Koi no Chikara
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- Title: 恋ノチカラ
- Title(romaji): Koi no Chikara
- Also known as: Power of Love / Strength of Love
- Genre: Romance renzoku
- Episodes: 11
- Viewership ratings: 16.8%
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2002-Jan-10 to 2002-Mar-21
- Air time: Thursday 22:00
- Theme Song: "Kirakira" by Oda Kazumasa
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
- Yada Akiko as Kuramochi Haruna
- Sakaguchi Kenji as Kimura Sogo
- Kuga Yoko as Teraishi Kaori
- Nekoze Tsubaki as Suda Maki
- Sugawara Toshimi as Hasegawa Ikuko
- Shiga Kotaro as Kusunoki Tateaki
- Nishimura Masahiko as Yoshitake Nobuo
- Tanihara Shosuke as Kuramochi 勇祐
- Kino Hana (木野花) as Kuramochi Sumiko
- Kodama Kiyoshi as Kuramochi Ken
- Tonesaku Toshihide as Nakazawa Kazufumi
- Ishida Taro as JPN Resort President
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Aizawa Tomoko
- Planning: Ishihara Takashi (石原隆), Suzuki Yoshihiro (鈴木吉弘)
- Producer: Funatsu Kouichi
- Director: Wakamatsu Setsuro, Murakami Masanori, Muratani Yoshinori (村谷嘉則)
- Music: Sumitomo Norihito (住友紀人)
Episode Titles
- Ep 01: 女30歳さようなら終身雇用!! これはあなたの物語 / A 30 years old woman, good-bye lifetime employment! This is your story
- Ep 02: 30歳OL そして恋が始まる!! / Love begins for a 30 years old Office Lady
- Ep 03: 女が嘘をつくとき / When a woman tells a lie
- Ep 04: クレームの嵐!! 求む営業マン / Storm of an objection! A wanted business man
- Ep 05: キス! キス! キス / A kiss! A kiss! A kiss
- Ep 06: 大問題発生!! 会社が倒産する / Great problem outbreak! A company goes bankrupt
- Ep 07: 悲しいとき近くにいてほしい人 / The person who wants to be there when I'm sad
- Ep 08: 急展開!? 元カレ突然の帰国!! / Immediate development? Former boyfriend suddenly returns home!
- Ep 09: 2人きりの夜 / The night for two people
- Ep 10: さようなら / Good-bye
- Ep 11: 幸せはかならずやってくる!! 今夜あなたの上にも / Happiness comes without fail!! On you tonight
Episode Ratings
- Ep 01: 20.6%
- Ep 02: 17.7%
- Ep 03: 15.7%
- Ep 04: 16.3%
- Ep 05: 17.3%
- Ep 06: 16.2%
- Ep 07: 15.7%
- Ep 08: 15.1%
- Ep 09: 17.2%
- Ep 10: 16.4%
- Ep 11: 16.3%
Notes
- DVD of the drama series was released on 2002-07-26 by Fuji TV.
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