One of the comments that I read for this video was that this song may have been used for some Japanese TV drama but isn't 100% sure.
Mind you, "Sora ni Niji ga Ukandemo" (Even If a Rainbow Floats in the Sky) does have its playful bits in there so it may have very well been utilized as a theme tune or an insert song. But for now, we'll just say that this was singer-songwriter Keiko Utsumi's（宇都美慶子）3rd single from January 1991. Written by Utsumi, composed by Shinya Naito（内藤慎也）and arranged by Hiroshi Shinkawa（新川博）, the song is pretty darn smooth although it rather flits over the borderline between 90s City Pop and straight ahead pop.
As for the drama part, Utsumi's lyrics do talk of a couple having a pleasant stroll on a flowery lane although there doesn't seem to be any sturm und drang in the walk. Everything's copacetic! Ah...well, we have some breaking news...I scrolled further down Utsumi's J-Wiki article where she has a song tie-up section. Apparently, "Sora ni Niji ga Ukandemo" was used as the ending theme for the second half of Series 1 in the NTV series "Deka Kizoku"（刑事貴族...The Detective Aristocrats) which was broadcast from 1991 to 1993. That means the song shares a fellowship with Masayuki Suzuki's（鈴木雅之）"Mou Namida wa Iranai"（もう涙はいらない）which was a theme song used in Series 3.
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