Yoshioka Riho to star in new TBS Winter 2018 drama "Kimi ga kokoro ni sumitsuita"

Yoshioka Riho will be starring in the new TBS Winter 2018 drama "Kimi ga kokoro ni sumitsuita" (You always inhabit my heart) which will begin its run from January 2018 in the Tuesdays 10pm timeslot. This will be her first leading role in a drama series. The drama which is based on the same-titled manga by Tendou Kirin, will feature her in a "horror" love triangle with Kiritani Kenta and Mukai Osamu.

Yoshioka plays the lead character Ogawa Kyoko who is nicknamed Kyodoko and thinks very lowly of herself. When she meets a manga editor Yoshizaki Kojiro (Kiritani), she is attracted to his honest and good personality immediately. However, Kyoko has a secret to hide as she used to be manipulated by her senior in university Hoshina Ren (Mukai) who was the first man to accept her despite her shortcomings. Although Hoshina has good looks and behaves like a nice guy, he had made Kyoko become so dependent on him and unable to leave him while always ordering her to do things in a cruel manner. Kyoko is bent on putting her past  behind her and start a relationship with Yoshizaki but the reunion with Hoshina at her company marks the start of her troubles. Hoshina is fixated on getting the old Kyoko back so that she will do his bidding and depend on him again and does everything possible to control her.

In preparation for the filming, Yoshioka cut her hair by 20cm so as to match the image of her character. She commented that being her first leading role in a drama, she felt that it was like a dream come true for her and would put in her best effort to make this an interesting drama. As for Kiritani, he said that this is a very refreshing story and is eager to find out how far they can go in terms of TV's censorship standards to portray this "horror" love story. Last but not least, Mukai called upon the viewers to check out this drama to see how far Hoshina can go in order to manipulate Kyoko.

Source: Oricon