This time, the remake will be titled "Itazura Na Kiss ~ Love in TOKYO" which features 16-year-old Miki Honoka in her first leading role as the heroine Kotoko while Naoki will be played by 25-year-old Furukawa Yuuki. Kinnosuke who pines for Kotoko will be played by Yamada Yuki. Miki who prides herself as a huge fan of the manga and has all the volumes in her collection, expressed her worry about being compared to other actresses who had played the same role in the past. However, since she is the only one to play this role in 2013, she is confident that she can pull this off. On the other hand, Furukawa expressed his concern as to whether he is the right person to play Naoki but still hopes to meet the fans' expectations with his hard work. In this remake, one key difference will be that Kinnosuke will be given more screentime to try to win over Kotoko.
The drama will be shown via FujiTV TWO from 29th March at 12 midnight on Fridays and consists of 16 episodes. There will also be a SP shown via FujiTV's Kanto local channel on 21st March at 3.30am.
Source: Oricon
2 comments:
AWW, I need to watch this now!!!
Makes me wonder if this drama is not being shown on the main FujiTV channel though. Seems to me that there's not a lot of effort put into promoting this drama.
Anyway, the original Itazura na Kiss was so successful that I think whoever does a remake will be in for some comparing. I just hope that the young cast in this latest remake can do their best and don't let these comparing remarks get to them (especially if they aren't favourable).
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