Starring Rino Katase and Isssei Mamehara (JO1) A 61-year-old woman who sees herself as a "16-year-old beautiful girl" falls for the handsome husband of the newlywed couple next door! This live-action drama adaptation brings to life a romantic horror story depicting "madness in the name of innocence"! It has been decided that "Fuufu to 16-sai ~Kyoki no Rinjin~" ("The Couple and 16-Year-Olds: The Mad Neighbor"), which will air on TV Tokyo starting Thursday, July 2 (every Thursday at 12:30 a.m.), will be broadcast. The original work is the manga of the same name by Pumpkin, currently running as an indie series on Shonen Jump+, and it is a notable title in which the shock of love and obsession beginning with a love at first sight for a married person was chosen by readers in the "serialization battle ranking" on "Jump Rookie!" This romantic horror, full of madness as a 61-year-old woman who sees herself as a "16-year-old beautiful girl" runs wild for love, is now being adapted into a live-action drama! The madness of love awakened by a "16-year-old beautiful girl" Kind-hearted handsome office worker Hiro Nomura and his bright, cheerful wife, former hostess Sae Nomura, were spending their newlywed life in a small apartment. However, Hiro is dissatisfied with Sae, who is bad at cooking and housework and always runs back to her parents' home whenever they fight. Right in the middle of one of their marital spats, Shizuko Shiraishi, who has moved into the next room, comes by to greet them. Shizuko falls for the handsome and kind Hiro at first sight, and through sharing homemade dishes, she becomes close to him, visiting his room almost every day to help with housework and nurse him when he catches a cold. Hiro feels a motherly sense of comfort in Shizuko's devoted care, and while he is troubled by their awkwardly mismatched conversations and her baffling behavior, he gradually deepens their friendship. Shizuko becomes even more drawn to Hiro's kindness, but she has "a certain secret"... In fact, Shizuko is a 61-year-old woman who sees herself as a "16-year-old beautiful girl"! Even knowing that he is married, Shizuko attacks the Nomura couple with every possible romantic scheme, determined to "take what she wants if she loves it," and the madness in the name of innocence begins to spiral out of control...

Playwright and director Shoko Nemoto makes her first original serial drama as a director! Mariya Matsumoto and Maryjun Takahashi co-star as best friends who grew up together This work is an original creation by Shoko Nemoto, a playwright and director who is at the cutting edge of the theater world. With this project, Nemoto also makes her debut as a director of an original serial drama. In their late 30s, many people suddenly find themselves wondering, “Is life just going to keep going like this?”—a vague, hard-to-put-into-words sense of unease. Love, marriage, career, youth—none of these are urgent problems right away, and yet the heart still stirs. This series presents those inexpressible feelings in an original four-episode drama built on realistic yet humorous dialogue. Emily (Mariya Matsumoto), 35, single, and raised in a private girls’ school from kindergarten, runs an apparel brand. Maria (Maryjun Takahashi), who works as a drama producer at a TV station, has been her best friend since childhood. They still meet regularly, and over cake at their favorite café, they start catching up on life. The conversation begins with “So, how was it?” and then shifts rapidly from matchmaking, beauty, Korea, Pilates, and social media. They take photos with their cake, edit them, and keep the pace brisk as time passes with remarks like, “Our skin really has gotten better, hasn’t it?” Then Sakura, the younger nail artist at the salon they both go to, joins them. Their talk about trendy topics and the videos that appear on their phones never quite seems to click. As they feel the generation gap with someone younger, Sakura blurts out, “So what is it you two actually want to become?” Emily and Maria are left speechless. “What is this sense of unease we’re feeling?” “Why is it that we end up longing for youth?” Carrying those thoughts with them, the two women set out in search of their own version of happiness—.

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