Lucky Seven: Matsushima Nanako joins cast &Tanihara Shosuke to star in spin-off
Matsushima Nanako joins cast of Matsumoto Jun’s “Lucky Seven”
More cast members have been revealed for Fuji TV’s upcoming drama series “Lucky Seven.” The biggest announcement is that “Kaseifu no Mita” star Matsushima Nanako (38) will be in it, playing the boss of the detective agency of the “Lucky Seven” team.
The drama was unveiled last month, starring Arashi member Matsumoto Jun (28) as a rookie detective named Tokita Shuntaro. At the time, Eita (28) and Oizumi Yo (38) were revealed as two other members of the detective team. It is now known that Naka Riisa (22), Kadono Takuzo (63), and Iriki Mari (21) are also part of the team.
Fukiishi Kazue (29) will play a police inspector who has connections with the agency. Okae Kumiko (55) will play Shuntaro’s mother.
Matsushima and Matsumoto previously appeared together in the drama series “Hana Yori Dango” in 2005 and its sequel in 2007.
This will be Matsushima’s first role in one of Fuji TV’s “Getsu 9” dramas since “Yamato Nadeshiko” in 2000, which had ratings of 26.4%, peaking at 34.2% for its final episode. She currently appears in NTV’s “Kaseifu no Mita,” which has so far reached ratings as high as 29.6%.
“Lucky Seven” premieres on January 16.
source: TOKYOGRAPH
Tanihara Shosuke to star in “Lucky Seven” spin-off
Before the Fuji TV drama series “Lucky Seven” premieres on January 16, the cable channel Fuji TV TWO will broadcast a spin-off drama on January 14, titled “Shiritsu Tantei Makabe Ryu.” Although Arashi’s Matsumoto Jun (28) is the star of the actual series, the spin-off will star Tanihara Shosuke (39).
As announced before, “Lucky Seven” is an action/comedy series about a team of private detectives who solve various difficult cases despite their lack of smooth teamwork. In the series, “Shiritsu Tantei Makabe Ryu” is a TV detective drama that the characters love to watch. Matsumoto’s character, Tokita Shuntaro, has admired Makabe Ryu since he was a child, and even in his actual detective work he imitates Makabe’s signature line and pose.
In the world of “Lucky Seven,” the “Makabe Ryu” series is described as a “hard-boiled comedy” about a private eye with a trademark yellow hat and trench coat, who solves the world’s toughest unsolved cases and has even earned the respect of the American intelligence agency CIA.
The spin-off consists of 4 original stories. Fuji TV TWO will broadcast “Shiritsu Tantei Makabe Ryu” on January 14 at 12:30pm.
TOKYOGRAPH