Weekday Lovers") is a 2014 Japanese TV series followed by a 2017 Japanese film, Hirugao starring Aya Ueto, Takumi Saito, Kichise Michiko and Hiroyuki Hirayama, and produced by Fuji Television Network.
The film, directed by Hiroshi Nishitani is based on the drama series of the same title (ja).
Rikako, who is with her boyfriend (not her husband) grabs Sawa and tells her to act as her friend and she won't reveal the shoplifting.
Rikako knows that the police report would list her boyfriend and needs an accomplice to say that all three of them are together for afternoon tea.
Influenced by the novel Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel,[1] the film follows the story of Sawa, who sleeps with a married man 'heijitsu hirugao tsuma' (while her husband is working).
[2][3] Sawa, now a divorcee, works in a restaurant on the beach in a small town, having moved away from Yokohama.
Sawa sits in the back of the lecture hall, hiding her face, but Mr. Kitano sees her after a student raises his hand to ask a question.
Mr. Kitano rides a bus even though he has a dark blue BMW 3 series (internal designation of E90).
Mr. Kitano's wife, however, is waiting for them at the bus stop and displays mental instability upon see them.
He then hid the ring in the monitoring box containing the scientific measurement instruments next to the river where he and Sawa often meet.
Mrs. Kitano feigns reconciliation by agreeing to sign divorce papers without a legal contest.
Some time later, a little boy and girl are playing by the river where Mr. Kitano and Sawa met frequently.
The little boy finds the engagement ring in the now dilapidated monitoring box by the river and puts it on the girl's finger.