<figure id="attachment_449726" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-449726" style="width: 3546px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b1c8ed87"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/690c26b39f26821dd645d172bf80b52d.jpeg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-449726" class="wp-caption-text">Hoka Matsumoto and Satoshi Ino star in the January drama &#8220;50 Minutes for Lovers&#8221;.</figcaption></figure>
<h2><span class="strongInContent"> Two &#8220;out of sync&#8221; people who are perfectly in sync with each other.</span></h2>
<p> A man and a woman walk along a riverside in central Tokyo wearing matching bench coats. What was so fun about them that they kept smiling and chatting all the time?</p>
<p> In mid-November, a TV drama series for January 2014, &#8220;50-minute Lovers,&#8221; was being filmed along the Meguro River in Tokyo. The drama will star Hoka Matsumoto (28) and Satoshi Inoo (35) of &#8220;Hey!</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> In this &#8220;heart-crushing love comedy,&#8221; two completely different types of people are interwoven: Haru Amami, a lonely, handsome man who opens his heart only to AI, played by Inoo, and Naho Karashima, a solid career woman who is dedicated to her work, played by Matsumoto. A trouble between the two leads them to sign a strange contract that says their relationship is limited to their lunch break and that they will make up for it with 30 homemade lunches. It is an original story with a unique setting that makes the story unpredictable.</span></p>
<p> (TV magazine writer) &#8220;The filming took place at night. The two were dressed in costumes and were filming a scene in which they walk side by side along the Meguro River. When the cut was called, a staff member rushed over with a down coat. While preparing for the next shot, the two continued chatting and laughing as they did at the beginning of the scene. After a while, they stopped walking and looked as if they were thinking or discussing something while looking at the Meguro River. The atmosphere was very good, and they seemed to be exactly in tune with each other.</p>
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<p> In a special interview with the two, available on ABC TV&#8217;s official drama channel &#8220;ABC&#8217;s Drama Channel,&#8221; Ino, who is starring in a romantic comedy for the first time, talked about Haru&#8217;s character development,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;He has a bonsai tree, he calls himself Bono in his habitual way, and there are many other things that make him quite unique. Even so, I want to make him a beloved character,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p> Matsumoto, on the other hand, is very interested in Naho. Matsumoto, on the other hand, said of Naho,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;I try to portray a warm and straightforward woman,&#8221; she said.</span></p>
<p> I am trying to create a warm and straightforward woman,&#8221; Matsumoto said. When <span class="strongInContent">asked, &#8220;In one word, how would you sum up this drama?</span> Matsumoto answered, &#8220;In a word, what would you say about this drama?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Matsumoto answered, &#8220;It&#8217;s like a lunch box that you don&#8217;t know what it is until you open it. It is like a lunch box that you don&#8217;t know until you open it.</span></p>
<p> Ino said, &#8220;You&#8217;re a genius,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ino&#8217;o said, &#8220;You are a genius.</span></p>
<p> Inoo praised him, saying, &#8220;You are a genius. Finally, Inoo said,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Inoo concluded, &#8220;I hope you&#8217;ll pay attention to the relationship between these two misfits.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> In the interview, the two were in perfect sync with each other. The two actors, who were in perfect sync in the interview, will play out their &#8220;misalignment&#8221; in love. We can&#8217;t wait to find out.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_449729" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-449729" style="width: 2741px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="59b41b03"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/77d243e12ff37600ef00665e0b9eab71.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-449729" class="wp-caption-text"> Toshi Ino says, &#8220;I want you to pay attention to the relationship between these two misaligned people.</figcaption></figure>


 Kumataro Arai

 In mid-November, "50-Minute Lovers," a drama series for the January '25 season, was being filmed along the Meguro River, where Hoka Matsumoto and Toshi Ino of "Hey!

“Two out of sync people” Hoka Matsumoto and Satoshi Inoo walk along Meguro River…!

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