https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Love_Story_(TBS) - **Title:** Love Story - **Title (kana):** ラブストーリー - **Episodes:** 11 - **Genre:** Romance - **Viewership:** 20.8% - **Air time:** Sunday 21:00 - **Broadcast network:** TBS - **Broadcast period:** 2001-Apr-15 to 2001-Jun-24 - **Theme song:** *Haruka* by Spitz   #### Synopsis Misaki (Nakayama Miho) is a 30-year old unlucky in love editor. She tends to fall in love hard and smothers her boyfriends to death. With no major accomplishments under her belt, she is told to look after Ko Nagase (Toyokawa Etsushi), a bestselling novelist in a slump. For the past 2 years, Ko hasn't put out so much as a page. He is a proud, reclusive man who has gone through many editors. They don't get along at first (Ko fires her). However Misaki keeps coming back to the Sunset Apartments partly to help Ko write and partly because she grows close to the colorful characters in the complex. Characters like budding illustrator, Nabetomo (Katori Shingo), and Nabetomo's "stalker" Kano (Yuka). Slowly Misaki draws Ko out of his shell while falling for him herself.   #### Cast - **Nakayama Miho** ... *Sudo Misaki (30)* - **Toyokawa Etsushi** ... *Nagase Ko (37)* - Katori Shingo ... *Nabetomo Kyoji (24)* - Yuka ... *Kobayashi Kano (19)* - Kato Haruhiko ... *Iketani Mitsugu* - Hatano Hiroko ... *Kurata Yumi* - Ono Takehiko ... *Kashiwabara Shujo* - Toda Naho ... *Tateshina Kumiko (27)* - Misaki Chieko ... *Nagase Yoshi (80)* - Kotani Kinya ... *Nagase Kenji* - Sakaguchi Kenji ... *Murakami* - Sasaki Kuranosuke ... *Kano's older brother* - Yamashita Yorie ... *Misaki's boss* - Otonashi Mikiko ... *Misaki's mother* - Yusuke Santamaria ... *Kawahara*   #### Production Credits - **Screenwriter:** Kitagawa Eriko - **Producer:** Ueda Hiroki - **Director:** Shono Jiro, Doi Nobuhiro, Imai Natsuki - **Music:** Hinata Daisuke   #### Awards - **29th Television Drama Academy Awards**: Best Drama - **29th Television Drama Academy Awards**: Best Supporting Actor (**Katori Shingo**) - **29th Television Drama Academy Awards**: Best Theme Song (*Haruka* by Spitz) - **29th Television Drama Academy Awards**: Best Director (**Shono Jiro**) - **29th Television Drama Academy Awards**: Best Cast - **29th Television Drama Academy Awards**: Best Opening  - [**English Subtitles**](https://www.d-addicts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=23351&p=1830658#p1830658)