Name: Mischievous Kiss: Love in TOKYO
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
Released: 2013-03-29
Rating: 9.3
Cast: Yuki Furukawa, Honoka Yahagi, Miyazaki Shuuto

Yuki Furukawa is one of the most popular young Japanese actors working today. Born on December 18, 1987, in Tokyo, Japan, Yuki Furukawa grew up in Vancouver and New York, making him fluent in both English and Japanese, before returning to Japan to study Engineering at Keio University. He made his acting debut in 2011, and appeared in movies like “High School Debut” (2011) and the drama series “Bitter Sugar” (also 2011). He shot to fame after starring as the humorless genius Naoki Irie in the popular Japanese television drama series “Mischievous Kiss: Love in TOKYO” (2013) and its sequel “Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in TOKYO” (2014-2015) opposite actress Miki Honoka. Yuki Furukawa’s popularity has expanded well beyond Japan, especially into China, where he starred in the web drama “Mysterious Summer,” the first drama series that was jointly produced by Japan and China. He also was the first Japanese actor to hold a fan meeting in Shanghai in 2013. He has since gone on to star in drama titles such as “One Page Love” (2019) and “People Who Don’t Work” (2020).

Yuki Furukawa

Honoka Yahagi, formerly known as Honoka Miki, is a Japanese model and actress. She was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan on March 7, 1997 and made her debut in the entertainment world in 2009 when she began working as an exclusive model for the teen fashion magazine, “Love Berry”. She made her acting debut in 2010 in film “Maria Watches Over Us” and the television drama “Clone Baby.” But it was her role as Kotoko Aihara in the popular television series “Mischievous Kiss: Love in TOKYO” (2013) and its sequel “Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in TOKYO” (2014) that catapulted her to superstardom, making her and co-star Yuki Furukawa one of the most popular on-screen couples in Japan. She has also appeared in “Hoping to Give You a Big Hug Tonight” (2018).

Honoka Yahagi

Miyazaki Shuuto

Narasaki Junpei [Jinko's boyfriend]

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A girl with average looks and poor grades sees a boy on the first day of high school and falls head-over-heels in love with him. Kotoko (Honoka Miki) admires Naoki (Yuki Furukawa), the most handsome and smartest boy in school, from afar for three years. But fate throws them together under one household when her family home is struck by a falling meteor and destroyed. During her home’s reconstruction, Kotoko’s family stays with her father’s childhood friend, who just happens to be Naoki’s father. Despite living under one roof, can Kotoko possibly get Naoki to think of her as more than just a nuisance? “Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo,” also known as “Playful Kiss: Love in Tokyo,” is a 2013 Japanese drama series. This is the fifth television adaptation of the Japanese manga “Itazura Na Kiss” by Tada Kaoru, following the original Japanese series “Itazura Na Kiss” (1996), the Taiwanese series “It Started With a Kiss” (2005) and its sequel “They Kiss Again” (2007), and the Korean series “Playful Kiss” (2010).

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