A 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a forbidden love that cannot be accepted by the people around them. ‘Iki mo Dekinai Natsu’ is as much a social drama as it is a love story. Takei plays said girl who learns that her mother never recorded her birth in their family register. While falling into despair after finding out the secret about her birth yet wholeheartedly trying to live to regain ‘herself’, she happens to run into a former journalist (Eguchi) who is suffering from a deep scar in his heart himself. Although they could be father and daughter, they start to develop much stronger feelings for each other, a love forbidden by society.

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  Takei Emi (Tanizaki Rei)

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  Eguchi Yosuke (Kiyama Ryuichiro)

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  Nakamura Aoi (Kusano Kota)

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  Hamada Mari (Tadokoro Mitsuko)

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  Kitaoji Kinya (Natsume Shusaku)

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  Kirishima Reika (Kataoka Asami)

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• Sep 23, 2012 11 of 11 episodes seen

  KdramaQueen89
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  • Overall  7
  • Story  8
  • Acting/Cast  8
  • Music  8
  • Rewatch Value  5

  I was intrigued by the synopsis and decided I hadn’t seen a good J romance drama in a while…
  
  Story: So the synopsis is way misleading. Each week I waited for the forbidden romance to develop and there was none! The story is really about a young female who finds out there is a secret surrounding her birth and we get to see how she deals with it and how it affects her family. As a family drama it was good but I was just disappointed because this was not the story I was looking for. The ending was kind of blah.
  
  Acting: The female lead actress did an excellent job. She made Rei feel real. As for the male lead, he was okay but I thought his character really didn’t contribute anything to story and I would have been okay if his character was cut out. In fact, Nakamura Aoi probably should have been billed as the male lead because he had a more intresting storyline and he had chemistry with the female lead. I liked the actors who played Rei’s family. Kaname Jun who i have seen in a lot of dramas did a super job playing the antagonist in this. I felt really sorry for his character in the end...
  
  Music: Adele's radio hits. While good, im sick of hearing them since they play it on the radio all the tme.
  
  Rewatch: Im not interested in watching this kind of story again.
  
  Overall Iki mo Dekinai Natsu is a solid family drama if thats what your looking for but nothing thats too memorable. read more

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  Who Are You?

  Both dramas revolve around the relationship between two individuals with an age gap who are brought together by unforeseen family circumstances. In Iki mo Dekinai Natsu the difference is 19/41 and in Who are you? it is 18/30.

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