Last Christmas
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Details
- Title: ラストクリスマス
- Title (romaji): Last Christmas
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Romance
- Episodes: 11
- Viewership ratings: 21.6
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Boradcast period: 2004-Oct-11 to 2004-Dec-20
- Air time: Monday 21:00
- Theme song: Last Christmas! by WHAM!
Synopsis
Haruki Kenji is the manager of the Winter Sports section of a large sporting goods company. On a ski trip in New Zealand with his friend Shintani Goro (who is also his boss) and Shintani's new secretary, Aoi Yuki. Upon returning to Japan he finds that he has a new neighbor in the apartment next to his. It is Aoi.
While watching the movers he sees a photograph drop from new girl's luggage. Looking at the photo he sees it is a picture of a group from a female bicycle gang and upon looking closer he sees it is a picture of Aoi. Haruki finds her putting on a façade and fooling everyone at work with her nice girl persona. But at home she is anything but nice, dating lots of men and using them to get what she wants.
This continues until one day Aoi comes home drunk and without her keys. Kenji lets her into her room via the door connecting their apartments. Aoi accidentally drops a video tape into Haruki's apartment. When he discovers the tape he watches it. On it Aoi has recorded a message to herself. Seeing this serious message, Haruki begins to view Aoi in a completely different light.
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Cast
- Oda Yuji as Haruki Kenji
- Yada Akiko as Aoi Yuki
- Tamaki Hiroshi as Higaki Naoya
- Katase Nana as Fujisawa Ritsuko
- Ihara Tsuyoshi as Shintani Goro
- Moriyama Mirai as Hayama Tappei
- Megumi as Takase Ayaka
- Ryo as Shibata Sally / Sachiko
- Katsumura Masanobu
- Sakashita Chiriko as Motoyama Miki
- Sakamoto Yuugo as Tsukamoto Shinsuke
- Tamaru Maki
- Sakurai Sachiko
- Kodama Kiyoshi as Sawaguchi Kotaro
- Kaga Mariko
- Okunuki Kaoru
- Kaneda Akio
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Sakamoto Yuji
- Producer: Ota Toru, Genouzono Yoshimasa, Iwata Yuji
- Director: Nishitani Hiroshi, Murakami Shosuke, Kono Keita, Nagayama Kozo, Narita Gaku
- Music: Kanno Yugo
Episode Ratings
- Ep 01: 22.3%
- Ep 02: 21.1%
- Ep 03: 20.3%
- Ep 04: 20.9%
- Ep 05: 25.3%
- Ep 06: 21.9%
- Ep 07: 19.0%
- Ep 08: 20.2%
- Ep 09: 22.2%
- Ep 10: 20.8%
- Ep 11: 22.9%
Awards
- 43rd Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Director - Nishitani Hiroshi
- 43rd Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Musical Arrangement - Kanno Yugo
Trivia
- This was promoted as Oda Yuji's return to the Fuji TV Getsuku slot after 15 years - 1991's Tokyo Love Story, also written by Sakamoto Yuji. Oda Yuji plays different executives in a sports company called Heart Sports, although in Last Christmas the emphasis is on winter wear.
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