The Bride is Fake / Hanayome wa Yakudoshil! DVD

Starring: Shinohara Ryoko, Yabe Hiroyuki, Matsuhima Nahomi, Ozawa Maju, Koyama Keiichiro

Language: Japanese

Subtitle: English/Chinese/Malay

Media Type: NTSC, All Regions

No of CDs: 3 DVDs ( 12 episodes)

Telecast: Jul 2006 (TBS)

Shipping Origin: MALAYSIA

Rating for English subtitled: Good

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Shinohara plays a talented-but-aging TV news announcer who has been sent off on a variety show assignment. She is to try life as a fake bride in the countryside, but things don't go as scripted. What changes will take over when she smells that fresh country air?

This year is the yakudoshi, or “critical age” for 32-year old Akiko (Shinohara Ryoko), a television announcer. She lost her position in a news program to a rookie announcer. What’s worse, she is assigned to go undercover and experience life as a farmer’s bride for a variety program. Akiko pretends to be the fiancée of Ichiro (Yabe Hiroyuki), her ex-boyfriend, and begins her “bridal training” at the peach farm of Ichiro’s parents. Awaiting Akiko is a family filled with extraordinary personalities, led by the stern mother-in-law, Yukie (Iwashita Shima)