Takuya Kimura walks into Shanghai and three women wreck his whole life. Classic Tuesday.
Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestRensuke Hazuki, the president of Regolith, a rapidly growing interior manufacturer in Japan, is planning to expand into China. Rensuke boarded the bustling city of Shanghai . What awaits Rensuke there is an encounter with Maemi Ninomiya, an interior designer who has worked with him, Yuzuki Onuki, a popular model who is the daughter of a wealthy family, and Ryu, a Chinese woman who has a girlfriend Shuumei. The meeting with these three women brings a turning point in Rensuke's life.
Acting
Kimura's smoldering restraint against Lin Chi-Ling's quiet storm
Production
Shanghai as glittering promise and lonely trap
Costume
Power suits that cost more than your rent
Takuya Kimura
Rensuke Hazuki
Keiko Kitagawa
Ōnuki Yuzuki
Lin Chi-Ling
Liu Xiu Mei
Ryoko Shinohara
Maemi Ninomiya
Naoto Takenaka
Tetsuji Maruyama
Gaku Hamada
Tsuguo Maehara
Maki Nishiyama
Eruka
Yoichi Nukumizu
Ikuzo Tokita
Shota Matsuda
Sai Kazami/Cai Feng Jian
Yuri Nakamura
笠原由紀（Yuki Kasahara）
Tsuyoshi Abe
Min
Kensei Mikami
Keiichi Koizumi
Kyōzō Nagatsuka
Shogen Onuki
Hikari Mitsushima
Rina Anzai
Ikkei Watanabe
Togo Kijihata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Lin Chi-Ling's breakthrough J-drama role, sparking actual diplomatic-adjacent discussions about Taiwan-Japan entertainment relations.
The Shanghai setting wasn't just backdrop—Regolith's fictional expansion mirrored real Japanese interior brands aggressively entering Chinese markets in late 2000s.
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