I was looking forward to this (Ito Hideaki
) until I realised Hasekyo was the other lead. What's with the TV stations' casting nowadays?!?
Upcoming Spring Drama 2007
Kodoku no Kake ~Itoshiki Hito Yo~
Date: Thursdays, 10:00pm
Cast: Ito Hideaki, Hasegawa Kyoko, Igawa Haruka, Sakai Masato, Aota Noriko, and Takaoka Saki.
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Junpei Gomikawa this is a love story between a lonely man and woman. Hideaki plays an ambitious young businessman who is propositioned by a designer played by Kyoko, as he becomes "king of the night" building an empire in the night-time entertainment industry. She approaches him with a request for a loan of 20 million yen, using her own body as collateral.