Another housewife fantasy dorama with a slightly different twist on it. This time about about a 30 year middle school reunion which sets off a dramatic chain of events. Kuroki Hitomi is Tomomi, your picture perfect housewife with an unemployed husband who is forced to downsize the family home. At the reunion, she meets Kosuke (Katsunori Takahashi), her middle school crush who is now a married cop, Yoko a seemingly happily married housewife (aren't they all?) and Hiroshi a playboy magazine editor.
After the reunion, two of their former classmates didn't return home and ran off together. Tomomi and friends are concerned by this seemingly uncharacteristic behaviour but it gives her an excuse to continue to meet Kosuke. Tomomi and Kosuke maybe 45 but the had this middle school attraction to each other that never materialised into anything. 30 years later and they're still acting like middle school kids resuming their very awkward courtship.
Yes, Dosokai centered around a middle school romance dorama with characters who are married and in their fourties. Not to mention continuing all the middle school rivalries and stuff. We have all the hallmarks of the housewife fantasy genre such as suspicious spouses, snoopy kids and the audience wondering why the characters got married to their respective spouses in the first place? The main plotline is the four ex-classmates trying to search for the runaway couple but the true main story is of course uncovering the characters' secrets and watching the chaos when the affairs happen and are uncovered.
Gotta give props to the soundtrack which is pretty good and really amps up the excitement. There's this scene in ep 3 where Tomomi's husband is driving fast and then the camera switches to a first person driving view and some midi like videogame driving music appears. Absolutely brilliant!
Dosokai is not the most original housewife fantasy show. Kuroki Hitomi and Katsunori Takahashi do their usual acting stuff but I submit that Dosokai is a pretty well made one and I had great fun watching the first three episodes. Highly recommended.
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