The Hot Spot

Plot

Kiyomi Endo (Mikako Ichikawa) is a single mother working at a Hotel reception in a small town at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture. After returning from work one day going home on a bicycle, she was saved by her by her senior workmate, Kosuke Takahashi fellow working, a split second before she was going to be run over by a truck. His actions seemed humanly impossible, as he not only saved her, but is standing next to her with her bicycle in the air.

Kiyomi interrogates Takahashi, and as the events are otherwise unexplainable, Takahashi confesses that he is an alien with special posters. Kiyomi promises that she will not say anything else, but she soon breaks her promise, telling her local childhood friends, Hazuki Nakamura and Minami Hibino.As he has special powers that can be used to her advantage, Kiyomi befriends him and asks him to solve minor issues for her. Soon word gets around of his powers amongst her friends, and the hotel staff, including Yumi Isomura and Takahiro Okuda who also try to get him to do things for him, often to his annoyance.

While initially using him for minor conveniences, and to assist the running of the hotel her friends and some of the hotel staff work together for some more major issues affecting the town.

Cast

Mikako Ichikawa as Kiyomi Endo

Akihiro Kakuta as Kosuke Takahashi

Kaho as Yumi Isomura

Anne Suzuki as Hazuki Nakamura

Kami Hiraiwa as Minami Hibino

Maki Sakai as Eri Sawada

Mirai Shida as Mizuki Manabe / "Mizupon"

Mamoru Hagiwara as Takahiro Uemura

Naoki Tanaka as Takahiro Okuda

Rinko Kikuchi as Masako Umemoto

Sosuke Ikematsu as Yuma Kishimoto

Fumiyo Kohinata as Hirotaka Murakami

Production

The series was filmed around the town of Fujiyoshida. The shot has become popular enough in Japan that fans still form long quest to get into various real businesses that were used in filming