Hard to Say I Love You (2010)
Original title: 素直になれなくて
Hard to Say I Love You is a 2010 Japanese-language drama series. It stars Mayumi Asaka, Eita Nagayama and Juri Ueno.
Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno's best friend, whose boyfriend has been avoiding her since she discovered she was pregnant. Ichihara works at a magazine where he is being blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor. Park, on Twitter, takes on the persona of a doctor, when he is actually working at a company that sells medical equipment to disinterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister.
This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.
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Cast
- Mayumi Asaka as Misako Ichihara
- Eita Nagayama as Nakajima Keisuke / "Nakaji"
- Juri Ueno as Mizuno Tsukiko / "Haru"
- Tetsuji Tamayama as Ichihara Kaoru / "Linda"
- Kim Jae-joong as Park Seonsu / "Doctor"
- Megumi Seki as Nishimura Hikari / "Peach"
- Haruka Kinami as Park Minha
- Koji Kikkawa as Ryosuke Nakajima
- Ryo Ryusei as Masafumi Takahashi
- Eri Watanabe as Mariko Okuda
- Yuichi Nakamura as Shu Mizuno
- Rin Aizawa as Yuki Maeda
