Actress Aragaki Yui will be playing the lead role of an international lawyer in the upcoming July drama, “Zenkai Girl” (translation: “All Out Girl”). NEWS/Kanjani8’s Nishikido Ryo will play her love interest in the Fuji TV’s “Getsu9” slot (Monday 9 PM) drama.

Despite playing the lead in hit movies like “Koizora” and “Hanamizuki“, Aragaki has surprisingly never played the lead role in a drama series. However, she’s acted in the coveted “Getsu9″ slot in the past, when she played a young doctor in “Code Blue” .


This time, Aragaki will play Ayukawa Wakana, a young international lawyer and a “career woman”. When the story starts, she is told to take care of the daughter of her boss (played by Yakushimaru Hiroko). Nishikido plays a divorced dad with a son who meets Wakana on the way to the kids’ kindergarten. Although the two fight each other at first, eventually they begin to like each other.

The drama’s producer commented, “Aragaki-san’s unquestionable cuteness and oozing clean image was absolutely needed for Wakana’s intense character.”

Filming will be starting in early June, and Aragaki remarked, “(Wakana is) an ambitious career woman who is fixated on success, and a type that I haven’t played much in the past. (She’s) a very strong-willed character, but I want to act while having fun.”

source :tokyohive