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Kiraware Matsuko no Issho

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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. 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 (official website).

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

Production Credits

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




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