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Last Note
Aired Thursday at 10 p.m. from July 9, 2026
About
The new Thursday 10 p.m. drama starring Yuki Uchida & Takuto Teranishi!
Yuki Uchida marking her first leading role in a Fuji Television Network drama since 1996. And for Teranishi, making it his first-ever lead role in a commercial network drama series!
The series is an original romantic drama that tells the story of ones with a significant age difference whose lives were never meant to intersect. Despite coming from entirely different backgrounds and having led very different lives, the two are quietly drawn to one another and ultimately find themselves swept into the most intense love of their lives.
The title refers to the final stage of a perfume’s fragrance as it evolves over time. A perfume begins with its top note—the first impression experienced upon application—before transitioning to its middle note, the scent that forms the heart of the fragrance. Finally comes the lingering scent that blends with the wearer's skin and leaves behind a fragrance uniquely their own. Just like that lingering last note, the story portrays a mature and deeply moving love story in which feelings long kept hidden begin to resurface and fill the air once more.
The drama centers on two people: Aoi Ichinose, a 49-year-old woman who has experienced both the joys and hardships of life and now lives contentedly, believing she needs no further change; and Subaru Higuchi, a 30-year-old man who gave up on his dreams because of the circumstances in which he was raised and has spent his life suppressing his true self.
Each has drifted through life for reasons of their own.
But when an unexpected encounter brings them together, they begin to confront emotions they had long kept buried. As they awaken feelings, they thought they had sealed away forever, their lives are set on a course from which there is no turning back.
What will be left behind by the most passionate love of the lives of two people whose ages, experiences and paths should never have crossed?
Cast
Yuki Uchida
Takuto Teranishi
Maki Sakai
Hinako Sakurai
Takuya Kusakawa
Yoshimi Tokui
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Others