Nao Minamisawa: Just a way overdue post for her....

 It really was way overdue for another Nao post, did a bunch of them about two years ago and haven't done any since so hopefully this will be the start of many more. One problem has been although Nao is in a lot of dramas she never seems to be in the ones I watch or if there is some things she's in it seems as though most of them don't get subbed. Just have a few overly kawaii Nao pics here, have posted a few of them but they're so good an encore viewing of them would be a good thing plus after them is a Nao video which I really like and have watched too many times to count.

Nao Minamisawa: Otousan wa Nido Shinu drama episode 1 screenshots and recap

 If you've noticed these shorter, late night dramas have become my fave watches, easier to zip through and they just seem so much more interesting than most of the prime time dramas, this one here was no exception.

Main Cast:

Nao Minamisawa as Maiko Osawa
Yumi Asou as Yukie Osawa
Kenichi Endo as Toshio Osawa
Reiya Masaki as Takashi Osawa
Ken Yasuda as Takafumi Muto
Midoriko Kimura as Rui Kanzo
Ikkei Watanabe as Kenji Sado
Takuya Uehara as Detective Inohara
Yoji Tanaka as Detective Hatano

 Except for flashbacks this drama just takes place during a 24 hour stretch at a funeral home where the Osawa family has gone to lay to rest the head of the family Toshio Osawa. He was the head candy salesman for a confectionery company and quite a good one too but he was also too hard of a worker as during the services his children realized how little they really knew him. Both of his children were older, the daughter Maiko was a 20 year old in college and the son Takashi was a senior in high school who was studying hard for his entrance exams. Most of this first episode took place right after the family arrived at the funeral home, meeting some of the fathers coworkers who the family knew and reminiscing a bit about their father. They did know him a bit when they were younger but eventually he never seemed to be at home nor at any of their special occasion such as school events or birthdays, in a way he was a stranger to them as all the workers knew him so much better than they did. But come to pay their respects they did as the company was paying for everything but also to learn a bit more about their father who they had also thought had died in an accident, even their mother didn't know the exact details but at this point they just accepted what they were told.
 So ends the first episode, the drama doesn't drag at all but at 28 minutes an episode there's only so much that happens in a short show like this. Actually most of the next two episodes continue in the same mode as this but just wait until the final episode until one of the biggest bombshells ever is dropped on us. Ending off are some really nice screenshots of Nao as Maiko, have only seen her in a few things but enjoyed her so uch in this will be hunting down more of her dramas.

Nao Minamisawa: Otousan wa Nido Shinu drama episode 2 screenshots and recap

 Back again for even more of the same for the Osawa family who are mourning the death of their father while he was on a business trip in Hokkaido. The family accepted the death was just an accidental one but we the viewer have learned otherwise, the father Toshio was actually stabbed twice for apparently no reason. A pair of detectives from Hokkaido have traveled to Tokyo for the funeral services but they never mentioned to the family the cause of his death, they for some reason presumed the family knew about him being stabbed though they didn't. The daughter Maiko(Nao Minamisawa) has grown a bit suspicious of things though, examining a bit her father's body she has noticed many bruises on him, where did they come from and were they a reason for her father's death? The detectives knew nothing about the bruises but they knew how he had died so they didn't pursue the reason for them making Maiko even that much more suspicious, even by this episode's end she and the family still didn't know the exact cause of his death. Few other happenings in this show was the family meeting with a few of the company people who had worked with their father, lot of secrets they had about him but weren't willing to share, now it seems the deeper we get into the show the family, especially the children, are becoming even more confused then ever about who really was this man they called father.
 Halfway through, it's only a four episode series, true it's been a tad slow but not in the least boring, the events are really building up, you'll learn much more of them in the following two posts.