Good News

Joichi (Masahiro Nakai) is a staff of a movie production company.  He meets a woman named Akiko (Mayu Tsuruta), falls in love with her, and decides to marry her.  Then, he is given a great job (good news); producing a movie as an assistant director.  However, he is given another job (bad news) by a president, and faces a serious problem he has never had before.  Shiro Sano acts a lawyer informing Joichi of the bad news.

[TBS Synopsis]: Kurosawa, who works for a film production company, meets Akiko, a divorcee and single mother, who works at a publishing house. Through the efforts of Akiko's son, Naoya, they fall in love and decide to get married. The good news continues with Kurosawa becoming an assistant producer, and Akiko's parents offering to make the down-payment for their apartment. However, things start to go wrong when the ever-generous and sometimes naive Kurosawa helps a respected friend by co-signing on his financial obligation. A warm and occasionally wacky comedy for the whole family.

STARRING: Masahiro Nakai (SMAP), Mayu Tsuruta, Shiro Sano, Masanori Danda, Akiko Yada, Koichi Yamamoto, Chitose Kobayashi, Ran Ito, Nenji Kobayashi, Takahashi Katsumi, Kishida Kyoko
NETWORK: TBS
THEME SONG: "Nobody is Perfect" by Hotei Tomoyasu
DURATION: April 11, 1999 through June 1999.
REVIEWS:

I watched this drama and I found it one of the worse Nakai Masahiro dramas ever.  I was hoping for something better between Tsuruta and Nakai but I didn't like the chemistry all that much. .-KNDY

I felt that this was a great family drama. I enjoyed Nakai and Tsuruta in this drama lot. I just like how these two strangers get together. - Jacque