Japanese Drama: Proposal Daisakusen and Last Friends, with Same Actress - Masami Nagasawa

I watched two Japanese Drama which won the Television Drama Academy Award: Proposal Daisakusen (July 2007) and Last Friends (August 2008). Both have interesting storyline eventhough the second one's more interesting because the storyline quite unique and shows dark-sides of the characters and creates complicated relationship from one person to another.

Proposal Daisakusen storyline quite simple and fun. It is a story about two persons who knows each other since childhood and deep inside they love each other but too naive and don't have courage to express it to the other party. The girl ended up marrying another man and during the wedding ceremony, the fairy of the church offers the guy to travel back in time to try rectify his mistakes and try his best to win the girl's heart...
The story, episode by episode, link to certain stage of their relationship as displayed on the slides shown during the ceremony. In the end all those efforts did made some changes in their relationship but the wedding still on... And, only the guy's wedding speech in the end that moves the girl's heart... but thanks to the groom's 'big heart' to let the girl go by testing her true feeling by let her choose which of his hand holds the shirt's button... while, actually, both hands hold the button... so whichever the girl choose she was given freedom to leave...

Last Friends is a story about 3 main characters with dark childhood psychological experience:
First character: A girl who experiencing the rejection by her own mother who always express her regret giving birth to the girl - given scar in the girl's heart. She fell in love with a guy with more painful childhood because his mother left him that make bigger scar in his heart that make him so possessive, very unreasonable jealous, and turn uncontrollable violent. The girl, who decided to live together with him, experience DV (Domestic Violence).
Second character: A girl who hates being a girl! She is a tomboy and always feels like a man traps inside woman's body.... she hates her body and she hates guys! She kept the secret so tight and suffering... she indeed fall in love to the first girl and stands for her against the violent boyfriend.
Third character: A guy who experienced childhood trauma of being harassed by his half sister. So traumatic that he is falsely marked as a gay since he always been avoiding girls. But, he indeed fall in love with the second girl! He has charm and, actually, attracted girls with his matured thinking, understanding, and advices, even the first girl likes him in the end...
So, there it goes the love triangle....

The interesting part is that for both drama, same actress play the main character: Masami Nagasawa. Pretty and feminine. Well... acting wise, she is so-so, not that fantastic... But judging from in span of one year she is part of two award-winning drama, it might tell something about her... Anyway, herewith I posted two of her pretty pictures that I found by 'google' it... pretty and cute, right?