Sasaki Kuranosuke aka Giragira is a bank manager who has given 30 years to his bank and is waiting for a promotion. He also has Motokariya Yuika as his subordinate who looks ready to jump him at any time. I mean look her innocent eyes. Surely no man in jdoramaland can resist them.
Except Giragira is no ordinary man. He is married to Nakayama Miho who hasn't aged since Home & Away many years ago.
Giragira eagerly awaits news of a promotion but he ends up being transferred to a goods distribution company. His career as a bank salaryman is over and he is fated to just sit at his desk at a company that doesn't even want him. Somehow at his darkest hour, Giragira manages to refuse Motokariya Yuika's advances but somehow this does not make him a sympathetic character to me.
Personally I wouldn't be so depressed because because he probably gets paid about the same and he's still got Nakayama Miho. However, like a typical Japanese salaryman, Giragira does not tell this important information to his wife or daughter and he ends up taking a solo trip to Switzerland where he meets Kuroki Hitomi.
They have dinner, see a shooting star and Giragira makes a move before she runs off. At this point, I don't care about Giragira because he's just having first world problems. Giragira comes home, wife and daughter suspect him of having an affair and he still won't tell them about the transfer. Seriously, Japanese salaryman would rather get suspected for having affair then tell family of shameful transfer.
Of course this is Jdorama land so Giragira finds Kuroki Hitomi working at the diner that his new company. Kuroki Hitomi's character is the only likeable character in the whole show because she has spent the better part of twenty years looking after her parents who are not well.
Giragira's daughter has a boyband boyfriend and sparks fly between Boyband and Nakayama Miho. Sparks are suppose to fly but they've got no chemistry. It doesn't help that Nakayama Miho's character does not have much defining characteristics besides serving as the vessel for all the housewives watching the show. Its so blatantly obvious especially the scene where Boyband tells Nakayama Miho about all her hard work.
Anyway, Giragira's daughter is pissed off her dad is no longer bank manager because she is afraid Boyband's relatives might not approve and her dad didn't show up to meet him. She, like all jdorama kids is angry that dad was never there for her. As a working adult, how can she not realise that Japanese work crazy hours and money does not grow on trees? I just hate this stupid jdorama trope.
The only reason I'm going to continue watching is to see her face when she finds out her mom is having an affair with her boyfriend.
On the whole, a pretty flawed middle age crisis affair jdorama where the characters are not really likeable but I like the cast at least so I'll keep watching. Plus Giragira is going to make use of his banking skills and do something for his new workplace and in episode 3, he decided to stop playing the Japanese salaryman suck up to bosses at golf bullshit. Thats to keiko1981 for seeding it on nyaa.
