JDorama.com
• Japanese Wikipedia
• Episode Synopsis (Japanese)