Japanese Drama - Tokyo Cindrella Story

Tokyo Cindrella Story / 东京爱情故事

Rating: 9.6/10

The Cast

Emi Wakui as Yukiko Matsui
Toshiaki Karasawa as Masashi Takagi
Goro Kishitani as Kikuo Matsui
Mayu Tsuruta as Hitomi Takaki
Katsumi Watanabe as Kenji Ono
Kosuke Toyohara as Shinji Miura
Naomi Nishida as Nakamura
Izumi Igarashi as Hatsue Kanzaki
Susumu Kobayashi as Masayuki Sasaki
Reiko Takashima as Reiko
Shigeru Koyama as Koichiro Takaki
Momoko Kawauchi as Takako Matsui
Choichiro Kawarazaki as Tadashi Matsui
Yoko Moriguchi as Masaki Kahara

About the Drama

A Japanese Cinderalla story where a pretty but poor young girl meets a rich handsome young man. Despite the differences in backgrounds, status and upbringing, they fall in love…

This beautiful Cinderalla story will take you to the world of your dreams and bring hope and faith to all.

Yukiko Matsui works as an accountant for a food company. She came to Tokyo 3 years ago from the small town of Noto where her parents run an inn. Living alone in a humble apartment in the big city, everyday is plain and uneventful.

A fairy tale or a romantic encounter was only a far-away dream. One day, Yukiko goes to the station to welcome her brother, Kikuo who was visiting Tokyo for the first time. At the station, Kikuo is mistaken by Masashi Takagi as his new chauffeur. Realizing his mistake, Masashi starts to walk away in the rain when Yukiko offers him her red umbrella. Their eyes meet and Masashi feels a warmth in his heart as Yukiko reminds him of his long-missing sister. Little did they know that this fateful encounter was the beginning of a fairy-tale-come-true.

Afterwards, Yukiko soon becomes aware of the fact that they have so little in common. Masashi’s father is chairman of the prestigeous “Takagi Corporation” and Masashi will take over his father’s business shortly. When Yukiko and her brother Kikuo are invited to Masashi’s party at a luxurious first-class hotel, they understand that they obviously do not belong there.

Despite her sincere love for Masashi, Yukiko makes the sad decision to leave him. Meanwhile, Kikuo falls in love with a bar hostess who turns out to be Masashi’s missing sister. Masashi on the other hand is forced by his father to marry another woman, which is a "political" marriage which will benefit the company.

The highlight is when Kikuo storms into Masashi’s wedding ceremony leading to an unforgettable dramatic ending.

Comments

Unforgettable story. Even though it has been aired since 1994. Everytime someone takes up a red umbrella, my comments to them will be what??!! Are you trying to reignit "Tokyo Cinderalla Story"?!? The red umbrella is a very prominent and symbolic item in the show.

It is really a Cinderalla story since its only a short 10 episode, how to fall in love with someone in such a short time? How can you fall in love in such a short time? The two love birds has just met each other for such a short time, on top of that seen or even met each other for a few times...Frankly, thats love right? LOL...Pure love...No politics, no business, no monetory involvement...

Who can ever forget the beautiful song that is played in the background by Chage Aska? Meguriai.