40 Onna to 90 Nichi Kan de Kekkon suru Houhou

 Naoko Iijima has been my #1 current actress in Japan for quite a while now, surprised that I've done zero posts for her, that's gonna change quickly as there's a bunch of things that'll I'll be sharing of her soon.

 First up is her BeeTV web drama from 2009 40 Onna to 90 Nichi Kan de Kekkon suru Houhou, which translates into How to Marry a 40-Year-Old Woman in 90 Days. This is a keitai romantic comedy serial about an “around 40” beautician (Naoko Iijima) and the 23-year-old salaryman (Hayato Ichihara) who falls in love with her. Watched unsubbed so as usual missed too much but the story was easy enough to follow, what I wasn't sure of was why he fell for her, he had her picture on his computer before he met her, at first was it some sort of game or bet or something for work, that part I didn't quite get. He was quite a confident young business man and Naoko's character was not nearly as confident, couldn't understand why someone like him would want to date such an older woman but to his credit he never stopped his advances and like most of these kinds of shows it had an happy ending where they ended up getting married.

  

 This was not a drama that originally aired on TV but was such a success it did end up airing on Fuji TV and was also released on DVD. 11 total episodes, difference between the wb dramas and regular ones are the length of the shows, these were only about 10 minutes each but putting all the episodes together is like watching a movie. Recommend this for any Naoko fans but won't rate it due to missing some of the plot because of the lack of subs, also will have more of Naoko and a few more of these BeeTV web dramas coming up with many others actors, check the post below for many screenshots of Naoko from the show.