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

Fuji TV

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?

Even if You Don’t Do It

The Forbidden Couple

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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