JAPANESE DRAMA DATABASE: Dear Woman

Dear Woman

Tamon is a young white-collar worker who has spent his entire young career as an athlete, and is accustomed to an all male environment. After retiring from sports, he enters a firm, only to be assigned to the personnel department. Upon arriving, he finds that he is to be trained by the strong-willed Kyoko, and that he is to work on a project to help raise the status of women and awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, putting him in completely new territory. While gradually coming to terms with his job, he finds himself slowly falling for Kyoko, and being the only one aware of her well guarded secret.

Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama, Shinobu Otake, Yoko Nogiwa, Izumi Inamori, and Nagase Tomoya
NETWORK: TBS
THEME SONG: "Sayonara no Shunkan" by Matsuda Seiko
DURATION: October 13, 1996 through December 22, 1996. 10 episodes + 1 special.
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REVIEWS:

This drama was interesting in the fact that it dealt with sexual harassment (sekuhara) in the workplace but as most dramas starring Higashiyama, they are quite slow paced. Many drama watchers will lose patience on this drama, it's not so great but it's average though. - KNDY