Holiday Love Live-Action Series Announces Additional Cast

Takashi Tsukamoto, Tomoya Nakamura, Marika Matsumoto, more join cast

The staff of the live-action television series adaptation of writer Yukari Koyama and artist Eliza Kusakabe’s Holiday Love ~Fūfukan Ren’ai~ (Love Between Married Couples) manga revealed additional cast and visuals on Friday. The newly announced cast includes:

Takashi Tsukamoto as Azu’s husband Junpei Takamori

Tomoya Nakamura as Wataru Izutsu, Rina’s husband

Marika Matsumoto as Rina Izutsu, a woman Junpei gets close to

Yūki Yamada as Yoshinobu Kuroi

Hiroki Iijima as Shun Koizumi

Ryūtarō Okada as Masato Ichinose

Mitsu Dan as Reika Sakaguchi

Yūta Hiraoka as Ryūma Haruta, a character original to the adaptation, but who resembles the original work’s Hina Adachi (pictured right below)

As previously announced, Riisa Naka (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) will star in the series as Azu Takamori

Chiho Watanabe is writing the script and Ayato Matsuda is directing. The series will premiere in January and TV Asahi on Fridays at 11:15 p.m.

The story depicts adultery for two married couples. Naka plays the protagonist, 30-year-old housewife Azu Takamori, who has opened a nail salon. She feels her husband Junpei does not love her as a woman, but goes about her daily life as normal. Then, Junpei’s adultery comes to light.

The manga launched on DeNA‘s free MangaBox app in September 2014. Kodansha published the fifth compiled volume on June 13. The English version of MangaBox is also serializing the manga.

Source: Mantan Web