Morning Musume Shinshun! Love Stories

Morning Musume Shinshun! Love Stories (モーニング娘。新春！LOVEストーリーズ) was a TV special originally broadcast on TBS on January 2, 2002, featuring two stories with members of Morning Musume as the primary cast. This is the first TV special drama to feature Morning Musume, and would be followed by Morning Musume Suspense Drama Special in December of the same year.
It was released on VHS and DVD on March 13, 2002 by Hachama and Pony Canyon.
==Izu no Odoriko==
This drama is based on Kawabata Yasunari's short story Izu no Odoriko (伊豆の踊子, The Dancing Girl of Izu). Kaoru (Goto Maki) is the dancer of a traveling entertainment troupe, whose charm and beauty overwhelms a visiting student from Tokyo (Kohashi Kenji).
===Cast===
*Goto Maki as Kaoru
*Kohashi Kenji as Student
*Ishiguro Ken as Eikichi
*Katahira Nagisa
*Yasuda Kei as Natsu
*Tsuji Nozomi as Yuriko
*Kokubu Sachiko
*Watanabe Ikkei
*Osugi Ren
*Ginpuncho
*Kitagawa Chie
*Toji Takao
*Suzuki Shuhei
*Miki Shigeru 
*Nishikawa Rina
*Ishihara Yuna
==Haikara-san ga Tooru==
This drama is based on Yamato Waki's manga series Haikara-san ga Tooru (はいからさんが通る, Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern). In the Taisho era, Benio (Ishikawa Rika) attends an all-girls' school and lives with her strict father (Ibu Masato). One day, the tomboyish Benio is told that she is bethrothed by a promise made by her ancestors. 
===Cast===
*Ishikawa Rika as Hanamura Benio
*Sawamura Kazuki as Ijuin Shinobu
*Yoshizawa Hitomi as Kitakoji Tamaki
*Yaguchi Mari as Katsuragi Ruriko
*Ogawa Makoto as Aoi
*Konno Asami as Sakura
*Niigaki Risa as Sumire
*Takahashi Ai as Kasumi
*Negishi Toshie as Kisaragi Fumi
*Mikimoto Shinsuke as Ijuin Hirofumi
*Yoshiyuki Kazuko as Ijuin Tsutako
*Ibu Masato as Hanamura Masago
*Takahashi Hitomi 
*Miyazaki Yoshiko
*Tengenji Ryu
*Watabiki Daisuke 
*Sakaguchi Shinsaku 
*Miura Mitsuhiro
*Kubota Tomoko
*Ogawa Toshiaki
*Shigemi Naruto
*Takatsuki Yuji
==Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo==
This drama is based on Tsutsui Yasutaka's novel Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (時をかける少女, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time). Yoshiyama Kazuko (Abe Natsumi), a high school student, was cleaning the science room with her classmates Mariko (Iida Kaori) and Goro (Nagayama Takashi) on a Saturday close to final exams. When Mariko and Goro go to throw away the trash, Kazuko feels like someone is in the preparation room. While investigating the feeling, there's an accident that begins a string of mysterious and sad experiences.
===Cast===
*Abe Natsumi
*Iida Kaori
*Kago Ai
*Yo Kimiko 
*Ito Shiro
*Uchida Asahi
*Nagayama Takashi
*Masato Hagiwara
*Toda Maiko
*Owada Baku
*Ichige Yoshie
*Tajima Reiko
*Inaba Kazuhiro
*Maruyama Shino
==Trivia==
*Japanese users of Audible are able to download a version of Izu no Odoriko read by Goto Maki.https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0106IK5P0
==References==
==External Links==
*UP-FRONT WORKS: DVD | VHS
*TBS Synopsis (in Japanese) (archived)
*Wikipedia (JP)
*Amazon.co.jp
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