Juken no Cinderella

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Drama: Examination's Cinderella (literal title) / Juken no Cinderella
Romaji: Juken no Shinderera
Japanese: 受験のシンデレラ
Director: Yasushi Ueda, Takao Kinoshita
Writer: Hideki Wada (novel), Junpei Yamaoka, Aya Takei, Juri Takeda
Network: NHK
Episodes: 8
Release Date: July 10 - August 28, 2016
Runtime: Sundays 22:00-22:49
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Tooru Igarashi (Kotaro Koizumi) is a lecturer with charisma, working at a prestigious preparatory school. Recently, he drinks a lot and his life falls apart. Maki Endo (Haruna Kawaguchi) is a student at a part-time high school. Every day, she is exhausted with working multiple jobs to cover her expenses. One day, Tooru and Maki happen to meet each other. Maki wants to graduate high school to get a regular job and asks Tooru to tutor her for her test–retest. After Tooru quit his prep school job, he has lost his pride and passion to teach. Tooru was also diagnosed to have only a year left to live. He decides to teach Maki and get her into the University of Tokyo.

Notes

Based on the novel "Juken no Shinderera" by Hideki Wada (published March 6, 2008 by Shogakukan).
Related titles:
1. Cinderella Formula | Juken no Shinderera (2008)
2. Juken no Cinderella (NHK / 2016)

Cast



Kotaro Koizumi	Haruna Kawaguchi	Sayaka Yamaguchi	Yasuko Tomita	Satoru Matsuo
Tooru Igarashi	Maki Endo	Toko Miyama	Chieko Endo	Shuichi Kimura



Yoshihiko Hakamada	Kazuya Kojima	Kana Harada	Yuki Yamada	Kazuma Kawahara
Junichi Komiya	Koichi Usami	Masami Usami	Yuta Okita	Kazuya Murai

Nina Endo

Seina Matsumoto

Additional Cast Members:

Zuimaro Awashima - Nobuo Takanashi
Gaku Matsumoto - Noboru Morishima (ep.3)

Comments

Paru Apr 02 2017 11:15 pm I hope there is sequel of this drama.

ARVIN GUERRERO Sep 22 2016 11:09 pm similar to flying colors

a Aug 30 2016 12:39 pm i have been seen a similar jap movie or drama but i dont know his name

Camila Aug 29 2016 5:14 pm Not really. I thought that too until i watched, but i'm loving it. It's real, inspiring, funny, without dragging and over drama. It's not at all like these cliche dramas.

Jean Jul 17 2016 2:02 am "They fall in love.. The main girl accepted into university of tokyo.. The lecturer die.. THE END" Hoaahmm.. *yawning.. *going back to sleep

wa May 22 2016 10:46 pm Agree with previous comment. Seems good, but when I read about the diagnose, "too cliche" came in my mind.

mimer May 21 2016 9:30 am The plot looks fine until "... was also diagnosed to have only a year left to live."

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