Our Fake Marriage: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Natsume Takumi is a talented architect who runs a design bureau in Tokyo. He is smart, handsome, successful and popular with women. Takumi lives alone in an elite apartment in a multi-storey building. One day, for the first time in many years, he meets his childhood friend Sendo Yae and makes her an unusual proposal...

Sendo Yae is single, works in a cafe and shares an apartment with a friend. One day she loses everything: she gets fired from work, the guy quits and, on top of everything else, her friend announces that she is getting married and moving out of the apartment. Unable to pay rent alone, left alone and without a job, Yae finds herself in a desperate situation.

At this time, she accidentally meets Takumi, and he offers her for the next six months to get a job with him as a "fictitious wife" with accommodation in his apartment. Takumi, for her own reasons, needs the status of a married man, and Yae, left on the street and without means of livelihood, is forced to agree to the proposal.

Series details

• Title: Our Fake Marriage
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Comedy, Romance
• Premiere date: 2023-07-11
• Final broadcast date listed: 2023-09-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 23 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 69925
• TVDB ID: 435755

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2023-07-11; final listed air date 2023-09-26; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Our Fake Marriage on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.