is a Japanese manga series created by Yukari Ichijō. It was serialized in Ribon between July 1977 through July 1979 and September 1980 through November 1981. A TV adaptation was created as an afternoon series by Tōkai Television and

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and aired from July 30, 1997, through October 3, 1997.

TV series

The TV adaption was produced by Tōkai Television and aired on

from July 30 through October 3, 1997. The TV adaptation keeps the general story though changes the setting to

Shōwa era The was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989. It was preceded by the Taishō era. The pre-1945 and post-war Shōwa periods are almos ...

Japan.

Summary

On Shōwa 32 (1957), Miyuri Iwaki is born into a wealthy family that runs a traditional Japanese hotel in Izura, Ibaraki. At the same moment, a baby boy is found abandoned in from of the hotel. Yūichi--the owner of the hotel--had longed for a son and convinced his wife Sayako to raise the two babies as twins. The baby boy was named Hirafu and grew up with Miyuri as brother and sister. As the two grow, they realize that they are not actual siblings and grow to love each other.

Cast

* Miyuri Iwaki: Ryōko Morishita, Kumiko Ōba,

Mizuho Igarashi Mizuho () literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese and "harvest" in the figurative sense. It was also an ancient name of Japan. It might refer to: Places * Mizuho, Gifu, a city in Gifu * Mizuho, Tokyo, a town in Tokyo * Mizuho Plateau in An ...

, Maya Ōno * Hirafu Iwaki: Atsuhiro Satō * Aya Iwaki:

Yōko Minamida was a Japanese actress. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in November 2008, and a television documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband, actor Hiroyuki Nagato, to care for her. She died in Tokyo. Select ...

* Sayako Iwaki: Rumi Sakakibara * Yūichi Iwaki: Jinya Satō * Isako Funamura: Saori Yagi,

Marumi Shiraishi Marumi Shiraishi (白石マル美, formerly 白石まるみ) (born November 27, 1962) is an actress and media personality from Tokyo, Japan. Her real name is Mitsue Minamikawa (南川光江) and her maiden name was Matsuda (松田). In 1978, ...

* Takeshi Tsudayama:

Takayuki Godai is a Japanese actor best known as the ''shōgun''s ninja Saizō in the long-running prime-time television ''jidaigeki'' ''Abarenbō Shōgun''. Godai first appeared as Saizō in Episode 57 of Series III, and continued through Series IV and V, about ...

* Tanako Ōba: Emi Shindō * Fuyumi: Rei Nakayama * Tane:

Tomie Kataoka is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. ''Tomie'' was Ito's first published work he originally submitted to ''Monthly Halloween'', a Shōjo manga#Shōjo magazines in Japan, ''shōjo'' magazine in 1987, which ...

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