Innocent Love

Details

Title: イノセント・ラヴ
Title (romaji): Innocent Love
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 13.5 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008-Oct-20 to 2008-Dec-22
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: Eternally-Drama Mix- by Utada Hikaru

Synopsis

An arson took it all away from Akiyama Kanon seven years ago. Her parents died in that fire, her brother was arrested as the prime suspect and her carefree life disappeared from that instant. She was shunned by the town as the sister of a murderer, yet she believes in her brother's innocence and often pays him visits with words of encouragement. As life gets harder when nobody is willing to give her a job, Kanon decides to try her luck in the city and there she meets the man of her destiny...

Cast

Correlation chart

Horikita Maki as Akiyama Kanon
- Sawaki Ruka as young Kanon
Kitagawa Yujin as Nagasaki Junya
Kashii Yu as Sakurai Mizuki
Fukushi Seiji as Akiyama Yoji
Narimiya Hiroki as Segawa Subaru
Uchida Yuki as Toono Kiyoka
Toyohara Kosuke as Ikeda Jiro
Naitou Takashi as Father Yoshimichi
Hirata Mitsuru as Akiyama Seitaro
Tsuji Chiharu (辻千春) as Akiyama Junko

Guests

Sudo Risa as Kawai Yukari (ep1)
Miyazaki Yoshiko as Iwata Harue (ep1,2)
Matsuzawa Kazuyuki as Shinjo (ep1)
Tsutsui Mariko as Miyoko (ep1)
Shibuya Takeru as Yu (ep1,3,4,9,10)
Yagi Yuki as Ruriko (ep1,3,4,9,10)
Yamada Shintaro as Ogino (ep1-3)
Nikaido Satoshi as Todo Hisashi (ep1-3,6,8-10)
Shirai Keita (白井圭太) as Yoshida (ep1,2)
Nakamura Masaya (ep1-3)
Nakamura Takuya (中村卓也) (ep1-3)
Miyata Sanae (宮田早苗) as Shimada Satoyo (ep2,5)
Nakahara Takeo as Higashino Susumu (ep2,3,6,7,10)

Asano Kazuyuki as Probation Officer Matsushita (ep3,4)
Harumi Shiho (春海四方) as Nokubo (ep3)
Yajima Kenichi as Manager Miyakawa (ep4-7,10)
Asari Yosuke as Takuo (ep4,5)
Nakamura Tomosuke (中村倫介) as Yukio (ep4)
Arifuku Masashi (有福正志) as Iwasaki (ep4,5)
Umoto Yuki (兎本有紀) as Hirota Yukie (ep4,5,7)
Inoue Hiroshi (井上浩) (ep4,5,8,9)
Yamamoto Kei as Dr. Yamamoto (ep5,7,8)
Watanabe Yuki (渡辺裕樹) (ep5)
Tamura Saburo (田村三郎) (ep9)
Yoshino Yoshiko (よしのよしこ) (ep9)
Miyatake Matsuri as member of church choir

Production Credits

Screenwriter: Asano Taeko
Producer: Nakano Toshiyuki
Director: Kato Hiromasa (加藤裕将), Matsuyama Hiroaki
Music: Kanno Yugo

Episode Information

Episode	Subtitle	Ratings (Kanto)	Ratings (Kansai)	Ratings (Nationwide)
01	After Battling with Cruel Fate... My New Beginning...	16.9	17.3	??.?
02	A Shocking Evening	13.3	??.?	??.?
03	Torn Bonds	13.1	??.?	??.?
04	A Sign of Happiness	11.7	??.?	??.?
05	Helping Hand	11.7	??.?	??.?
06	A Bond That Deepens	12.6	??.?	??.?
07	Starting to Move	13.4	??.?	??.?
08	Starting to Run	12.8	??.?	??.?
09	Final Tears	14.5	??.?	??.?
10	Eternally	15.1	??.?	??.?
Average	--	13.5	??.?	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

External Links

Summer 2008	Fuji TV	Winter 2009
Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu	Monday 21:00	Voice