
Tokyo Love Story(1991)
Nagao Kanji who comes from Ehime Prefecture joins Heartsports company located in Tokyo, where he met lovely and sunny Akana Rika. The love story begins.

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.
Akemi Ohmori

Yuriko Ishida
Mizukoshi Mayako

Kenichi Okamoto
Kudo Michihiko

Ikkei Watanabe
Mizukoshi Koichi

Megumi Yokoyama
Takeda Kumi

Yoshihiko Hakamada
Yokomizo
Yuka Hôshaku
Yumiko

Manami Honjo
Riko

Shunji Fujimura
Kodama kaicho

Takashi Naito
Nomura
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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