Japanese drama “Kokuhaku – 25th Year Secret” episode 5 airs on Aug 8

Japanese television drama “Kokuhaku – 25th Year Secret”, starring SixTONES member Matsumura Hokuto, aired its fifth episode on August 8 at 21:00 JST on Nippon TV. The episode, titled “I Dreamed of Coming Together”, continues the love‑suspense storyline of Snow Village Sota (Matsumura) and his boss Noses Mari (Okazaki Sae). In this episode Sota is summoned by his step‑mother Sayuri, who threatens to expose a secret from his past, while Mari, recalling a boy who saved her at a summer festival, decides to remove Sota from her list of romantic interests. Parallel sub‑plots involve Noses Ginjiro, head of the cosmetics company, searching for a missing secretary amid a possible link to a released serial kidnapper, and detective Sakuara pursuing new leads on a murder case implicating Sota.