JAPANESE DRAMA DATABASE: Garasu no Kakeratachi

GARASU NO KAKERATACHI (Piece of Glass) [also known as A Kept Woman]

This is a pure love story about a woman with a dark past, and a man who is willing to sacrifice his career for the woman he loves. Working as a cameraman for a small video productions company, Kamizaki (Fujii) meets Shoko (Matsuyuki) who runs a jewelry shop. He falls immediately in love with Shoko and within that day, manages to gently kiss her. However Shoko tells Kamizaki that she cannot see him because she is the lover of Kamizaki's boss.......

Financial needs may determine how some live their lives, but when those people find true love, they will sacrifice everything in order to hold on to it. This is the story of such a woman, kept as a mistress by a domineering businessman but loved by one of his young employees. They hope their love for each other will be strong enough to withstand her keeper’s wrath and escape the circumstances that keep them apart.

[TBS Synopsis]: Financial needs may determine how some live their lives, but when those people find true love, they will sacrifice everything in order to hold on to it. This is the story of such a woman, kept as a mistress by a domineering businessman but loved by one of his young employees. They hope their love for each other will be strong enough to withstand her keeper's wrath and escape the circumstances that keep them apart.

Starring: Fujii Fumiya, Matsuyuki Yasuko, Esumi Makiko, Kiki Kirin, Shofukutei Tsuruko, Okae Kumiko, Namase Katsuhisa, Nagano Hideo, Kokubun Taichi and more.
Theme song: "Another Orion" by Fujii Fumiya
NETWORK: TBS TV
DURATION: Started on July 12 through September 1996
REVIEWS:

As happy as I was to see Fujii with the two talented and beautiful women together, the drama was o.k. The Olympics kind of overshadowed the whole summer drama stories but this was average but a little on the dark side. - KNDY