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Series Machi: Omotedori e nukeru Chizu
- No.
- ST-00349
- Year
- 1988
- Broadcated
/Created by - テレビ朝日
- Scriptwriter
- Yamada Taichi
- Format
- one-off drama
- Awards
- First Prize in The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Awards
- Overview
- Yukie Kazamiya runs a boutique in Harajuku, Tokyo. Her beauty and fashion counseling skills have made her a media darling of today. One day, Risa Kirihara, one of Yukie’s classmates from high school, pays her a sudden visit. Yukie is the complete opposite of Yukie: though successful academically, she is what one would call ugly. This begins a conflict between a woman who benefits from her looks and a woman who suffers from her looks. It is also a story of collision between Yukie’s inferiority complex about her academic background and Risa’s inferiority complex about her looks. Then, Yukie reveals that she is a mere figurehead who uses her beauty to promote her business, sadly remarking: “We’re the same; people only care about our looks.” Both of them agree: “Wherever you look it’s young women. They’re everywhere, whether it’s on a poster in a bank, an ad for an ironworks or a ramen restaurant, or a commercial for graves.” It is easy to say that personality matters more than looks. However, Taichi Yamada makes the two women seek their respective identities in their experience and personality bundled together with looks: for Yukie, it is that even a figurehead can acquire some skills by doing their job properly; and for Risa, it is that your looks and character combined makes you who you are. The foresight of Yamada’s drama series is clearly demonstrated in the fact that Risa goes on to become an overweight model.
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