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TV Show: Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata ~Ending Planner~
Romaji: Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata ~Ending Planner~
Japanese: 最高の人生の終り方～エンディングプランナー～
Director: Yasuharu Ishii
Writer: Chiho Watanabe
Network: TBS
Episodes:
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Runtime: Thursdays 21:00 - 21:54
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Story
Ihara Masato is the second son of ‘Iharaya’, the funeral parlour in Tokyo’s old town. His family is made up of his father and four siblings. His mother passed away when he was a third year student in junior high school. ‘Iharaya’ is also a purveyor of the police and his father Kotaro is the third generation owner. However, Masato hates the family business because he bitterly remembers being mocked as the “funeral parlour boy” by the people around him when during his childhood. Because of this, he assumes that Kento, his older brother born of a different mother, would take over the funeral parlour and quickly leaves home. He joins a big chain of Japanese-style pubs after graduating from university and is now an area manager in charge of managing the performance of the pubs in his area. It is a tough job where he has to push his employees in order to achieve the demanding quote assigned by the head office. One day, Masato sternly reprimands a pub manager for not meeting the sales quota. But the next day, that manager jumps off a building and ends up in a coma. Masato is saddened that the manager had attempted suicide because of the scolding. At that moment, he receives a phone call from his younger sister Haruka who has been helping out in the family’s funeral parlour business. Their father has collapsed. She also discloses that their older brother whom they thought would take over as the fourth generation owner, had suddenly left home two months ago and gone missing. Masato is taken aback. His younger siblings, Hayato and Momoko, rush to the hospital too. Their father regains consciouness for a brief moment. He tells them to close the funeral parlour and then draws his last breath … … Masato stands in as the chief mourner in his brother’s absence, but holds the funeral without feeling sorrow for his estranged father. Several days later, he returns to work and visits the hospital where the unconscious manager was hospitalised. However, the man has died. Masato would never have had the intention of succeeding his father, yet in front of the man’s surviving family members, he decides that ‘Iharaya’ will undertake the funeral service. With the help of Haruka and Tanaka, who has worked at ‘Iharaya’ for years, Masato holds the funeral. Bothered by the words of the family members who wonder why the manager had committed suicide, Masato goes to the police precinct to enquire about the circumstances surrounding the man’s plunge. While there, he meets the female police officer Sakamaki Yuki whom he got to know at a previous matchmaking party … …
VIDEO CLIPS EPISODE:
01 / 02 / 03 / 04 / 05 / 06 / 07 / 08 / 09 / 10 (Final)
JAPANESE DRAMA: Ending Planner / Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata / 最完美的人生終點
