After a week's delay, the first episode of Fuji TV's September 9th drama "Falling in Love with Your Eyes" was finally aired.
The commercial is over and let’s get to the point.
At the beginning of the TV series, three high school friends met by chance in the carriage returning to Tokyo.
Starring Miho Nakayama plays a fashionable college student named "Hitomi Takagi" in the play. One of her two friends, the old-fashioned girl "Teruyo Kobayashi" who works as a bank clerk, is played by actress Tomoko Fujita.
Fujita-san is a stage actor, and she is not in the same league as the actors who debuted as idols. However, she has a cheerful personality and is very popular on the set.
Then, there is another friend of Hitomi Takagi, the freelancer "Tomoko Mochizuki"...
"No matter how you look at it, I'm cuter than Miho-chan."
Momoko Kikuchi, who plays the role of "Mochizuki Machiko," couldn't help but murmur when she looked at herself in the TV series who was more fashionable and glamorous than Miho Nakayama.
Anyway, we are in our own apartment, so it doesn't matter what we say.
However, the person who is more popular and has better popularity among the audience is Nakayama Miho.
Unlike Momoko Kikuchi, who debuted as an idol singer and started acting after her peak period, Miho Nakayama debuted as an actress, and her career focus has always been on acting, and singing is a supplement.
Miho Nakayama attracted much attention when she debuted. She starred in the TV series "Mom Is an Idol" two years ago and caused a sensation.
At that time, the popular idol named "Nakayama Miho" she played in the TV series married her former teacher. While concealing the fact that she was married and continuing to work, she had three children with her teacher who were older than herself.
His stepson got along with his stepdaughter who was about the same age as him and another stepson who was a loyal fan of his, which triggered a series of stories.
After the TV series was aired, it achieved a high average ratings of 22.2 and became Miho Nakayama's masterpiece.
From this year, Miho Nakayama became a top idol. Her career as an actor was smooth sailing, and her complementary career as a singer was also impressive.
It was also this year that Momoko Kikuchi's career began to decline and she had to seek transformation.
The entertainment industry is like this, constantly changing. This is especially true for idols. It is considered lucky to be able to last for two or three years at the peak of its peak.
Be the protagonist when you are popular, and play supporting roles for the new protagonists when you are on the decline. You must have this awareness from the time you enter the industry, no matter whether it is difficult or easy to accept it.
Two years later, after the success of "Mom is an Idol", Miho Nakayama's career as an actor continues to rise, becoming the youngest Yue Jiu starring, while Momoko Kikuchi plays the third role in the TV series.
In the TV series, Hitomi Takagi, a fashionable college student played by Miho Nakayama, fell in love with a beautiful apartment in Daikanyama, but was unable to afford the high rent on her own, so she invited her friend Mochizuki Machiko to share the apartment.
It happened that the bank dormitory where another friend, Terushiro Kobayashi, lived caught fire and he had nowhere to go, so the three of them started living together in a shared house.
A twenty-year-old college student wants to live in a high-end area like Daikanyama no matter what. This is something that can only happen in this day and age.
Such a beginning is already announcing to the audience that this is an urban drama in the bubble era.
On the day of moving, they knocked on their neighbor's door to give them a moving gift. When the door opened, the neighbors who came out were two male college students who lived together.
One of them is Suzuki Moto, an impetuous young man who caused Takagi Hitomi two troubles in one day, and the other was introduced to her by Takagi Hitomi's friend, but he kissed her when they first met and was harshly rejected and they broke up.
The sultry young man Gengping under the palace.
The road between enemies is narrow, and you will get angry when you see them.
Although Hitomi Takagi is a bit vain, likes handsome guys, and loves to socialize, she is a good girl who pays attention to order.
The person who can really get it right just by looking at her is Mochizuki Machiko, played by Momoko Kikuchi, who is more fashionable and glamorous than her.
The character played by Momoko Kikuchi in the TV series had relationships with several boys in her class in high school. Since then, she has dated countless people. As long as she meets the eye, it doesn't matter if she hits a home run that day. She is a totally nonchalant person.
Girls in order.
Hitomi Takagi has a nose for these two annoying enemies, but Machiko Mochizuki has become interested in these two handsome neighbors and wants to get to know them better.
This role runs counter to Momoko Kikuchi's own personality, and is also completely contrary to the purist line she has been following. Therefore, Momoko Kikuchi felt a little embarrassed when she saw herself playing such a role on TV.
But this trace of shyness disappeared in an instant, and she still concentrated on watching her performance on TV.
Not because of narcissism, but because I want to observe my own acting skills, discover the shortcomings and improve them.
The role of Mochizuki Machiko is of great significance to Momoko Kikuchi.
Since her debut, she has followed the pure route. When she was an idol singer, "pure" could be the lover of her dreams or the girl next door.
However, if you want to change your career path and become an actor, your original innocent image is worthless.
