Ito Hideaki & Kimura Yoshino to play a married couple in FujiTV Spring 2016 drama "Boku no Yabai Tsuma"

Ito Hideaki and Kimura Yoshino will be playing a married couple in the upcoming FujiTV & Kansai TV Spring 2016 drama "Boku no Yabai Tsuma" (My Dangerous Wife) which will begin its run from April in the Tuesdays 10pm timeslot. The drama written by Kuroiwa Tsutomu who had previously written scripts for adapted dramas such as "Strawberry Night" and "Youkoso, Wagaya e", is a psychological suspense story involving a married couple and how difficult and interesting it is for them to stay together forever. This will be the third time that Ito and Kimura are working together after the 2007 movie "Sukiyaki Western Django" and the 2014 WOWOW drama "Zainin no Uso".

Mochizuki Kohei (Ito) got married to his wife Maria (Kimura) who is a rich man's daughter and eventually left his salaryman job at an advertising firm to operate a cafe. Despite having married Maria out of love, he finds married life with her stifling now because she would keep her true thoughts to herself and be overly considerate towards him thus making him feel as if she's trying to control him. Kohei's increasing frustration leads him to hatch a murder plot with his lover Kitazato Anna (Aibu Saki) to kill his wife. However, before he can do anything, his wife is kidnapped thus upsetting his plans. To his horror, he gradually finds that Maria has a hidden side which he has not known all along and this in turn causes his life to be turned upside down.

Co-stars include Sato Ryuta who plays a police detective suspecting Kohei of being involved in the kidnapping, Asaka Kodai who plays a newbie police detective, Mashima Hidekazu who plays a mysterious man assisting Maria, Kimura Midoriko & Takahashi Issei who play a married couple obsessed with spying on what goes on in the Mochizuki family and Miyasago Hiroyuki who plays Kohei's ex brother-in-law and a private detective who wants to find the truth behind the kidnapping.

Source: Oricon

Completion press conference of WOWOW drama "Zainin no Uso"

The completion press conference of new WOWOW drama "Zainin no Uso" was held at Maru Building Hall on 27 July which was attended by the main cast members Ito Hideaki, Kimura Yoshino and Takito Kenichi and the director Zeze Takahisa. The drama which will begin its run from 31 August at 10pm on Sundays, features Ito as a lawyer who has a nasty reputation for stopping at nothing to win his cases while Kimura plays his childhood friend who is a doctor now and Takito plays a lawyer who is the exact opposite of Ito's character's scheming ways.

During the press conference, both the director Zeze and Ito admitted to not having subscribed to WOWOW and called upon the public to sign up for the cable TV service so as to be able to watch their drama.

In addition, Ito was "singled out" by his co-stars and director for various "crimes" during the filming. Zeze jokingly revealed that Ito kept "complaining" that he was at his limit and wanted to quit being an actor but till now, has not made good his promise so Ito was guilty of making a false statement. Kimura then commented that Ito must have lied about his real age because he behaved like a primary 4 boy on set and would even play sumo for real with her female manager. As for Takito, he complained that Ito was too handsome and only needed 10 shots to be taken during the poster shooting session. Upon hearing the testimonies of Ito's co-stars and the director, the 220-strong audience gave Ito a guilty verdict. In response to that, Ito admitted that he has the tendency to complain and whine about things but won't retire as an actor just because of that. As for being said to be like a 10-year-old kid, he "defiantly" said that since he's so "young", he doesn't understand the meaning of age fraud. At the end, Ito joked that the media should not talk about his "guilty verdict" so that it won't make his mother sad (especially about the part for being too handsome).

Source: Sanspo / Nikkansports

Preview of "Zainin no Uso" - Summer 2014

Title: Zainin no Uso 罪人の嘘 (The Sinner's Lies)
Official website: here
O.A. Start Date: 31 August 2014
Timeslot: Sundays 10pm
Total number of episodes: 5
Scriptwriter: Kaneko Arisa
Cast: Ito Hideaki, Takito Kenichi, Kimura Yoshino, Nakamura Aoi, Komoto Masahiro, Kataoka Reiko, Majima Hidekazu, Emoto Tokio, Shibukawa Kiyohiko, Okunuki Kaoru, Takenaka Naoto, Yajima Kenichi, Tsuda Kenji, Otoo Takuma, Kitami Toshiyuki, Matsushige Yutaka, Tsutsui Michitaka, Nakadai Tatsuya