Tsuma, wa Kunoichi is Miori's latest drama that started on April 5th, it translates roughly over to My Wife is a Ninja which is what Miori is. Four episodes have aired, have just watched the first 2 which I'll be reviewing back to back, subs for episode 3 just came out today but think I'll be doing posts on this series two episodes at a time, though it's a 42 minute show it's rather slow paced with not too, too much happening which seems to be a trend as of late for dramas.
Miori's character is named Orie who works for the Shogunate Kawamura, this drama takes place in the latter days of the Edo era before it's renamed Tokyo so would say it takes place in the early 1860's. Orie is sent on a secret mission to Hirado, for undercover purposes she marries a skilled yet socially inept astronomer called Futaboshi but after one month when her mission is complete she suddenly disappears back to Edo. Futaboshi is a quite upset as even though they had got married quickly he really did fall in love with her and as we learn she fell in love with him too. He has no clue what happened to her but figures Edo would be a good starting point and travels there to find her. There Futaboshi meets Hirado's former lord Matsuura and his old best friend Senemon who helps him to get settled in Edo. Meanwhile Orie is back living at the headquarters of Kawamura with her mother and preparing for another secret assignment which doesn't start until the next episode. As this episode ends by chance Orie happens to come across her husband Futaboshi, luckily for her he didn't notice her and looks like this may be a recurring theme for at least the first few episodes.
In the 42 minute episode that's really the gist of what happened, much introducing of the characters and really very little else, didn't make it a bad or boring episode, though it may take a while to get to the main story lines least the show moved along fairly well. Only complaint really about the first episode was that Miori wasn't in it too much, she will be after this show but much of this episode focused on her husband who is hard to explain yet, more about him in the next post that covers episode two, check out these screenshots here of Miori from this show, not enough of them as she wasn't in it as nearly as her fans would have liked her to be, episode 2 her role luckily greatly increases.
Main Cast:
Miori Takimoto as Orie
Somegoro Ichikawa as Hikoma Futaboshi, Orie's husband
Min Tanaka as Seizan Matsuura, the former Hirado lord
Mayumi Wakamura as Masae, Orie's mother
Soko Wada as Shinichiro Kawamura, Orie's superior
Keisuke Horibe as Senemon
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