Drama

Saikou No Rikon (Matrimonial Chaos) Dorama Vs KDrama

• AKA: Best Divorce
• Genre: Romance, Marriage, Relationship

I have seen Saikou No Rikon at least twice before and enjoyed each time.

Now South Korea has made a version of it and it will be shown imminently.

The Best Divorce, Dorama poster

Saikou No Rikon

• Release Date: 2013 (+2014 Special)
• Dorama: 11 Episodes (plus a tv movie special)
• Origin: Japan

Cast:

• Eita as Hamasaki Mitsuo
• Machiko Ono as Hamasaki Yuka
• Maki Yoko as Uehara Akari
• Guo Hari as Uehara Ryo

What I like about this drama?  What stand out?

I actually hating Hamasaki Mitsuo when he started falling for his once lived in ex-girlfriend Akari back in his college days.

He found that he has nothing in common with his wife, Yuka, who had been married for two years.  He thought that she is just too lightweight, doesn’t think things through and he gets annoyed just by looking at her lately.

By serendipity, he met his ex-girlfriend, Akari, who is now a masseuse. He went to her for his bad back.  Suddenly he found with her the tranquillity to escape his mundane life as an ordinary salaryman.

But it was not so simple as Akari, herself is married to a womanising gorgeous young professor.

Akari was beginning to turn to Mitsuo for comfort when she found that she was pregnant by her husband.

Suddenly Mitsuo had a change of mind.

He started to miss Yuka, who he had divorced.

When Yuka asked him about being a father to Akari’s baby, Mitsuo was very categorical in his reply.

He told Yuka that it will not happen.  He said that he declined Yuka’s wish to have a baby with him, he is not that heartless to have or bring up a baby with someone else.

🙂  That somehow got to me and redeemed Mitsuo in my eyes.

Matrimonical Chaos KDrama poster