No.of Epis: 11Year/TV Station: 2008/FujiTV
Cast:
Ueto Aya ~ Mitazono Alice
Kamiji Yusuke ~ Sato Taro
Kuninaka Ryoko ~ Yasuda Sachiko
Kashiwabara Takashi ~ Gotoda Tsukasa
Synopsis:
Alice, a wealthy daughter of a hotel chain magnate meets Taro, a poor widowed father of three. Alice later hires him as her driver while she works in her own fashion line "Love Alice". Her evil stepmum returns and wants her to marry to her ex-boyfriend Gotoda, who's now rich and powerful. To avoid the marriage, Alice gets Taro to act as her boyfriend...
Slacker's review:
This drama is probably one of the most standard romance-comedy we have this autumn season. Get to see Ueto again, with a Paris Hilton inspired character Alice. Ueto's performance was not too bad, but the character itself was not challenging. So, we already know from day 1 what wld happen to her and who she wld end up with. Ueto must be lucky to dress into different outfits and wigs each time. She definitely looked very posh and stylo, and that created a huge contrast with our male lead Kamiji. Kamiji is not a handsome and young actor to start with, but he was pretty ok in his role. (though I didn't find his acting stunning). I like Taro's interaction with his 3 kids, seeing them sharing their meals and living in that small pathetic house.
Happy to see Kashiwabara in a bigger role this time, but sadly, he turned out to be a bad guy. Haiz...Anyway, I like how he portrayed Gotoda. Gotoda is definitely nt a nice guy to start with, but somehow I thought he was turning good.....I was wrong. It didn't happen in the end. Hahaha! This is one character whom we didn't really know what was his motive till the last few epis.
Kuninaka is as usual, the support female lead...Sachiko was really kind-hearted, but can't get the attention of Taro la. I once though she might end up with Gotoda, but luckily that didn't happen as well. Lolz! (how can she end up with a bad guy right?)
The other support cast was alright, but they tend to be very exaggerating, especially the staffs working for Alice. Also, the drama cld be rather unrealistic, coz they made Alice like some goddess like that, so many ppl went crazy for her. Hahaha! Oh ya, forgot to mention Alice's annoying stepmum...she's really irritating, though she treated Alice better after they lost their fortune. (Can't stand her english too..lolz!)
Themesong "Kimagure Romantic" by Ikimono Gakari. Quite an ordinary song to me..
Well, if you are very bored with mysteries or theme-based dramas, can watch "Celeb" for some heart-warming, funny and silly moments.
