Monday, July 02, 2012

"Beautiful Rain" gets 12.9% for its first episode

FujiTV summer drama "Beautiful Rain" got off to a good start with its first episode on 1 July scoring a rating of 12.9%. This was higher than the 11.6% that Ashida Mana's previous hit in the same timeslot "Marumo no Okite" got back in April 2011 and the 6.1% that "Kazoku no Uta" got in the previous season. This drama is the first FujiTV production Toyokawa Etsushi appeared in since 1999's "Kiken na Kankei" and Ashida's first since "Marumo" a year ago.

The first episode described Keisuke (Toyokawa) quitting his job in a big-name construction company after his wife passed away while giving birth to their daughter Miu (Ashida). He later moved to a small factory to work while raising Miu. One day, his junior Akio (Miura Shohei) accidentally loses his balance and causes something to fall from above and hit Keisuke's head. Keisuke then goes to a hospital for a CT scan just to be sure that nothing is wrong. However, he soon realises that he is becoming very forgetful and later gets told by his doctor that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

Source: Sponichi

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