Hong Kong pop idol Faye Wong already has quite a few fans in Japan, but she's sure to add more on a weekly basis thanks to her costarring role in the summer comedy series "Usokoi (False Love)" (Fuji TV, Tuesday, 10 p.m.). Wong plays a young Chinese woman appropriately named Faye, who is studying to be a designer in Japan, but she isn't really the main focus of the levity.
That would be Akira (Kiichi Nakai), a hapless photographer who takes out his koseki tohon (family register) one day and discovers that he has unknowingly married a total stranger. Exactly how is not clear, but Japan's unique family registration system makes both marriage and divorce simply a matter of filing the proper documents; in other words, the people involved don't actually have to be present for their marriage to be registered. Akira tracks down his bride and finds out it is Faye, who needs the spouse status to stay in Japan. She asks Akira to wait another year before filing for divorce while she completes her studies, but Akira, in fact, has just gone through a wedding. Negotiations get him nowhere.
In this week's episode, one of Akira's employees suggests that he pay Faye off, and the conversation is overheard by Akira's father-in-law, who happens to be a very wealthy man. He misunderstands and gives Akira 5 million yen, thinking he needs it for his business. Akira decides to take the money to Faye and persuade her to put her seal on the divorce, but, of course, things don't turn out the way he plans.