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which aired from April 15, 2010 to June 24, 2010.

Plot

This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by

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, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves. Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno's best friend, whose boyfriend has been avoiding her since she discovered she was pregnant. Ichihara works at a magazine where he is being blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor. Park, on Twitter, takes on the persona of a doctor, when he is actually working at a company that sells medical equipment to uninterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister.

Cast

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as Keisuke Nakajima/"Nakaji" *

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as Tsukiko Mizuno/"Haru" *

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as Hikaru Nishimura/"Peach" *

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as Kaoru Ichihara/"Linda" * Kim Jaejoong as Park Seon-soo/"Doctor" *

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as Park Min-ha * Yuichi Nakamura as Shu Mizuno * Shogo Sakamoto as Kenta Matsujima *

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as Masafumi Takahashi *

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as Yuki Maeda * Eri Watanabe as Mariko Okuda *

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as Tomohiko Yamamoto * Tetsushi Tanaka as Takashi Minehara * Toshihide Tonesaku as Takafumi Shiraishi *

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as Misako Ichihara * Haruka Igawa as Kiriko Yamamoto * Jun Fubuki as Sachiko Mizuno

Ratings

Source
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Production credits

*Screenwriter: Eriko Kitagawa *Directors: Mitsuno Michio and Nishisaka Mizuki {{DEFAULTSORT:Sunao Ni Narenakute Fuji TV dramas 2010 Japanese television series debuts 2010 Japanese television series endings Japanese drama television series