Itao Itsuji will be starring in the new TV Tokyo Autumn 2017 drama "Fringeman Aijin no tsukurikata oshiemasu" (Fringeman I will teach you how to get a lover) which will begin its run from October in the Fridays 12.20am timeslot. The drama is based on the same-titled manga "Fringeman" by Aoki U-hei and features Itao as the lead character Ibuse Masumi who is nicknamed as the lover professor and teaches hopeless married men how to get a lover and have an affair. At a mahjong parlour located at the fringe of the city, three men Tasai, Mitsushima and Ango want to seek a breakthrough in their dry and boring marriage lives and desire to have a forbidden affair. They meet Ibuse who started having lovers at the age of 22 and boasts of the record of having as many as 11 lovers at one time where the latter starts to coach them on the techniques of having extramarital affairs and find lovers. He makes the trio stick to his four rules and gives them various tough missions to clear in order to achieve their goals.
Itao commented that he was amazed by TV Tokyo's guts in doing such a project about the how-tos in having an affair despite the recent spate of extramarital affair scandals and the generally unforgiving stance towards these. Although the story sounds silly and far-fetched, it gets more interesting as they become more serious and pour more passion into the production of the drama. Rather than try to be comical about this, he will put on his serious face to teach his students which he believes will be interesting to the viewers. Itao himself got married to a OL who is 8 years younger than him in 1998 and has a daughter. He stressed that although he's mischievous, affairs are a no-no for him because he's not the type to be meticulous and careful about two-timing women and cannot cope with the stress of doing so.
Sources:
Eiga.com /
Yomiuri Hochi /
Oricon
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