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.

Kariyama, who is on the run in episode 3, said, “I hated to run away. No matter how unfavorable the situation was, I never turned my back on it. He was laughed at for being “stubborn” and “cool,” but that was my way of making sense.

This is the pride that Mr. Kimura has entrusted to Kariyama, the protagonist of the film, and that is also his own way of life. In other words, no matter how uncool a role he plays, Takuya Kimura will never change. It sounded like he was declaring that,” said a producer from a production company.

Such thoughts were on display in the final episode. This feeling became even stronger in the final episode when he confronts President Isoda (Fumiyo Kohinata) of Teiwa Construction, who is imprisoned for planning the bridge “collapse.

He said, “You used to talk about your dream. You used to talk about your dream of building bridges all over Japan and even the world. Whenever I heard that, I got angry. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it?

People move for money or status. That is psychology. But you keep talking about dreams, dreams, dreams. Every time you talked about your dream of a bridge, I hated you. Kariyama, to work is to abandon your dream. Perhaps I wanted to remind you of that.

Perhaps it is President Isoda’s thoughts that are the true reason for his discomfort with Takuya Kimura’s character.

Kimura rose to stardom by playing the “hero of my dreams” in step with the success of SMAP. But now that he is in his fifties, he has been searching for a new hero to revive his life.

However, Mr. Kimura himself has probably never experienced a setback big enough to bring him back from the brink of defeat. Perhaps it is because of this background that the main character played by Mr. Kimura feels uncomfortable whenever he talks about his “dream.

Certainly, there was a time when Kimura faced headwinds after the breakup of SMAP seven years ago. It is also true that Kimura has suffered damage due to a series of “sexual assaults by Janie Kitagawa.

However, Takuya Kimura is still a shining star. What about the three members who expanded the “New Map”?

Shingo Katori, in a program he appeared on this year, reflected on that time, saying, “2017 was quite a difficult time for me, so much so that I lost all my work and everything once and for all. At the time, headlines in the media were “Shingo Katori retires” and “Studying abroad?” His ally, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, who was watching the pain up close, said, “Okay, I’ll live with Shingo on a southern island. He also confessed that he had stood by Katori and declared that he would live on a southern island with Shingo. That is how cornered the three members of New Map had become.

The three members of “New Map” have come back from the brink. Takuya Kimura talks about his dream without seeing hell. The gap between the three is still very wide.

But if you are not afraid of change, there is a chance. A new film and a new director may bring out a completely different Takuya Kimura.

In 2006, he lost his eyesight. In 2006, he starred in Yoji Yamada’s “A Samurai’s Moment,” in which the main character Shinnojo Mimura (Kimura), who had lost his eyesight and once tried to take his own life, takes up the challenge of revenge in order to pass on the samurai code. ……