The first episode of the NHK Saturday drama "Mushoran Mitsuboshi" (NHK General, Saturdays at 10 PM), starring actress Eiko Koike, will air on May 23rd. The subtitle of the episode is "Croquette Explosion." Yoko Ginbayashi (Koike), a skilled chef who has taken a job as a registered dietitian at a men's prison...
"Mushoran Mitsuboshi" is based on a masterpiece non-fiction book by Keiko Kuroyanagi, a currently working prison nutritionist, which depicts the little-known state of food inside prisons. The story follows a protagonist who made a name for himself as a skilled Italian chef, but by chance ends up working as a prison nutritionist, and depicts his struggles to overcome troubles and commotions with prison guards and inmates behind bars. It is a "prison social comedy drama."
In the first episode, Yoko Ginbayashi, a skilled chef at a top-class restaurant, unexpectedly takes a job as a registered dietitian at a men's prison. Her main job is administrative work such as creating menus, but when called upon from the kitchen or dining area, she directly instructs the inmates. The prison rules explained by her partner, prison officer Sugiyama (played by Aoi Nakamura), are full of surprises for Yoko.
On her first day of work, as Yoko was greeting the inmates, a croquette suddenly exploded right in front of her eyes.
