Japanese Drama 2008

Puzzle ( Japanese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: Youth, Comedy, Mystery, Strong Female Lead
• Release Date: 18 April 2008
• Origin: Japan
• Dorama: 10 Episodes

Cast

• Ishihara Satomi as Ayukawa Misako (Sensei/Teacher)
• Yamamoto Yusuke as Imamura Shinichi (Student)
• Kimura Ryo as Kanzaki Akira (Student)
• Nagayama Kento as Tsukamoto Yoshio (Student)
• Iwata Sayuri as Matsuo Yuko (girl who provides information leading to adventures)

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Hilarious!!

After watching Satomi Ishihara’s new drama, Annatsuraro, which offers just two episodes with subs at the moment, I went to look for more of her dramas.

I found this Puzzle, which is 2008 classic.  It is a comedy mystery.

It provides plenty of laughs and suspense.

Satomi plays an English teacher in a boys’ school.  Unfortunately for the boys, this English teacher is rather inept.

The teacher said she was great friends with Dickens; no she meant his son (when told that Charles Dickens was a 19th century author) 🙂

She also said that English is just a Japanese dialect.

Vocabulary:

Episode 1:  Cold is koorudo (to freeze)

Episode 2:  Overcome is oobakamon (to overcome the opponent)

Episode 3: Treasure is ‘dore ja’ (which treasure)

Episode 4: Hesitate is ‘he shite ito’ (do I have to fart?)

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Though the Sensei is lacking in English, she is not altogether hopeless.  She has a keen mind and brilliant at solving puzzles.