Details
Title: 幸せになりたい！
Title (romaji): Shiawase ni Naritai!
Also known as: I Want to be Happy!
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Family
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 11.4
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2005-Jul-14 to 2005-Sep-15
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Himawari by Sugar
Synopsis
Hikari (Kyoko Fukada) has to take care of her sick mother and two younger brothers. They are informed that their missing father has died, and later find out he left them a huge 10 million yen debt. They are a very poor family. They have no money or food. To pay off the debt, Hikari lands a cleaning job at the UBS TV company. On the other side, there's Masako Nagai (Matsushita Yuki), a struggling UBS TV drama producer. The men she works with are somewhat sexist.
Through an incident within UBS, Masako discovers Hikari's talents as a creative person with a great imagination for drama writing. With no allies within UBS, she decides to hire Hikari, training her to be an assistant producer.
Hikari's happiness is keeping her family fed and paying off her father's debt. Masako's happiness is to gain respect within UBS by excelling as a drama producer.
Cast
Fukada Kyoko as Asada Hikari
Matsushita Yuki as Nagai Masako
Tanihara Shosuke as Hasegawa Junichi
Tsurumi Shingo as Iijima Akira
Ito Kazue as Hoshino Sanae
Oshinari Shugo as Tajima Yojiro
Ihara Tsuyoshi as Sakuma Yuya
Tsugawa Masahiko as Kumano Yutaro
Gin Pun Chou as Asada Yoshie
Shinoda Takuma (篠田拓馬) as Asada Takeshi
Ayabe Shuto (綾部守人) as Asada Satoru
UBS TV Staff & Crew
Sawatari Minoru (佐渡稔) as Sawaguchi Osamu (director)
Tanaka Yoji as Komada Koji (chief asst. director)
Morishita Yoshiyuki as Motoyama Hitoshi (in-charge of production)
Takizawa Saori as Aki (Illumination assistant)
Kasugai Seina as Shi-chan (make-up artist)
Owada Miho as Kaoru (scripter)
Asano Maiko (浅野麻衣子) as Tsuneko (desk/copy editor)
Takeno Isao as Aoki (cameraman)
Seto Yoichiro as Yanagisawa (costume/outfit)
Oshita Genichiro (大下源一郎) as Ichikawa (asst. director)
Sugiura Masafumi as Sekine (stage setting/scenery)
Katsuno Yosuke (勝野洋輔)
Sakuraba Hiromichi
Onishi Takeshi (大西武志)
Ito Chikara (伊藤力)
Guests
Kobayashi Takashi as the policeman (ep1)
Hotaru Yukijiro as Tsukada (ep1)
Emori Toru as Komiyama Takayuki (ep1-3)
Mifune Mika as Katsura Maki (ep1-3)
Okada Kohki as Saionji Sho (ep1-3,10)
Matsumoto Jun as a janitress (ep2)
Kaki Tatsumaru (柿辰丸) as Yoshio (ep3)
Sakai Toshiya as Dr. Saito (ep3-4,7-8)
Shikauchi Takashi (鹿内孝) as Udagawa (ep4-5)
Toyama Toshiya as Hirayama Shinji (ep5-7)
Ameku Michiko as Tsukada Michiko (ep6-7)
Satoi Kenta as Yazawa Kentaro (ep7)
Yamamura Michi (山村美智) as Onuki (ep7)
Shimasaki Toru (嶋崎徹) as Onozaki Ken (ep8)
Yamamoto Ryuji as Hayashida (ep9)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Morosawa Kazuyuki (両沢和幸)
Producers: Oga Fumiko (大賀文子), Morosawa Kazuyuki, Kato Akira (加藤章)
Directors: Morosawa Kazuyuki, Takano Eiji (高野英治), Matsukawa Kasashi (松川嵩史), Hori Hideki (堀英樹)
Music: Kamomiya Ryo (鴨宮諒)
Episode Information
Ep 01: No More Money!? The Start of my TV Career
Ep 02: Employment in the Sex Industry!?
Ep 03: Life and Death On-location
Ep 04: I'll Give You a Hit!
Ep 05: Don't Fire Me!
Ep 06: All-Show-and-No-Substance Men
Ep 07: The Big Stakeout
Ep 08: Farewell, Mother
Ep 09: A New Job?!
Ep 10: Ready, and... Action!
Shiawase ni Naritai!
