The Stand-In
(P.A. Private Actress)
9 Episodes
Series ended September 1, 1999
Born of an actress mother and a mystery father, Shio is a high school student with a very unique side job. For a fee, she will take on the persona of anyone she is requested to portray...the supposedly dead daughter of a tycoon, the love child of a corrupt politician.... In other words, she is a P.A., a private actress for hire. Starring: Enomoto Kanako, Iwaki Koichi, Manda Hisako and Mori Kumiko.
Episode 1
Nikaido, who passes himself off as president of a talent agency, hires Shio to act the part of various individuals for a fee. She must play the part of the late daughter of the president of a major firm. Although Shio is reluctant to do this, one look at the man and she gets carried away.
Episode 2
Shio is hired by a womanizing doctor who needs her help in getting rid of his lovers, now that he’s engaged to marry the hospital director’s daughter. Shio has her hands full when she discovers that Dr. Misawa has a total of 13 women! She approaches each of them as his fiancee.
Episode 3
Shio is hired by a young woman with a large scar on her face to take her place on a date. Suzuka has a date to meet Kaito, an Internet friend, but she doesn’t want to show him her face. When Kaito doesn’t show up at the appointed place, Shio sets out to find out why.
Episode 4
Shio is asked by a woman dying of cancer to help her get together with her daughter whom she hasn’t seen in twenty years. Hiromi had been taken from her by her then lover Munakata, Hiromi’s father, whose wife was unable to bear children. Shio approaches father and daughter posing as Hiromi’s younger sister.
Episode 5
A 10-year-old boy hires Shio to play the role of Natsuki, a runaway who recently inherited a ranch. Her father had died leaving a huge debt behind. The only person who can save the ranch is Natsuki who is currently working as a bar hostess, and has no intentions of returning to the ranch.
Episode 6
Shio is hired to play the role of the granddaughter of the Grand Master of an ikebana (flower arranging) school, who has been missing since the fire that killed both her parents. Her employer is the Number 1 disciple of the current Grand Master. Shio soon finds herself involved in murder and intrigue.
Episode 7
Shio plays the daughter of a ballet choreographer who has suffered from amnesia since her daughter committed suicide two years ago. Aoki, an event producer, wants to put on a special performance, and needs the choreographer to regain her memory. Shio stumbles upon some surprising information.
Episode 8
Shio becomes involved in a love triangle involving a young heiress, a marathon runner, and the heir to a trading company. When Shio learns that the runner had been framed in a doping incident, two years before, that destroyed his career and lost him his sweetheart, she decides to go on the offensive to avenge him.
Episode 9 - Final Episode
Shio’s mother, Sayuri, is seriously injured in an accident while on location. Shio impersonates a starlet in order to discover the person responsible. In her investigations, Shio realizes that both her mother’s fiercest rival and a film director are aware of the secret of her birth. Shio challenges her mother’s rival to a film test showdown in order to draw out the culprit.
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