watashi wa nihon no drama ga suki desu...

Briefing
A coming of age story that follows five young university who form a circle of friends. Tamotsu and Osamu (Kimura) fall in love with Narumi, who prefers Tamotsu. In order not to hurt each other as friends, both young men try to avoid forming a relationship with Narumi which inadvertedly leads to tragedy among the friends. After the accidental death of Junichiro, the friends leave university for various reasons leaving Narumi to continue and finish her studies. A few years later they all meet again to be surprised by a few secrets that are recvealed.

My comment
A drama about a group of friends and the up and down relationships between each of them. I felt that each actor/actress did a great job portraying their character -- there's a lot of good acting in this show, particularly from Ishida Hikari, Suzuki Anju and Kimura Takuya.Despite the few storyline faulterings, it has interesting characters, decent acting, excellent music and is well-paced. I recommend this for anybody who is interested in the intracacies of the borderline relationship between friendship and love.

My personal rating: 8/10

• Genre: Human drama, Romance, School
• Episodes: 11
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Broadcast period: 1993-Oct-11 to 1993-Dec-20

Actors

• Suzuki Anju as Saeki
• Ishida Hikari as Narumi
• Tsutsui Michitaka as Tamotsu
• Kimura Takuya as Osamu
• Nishijima Hidetoshi as Junichiro

Ratings

• Ep 1: 24.7%
• Ep 2: 26.8%
• Ep 3: 23.9%
• Ep 4: 23.8%
• Ep 5: 25.2%
• Ep 6: 27.3%
• Ep 7: 25.3%
• Ep 8: 29.3%
• Ep 9: 28.8%
• Ep 10: 27.6%
• Ep 11: 31.9%