Completion screening event of WOWOW drama "LINK"

The completion screening event of WOWOW's new drama "LINK" was held at Ebisu The Garden Room on 29 September which was attended by the cast Oomori Nao, Tanaka Rena, Tamayama Tetsuji, Mimura, Tanaka Naoki, Ayano Go, Takeda Tetsuya, Kuroki Hitomi and the director Fukagawa Yoshihiro. The drama which begins its run from 6 October at 10pm on Sundays, consists of 5 episodes and talks about the links between people and repercussions of one's actions on others who seem unrelated after a bombing incident at a trust bank.

This drama is Oomori's first appearance in a WOWOW production since 2008's "Prisoner" and he plays a quiet man Terawara who works at a security company. Oomori commented that as this is a drama involving an ensemble cast rather than a single lead, he had to pay attention to the balance of the story while playing his character. He also acknowledged that this is his most difficult role in the past three years but he was able to accomplish his task with the help of his co-stars.

Source: Eiga.com

Preview of "LINK" - Autumn 2013

Title: LINK
Official website: here
O.A. Start Date: 6 October 2013
Timeslot: Sundays 10pm
Number of episodes: 5
Broadcast by: WOWOW
Cast: Oomori Nao, Takeda Tetsuya, Kuroki Hitomi, Tanaka Rena, Mimura, Tamayama Tetsuji, Tanaka Naoki, Ayano Go, Seto Koji, Nagayama Kento, Kaneko Nobuaki, Totsugi Shigeyuki, Tamaru Maki, Maeda Oushiro etc.

Story: Terawara Ken (Oomori Nao) who was a police officer and is now working for a private security company, happens to be in Taiwan on a mission when he gets a call to return to Japan immediately. His new job is to protect Matsuoka Takanori (Takeda Tetsuya), the secretary general of Minji Party, who is a popular politician that speaks his mind but that also earns him lots of enemies. While impressed with Matsuoka's abilities in crisis management, Terawara also gets to know the dark side of politics through working for him.

On the other hand, Sakurai Satoko (Kuroki Hitomi) who had been transferred to the Kochi District Public Prosecutors Office after filing an internal report on her colleague, is told to return to Tokyo in order to handle a huge case involving a big-time politician. However, she is slighted by her colleagues due to her reputation as the woman who betrayed her buddy.

Just then, an explosion takes place at Aoba Trust Bank's branch in Tokyo and their cash delivery truck is robbed. Due to this case, it somehow creates a link between Terawara, Matsuoka, Sakurai, Ishikawa Aki (Tanaka Aki) who works at the bank. The link grows further to inlcude Takashima Shoichi (Tamayama Tetsuji), a junior high school teacher in Hokkaido, Kawamoto Rie (Mimura) who works as a nurse in Tokyo, Sawada Tsutomu (Tanaka Naoki) who works in an apparel company in Osaka as well as Shaun (Ayano Go), the CEO of a IT company...

Seto Koji stars in WOWOW's autumn 2013 drama "LINK"

Seto Koji will be taking on the lead role in the upcoming WOWOW drama "LINK" which is due to be shown from 6 October at 10pm on Sundays over 5 weeks. Seto plays the lead character Aoyanagi Tomoya who is the culprit behind an explosion case and the drama will show how he tries to make his presence felt in the world by engineering such bombing incidents and why he wants to do so. This drama will also mark Seto's first appearance in a WOWOW drama. Co-stars include Oomori Nao who plays Terawara Ken, a former police detective who works for a private security firm now, Takeda Tetsuya as Matsuoka Kosuke the secretary general of a political party Minjitou, Kuroki Hitomi as Sakurai Satoko who works as a prosecutor, Tanaka Rena as Ishikawa Aki who works at a trust bank, Tamayama Tetsuji as Takashima Shoichi who is a junior high school teacher in Hokkaido, Mimura as Kawamoto Rie who is a nurse in Tokyo, Tanaka Naoki as Sawada Tsutomu who is working in a Osaka apparel company and Ayano Go who plays John the president of an IT company. Of these characters, Aoyanagi may be linked to some or all of them in one way or another.

Source: Oricon