Aoi Morikawa: Her Carefree Smile Creates a Warm and Friendly Atmosphere on Set; Spotted on a Park Date with “Kis-My-Ft2” Member Yuta Tamamori in the July Drama

“A Sense of Excitement” Playing a Single Mother

A handsome and beautiful couple with a refreshing aura is walking through a large park facing the Pacific Ocean. They are Yuta Tamamori (36) of “Kis-My-Ft2” and actress Aoi Morikawa (31).

In early June, filming was underway at a coastal park in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, for the July “Sunday 10” drama *My Fiction* (TV Asahi).

“The drama is an entirely original story by screenwriter Junpei Yamaoka (42), who worked on the ‘GTO’ series (2012 version) and the ‘Housekeeper Mitazono’ series.The protagonist, Masaki Ikawa, played by Tamamori, is an ordinary man who works as a caregiver at a nursing home and lives happily with his beloved wife, Mayumi (Emma Miyazawa, 37), as they mark their sixth wedding anniversary. However, he is involved in an accident, and when he wakes up a week later, he finds himself impersonated by a stranger and forgotten even by Mayumi .

Morikawa plays Yuri Ninomiya, a single mother raising her 6-year-old son on her own. She happens to meet Ikawa after he is rushed to the hospital and offers a helping hand to the distraught man, but there’s a reason behind her actions…“It’s a shocking romantic suspense drama where you can’t predict what will happen next,” says a TV magazine writer.

Let’s go back to the beginning of the story. As the cameras started rolling, Tamamori and Morikawa began walking across the park’s lawn, drinks in hand. They looked like a couple enjoying a stroll while chatting, bathed in the refreshing sea breeze.The director called “Cut,” and the next scene was moved to a seaside promenade. After changing costumes, they resumed filming their scene together. Throughout the shoot, Morikawa appeared relaxed, joking around with the staff—a clear sign that filming was going smoothly.

Speaking of Morikawa, in the drama *Ooku* (Fuji TV), which aired in January 2024, he played a villain who harassed the protagonist and drove him to the brink. In *Stingers: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Undercover Investigation Unit* (Fuji TV), in which he took on his first leading role in a prime-time drama series last July,she played the team leader of the Metropolitan Police Department’s undercover operations unit, and both roles were highly acclaimed. Since her acting debut in 2012, she has been described as a “method actress,” and her acting skills have earned her high praise.

This time, she will play a single mother with a 6-year-old child, and

“It’s a mystery where you can’t predict what will happen next, and I felt a sense of excitement about the human drama that emerges from that. Yuri, the character I play, is a single mother—a resilient woman who moves forward while confronting her grief in order to protect her son.(Excerpt) I’ll do my very best during filming to ensure this becomes a show that everyone finds enjoyable!” (Oricon News, May 28, ’26)

She expressed her enthusiasm in these words. In a drama that’s sure to spark discussion, what kind of woman will Morikawa portray…? Expectations are running high.

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