Details
Title: 私が恋愛できない理由
Title (romaji): Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 15.8% (Kanto)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2011-Oct-17 to 2011-Dec-19
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: Love Story by Amuro Namie
Intro/Title song: Sit! Stay! Wait! Down! by Amuro Namie
Synopsis
More than half of women in their 20's to 30's admit to "currently lacking a boyfriend." Men, love, sex, work, marriage... All the issues women face today are revealed in truth through this generation, an "ice age of love."
"The reason I can't find my love" highlights the lives of three women, Fujii Emi, Ogura Saki and Hanzawa Mako. Emi works for a lighting company as a lighting technician, where she is surrounded by men due to the nature of the profession. She has a straight-forward and generous personality, but is unconcerned about general feminine interests such as fashion. She is often treated like another man by her boss and colleagues, and feels that being in love is tiresome. However, she cannot forget about her ex-boyfriend and hopes to someday fall truly in love. Saki is prideful and determined, but fails in landing a desirable job. As a result, she starts to work at a bar as a hostess, keeping the fact a secret from her parents. Mako is the youngest of all, having attended the same high school following Emi and Saki. She is earnest and responsible, but on the other hand, rather clumsy and afraid of taking chances on a romantic relationship. The three women end up living under the same roof by coincidence, and it is there that they share each other's experiences, bitter or sweet, desperately struggling with their love life. A life-sized unconventional love story ever to air on Fuji TV's prime 9 Monday drama slot! -- Fuji TV
Cast
Karina as Fujii Emi
Yoshitaka Yuriko as Ogura Saki
Oshima Yuko as Hanzawa Mako
Tanaka Kei as Hasegawa Yu
Hagiwara Masato as Shiraishi Takumi
Inamori Izumi as Shiraishi Misuzu
Kurashina Kana as Maeda Hikari
Nakao Akiyoshi as Takahashi Kenta
Katsumura Masanobu as Tamura Junichi
Kagami Seira as Maruyama Rumi
Nakamura Ryu as Kizaki Toshiya
Gouriki Ayame as Hanzawa Momoko
Negishi Toshie as Ogura Yumiko
Matsuoka Emiko as Ogura Sumire
Guests
Suzuki Akinofu (ep1,7)
Ohashi Tomokazu (ep1,4)
Takayama Rina as Yuri (ep1,6-7)
Kitaki Mayu as Kumiko (ep1)
Imura Kumi (ep1)
Takahashi Emi (ep1)
Sayoko as Sakiko (ep1)
Murakami Kouki (ep1)
Kanzaki Koichiro (ep1)
Ichijo Satoshi (ep1)
Izuka Kenta (ep1)
Kumazawa Hiroyuki (熊澤洋幸) (ep1)
Kikuhara Yutaro (菊原祐太朗) (ep1)
Yokota Emi (横田恵美) (ep1)
Serizawa Mizuki (芹澤みづき) (ep1)
Akuwa Yuriko (阿桑有里子) (ep1)
Nishimura Sayaka (西村紗也禾) (ep1)
Sugimoto Misaki (すぎもとみさき) (ep1)
Yuzuki Mai (柚木麻衣) (ep1)
Suzuki Rieko (鈴木利恵子) as a medical office worker (ep1)
Tanisaka Noriko (谷坂宜子) (ep1)
Hirai Ken as himself / cameo (ep1)
Matsuoka Nene (松岡音々) as CLUB Fairy hostess (ep4,8)
Sano Izumi (佐野いずみ) (ep4,10)
Hiraoka Yuta as Yamamoto Tadashi (ep3-6,8)
Jinbo Satoshi as Arai (ep4-5)
Koyanagi Yu as Takei Daisuke (ep3-4,6-7,9)
KEIJI as Kawabata Ryoichi (ep5-6,9)
Hikita Hidemi as Takei Minako (ep5-6,9)
Watanabe Sugie (渡辺杉枝) as a nurse (ep6)
Yonezawa Shiori (米澤史織) (ep6-7)
Sakurai Hijiri (桜井聖) as a Temp worker supervisor (ep6)
Tsuchiya Fumiko (土屋史子) as a nurse (ep6)
Aoyagi Sho as Enomoto Shinji (ep7-10)
Nagai Masaru as Noguchi Susumu (ep7-9)
Misaki Ayame (水崎綾女) as CLUB Fairy hostess (ep8)
Nishimura Ryoga (西村亮海) as Enomoto Keita (ep9-10)
Yamaguchi Fumiko (山口芙未子) as a Rencontre guest (ep9)
Onishi Riku (大西利空) as a Rencontre guest (ep9)
Harumi Shiho as Koide editor in chief of Hayate Books (ep9-10)
Miyazaki Yoshiko as Fujii Yoshie (ep9-10)
Amuro Namie as herself / cameo (ep9)
Ozeki Makoto (大関真) as moderator of illumination event (ep10)
Kodama Raishin as the owner of the yatai (ep10)
Shimokawa Shinya (下川真矢) as the couple (ep10)
Fujimoto Ryo (藤本涼) (ep10)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Yamazaki Takako (山崎宇子), Sakaguchi Riko (坂口理子)
Producer: Nakano Toshiyuki
Director: Ishii Yusuke
Music: Suehiro Kenichiro (末廣健一郎), MAYUKO
