Natsumi Okamoto is a Japanese actress and model. She was born on July 1, 1998 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan and made her acting debut in 2012. Since then, she has appeared in a handful of stage productions and a number of films and television dramas, including “Noble Boys” (2019).

Natsumi Okamoto

After being dumped by her ex-boyfriend on their six-year anniversary, Miyabi Sayama (Yuuka Sugai) immerses herself into her job on the sales team at a real estate firm. Meanwhile, Tsukasa Donose (Takuya Kusakawa), is a highly successful company CEO, seeks a marriage of convenience to satisfy societal expectations. When he meets Miyabi, he proposes a “business marriage” where she can live rent-free in a luxury apartment, and he can present a “wife" to the world. There’s just one clause: If they develop genuine romantic emotions, they must divorce. However, cupid has other plans, and their arrangement beings to falter as emotions come into play. This 2024 Japanese drama series was based on a manga series of the same name by Kirato Ruka and was directed by Takayoshi Tanazawa.

Business Marriage

 Love for Rent Team

Ushio Odajima

Fuji TV

Hardworking, intelligent, reliable, and beautiful, Shoji Shoko (Matsumura Sayuri) is admired by everyone around her, and for good reason. Sadly, despite everything she has going for her, Shoko can’t seem to see past her lackluster love life. Convinced that being a virgin is somehow a fatal flaw, Shoko is determined to do everything she can to “fix” this problem as quickly as possible.

After raiding the self-help and beauty sections of her local bookstore, Shoko gets to work “improving” herself. Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tries, she can’t seem to find a way to kickstart her nonexistent love life. But when she finds an ad for “Love House”, a house shared by six strangers all looking for love, Shoko decides it’s an opportunity she can’t pass up.&nbsp;

Moving into “Love House”, Shoko is certain this is where she’ll find love; but when relationships between the residents begin to heat up, Shoko’s love life goes from nonexistent to complicated. Soon tangled in a web of rivalry, lust, and lies, Shoko finds herself wondering, is this really the best way to find love?

Adapted from the manga series “Shojo Love. -Virgin Shoko-san-” by Yamashina Tina, “Virgin Love” is a 2023 Japanese romance drama directed by Yoshino Mamoru.

Virgin Love

Desperate love

Abema TV

When Mugi Aihara (Yuna Taira) read, in her favorite magazine, that the heirs to four of the biggest corporations in Japan were on a public quest to find their one true love, she could hardly believe what she was reading. When she realized these four gorgeous princes were searching for their destined princess via a new reality show, she dropped everything she was doing and immediately started filling out a contestant application.

A few days later, Mugi got the shock of her life when she received a text informing her that among the 700,000 applicants vying for the chance to participate in “Marry the Prince”, she had been selected as one of the three lucky contestants. Beside herself with joy, she happily accepted the invitation, along with two other high school students, Fumino Ono (Takeda Rena) and Yu Shibayama (Okamoto Natsumi). Together the three girls excitedly begin filming, only to find that life as a reality show contestant isn’t exactly what they’d imagined it would be.

Wealthy and entitled, Riku Nikaido (Isomura Hayato), Taiga Saionji (Hiroki Iijima), Terunoshin Minai (Yu Inaba), and Tatsunari Date (Yamamoto Ryosuke) were far from the dashing princes of fairy tales. Caught up in the drama of their own lives, the four princes have more fun teasing the girls than they do wooing them as none of them really believe they’ll actually find true love. But each of the participants soon learns that fate can be a funny thing and that love has a way of finding you when you least expect it.

A lighthearted romantic romp, “Noble Boys” is a 2019 romantic comedy drama directed by Taisuke Kawamura, Mai Sakai, and Tohru Otsuka.

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