Afternoon soap operas are getting racier. The hook of the new half-hour series "Tengoku no Koi" ("Heaven's Love"; Fuji TV, Mon.-Fri., 1:30 p.m.) is a 41-year-old female protagonist having steamy love affairs with two men half her age.
Itsuki (Yoshiko Tokoshima) and Goji (Dankan) run a used bookstore together but their marriage is running on fumes. One day Itsuki sees a young man trying to shoplift a book and tries to stop him. When she discovers the book is a pornographic novel she is intrigued. Later she will have a love affair with the man, whose name is Motoharu, as well as with another youth named Ushio, who resembles her first crush.
Motohara is played by Sho Takada and Ushio by Hiroki Uchi, both with Johnny & Associates. Sex scenes are promised, so we'll see how boy idols really perform.