The read
The series ran 1 season across 10 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.
Synopsis
Koshiba Seijuro is the assisstant to some influential figure whose daughter was all messed up, and who comes to the psychiatrist Koizumi Santa and asks him to counsel the daughter without her knowledge. Since Santa is a compulsive gambler he's hard up for money and takes the job even though he's queasy about the ethics. Turns out that she's the same girl he took to the hospital nine months earlier when she had passed out drunk on a roof preparing to jump. As it happens she woke up in the hospital and saw Santa's best friend Kusanagi Shunsuke (a surgeon) holding the Santa Claus hat Santa had been wearing (it was Christmas Eve), and it turns into a very complicated love triangle.
Ratings
Seasons
| 1 | Season 1 | 10 ep1997 |
Key crew
- Arisa KanekoScreenplay
- Michio MitsunoDirector
- Kensaku SawadaDirector
Cast
- Toshiaki KarasawaKoizumi Santa
- Riona HazukiFujiwara Saori
- Katsunori TakahashiKusanagi Shunsuke
- Mari HoshinoSonobe Mika
- Chosuke IkariyaKoshiba Seijuurou
- Sachie HaraShimomura Kikuko
- Yumi YoshimuraEmoto Yumi
- Hanako YamadaIshigaki Tami
- Kazuyuki AijimaIshigaki Kotaro
- Jun TobaShinoyama Hiroshi
- Takashi KashiwabaraMuroi
- Ryūzō HayashiFujiwara Koushou