Koi no Chikara

Details

Title: 恋ノチカラ / Koi no Chikara
Also known as: Power of Love / Strength of Love
Episodes: 11
Genre: Romance renzoku
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2002-01-10 to 2002-03-21
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Theme Song: Kirakira 「キラキラ」 by Oda Kazumasa (小田和正)

Synopsis

Those in their 20's have big dreams and aspirations for both work and love. Then as they begin to get older, they realize that not everything comes so easily. Then when they enter their 30's, they start to see what kind of future lies ahead.

The main character of this story, Toko (Fukatsu Eri), decides after she turns 30 that she is all but ready to give up on any future career hopes or romance, so she turns to the bottle for comfort. She knows that this isn't the best thing, but can't find the strength right now to do anything except choose the easy way to do things. This causes her to start getting down on herself. Luckily though, she doesn't give up hope completely, and tries to take things as they come. Which proves to help to some degree.

Suddenly one day, a guy by the name of Kotaro (Tsutsumi Shinichi) comes along. Like Toko, Kotaro hasn't had much luck at work either. Even so, this is still the same guy that Toko liked when she was younger. Naturally, Toko is thrilled to see Kotaro after such a long time, but eventually finds out that he is about as insensitive as you can get, and is self-centered to boot. This really gets to Toko. What's worse is that Toko ends up starting a small company with him, even though she had to leave her position at a large company because of trouble they were involved in together.

Set in the winter of Tokyo, this is a straight to the heart love story about men and women in their 30's. --- Fuji TV

Cast

Fukatsu Eri as Motomiya Tohko
Tsutsumi Shinichi as Nukui Kohtaro
Sakaguchi Kenji as Kimura Sogo
Yada Akiko as Kuramochi Haruna
Nishimura Masahiko as Yoshitake Nobuo
Nekoze Tsubaki as Suda Maki
Kuga Yoko
Sugawara Toshimi
Shiga Kotaro
Tanihara Shosuke

Production Credits

Screenwriter: Aizawa Tomoko
Planning: Ishihara Takashi (石原隆), Suzuki Yoshihiro (鈴木吉弘)
Producer: Funatsu Kouichi
Director: Wakamatsu Setsuro (若松節朗), Murakami Masanori, Muratani Yoshinori (村谷嘉則)
Music: Sumitomo Norihito (住友紀人)

Notes

DVD of the drama series was released on 2002-07-26 by Fuji TV.

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