Lunch no Joou (Lunch Queen)

Lunch no Joou ランチの女王 (Lunch Queen)

Theme song: Joy to the World (Three Dog Night)

Starring:

Takeuchi Yuko – Mugita Natsumi

Eguchi Yosuke – Nabeshima Yujiro (the second son)

Tsumabuki Satoshi – Nabeshima Junzaburo (the third son)

Yamada Takayuki – Ushijima Minoru (the stay-in cook)

Yamashita Tomohisa – Nabeshima Koshiro (the fourth son)

Itou Misaki – Shiomi Tomato

Tsutumi Shinichi – Nabeshima Ken’ichiro (the eldest son)

Wakabayashi Go – Nabeshima Kenzo (the dad)

Morita Go – Yazaki Shuuji (Natsumi’s ex)

Synopsis:

Mugita Natsumi is a coffee shop waitress whose simple pleasures include scoping the neighborhood for the best lunch places and eating the best fare they have to offer.By a weird twist of fate, Natsumi, while on her lunch break, finds herself being dragged by a man who asks her for a favor. This man, Nabeshima Ken’ichiro, says he needs her to pretend that she is her fiancee that he wants to introduce to his family, especially his dying father. Incidentally, the family runs a small restaurant called Kitchen Macaroni. Agreeing to help Ken’ichiro, Natsumi goes to eat at Kitchen Macaroni to spy on the family. She finds out that the father is alive and well, and that the family hates Ken’ichiro. When Ken’ichiro runs away again with the restaurant’s earnings for the day, Natsumi decides to keep up the act and move in with the family and work for them as a waitress. How long can Natsumi pretend to be Ken’ichiro’s fiancee? What will happen to her in a household where she isn’t very welcome? What if the family finds out the truth? Credits to DramaWiki for the cast listing. ^_^Read more and share your comments at Japinoy.com