One Half of a Married Couple

One Half of a Married Couple

One Half of a Married Couple

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One Half of a Married Couple

2021- 2021

1 Seasons

8 Episodes

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Overview

Aya Nakayama (Manami Higa) is a 32-year-old housewife and she has been happily married for 2 years. To other people, Aya Nakayama and her husband look like the perfect married couple. One day, Aya Nakayama sees a message from a strange woman on her husband’s cellphone. She wonders if her husband is having an affair. She also remembers that she and her husband have not been intimate in the last two months. Aya Nakayama begins to find other evidence of her husband having an affair.

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TV Tokyo

Paravi

Episodes

No episodes found for this season.

The people behind it

Cast & crew

9 featured cast members

Starring

Manami Higa

Manami Higa

Nakayama Aya

Terunosuke Takezai

Terunosuke Takezai

Nakayama Kazuma [Aya's husband]

Ryota Bando

Ryota Bando

Higuchi Ryo

Saori Seto

Saori Seto

Imai Yuka [Housewife]

Toshihito Kokubo

Toshihito Kokubo

Takanashi Katsumi [Kazuma's colleague]

Oto Abe

Oto Abe

Ogura Manami [Aya's colleague]

Momoka Ito

Momoka Ito

Tachikawa Satomi

Tomoka Kurokawa

Tomoka Kurokawa

Hatano Sayaka [Stylist]

Sayaka Akimoto

Sayaka Akimoto

Miura Kasumi [Woman who works for a trading company]

Creative team

Written by: Izumi Kawasaki

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