Suekko chounan ane san nin

末っ子長男姉三人 · The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters

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  • Autumn 2003
NetworkTBS
Broadcast12 Oct 2003
Episodes10 Episodes
Viewership—
Fan score 8.0 from 12 reviews

Synopsis

Points to Watch
The popular actress Eri Fukatsu, who returns to a TBS drama after a long absence, plays the wife. Junichi Okada, voted "most popular younger boyfriend" in a certain magazine poll, plays the younger husband. These newlyweds find themselves caught up in all kinds of family troubles.

The troublemakers are mother-in-law Keiko Kishi and the three sisters-in-law Chikako Kaku, Tomoyo Harada and Koyuki - beautiful yet handfuls. But perhaps there are some who would sympathise with them? We expect this drama to become a must-see.

Storyline
Haruko Takanashi (Eri Fukatsu) is 30. She works at a radio station. She is approaching middle management where good looks alone aren't enough. She isn't very romantic so she devotes herself to work and play and suddenly finds herself alone. Just when she has given up on romance she meets a man. She meets him at a party to which she was taken by a subordinate at work. He is 25-year-old Ichiro Kashiwakura (Junichi Okada) and is nothing out of the ordinary. They start a relationship. One day, out of the blue, Ichiro ardently proposes to Haruko. Realizing that he really loves her, Haruko says yes and they get married. But she still hasn't told him her real age.

Now Haruko has to cope with living with Ichiro's mother, Satoko (Keiko Kishi), eldest sister Setsuko (Chikako Kaku) who has returned home, 2nd daughter Kazuko (Tomoyo Harada) who has just returned from a prestigious overseas posting with her company and the third daughter Sachiko (Koyuki) who seems to have reached a bit of a dead end in her life. Competition for Ichiro's attention is only one of many problems that arise.

Synopsis: TBS

Cast & characters 9 credited

Fan reviews 12 reviews

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Very good! ^__^

9 / 10

pash · 2011

I liked it a lot! ^__^
I found it somehow hard to believe that it's from 2003, as it has a much older flavour (in the best sense possible...I mean it totally looks like a classic from the 90's imho). Extremely well written, with many funny moments, and also very well acted by the female cast: Fukacchan is great as always, but also the mother-in-law and the 3 "elder sisters" of the title are very good (my personal fave among them being Harada Tomoyo - too bad her other dorama "Straight News" and "Dessin", if I'm not mistaken, have never been subbed! T__T)

9/10

cute

8 / 10

noodlefreak · 2006

Suekko Chounan ane san nin was a cute drama...cute characters, cute story. Some of it was a little cheezy...and most of the people I know who watched this found it too cheezy for their tastes, but I thought it was cute. I smiled a lot.

Cute

8 / 10

Kam · 2005

The series summed up in two words: cute and funny. Though not dramatic in the slightest; best example is when episode 9 leaves with a cliffhanger that you'd think would have large repercussions, but silly music plays in the background during the reveal, and by the beginning of episode 10 you realize it was nothing. The drama also doesn't have much steam left after the ex shows up and leaves, so it relies on the charm of the characters to pull through...which works, despite the strangeness of seeing so many people over thirty behave as if they were twelve. Eri Fukatsu is great, but Koyuki steals the show.

All 12 reviews