Kekkon Dekinai Otoko
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| Genre | Drama |
| Directed by |
Yoshishige Miyake Takashi Komatsu Hisashi Ueda |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
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| Original network | Kansai TV |
| Original release | July 4 – September 19, 2006 |
Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (結婚できない男), known in English as The Man Who Can't Get Married, is a 2006 Japanese drama broadcast by Fuji TV. The theme song is "Swimmy" by Every Little Thing.
The drama was produced by Kansai Telecasting Corporation and Media Mix Japan.
Plot
Shinsuke Kuwano (Abe Hiroshi), a successful architect at 40, enjoys living by himself. He doesn’t like people but somehow is able to design wonderful houses for them.
He has a routine of making himself a delicious dinner and then relaxing to classical music in his easy chair. (He likes to pretend he is the conductor.) One night, he plays the music loud enough to make his next door neighbor, Michiru Tamura (Kuninaka Ryoko) knock on his door to complain. When Kuwano answers the door, he suffers a terrible stomach pain and collapses to the floor. Lucky for him, his neighbor Michiru is nice enough to accompany him to the hospital, where he is treated by Dr. Natsumi Hayasaka (Natsukawa Yui). He is really rude to Natsumi, but she is still determined to treat him.
Afterwards, Michiru and Natsumi become part of Kuwano’s life. They make friends with Kuwano’s colleagues Eiji (Tsukamoto Takashi) and Maya Sawazaki (Takashima Reiko). They all enjoy talking about how strange and eccentric Kuwano is. Is it possible that someone would ever want to marry him?
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Credits
Cast
- Hiroshi Abe - Shinsuke Kuwano: the protagonist.
- Yui Natsukawa - Natsumi Hayasaka: physician, Shinsuke's personal doctor.
- Ryoko Kuninaka - Michiru Tamura: Shinsuke's neighbor, living in Shinsuke's next door which her uncle owns with her own pug "Ken", during her uncle's long absence overseas.
- Takashi Tsukamoto - Eiji Murakami: Shinsuke's assistant.
- Reiko Takashima - Maya Sawazaki: Shinsuke's friend as well as his job partner as an architect producer.
- SHEILA - Chizuru Nishimura: Michiru's friend, who always looks for boyfriends.
- Yuko Nishimaru - Mari Ozawa: A nurse working under Natsumi, whom Natsumi named as "in charge of smiles".
- Iku Takamatsu - Kazumi Emori: A nurse working under Natsumi.
- Rieko Miura - Keiko Nakagawa: Shinsuke's younger sister.
- Toshinori Omi - Yoshio Nakagawa: Shinsuke's brother-in-law (Keiko's husband), VP of the hospital Natsumi is working for.
- Sakura - Saori Yoshikawa: Eiji's girlfriend, working for Maya's office.
- Noboru Takachi - Hiroyuki Kaneda: An architect whom Shinsuke regards as a rival, owns a Toyota 2000GT, also a womanizer.
- Mitsuko Kusabue - Ikuyo Kuwano: Shinsuke's mother.
- Ayano Tachibana - Convenience store cashier.
- Hiroyuki Nishio - Video rental shop cashier.
- Mansaku Fuwa - Master carpenter.
Staff
- Producers - Kazuhisa Ando, Yuuji Tojo, Tatsuya Ito
- Directors - Yoshishige Miyake, Takashi Komatsu, Hisashi Ueda
- Screenwriter - Masaya Ozaki
- Music - Kyo Nakanishi
External links
- (Japanese) Official website - by Kansai TV