Propose: Sekai de Ichiban Shiawase na Kotoba

[Excerpt from Daily Yomiuri, Televiews, Wm. Penn, June 24, 2005]: June 29: Propose: Sekai de Ichiban Shiawase na Kotoba (9:00-10:48 p.m., NTV network). Is "propose" the happiest word in the world? That's the premise of this omnibus drama, based on entries submitted to a contest on intriguing marriage proposals held in Nara Prefecture last year. Starring Naomi Zaizen and Norika Fujiwara.

Zaizen also plays the wife of Shinsuke Hashida, the Japanese journalist who was killed in Iraq in May 2004, in a special scheduled for Aug. 15 on TBS. The drama details how she went in search of the little boy for whom her husband was arranging eye surgery at the time of his death and made his dream come true.

STARRING: Zaizen Naomi, Fujiwara Norika
NETWORK: NTV
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DURATION: June through September 2005