Soup Opera
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Director Tomoyuki Takimoto
Cast
Maki Sakai
Rui
Tatsuya Fuji
Tony Tanaka
Reiko Kusamura
Mrs. Katsuragi
Mariko Kaga
Toba-chan
Masato Hagiwara
Doctor Mizutani
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Sasajima
Takahiro Nishijima
Kosuke
Sawa Suzuki
Nanako
Ryosei Tayama
shop owner
Kimiko Yo
Yasuko Tanaka
Sansei Shiomi
library director
Tōru Shinagawa
bus dispatcher
Wakaba Irie
Sasajima's mother
Sei Hiraizumi
Gou Inoue
Kyusaku Shimada
Editor Kuraki
Daikichi Sugawara
Professor Ishibashi