is a 2000 Japanese television drama for Fuji Television, about an art appraiser working at an Auction house in Tokyo while searching for a legendary counterpart to the Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa of Sorrow.
Premise Art expert and auctioneer Masayuki Tachibana (Yōsuke Eguchi) joins the newly established auction house Weisz Tokyo, ostensibly to audit and oversee its operations on behalf of the company's London head office, while secretly pursuing his own agenda – the search for the whereabouts of the real copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, as well as its legendary counterpart and companion piece, the Mona Lisa of Sorrow.
Cast
Weisz Tokyo Auction House
Yōsuke Eguchi as Masayuki Tachibana – art expert and auctioneer, transferring from the Weisz London head office Riona Hazuki as Chizuru Orihara – art restorer Masatō Ibu as Kaoru Usami – manager of Weisz Tokyo Junichi Okada as Takuro Okajima – assistant manager and accountant, formerly a banker from Toto Bank Yoshizumi Ishihara as Yoshiharu Kamei – Oriental art specialist Shiro Namiki as Shuhei Miyashita – jewelry specialist Hajime Okayama as Osamu Motegi – wine specialist Satoko Oshima as Utako Sakazaki – Western art specialist Aki Shibuya and Yumie Kobayashi as assistants and announcers
Others
Matsumoto Hakuō II as Kiichiro Tsunashima – Chairman of GT Systems (credited as Koshiro Matsumoto) Yumiko Ishitomi as Kiyoko Onuki – secretary to chairman Tsunashima Masami Hayashi as Midori Takashiro – art coordinator and one of Usami's regular customers
Episodes
References
External links
Official Fuji TV page for Mona Lisa's Smile