Believe” had the highest ratings for a commercial drama in the April season…but “a feeling of bewilderment” remained for Takuya Kimura, the lead actor.

The final episode of “Believe: A Bridge for You” (TV Asahi), a Thursday drama series starring Takuya Kimura that was billed as a “65th anniversary production,” was broadcast on June 20, with an average household rating of 13.2%. At this point, it has the highest rating for a commercial drama in the April season.

Kimura plays Riku Kariyama, a designer for a major general contractor. Kariyama, who bets his life on building bridges, is blamed for an accident and escapes from prison. In this humanistic entertainment film, Kariyama is on the run to find out the truth about the accident.

In the final episode, Kariyama is arrested again, but after a retrial, a new truth is revealed about the professional negligence manslaughter for which he was held responsible for the Ryujin Ohashi Bridge collapse.

Then came the final scene.

Kariyama makes the blueprints into paper airplanes and flies them from the Megane Bridge on the Usui Pass. The netizens were very excited to see Kariyama. It was a great scene that added another page to the “legend of Kim Taku.

However, is it just me, or is there still a nagging sense of unease even after the last episode?

In the drama “Grand Maison Tokyo” (TBS), Mr. Kimura is a chef at a two-star restaurant who has lost all his fame and credibility before his 50th birthday. In the drama series “Kyobo” (Fuji TV), he plays a police academy instructor with gray hair and artificial eyes who has a dark past.

In the drama series “Mirai e no 10 k count” (TV Asahi), he plays a former four-time high school champion amateur boxer who is in a state of despair. The role of Kariyama in this film, in which he runs away while enduring the pain from his ribs, is one of the “uncoolest” roles in Kimutaku’s history. I wanted to break new ground by playing a character who has come back from the bottom. I could clearly sense his desire to break new ground by playing a character who has come back from the bottom.

However, I wonder if actor Takuya Kimura was able to seal off the “Kimura Taku no matter what he does” with this film. Unfortunately, I don’t think so.