Love Shuffle
Released: 2009
Drama
Love Shuffle is a Japanese television drama series that aired on TBS from 16 January to 20 March 2009. The theme song of the series is Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire. Usami Kei is a salaryman who has risen in status due to his engagement with Mei, the wealthy daughter of his company's president. Shortly after she breaks off the engagement, a power failure leaves him stuck in the elevator of his apartment building. Trapped with him are three others living on the same floor - Airu, a trilingual interpreter, Ojiro, a model photographer, and Masato, a psychiatrist. While waiting, their conversation hits upon their love lives and the question of whether there is truly only one fated partner for everyone. As a result, they decide to try "shuffling" their relationships with each other. --Tokyograph
Starring: Karina, Hiroshi Tamaki, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Shota Matsuda, Shosuke Tanihara, Hijiri Kojima, Shihori Kanjiya
Created by: Nobuhiro Doi, Toshio Tsuboi, Daisuke Yamamuro
Language: Japanese
Scenes
Season 1 Episode 1: Let's Exchange Lovers?
Three men (Kei, Ojiro, and Masato; played by Tamaki Hiroshi, Matsuda Shota, and Tanihara Shosuke) and a woman (Airu, played by Karina) are trapped in an elevator during a black-out. After a while the woman becomes desperate to pee. One of the men pulls some paper cups out of his briefcase and offers them to the others, and each goes into a corner while the men sing "Dancing Queen" to drown out the sound. The woman has too much shame and cannot go, but is about to give in just as the power comes back on.