Sayu Kubota is a Japanese actress and model. She was born on January 18, 2000, in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, and made her acting debut in 2008. Since then, she has appeared in a wide variety of films and television dramas, including “Trapped in the Box” (2021).

Sayu Kubota

TV Asahi

Shitara Kouichi (Fujigaya Taisuke) is a highly successful member of the product planning department at a major beer brewery. Aged 31, he seems to have it all. He is happily married and has been awarded for his good work performance on several occasions. But his life comes crashing down around him when he is suddenly demoted.

Shitara Kouichi realizes that he is being forced out of the company, so voluntarily quits. When he gets home, however, he is stunned to discover that his wife wants to divorce him. He is forced to find a new job – and eventually finds one...as the caretaker of an all-female boarding house. Here he must cook, clean, and do other chores for the female residents. One of the long-term residents here is named Nishijima Itsuka (Sekimizu Nagisa). While Nishijima Itsuka appears to be a meticulous and thoughtful woman to her coworkers, at home, she is a bossy slob! She constantly criticizes Shitara Kouichi’s cooking and cleaning skills and is generally very abrasive with him. But as they get to know one another, an unexpected spark of romance begins to ignite!

“Unexpected - Love Story in Maison Ginseiso” is a 2023 Japanese drama series that was directed by Katayama Osamu and Nakamae Yuji.

Unexpected - Love Story in Maison Ginseiso-

The Housekeepers Team

Born and raised in a small rural town, Nami Suzuki (Mone Kamishiraishi) has lived a very average, ordinary life. With no particular dreams and no real ambition, Nami doesn’t really want much out of life. If she can find moderate amounts of work and love, she’s convinced she’ll be happy.&nbsp;

In order to pursue that moderate love, Nami follows her childhood friend and long-time crush, Kenya (Inukai Atsuhiro) to Tokyo, where she hopes to get a job in the supply management department of the same publishing company where Kenya works. Unfortunately Nami’s plans don’t work out exactly the way she imagined they would. Rather than working in the supply management department, Nami is hired to work in the editorial department of one of the company’s fashion magazines. Not really taking her job seriously, Nami soon earns the scorn of her hard-working editor-in-chief, Reiko Horai (Nanao).

Rather than letting Reiko’s criticism get her down, Nami allows it to inspire her to have bigger dreams of her own. With her attitude about work gradually changing, Nami finds that her thoughts on love have also started to change, especially after meeting cameraman Junnosuke Horai (Yuta Tamamori). With a new-found determination now driving her, will Nami have what it takes to make her new-found dreams come true?

A delightful tale of chasing big dreams in the big city, “Oh My Boss! Love not included” is a 2021 Japanese romantic comedy drama directed by Yasuharu Ishii, Kenta Tanaka, and Takeyoshi Yamamoto.

Oh My Boss! Love not included

Chasing Our Dream Team

Having living in the same apartment complex their entire lives, Miwa (Sayu Kubota), Motoaki (Riku Hagiwara), Ritsu (Fuju Kamio), Aoi (Natsumi Okamoto), and Satoru (Ayumu Mochizuki) have been friends since childhood. Growing up side by side, the five friends have been a part of each other’s lives for as long as they can remember. But now that they’re in high school, things between the friends are starting to change.

Having developed feelings for Motoaki, Miwa is mortified by the idea of confessing how she feels. Keeping her feelings to herself, Motoaki has no idea how she feels about him; as such, he continues to treat her as he always has: like a friend. Meanwhile, Aoi struggles to hide her own poisonous feelings towards Miwa. Constantly frustrated by her feelings of jealousy and inferiority, Aoi tries to put up a good front, but deep down, her feelings towards Miwa continue to fester. Even with Satoru by her side, Aoi can’t seem to shake her growing contempt.&nbsp;

Fully aware of the constantly fluctuating feelings of his friends, Ritsu decides to keep his distance from them all. But the bonds of friendship keep pulling him back. Will these life-long friends ever find a way to get back what they once had, or has fate decided it’s time for them to move on?

Adapted from the manga series of the same name, by Tomohiro Shinohara, “Trapped in the Box” is a 2020 romantic high school drama directed by Shinji Kuma.

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