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Kenichi Endo, Ren Osugi, Tomorowo Taguchi, Susumu Terajima, Yutaka Matsushige and Ken Mitsuishi all receive offers to take part in a big-budget drama series with a famous lead actor and world-famous director. To study their roles and relationships, the director asks the six supporting actors to live together for 3 months at a share house. The actors begin their temporary living arrangement. An incident from 10 years ago, though, causes the actors to hold resentment. Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Drama
  • Episodes: 12
  • Aired: Jan 13, 2017 - Apr 1, 2017
  • Aired On: Friday
  • Original Network: TV Tokyo
  • Duration: 40 min.
  • Score: 7.8 (scored by 58 users)
  • Ranked: #48211
  • Popularity: #13915
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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pash
2 people found this review helpful
Jun 21, 2022
12 of 12 episodes seen
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10
This "Byplayers" is one of those gems that the J-drama scene produces time and again, and that time and again are vastly ignored by the non-Japanese audiences, alas.
In Japan it's been pretty successful (leading to two more seasons and a movie!), but unfortunately only this first season got subbed so far.
Of course this is partially explainable with the fact that it's quite hard to translate dramas like this into another language, so full as it is with cultural references, inside jokes, quotes etc.
But I'm afraid that the biggest "problem" is the average age of the leads - and that's particularly sad, specially for "oji-sans" like me! T_____T
If you wanna take my advice though (and take a break from the more usual dramas and their mostly "ageists" casts, give this a try, as it's really very good! ^___-
A meta-drama with a cast filled to the brim with great Japanese actors (both as leads as well as the weekly guests), most of them playing themselves, though of course in fictional situations (you know the "...no Satsukyu" series? A bit like that! ^___-)
A great declaration of love for dramas and the people working on (and mostly, IN) them!
The acting was superb, as expected; the script really brilliant; the music, imho, spectacularly good!
What's not to like? Perfect 10! ^___^

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  • Drama: Byplayers
  • Country: Japan
  • Episodes: 12
  • Aired: Jan 13, 2017 - Apr 1, 2017
  • Aired On: Friday
  • Original Network: TV Tokyo
  • Duration: 40 min.
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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  • Score: 7.8 (scored by 58 users)
  • Ranked: #48211
  • Popularity: #13915
  • Watchers: 356

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