2年ぶりにすっきりしました。2020年の年明けの放送で掻き立てられた好奇心が、ようやく満たされました。期待以上、と言っていい出来栄えでした。
番組の公式サイトに載っている紹介は、次の通りです。
I finally felt a sense of satisfaction after two years. My curiosity which had been aroused by the broadcast at the beginning of 2020 was finally satisfied. I can say that it was even better than I expected it would be.
The background to the story from the official website is as follows.
「2020年の年明け。義母・亜希子（綾瀬はるか）の手腕により再建に向かっていた大阪の企業・ゴルディックが乗っ取りに遭う。新しいオーナーは、外資系ファンドのボス。企業を安値で買収し、株式や資産を高値で売りさばいて大金を得る、いわゆるハゲタカである。しかし、憎き相手に対面したはずの亜希子は、彼の姿に言葉を失ってしまう…」
“At the dawn of the New Year, a company called Goldic, which has been reconstructed by Akiko, the stepmother, is taken over by a foreign fund. The new owner of Goldic is the manager of the fund. They are a so-called vulture fund which buys companies at low prices and sells their stocks and assets at high prices to make a lot of money. However, Akiko, who should take revenge for Goldic, is lost for words when she meets the guy because……”
言葉を失うはずです。その外資系ファンドのボス岩城良治というのは、亡くなった夫良一に瓜二つだったからです。しかし、見た目は同じでも性格は正反対で、穏やかでお人好しなところもあった良一に対して、岩城は抜け目の無い、目的のためには手段を選ばないような男でした。岩城は、亜希子の手腕によって急成長を遂げたベーカリー麦田にまで魔の手を伸ばそうとします。手を尽くしてベーカリー麦田を守ろうとする亜希子ですが、岩城の中にどうしても良一の面影を観てしまう彼女は、いつもの精彩を欠いてしまうのでした。
There is nothing strange about her being lost for words. That’s because Ryoji Iwaki, the manager of the foreign fund, looks like Akiko’s late husband called Ryoichi. Although they look alike, their characters are totally different. Iwaki is a shrewd guy who will do anything to get what he wants, whereas Ryoichi was a calm, good-natured guy. Iwaki even tries to take over Bakery Mugita, which has grouwn rapidly thanks to Akiko’s efficiency. Akiko makes great efforts to protect Bakery Mugita, but she cannot do it well, it’s unlike her though, because she can’t help trying to look for something similar to Ryoichi in Iwaki’s character.
これまで通り、それぞれのキャラを演じる俳優さんの演技が見事でした。特にベーカリー麦田の店主、麦田章のバカっぷりは、苛立ちを覚えるほどにハンパなく、それだけに感動の振れ幅も大きくなり、思い切り笑ったり泣いたりしてしまいました。あれだけクールでカッコいい佐藤健さんが、その本来の魅力を一切封じている姿に、役者としての凄みを思い知らされました。そんな麦田が放った含蓄のある言葉に対し、亜希子の言った、「バカが天才との紙一重を超えるという奇跡の瞬間を見た気がします。」が可笑しくて大笑いしました。
Each actor performed so well as ever. I was particularly impressed with the character called Akira Mugita, who is the owner of Bakery Mugita, because he is extremely stupid, even irritatingly so, but he eventually makes this drama have a wide emotional range so I cried and also laughed a lot. Even though Takeru Sato, the actor who played Mugita, is originally a cool, handsome guy, he didn’t show such nature at all in this drama so I realized how great he is as an actor even more. There was a phrase which Akiko said when she heard Mugita say something full of meaning, and what she said was, “I have a feeling that I saw the moment when a fool becomes a genius crossing over the slight difference between them”. I laughed out loud when I heard it.
日常の小さな奇跡を数多く取り上げてきたこのドラマですが、結果として、このドラマ自体が、一つの奇跡となってしまったように思います。もしかすると、作り手が意図した以上の出来栄えになっているのでは、とさえ思ってしまいます。上白石萌歌さん演じるみゆきがドラマの終盤に言った一言「あの日の続きがあるって、奇跡じゃない？」が心に刺さりました。その言葉通り、未解決だった伏線の続きを見事に回収しきって、このドラマは一応の完結をみたといっていいと思います。それでも、もっと続きを作ってほしいと心から願うほど、素晴らしいドラマでした。
This drama has featured a lot of tiny miracles and now I have a feeling that this drama itself is a miracle in the end. I even think that this drama might have become better than what the production staff intended. I was deeply impressed by the words, which Miyuki, Akiko’s daughter played by Mone Kamishiraishi, said at the end of this drama, and it was “Isn’t it a miracle that there was a sequel to that day?”. I feel the same way as Miyuki toward this drama because it came to an end with nothing ambiguous about any plots in it. This drama was so good that I feel like watching the sequel even further while knowing it has already ended.
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