Miho Kanno: Why she wants to make her first drama series in two and a half years a success
Actress Miho Kanno (46), who will star in her first drama series in two and a half years, is attracting a lot of attention for “Yuria Sensei no Akai Ito” (TV Asahi) in the October season. This is because Kanno is believed to have a number of reasons for wanting to make this drama “a success at any cost.
In “Yuria Sensei,” the main character, played by Kanno, an ordinary housewife who runs an embroidery class at home, begins living together with a beautiful young man who claims to be her husband’s “lover” and his “girlfriend” and their two “daughters” after her husband suddenly falls ill. The story is based on the popular manga of the same name. The film is based on a popular manga of the same name, and the interesting script, as well as the current situation in which Kanno is placed as an actress, is likely to make the film even more interesting.
Kanno has been cutting back on major work in recent years in order to raise her two children, an 8-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter, with her husband, actor Masato Sakai, whom she married in 2001. She has not starred in a drama series since the January 2009 season of “My Daughter Can’t Get a Boyfriend! (NTV) in the January 2009 season. (NTV) in January 2009. “My Daughter Can’t Have a Boyfriend” was also her first starring role in a drama series in about four years at the time. However, with the exception of the first episode, the average household rating for the second and subsequent episodes remained in the single digits. Now that she has finished raising her children, Kanno is looking to make her presence felt again as an actress, and this is her “revenge” drama in which she wants to show her ability by scoring double-digit ratings.
When Kanno announced that she would be playing the lead role, she said, “It’s a great honor to be able to play this role at this point in time! I think I’m very lucky. Although expectations are high for her performance, she is also under a lot of pressure because “Yuria Sensei” will be aired in TV Asahi’s “9 p.m. Thursdays in October,” which has been TV Asahi’s signature drama slot in recent years, and has continued to receive high viewer ratings. In particular, this is the time slot where the hit series “Doctor X,” starring Ryoko Yonekura, has been broadcast since 2012 and has recorded phenomenal numbers, with average household viewer ratings of over 20% for the second through fifth seasons (according to Video Research, Kanto region).
Doctor X” was broadcast in the October season every year until 2005, and in the same season every other year since then, but after the seventh season in 2009, it will not be broadcast this year, and “Yuria Sensei” will take over this slot. Therefore, it has been reported in some quarters that Yonekura has withdrawn from the series. TV Asahi’s “Thursday 9 pm” slot for the October season, including “Doctor X” from 2012 and last year’s “The Travel Nurse,” has been averaging double-digit household viewer ratings for the entire period, and since it is the main slot where the company’s future depends on, the expectations and pressure on Kanno are quite high. This is the kind of pitch that cannot be allowed to be a “flop.
