幸せになりたい · I want to be happy!
| Network | TBS |
|---|---|
| Broadcast | 14 May 2005 |
| Episodes | — |
| Viewership | — |
| Fan score | 7.3 from 3 reviews |
Everyday Hikari (Kyoko Fukada) has to take care of her sick mother and two younger brothers. They are informed that their missing father has died, and later find out he left them a huge 10 million yen debt. They are a very poor family. They have no money left, no food, and no rice either. To pay off the debt Hikari goes looking for a job. With the help of a friend, she gets a cleaning job at a the UBS TV company.
On the other side, there's Masako Nagai (Matsushita Yuki), a UBS TV Producer, who's struggling to raise the ratings of a serial drama show. Her bosses constantly yell and order her around, and her assistant is extremely unreliable too.
Hikari's happiness is paying off her father's debt. While Masako's happiness is to raise her show's ratings
Synopsis: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Shiawase_ni_Naritai
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shari · 2007
Take a rags-to-riches story, give it the right dose of comedy, add a pinch of drama without melo, mix in a well-seasoned cast, set the timer to a good pace, and you've got yourself this unpretentious dish that'll charm you with every bite.
Alienwork · 2005
this movie is quite good but the endding it looks like is getting for next set (like 2nd chapter)i like this movie but just the end feel lost something on it
Old-Ant · 2005
I have gone over to the dark side. I enjoyed a Fukada Kyoko comedy.
I've only seen a few comedies by Fukada Kyoko, but it seems that in every one, she stands on her mark, and makes a dimwitted statement with the same expression and same inflection for every line. Sometimes she doesn't even enunciate properly (which is acting 101), but I must admit that for the one character that she can play, she plays it well.
Fukada plays Asada Hikari, a sweet airhead from a dirt-poor family who is simply trying to pay off the massive amounts of debt hanging over her head. Matsushita Yuki plays Nagai Masako, a massively competent primetime television dorama producer who has only one flaw in her work: she's female, and all of the men above her resent it. Through a series of inexplicable events, Asada winds up as an assistant producer to Nagai as they work on a TV dorama that must be a success.
Let's start with the cons. Fukada cannot act. The ending is weak. Most of the supporting cast are cartoon characters such as the loan sharks with hearts of gold; the sexual harassing weak boss; the executive who blames everyone but himself; the selfish mother who doesn't see the sacrifices her kids are making for her sake; etc. It hammers away at all of the standard themes of women-in-the-workplace dramas such as follow your dreams, a woman over 30 who has trouble getting married, sexual harassment, it's tough in the real world, and all the rest.
Now the pros. The look into the making of a dorama is very interesting, and the background characters on the set aren't cartoon characters. The bumbling Hasegawa (Tanihara) actually has a character growth arc. Shinoda Takuma who plays the elder of Asada's two young brothers is a real acting find -- the boy's fantastic. And Matsushita puts in a fine performance caught in the middle of something close to real-to-life on the TV studio side and something close to cartoonish when dealing with Asada's problems.
And the pros outweigh the cons -- barely, but the do.
If you're a Fukada fan, this show doesn't feature her as much as, say, The Millionare Detective did, but there's still plenty of Fukada for fans to ogle. But even if cute and dim doesn't float your boat, the dorama-behind-the-dorama plot should be enough to attract most fans of the medium.
Worth a try.
