Moriyama Mirai & Takahata Mitsuki to star in new WOWOW drama "Enka Gold Rush"

Moriyama Mirai and Takahata Mitsuki will be starring in the new WOWOW drama "Enka" which consists of 4 episodes and will be beginning its run from 18 July in the Saturdays 10pm timeslot. The drama which is based on Osaka-based Naoki Award winner Kurokawa Hiroyuki, is an action suspense thriller and will feature a cast and crew entirely made up of people whose hometowns are in the Kansai region.

Moriyama will play the role of an arts teacher who works at a private girls' school in Osaka where the director manages the school as if it is his own property and gives his staff salaries which are 30 percent lesser than the market rate. One day, he and his fellow colleague who is a music teacher (Takahata) decide to look for the director at his lover's apartment in order to seek better working conditions. However, they find that the director and his lover had been kidnapped by someone with the nickname of "education consultant" and later becomes embroiled into a scheme to steal the director's hidden assets consisting of a huge amount of gold bars.

Source: Eiga.com