Love Generation (1997)

Love Generation (1997) series poster

Love Generation is an eleven-episode Fuji TV drama that aired from October 13 to December 22, 1997, and drew ratings as high as 30.8 percent, one of the three touchstone Japanese romance dramas of the decade alongside Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacation. Takuya Kimura stars as Teppei Katagiri, an advertising designer demoted to sales after his ego derails a campaign, opposite Takako Matsu as secretary Riko Uesugi; the two spar their way into a relationship while Teppei's reunion with his high-school sweetheart, now engaged to his own brother, complicates things further. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Rolex Explorer 14270

Worn by Takuya Kimura as Teppei Katagiri. A watchbus.com retrospective on the Explorer I line identifies Kimura's watch as the ref. 14270 and illustrates the claim with the outlet's own captioned production screencap of Kimura's left wrist, captioned "木村拓哉左手戴著 Explorer 14270" (Takuya Kimura wearing the Explorer 14270 on his left wrist). The article credits the drama's popularity with pushing both the Explorer 14270 and the show's other signature prop, a crystal apple ornament, into wider circulation across Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. (Watchbus)

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