Name: Deliveries from the Heart - True stories from Mercari
Genre: Drama
Released: 2020-11-03
Rating: 9.2
Cast: Marie Iitoyo, Tsukaji Muga, Asaka Kodai, Mizuki Itagaki

Marie Iitoyo is an up-and-coming Japanese model and actress who was born on January 5, 1998, in Chiba, Japan. She began her modeling career in the late 2000s, and made her first major acting appearance in the high school-themed 2012 drama series “Hana no Kanmuri.” She has since appeared in a large number of hit drama titles, including “Boys Over Flowers Season 2” (2018). Her movie credits include “The Dark Maidens” (2017) and “Stare” (2020).

Marie Iitoyo

Tsukaji Muga is a Japanese actor and comedian who was born on November 25, 1971, in Hannan, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He studied Economics at Momoyama Gakuin University, and is famously one half of the comedy duo Drunk Dragon. He has appeared in a wide range of drama series titles, and began acting in the early 2000s, featuring in “Bara no Jūjika” (2002) and “True Horror Stories 3” (2003). More recently, he has starred in 2020’s “Deliveries from the Heart – True Stories from Mercari” and “Suicide Forest Village” (2021).

Tsukaji Muga

Asaka Kodai is a Japanese dancer and actor who was born on August 24, 1992. He began his career as a dancer, debuting while still only 12 as part of pop and dance act J.J. Express. He went on to become part of dance troupe Musical Academy Dancing (M.A.D) in 2007, but soon after decided to turn his back on the dance scene and pursue an acting career instead. He appeared in drama titles such as “Hana Kimi” (2011), “Tokyo Airport: Air Traffic Service” (2012), and “Biblia Used Bookstore Casebook” (2013). More recently, he has featured in the movie “Cheer Boys!!” (2019) and “In Time With You” (2019).

Asaka Kodai

Mizuki Itagaki is a Japanese singer and actor who was born in Tokyo, Japan, on October 25, 2000. He made his movie debut before his 14th birthday, appearing in “Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2,” the second movie adaptation of a popular manga series of the same name. He also joined the all-male pop group M!LK later the same year. The following year, he appeared in the drama series “Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.” More recently, he has starred in the drama series titles “Yell” and “Deliveries from the Heart – True Stories from Mercari” (both 2020).

Mizuki Itagaki

Six dramatized stories based on true-life events connected to the popular Japanese flea market service Mercari explores the lives of ordinary folk in the country – and how family, friends, and more stay connected in modern society.

Riku (Marie Iitoyo) is a delivery operator for a major logistics firm named Elephant Express. She is contracted to make a series of deliveries to some very different households.

In the first story, Riku delivers an unusual package full of memories to a new owner.

Secondly, a soon-to-be-divorced couple decides to have a final meal together before going on their separate ways – but could this final, civilized act have far-reaching consequences?

In the third story, a hobbyist who enjoys making small trinkets to sell for minor sums on the Mercari marketplace runs into a buyer at a railway station.

In story number four, a neighbor takes objection to a mother of four whose exasperated scolding of her offspring raises the noise levels unacceptably high.

In the penultimate story, a family that has moved to the countryside starts growing flowers in an empty field – and starts gaining interest from potential buyers on the Mercari platform.

And in the final episode, Riku’s father is hospitalized – and he asks her to watch a videotape featuring footage of her late grandparents. 

“Deliveries from the Heart – True Stories from Mercari” is a 2020 Japanese drama series that was directed by Kenji Katagiri.

Deliveries from the Heart - True stories from Mercari

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