Hiroshi Takeshima -- Yume no Furiko（夢の振り子）

Heard this on recent episodes of both "Uta Kon"（うたコン）and "Gogo Uta"（ごごウタ）and found it catchy enough to write about. "Yume no Furiko" (Pendulum of Dreams) is the June 2019 single for enka/Mood Kayo singer Hiroshi Takeshima（竹島宏）, and though I don't consider this to be an enka, I'm kinda wondering if this would be a musical hybrid of Mood Kayo and straight pop. Plus, the shortened music video above has choreography kinda reminiscent of an aidoru group, and Takeshima himself still has some young aidoru-like looks although he is currently 41.

I think what got me interested in "Yume no Furiko" is that the collaboration of lyricist Goro Matsui（松井五郎）and composer Takashi Tsushimi（都志見隆）has produced a song which has also gotten me thinking of that exotic kayo boom from the late 1970s when the hits from that mini-genre were arranged so that the listener felt that they were on some sort of out-of-country adventure in Europe or Asia. There's certainly that jaunty beat in "Yume no Furiko".

"Yume no Furiko", which went up to No. 15 on Oricon, was also the ending theme for a samurai drama on NHK Broadcast Satellite titled "Daifugou Doushin"（大富豪同心...Ultra Rich Constable）. The show was adapted from a novel series starting from 2010 and ran for a couple of months earlier this year. According to the website "My Drama List", the series dealt with the son of a very wealthy merchant in Edo ending up as a bumbling constable trying to solve crimes with considerable help from people around him.