Official Website
www.fujitv.co.jp/5ji9ji
Broadcast
From 9.00 p.m., Mondays, 12 October 2015
Station
Fuji TV
Story
28-year-old English language school teacher Sakuraba Junko dreams of working in New York in the future. She puts in effort towards her dream every day, but New York is still a distant place to her as she approaches her 29th birthday. One day, Junko attends the funeral rites for an elder of the local neighbourhood association. She tries to stand up after a while to make an offering of incense, but her legs are numb and she cannot move. While walking towards the altar with unsteady steps, she pitches forward. In an attempt to support her body, her hands land on the altar, which tilts and the incense burner tosses into the air. Of all things, the ashes fall onto the body of a monk who is chanting the sutras in a major faux pas. After that, a rueful Junko goes to work at the English language school ELA. In the staff room, Mishima Satoshi, Junko’s old friend and a trading company employee who attends ELA, has delivered a souvenir from his business trip to New York. The instructor Kimura Arthur playfully says Junko should have married Mishima. She smiles and denies this. On this day, a meeting with a prospective marriage partner is arranged for Junko because of her mother’s ploy. She arrives at a fine dining Japanese restaurant in all innocence. That monk Hoshikawa Takane, a handsome Tokyo University graduate, is in the room that she is escorted to. A surprised Junko tries to leave the room while Takane urges her to come in. Then he declares, “I offer to make you my wife.” Junko is dumbfounded by this very sudden turn of events and rejects him. However, this does not get through to the handsome but eccentric Takane. The next day, she gets a shock when she goes to work at ELA as always and opens the classroom door. Takane is there for some reason. When her students Hachiya Renji and Satonaka Yuki come, he greets them courteously. Then the class begins and he starts to propose to her in fluent English! That night, a welcome party is held for Kiyomiya Shingo who has taken a position as ELA’s general manager. Junko is mingling with the instructors and students when Takane shows up in front of her again. This time, Arthur and Shingo call her over while she is dealing with Takane. However, Takane sticks closely beside her … …
Characters
Coming soon!
Scriptwriter
Koyama Shota (Ishitachi no Renai Jijou, Subete ga F ni Naru)
Original Work
5-ji Kara 9-ji Made by Aihara Miki
Episodes
#1: An Improbable Proposal
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