Drama
Room Laundering (Japanese Drama Review & Summary)
Room Laundering poster
- Genre: Crime, Comedy, Supernatural, Romance
- Date Released: November 2018
- Origin: Japan; Continues on from the film of the same title
- Dorama: XX Episodes
Cast:
- Elaiza Ikeda as Miko Yakumo
- Ito Kentaro as Akito Nijikawa
- Joe Odagiri as Goro Ikazuzi
- Eita Okuno as Terada
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Kimihiko Kasuga
- Tomorowo Taguchi as Seizen
Episode 1
The first episode is charming, it has that very Japanese feel of storytelling and the cast is so good; it has got Ito Kentaro in it. Yey!
Elaiza Ikeda plays Miko Yakumo, who can see ghosts. Her boss is Goro Ikazuzi, who is a realtor/estate agent cum detective.
Anyway, Goro specializes in renting out properties which are the ‘unrentable’ ones, with histories of violent deaths and suicides.
What he does was to room launders the place by having people, who usually work, for him to stay there for a few months to build up a new history, clearing or hiding the violent previous event.
Miko is usually the one to stay/rent these places.
Her current place is Room 101, where a member of the Yakuza was tortured and killed by his group because they caught him running away with some of the proceeds from their drug sale. The dead man was then locked under the floorboards of Room 101. The money he took was never been recovered.
The owner of the house/room was having a problem renting out the room so he went to Goro.
Nijikawa works in the local mini-mart and has a crush of Miko. He told her that she can rely on him to help her out whenever she needed help.
The help she asked him to help her with was to find Candy, the girl the ghost of the dead Yakuza had been pining about. He told Miko he wanted to know how Candy was.
Candy works at the Sao Paulo Samba Dance restaurant. When Miko and Nijikawa saw her, she was rather too friendly with another man.
How can they tell the ghost that Candy is anything but bereaved?!!!
Love this drama, Joe Odagiri is ruggedly handsome.