Choosing to play such a character who is completely opposite to herself in reality, both she and the agency are trying to break her image of a pure person in the public mind.
Competition in the entertainment industry is fierce. Once your career goes downhill, you have to play a supporting role for the new protagonist. However, when you join this industry, you must not only have the awareness to play a supporting role when it goes downhill, but also have the ambition to wait for an opportunity to return to the top.
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Momoko Kikuchi was not willing to be like so many meteor-like idols in the past ten years or so, who lit up for a moment and then died. Therefore, ever since her record sales began to decline, she has been constantly seeking new breakthroughs.
Now, in order to expand her acting career as an actor, she is voluntarily giving up her pure brand. Earlier, Momoko Kikuchi also made a bold attempt in music - forming a band.
Feeling that the peak period had passed and before the company began to decline, the company discussed with Momoko Kikuchi and invited professional musicians to form a rock band called "La·Mu-" and announced the transformation.
It just so happened that TV Asahi's program called "Band Paradise" was on the air, and the public paid unprecedented attention to the band. Not only that, the program introduced bands of various styles, which increased the public's acceptance of band types.
With the popularity brought by TV programs, excellent musicians, and the quality of the songs provided, the company is full of confidence in this transformation——
In any case, the popular idol turned into the lead singer of a band, which is enough to attract a lot of attention and has the foundation of his former popularity.
As a result, this transformation failed miserably. Not only was sales poor, Momoko Kikuchi and the musicians did not get along well. After each live performance, she received a bunch of negative reviews.
The public did not buy into this pure idol-turned-female lead singer of a band.
The plan to transform into a band came to an end. Although they did not directly announce their disbandment, the company did not mention a new single. Momoko Kikuchi also acquiesced that the transformation had failed, and cooperated with the company to shift her focus to actors.
Hence the role of "Machiko Mochizuki" this time, who took the initiative to break the innocent image in order to broaden her acting career.
The road to transformation is imperative, and this role is of great significance to Momoko Kikuchi.
"The band with the female lead..."
On the TV, the viewpoint switched to the apartment where the boy lived. Without her lens, Momoko Kikuchi was not very interested in the plot of the TV series and became a little distracted.
She remembered that the theme song of this TV series was sung by a band with a female as the lead singer.
While the TV series was still being filmed, the record company to which the band belonged sent staff to distribute the band's single to the main actors in the TV series.
Momoko Kikuchi remembered that after she received the single, she put it away casually. She had just experienced a failed band formation, and she was not very interested in a band with a female lead singer for the time being.
However, later during a break in filming, she heard Tomoko Fujita, the actor who played Kobayashi Teruyo, talk about the band's producer being the producer of Band Heaven.
Tomoko Fujita is a loyal rock music fan and a loyal audience of Band Paradise. Not only is she familiar with rock bands, but she is also well aware of all related gossip.
Not only that, Tomoko Fujita also praised the band to her and Miho Nakayama, saying that she listened to the song after going back and found that it was a very good song, and the lead singer's voice was crisp and refreshing.
"As expected of the band chosen by the producer of Band Heaven."
Momoko Kikuchi still remembers Tomoko Fujita’s words of praise. As a loyal audience member of Band Heaven, she admired the “Iwahashi-kun” who was often cueed by the censors on the show from time to time.
Of course, if it were idols like them, they should be called "Iwahashi-san".
There was also Koyo Maeda, a member of the male Douhu group, who was also a band. However, their band seemed to have been declining in sales and popularity after their popular debut.
Could it be that the audience is disgusted with the idol's involvement in the band? Momoko Kikuchi thought to herself.
However, when I took a casual look at the single I received, I saw that the lead singer on the cover was so beautiful that he could be an actor.
After Tomoko Fujita praised the band, Momoko Kikuchi was also a little curious about the female lead singer's "crisp, refreshing" singing voice.
But instead of looking for the single, she thought to herself that she would watch the TV series anyway - even if she was not at home when it was broadcast, she would record it.
Although Fujita Tomoko praised it so much... By then, it will be too late to hear it in the TV series.
On the TV, the plot continued to unfold.
Hitomi Takagi explained to her roommates her grievances with the two young men next door. The two young men next door had wild thoughts about being neighbors with cute girls.
Hitomi Takagi hates the two reckless young men, but she falls in love at first sight with the playboy producer of T-Wave, the radio station where Machiko Mochizuki works.
When the producer of the radio station drove to the downstairs of the apartment late at night to deliver a tape to Mochizuki Machiko, Hitomi Takagi, who had a crush on the producer, volunteered to go down and get it for his friend.
After delivering the tape and before leaving, Hitomi Takagi proactively asked to shake his hand.
The producer, who sensed her affection, took the initiative and kissed her. This scene was witnessed by the roommate and two young men upstairs.
At the end of the first episode, the prelude to the ending song played.
