Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (2006)

Original title

結婚できない男

Directed by

Miyake Yoshishige, Komatsu Takashi, Ueda Hisashi

Cast

Abe Hiroshi, Natsukawa Yui, Kuninaka Ryoko, Tsukamoto Takashi, Takashima Reiko, SHEILA, Nishimaru Yuko, Takamatsu Iku

Genre

drama television series

Country

Japan

Length

2 seasons, 22 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful architect in his forties is content with his bachelor life and baffled by the pressure to marry. The show follows his daily routines and the women who drift in and out of his world.

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What happens

Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (結婚できない男), known in English as The Man Who Can't Get Married, is a 2006 Japanese drama broadcast by Fuji TV. Originally consisting of one season, the show eventually received a direct sequel 13 years later called as The Man Who Can't Get Married Yet (まだ結婚できない男, Mada Kekkon Dekinai Otoko) and broadcast from October 8 to December 10, 2019. The theme song is "Swimmy" by Every Little Thing. The drama was produced by Kansai Telecasting Corporation and Media Mix Japan. In 2009, the program was remade in South Korea as He Who Can't Marry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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