Itazura na Kiss

• Title: イタズラなKiss
• Title (romaji): Itazura na Kiss
• Also known as: Teasing Kiss / Naughty Kiss
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Romantic comedy, school
• Episodes: 9
• Broadcast network: TV Asahi
• Broadcast period: 1996-Oct-14 to 1996-Dec-16
• Air time: Monday 20:00
• Theme song: "Steady" by SPEED
• Related TV shows: It Started with a Kiss Mischievous Kiss
• Original writing (manga): Itazura na Kiss by Tada Kaoru
• Screenwriters: Kusumoto Hiromi, Mori Harumi
• Producers: Morita Mitsunori, Sato Ryoichi, Uchiyama Seiko
• Directors: Morita Mitsunori, Nemoto Minoki, Ikezoe Hiroshi
• Music: Nakamura Yukiyo

Late for a meeting, Kotoko was running along the corridor in school and bumped into Naoki, their lips meeting. Naoki showed his disgust, but Kotoko started to idolise him, who was good at everything from studies to sports. When Kotoko's house burned down, her father's good friend Machiko invited them to move in with her family. It was then that Kotoko realised Naoki was the elder son of Machiko, who took up the role of a fairy-godmother to bring the two together...despite the fact that Naoki was disgusted. Not discouraged, the clumsy and not-so-bright Kotoko started to do everything that would change her impression on him. Gradually, the icy-cold Naoki who disliked girls started to feel for Kotoko...

• Sato Aiko as Aihara Kotoko
• Kashiwabara Takashi as Irie Naoki
• Ozawa Maju as Matsumoto Reiko
• Naitou Takashi as Aihara Shigeo
• Asada Miyoko as Irie Machiko
• Tokui Yuu as Irie Masaki
• Akashi Ryotaro (明石亮太郎) as Irie Yuki
• Aoki Shinsuke as Nakamura Kinnosuke
• Uehara Sakura as Komori Jinko
• Miyauchi Tomomi as Hayashi Satomi
• Izawa Ken as Watanabe Junichi
• Toyama Toshiya as teacher in-charge of class F
• Nakama Yukie as Yada Sonoko
• Hoshino Aki as one of classmates

• Ep 01: The Kiss That Changed Their Lives!
• Ep 02: The Last Race of Love and Tears
• Ep 03: Their First Night Together
• Ep 04: Kiss Without Feelings
• Ep 05: Cold and Hot Kiss
• Ep 06: Never Going to Leave You Again
• Ep 07: The Fated Christmas Night
• Ep 08: Bring Me to Tokyo University
• Ep 09: Goodbye Kiss

Notes

Based on a girls' comic (manga) by Tada Kaoru which has also been adapted into a Taiwanese drama: It Started with a Kiss.