WHAT IS "VIRGIN ROAD" ALL ABOUT?:  This is a heartful drama about a stubborn single father (Takeda), his stubborn daughter (Wakui), and a man posing as his daughter's husband to be (Sorimachi). Mr. Sakurai (Takeda) raised his only daughter Kazumi (Wakui) lots of love and effort that only a single father could. Kazumi decides to go to NY to study jewelry designing and of course her father is totally against it. Well, she does go to NY anyway. There she gets involved with a man and ends up pregnant. Unfortunately, for some unknown reason the boyfriend splits. She gets a message from Japan saying that her father is in some trouble and decides to go home. Kazumi is resolved to raise her unborn baby as a single mother, just like how her father raised her. On the plane back to Narita Airport, she meets Kaoru (Sorimachi) a freelance writer/ reporter with a dark past. She asks him to pose as her husband to be in order to appease her anxious father. Hosho Mai plays (Onoda sp?) who is a childhood friend of Kaoru and hails from the Kansai area. She comes to Tokyo because she is secretly in love with Kaoru. She is a very genki person and speaks Kansai ben often.