Official Website
www.nhk.or.jp/drama10/glass
Broadcast
Tuesdays, 10.00 – 10.50 p.m. 3 September 2013
Station
NHK
Story
Tamaki Rei lost her parents in a plane crash in France when she was a child. She had an underprivileged youth and even after that, she led a difficult and frugal life. In her mid-30s, she visits the scene of the plane crash in France for the first time and encounters Shibusawa Kazunari whose wife died in the same accident. As the director of the Ministry of Finance’s Budget Bureau, Kazunari is an important and influential man, and an elite among the elite who inhabit a different world from her. Rei falls in love with the much older Kazunari who has two grown-up sons by his first wife, and they get married. His eldest son Hitoshi has followed in his footsteps and works in the Ministry of Finance while his second son Kenji has graduated from law school and is currently studying to retake the bar exam. Rei does her best to fit in with the family of three men, but the Shibusawas start to experience a tempest with the appearance of Rei. To Hitoshi and Kenji, their young and beautiful step mother is a dazzling presence. In particular, Hitoshi who is closer in age, is very aware of Rei as a woman and Kazunari feels a deep jealousy about this. Rei realises that what she is seeking from Kazunari is actually not love, but a father figure. Furthermore, hostility grows between Hitoshi, who is captivated by a young pro-reform politician, and Kazunari, who tries to block this politician. Hitoshi is disappointed by his father’s high-handed ways, and Rei becomes his only emotional support. The two of them are gradually drawn to each other. Rei, who has been passive in everything and living without hope, becomes aware of the true love between her and Hitoshi. However, this is a forbidden love … …
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