Minami Tanaka is a Japanese actress and former TV announcer who was born on November 23, 1986, in New York, the United States. She studied at Aoyama Gakuin University and joined the Japanese broadcaster TBS in 2009 as an announcer. She began acting in drama series titles in 2011, appearing in “Ikemen Desu ne.” Some of her more recent roles include “Daughter of Lupin” (2019) and “Ex-Enthusiasts: MotoKare Mania” (2019).

Minami Tanaka

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Construction company employee Michi Yoshino (Nao) is married to a shy and reticent man who loves her, but avoids her whenever she tries to get intimate with him – to the extent that it’s been two years since they last had sex. One evening, feeling particularly neglected and frustrated, she sits outside drinking a can of beer when she bumps into her successful and popular boss Makoto Niina (Takanori Iwata). Like her, Makoto is also feeling neglected by his spouse: his wife is a successful fashion editor who never “has time” for intimacy. But could this heart-to-heart lead them to a dangerous romantic encounter… and the potential end of both their marriages? This 2023 Japanese drama series was based on a manga series by Haru Haruno and was directed by Hiroshi Nishitani.

Even if You Don’t Do It

The Forbidden Couple

In 2006, Sanada Rio (Yuriko Yoshitaka), a small-town resident, is haunted by an unsolved missing person case. Fifteen years later, Rio is a successful businesswoman whose life is suddenly upended when the missing person reappears, implicating her in a murder investigation. Reuniting with Daiki Miyazaki (Kouhei Matsushita), the detective in charge of the case and her former lover, Rio must confront her past and the secrets she's been hiding. As Daiki investigates, he struggles to determine Rio's involvement, pushing her to reveal the truth about what really happened years ago. This is a 2021 Japanese mystery romance thriller drama directed by Ayuko Tsukahara, Takeyoshi Yamamoto, and Yoshiaki Murao.

Dearest

🤫Pretty Little Liar🤫

Yurika Namba (Yuko Araki) is a 27-year-old woman whose life turned on its head five years ago when she split up with her now ex-boyfriend Saito Makochi (Kengo Kora).

Since that day, she has failed to give up on her obsession with him, relentlessly stalking him on social media and even imagining he is still around, interacting with her daily life.

She has become used to having her imaginary ex around to the point of even slowly starting to think about dating another man, one who is totally unlike her former lover.

But life takes another 180-degrees turn when she lands a new job at a real estate agency…only to discover that Saito Makochi (the real one, that is!) works there and is now her new workmate.

Could love strike again for the reunited duo, or will other love pretenders keep them apart?

This drama was based on a long-running web-based cartoon strip of the same name, authored by Yukari Takinami.

“Ex-Enthusiasts: MotoKare Mania” is a 2019 Japanese drama series that was directed by Namiki Michiko.

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