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Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit

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Overview

Mayako, a married woman, finds her life of comfort and casual affairs thrown into disarray when she unexpectedly falls in love with a younger man. Here is a modern fable of the moral dilemmas facing today's women, in a time where the expectations of love, marriage, and divorce from earlier generations no longer seem true.

Created by Mariko Hayashi
Written by Mariko Hayashi, Miho Nakazono
Produced by Akira Isoyama
NetworksTBS

Top Cast

A

Akemi Ohmori

Yuriko Ishida

Yuriko Ishida

Mizukoshi Mayako

Kenichi Okamoto

Kenichi Okamoto

Kudo Michihiko

Ikkei Watanabe

Ikkei Watanabe

Mizukoshi Koichi

Megumi Yokoyama

Megumi Yokoyama

Takeda Kumi

Yoshihiko Hakamada

Yoshihiko Hakamada

Yokomizo

Y

Yuka Hôshaku

Yumiko

Manami Honjo

Manami Honjo

Riko

Shunji Fujimura

Shunji Fujimura

Kodama kaicho

Takashi Naito

Takashi Naito

Nomura

About Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit is a drama series that first aired in 1997. Created by Mariko Hayashi, it stars Akemi Ohmori, Yuriko Ishida, Kenichi Okamoto. Mayako, a married woman, finds her life of comfort and casual affairs thrown into disarray when she unexpectedly falls in love with a younger man. Here is a modern fable of the moral dilemmas facing today's women, in a time where the expectations of love, marriage, and divorce from earlier generations no longer seem true.

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