Mop Girl モップガール

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Synopsis/Review

Tanihara Shosuke, the male lead of the dorama, who has acted in many doramas (such as Oku ~ Hana no Ran~ 大奥～華の乱～) and movies, plays the role of Ohtomo Shotaro, who is always dragged by Momoko in her bid to help people who are about to face their last hour.

Although Kitagawa Keiko is quite young, but I really like her acting and the way she portray her roles. In this dorama, she has definitely improved her acting as compared to the role she took for Sailor Moon Live Action, where she played Sailor Mars. The story plot although is not as mysterious as detective drama, but the different themes in each episodes carries the whole show well.

This drama has it that when Hasegawa Momoko was 8(?) years old, she was given the ability to go back in time to relive what happen in a day. This ability was passed to her by a mysterious lady who saved her from a car accident, by sacrificing her own. Fast forward to Momoko (Keiko Kitagawa) , 21 years old. At the start of the show, she was working in a grand hotel where she messed things up during a wedding (she actually accidentally destroyed the wedding cake, baked by the bride herself, just seconds before the cake have to be presented to the guest). As a punishment, she ended up at a sub-company of the hotel's organization called Little Angel.

Being forced to sign a 3 month no resignation contract, Momoko had thought of Little Angel as a wedding organizer company(which she was totally wrong!) Little Angel is a cleaning company, but for the dead. This is also how she started to get use her hidden/given ability whenever she get in touch with the dead person item.

Did you Know?
  • Takaoka Sousuke (as Wakayama Akira) is the husband of Aoi Miyazaki
  • Erika who sang the main theme song, Destination Nowhere, is Erika Sawajiri (the female star who acted in One Litre of Tears)

Quote of the show

Although there are many quotes in the show by/for otomo-san, I think the most deserving quote of the show would be the part where the scene of Momoko being rescued by the mystery lady and her passing her power to young Momoko.

"Now I give you my power. Be brave and create your future."

Soundtrack

Like the song in the drama? I have not yet seen the soundtrack in Singapore but the main theme song(although I hope it would be sang by Keiko) is sang by

  • Erika (Erika Sawajiri) titled Destination Nowhere
Cast Information
  • Kitagawa Keiko as Hasegawa Momoko
    • Miyama Karen as young Hasegawa Momoko
  • Tanihara Shosuke as Ohtomo Shotaro
  • Asami Reina as Ookouchi Hina
  • Takaoka Sousuke as Wakayama Akira
  • Sato Jiro as Higashi Shigeo
  • Magaii as Yokouchi Atsushi
  • Watanabe Natsuna as Nakamura Tamaki
  • Ikezu Shoko as Kataoka Miki
  • Hori Mayumi
  • Honda Hirotaro as Hasegawa Ryuji

Guests

  • Morishita Yoshiyuki as Policeman (ep1)
  • Ogura Hisahiro (ep1)
  • Sakai Ayana (ep2)
  • Hosho Mai (ep3)
  • Katagiri Hairi (ep3)
  • Koide Saori (ep4)
  • Sakamoto Makoto (ep4)
  • Hashimoto Satoshi (ep5)
  • Sato Hitomi (ep6)
  • Kubota Masataka (ep7)
  • Kase Taishu (加勢大周) (ep8)
  • Abe Tsuyoshi (ep10)
Source for Cast can be found here
Official Website can be found here

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