- Drama: Last Cinderella
- Romaji: Rasuto Shinderera
- Japanese: ラスト シンデレラ
- Director: Ryo Tanaka, Shin Hirano
- Writer: Mayumi Nakatani
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episodes: 11
- Release Date: April 11 – June 20, 2013
- Runtime: Thursdays 22:00
- Genre: Romantic-Comedy
- TV Ratings: 15.2% (weekly average)
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Sakura (Ryoko Shinohara) is a single 39-year-old woman. She works at a beauty salon as its vice manager. Sakura makes customers pretty, but she isn’t interested in making herself pretty. She envies falling in love, but at the same time is afraid of falling in love. One day, at a party, Sakura meets Hiroto (Haruma Miura), who is much younger than Sakura. Hiroto is a bike rider and is attracted to Sakura.
Meanwhile, Rintaro (Naohito Fujiki) is a manager at beauty salon where Sakura works. Rintaro likes making biting remarks, drinking alcohol and using his scissors.
Notes
- Official Website for “Last Cinderella” ([1]) is running a fan vote to determine whether Sakura Tohyama (Ryoko Shinohara) ends up with Saeki (Haruma Miura) or Rintaro Tachibana (Naohito Fujiki). As of June 18, 2013, 2,353,945 votes occurred with 49% voting for Hiroto Saeki (Haruma Miura) and 50% for Rintaro Tachibana (Naohito Fujiki).
Cast
 |  |  |  |  |
| Ryoko Shinohara | Haruma Miura | Naohito Fujiki | Naoko Iijima | Nene Otsuka |
| Sakura Tohyama | Hiroto Saeki | Rintaro Tachibana | Shima Hasegawa | Miki Takeuchi |
 |  |  |  |  |
| Shozo Endo | Nanao | Satoshi Hashimoto | Naoto | Saori Takizawa |
| Kohei Takenouchi | Chiyoko Ohgami | Kenichi Endoh | Tomonori Kashiwagi | Nozomi Matsuo |
 |  |
| Kaoru Hirata | Yumiko Nogawa |
| Haruko Shibata | Setsuko Takenouchi |
Additional Cast Members:
- Kyoko Yoshine – Saki Takeuchi
- Chieko Ichikawa – Yoko (ep.1)
- Kazuma Yamane – (ep.1)
- Masaru Hotta – (ep.1)
- Toru Kazama – Toshio Hagiwara (ep.1,9)
- Yasuhisa Furuhara – (ep.2)
- Yoko Tajitsu – (ep.2)
- Mariko Tsutsui – Ruri Okami (ep.2,6,9,11)
- Tatsuo Nadaka – Takashi Okami (ep.2,6,9,11)
- Kaname Endo – Yusuke (ep.3,5,10-11)
- Eito Suda – Yuya (ep.4)
- Ayaka Komatsu – Rie (ep.5)
- Kinya Kikuchi – Hayakawa (ep.5)
- Hijiri Sakurai – (ep.6)
- Hajime Aoki – (ep.6)
- Miki Omura – (ep.6)
- Tasuku Nagaoka – (ep.6)
- Sonde Kanai – (ep.6)
- Beverly Maeda – Mitsuko Tachibana (ep.6,11)
- Yusuke Yamamoto – Masaomi (ep.6-7)
- Yasuyuki Maekawa – Tetsuro Komatsu (ep.7)
- Kosuke Yonehara – (ep.7)
- Rieko Miura – Kasumi Chino (ep.8)
- Tetsuya Sugaya – Takeru (ep.9,11)
- Keiji – Suguru Kondo (ep.10-11)
- Kotono Sugiura
Episode Ratings
| Episode | Date | Ratings (Kanto Region) |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 04/11/2013 | 13.3% |
| 02 | 04/18/2013 | 14.4% |
| 03 | 04/25/2013 | 14.4% |
| 04 | 05/03/2013 | 14.5% |
| 05 | 05/09/2013 | 14.9% |
| 06 | 05/16/2013 | 15.0% |
| 07 | 05/23/2013 | 15.7% |
| 08 | 05/30/2013 | 14.8% |
| 09 | 06/06/2013 | 15.9% |
| 10 | 06/13/2013 | 16.1% |
| 11 | 06/20/2013 | 17.8% |
| Average | 15.2% | |
