Even in a modest fashion, her beautiful style catches the eye…Eliza Ikeda handing out leaflets during the filming of her “Drama Series for the January season next year

A beautiful style that stands out even in modest fashion

On a Sunday in late October, at the Suidobashi intersection in front of the Tokyo Dome (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo), seven young people were cheerfully calling out to passersby in front of them. The handmade sign they carried on their chests read “NAZE. The handmade sign on their chests read “NAZE,” and the words “Yuya” and “Kim Gong” were written one by one on each of them.

Among these young people, a woman was holding a leaflet in both hands and handing it to a passerby. She is a person …… wearing a duffle coat with straight black hair. It is Eliza Ikeda (29).

This is a scene from the filming of the TBS Friday drama “DREAM STAGE,” which is scheduled to air in January ’26. The drama is set in the K-POP industry. It tells the story of Jun Agatsuma, a producer who was once exiled from the music industry, played by Nakamura Rinya (38), who plays the lead role, and seven dropout trainees who transcend generations and nationalities in pursuit of their dreams.

Ikeda plays Mizusei Endo, the manager of NAZE, a boy group formed by seven trainees. Mizusei is a hardworking and serious person, but she lacks self-confidence and is not good at asserting herself. The film depicts her and the young people of ‘NAZE’ inspiring each other and growing together.” (TV magazine writer)

Going back to the beginning of the story, it is true that the young people of “NAZE” are cheerful and show their presence to people on the street as if they were at a festival, as seen in the shooting scenes. On the other hand, Ikeda’s expression was vacant and somewhat listless. Nevertheless, her 170 cm tall beautiful style seemed to stand out from a distance, and not a few passersby noticed Ikeda and stopped to look at her.

It had been a year since Ikeda appeared in a terrestrial TV drama since “Diamonds in the Sea,” a TBS Sunday drama from the October 2012 season. Commenting on her role as a talent manager in this drama, she said on the show’s official website, “I am very happy to have a manager who has been a great help to me over the years.

I’m thinking of the sincere and earnest manager who has taken care of me over the years, and I’m putting his back into Mercury.

For NAZE and for the adults, this is a story of their own adolescence coming to life. I would be happy if you could feel the preciousness of time spent thinking of someone and supporting each other, as well as the serious challenges of clumsy and slightly eccentric people, through this film.

The majority of the filming took place in South Korea, so this may have been a rare opportunity to shoot scenes in Japan.

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