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Yoshihiro Izumi penned Todome no Kisu a diverged from the typical Japanese drama series and Shintaro Sugawara co-directed it with Hiroto Akashi. The story follows Otaro Dojima (Kento Yamazaki), an extremely popular host going by the name Eight. Otaro utilises his numerous charms, intellectual and physical ones, to get anything and everything he wants from his female customers. A tragic event in the past that caused the death of his younger brother, his father to go to jail, and the fixation of his mother to find her lost child, lead Otaro to take the aforementioned path of earning easy money and forming relationships without strings attached.

Otaro’s eagerness for more money is fumed up, when at the bar he works, a group of female friends arrives and among them is Mikoto Namiki (Yuko Araki), the heiress of the Namiki Group. He creates a plan to approach her,...

We are defined by moments, decisions made by us or for us by another. For Teiichi Akaba (Masaki Suda) it was always the choice between love of the piano (his mother’s passion) and a desire to please his father (Kôtarô Yoshida’s Josuke Akaba) by following a path towards political power — something he himself failed to achieve. Teiichi chooses the latter because of something his Dad said during a rant about status and control: that ascension to the height of Japan’s Prime Minister is to position oneself as maker of the country. Only at the top can you dictate true change and/or ensure your passions are protected under law. It’s a lofty goal that proves as much about self-sacrifice as it does about self-centeredness. And the journey begins now.

Well, that’s a lie. As Akira Nagai’s Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High — adapted by Yoshihiro Izumi...