Koi ga Shitai, Koi ga Shitai, Koi ga Shitai - (a.k.a. Love Love Love)

Miho Kanno has the main role in this one. She works in the housekeeping department of a city hotel and spends most of her time plunging her arm down toilet bowls to recover carelessly discarded wedding bands and generally cleaning up the mess left behind by trysting lovers. Shy and lacking confidence, she doesn't experience love herself until she runs into a high school teacher whose fiancee walked out on him a week before the wedding. Kanno pursues him with a stalker's persistence oblivious to the gyudon cook (Tokoro), who would gladly devote himself to her, and signals his interest by providing free stomach medicine with every meal. (Wm. Penn, Daily Yomiuri, July 4, 2001).

Starring: Kanno Miho, Joji (George)Tokoro, Watabe Atsuro, Mizuno Miki, Okae Kumiko, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Yamada Takayuki
THEME SONG: "Rainbow Connection" by The Carpenters
NETWORK: TBS
DURATION: July 8, 2001 through September 2001.
REVIEWS:

"I actually bypassed this drama when it was on television but gave it a chance, wanting to give a romantic drama a chance. "Koi ga Shitai x3" is a fun drama because it focuses on a group of people all search for love. Wanting to be love. And somehow each are directly or indirectly have some type of relationship, may it be through the restaurant where they eat and other ways. Everyone is quite interesting to watch. It's a very "genki" romance drama that is not boring and the characters, although most are not super popular, you will enjoy their performances. I enjoyed seeing Mizuno Miki (Odoru Daisousassen) in a role as a former girlfriend of a tv star and how she ends up getting together with the other characters in the drama. Pretty interesting! Also, interesting to see Tokoro Joji as the restaurant employee who takes a fancy towards Kanno Mino's character. So, want to watch an enjoyable drama? Check this one out. Again, it may not have the superstars but still interesting to watch."

From KNDY: This drama is more or less about several different people who are in search of love. Instead of a drama that focuses on one person, this drama focuses on several people, each who somewhat have a direct/indirect relation to each other. Kanno Miho does have a main character role of a person who is looking for love and thinks she has found him after a guy gives her a pair of shoes (that she's always wanted), which was originally intended for his fiance. The other character played by Watabe is the teacher who was jilted by his fiance, trying to understand why his fiance doesn't love him. An overall fun drama to watch. Definitely a sleeper hit and it was very interesting to see Watabe Atsuro play a lead. I really enjoyed this drama immensely. Although not meant to be taken seriously, I liked how these strangers want to be loved and give it back and to see how the strangers become friends is great!