is a
Japanese television drama
, also called , are television programs that are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, jidaigeki, thriller ...
that aired on
NHK
, also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
NHK operates two terrestri ...
in 2007. It was the 76th
Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Take ...
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Cast
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Manami Higa
is a Japanese actress. Her mother was a model. She graduated from Okinawa Prefectural Central High School. She gained recognition as an actress when she was selected in an audition of 2,156 people to star in the NHK Asadora ''Dondo Hare'' in 20 ...
as Natsumi Asakura
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Ren Osugi
, born was a Japanese actor. For his work in ''Cure'', ''Hana-bi'' and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima. In the DVD comme ...
as Keigo Asakura, Natsumi's father
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Masako Mori as Fusako Asakura, Natsumi's mother
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Asahi Uchida
(born 30 May 1982) is a Japanese actor. He will have a central role in '' Tokugawa Fūun-roku'', scheduled for broadcast on January 2, 2008.
Selected filmography
: 2006 ''Tree of Heaven''
: 2006 '' Atagoal wa neko no mori''
: 2006 '' Tenshi''
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as Masaki Kagami, Natsumi's husband
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Mikihisa Azuma as Shinichi Kagami
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Akiko Hinagata
is a Japanese actress and former gravure idol.
Career Television
She made her acting debut in 1992 in the TBS drama ''Obenkyō''. In 1994, she was chosen Fuji Television Visual Queen. Two years later, Hinagata received the Golden Arrow Graph p ...
as Emiko Kagami
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Ryunosuke Kamiki as Tomoya Asakura, Natsumi's younger brother
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Takeshō Aki as owner of the boarding house in Morioka
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Masayuki Suzuki
Masayuki Suzuki (鈴木雅之, ''Suzuki Masayuki'', born September 22, 1956, in Ōta, Tokyo) is a Japanese singer best known as a former member of group Rats & Star (previously called ''Chanels''), and for performing the opening themes for the ...
as Kisunori Kagami
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Mitsuru Fukikoshi
is a Japanese actor.
Career
Born in Aomori Prefecture, Fukikoshi moved to Tokyo at age 19 and joined the Wahaha Honpo theater troupe. Since leaving Wahaha in 1999, he has appeared in many films and television dramas, while continuing to act on ...
as Yujiro Imamoto
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Hiroyuki Nagato
, stage name of Akio Kato (加藤晃夫), was a Japanese actor.
He starred in ''Season of the Sun'', '' Endless Desire'', '' My Second Brother'', '' Stolen Desire'', and '' Sukeban Deka'', and ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop''.
Life and career
Nagato was bo ...
as Heiji
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Isao Sasaki
is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and singer.
He has had voice roles in anime such as '' Legend of the Galactic Heroes'', ''Space Battleship Yamato'', and '' Gatchaman''. He has also performed the opening themes for anime such as ''Yamato'', ''S ...
as Masato Yoshizawa
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Mitsuko Kusabue
Mitsuko is a feminine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
The name Mitsuko is generally written with the kanji characters 光 and 子 which, when translated into English can mean "light, child" or "shining, child".http://www.20knames.com/femal ...
as Katsuno Kagami, Masaki's grandmother
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Nobuko Miyamoto
is a Japanese actress. She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films.
She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese ...
as Tamaki Kagami, Masaki's aunt
References
External links
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2007 Japanese television series debuts
2007 Japanese television series endings
Asadora
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