The Hot Spot (hepburn ホットスポット) is a Japanese fantasy comedy drama starring Mikako Ichikawa. It was first broadcast on January 12, 2025, on Nippon TV and is available online on netflix. Comedian Bakarhythm wrote the scenario with music composed by Fox Capture Plan.
Plot Kiyomi Endo (Mikako Ichikawa) is a single mother working at a Hotel reception in a small town at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture. After returning from work one day going home on a bicycle, she was saved by her by her senior workmate, Kosuke Takahashi fellow working, a split second before she was going to be run over by a truck. His actions seemed humanly impossible, as he not only saved her, but is standing next to her with her bicycle in the air.
Kiyomi interrogates Takahashi, and as the events are otherwise unexplainable, Takahashi confesses that he is an alien with special posters. Kiyomi promises that she will not say anything else, but she soon breaks her promise, telling her local childhood friends, Hazuki Nakamura and Minami Hibino.As he has special powers that can be used to her advantage, Kiyomi befriends him and asks him to solve minor issues for her. Soon word gets around of his powers amongst her friends, and the hotel staff, including Yumi Isomura and Takahiro Okuda who also try to get him to do things for him, often to his annoyance.
While initially using him for minor conveniences, and to assist the running of the hotel her friends and some of the hotel staff work together for some more major issues affecting the town.
Cast Mikako Ichikawa as Kiyomi Endo Akihiro Kakuta as Kosuke Takahashi Kaho as Yumi Isomura Anne Suzuki as Hazuki Nakamura Kami Hiraiwa as Minami Hibino Maki Sakai as Eri Sawada Mirai Shida as Mizuki Manabe / "Mizupon" Mamoru Hagiwara as Takahiro Uemura Naoki Tanaka as Takahiro Okuda Rinko Kikuchi as Masako Umemoto Sosuke Ikematsu as Yuma Kishimoto Fumiyo Kohinata as Hirotaka Murakami
Production The series was filmed around the town of Fujiyoshida. The shot has become popular enough in Japan that fans still form long queues to get into various real businesses that were used in filming
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result 202518th Tokyo Drama AwardsBest Drama SeriesThe Hot SpotBest Supporting ActorAkihiro Kakuta51st Hoso Bunka Foundation PrizeBest Drama SeriesThe Hot SpotScreenplay AwardBakarythymActing AwardAkihiro Kakuta
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