Akai Ito
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Details
- Title: 赤い糸
- Title (romaji): Akai Ito
- Title (English): Threads of Destiny
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Romance, human drama
- Episodes: 11
- Viewership rating: 8.5 (Kanto)
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2008-Dec-06 to 2009-Feb-28
- Air time: Saturday 23:10
- Theme songs:
- Ending theme: 366 Nichi by HY
- Insert song: Ray by lego big morl
Synopsis
Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
Struggling to rebound from her decade-long crush, Mei finds comfort in the close camaraderie of her school friends, Taka, Mia, Yuri, Natsu, Mitsu and Sara and then meets a reticent and gentle-natured boy named Atsushi. The two begin to realize that they share many things in common that seem to transcend mere coincidence: the same birthday (February 29th, 1992) and a previous encounter when they were both 8. Feeling a bond of fate, they grow closer.
But destiny can have a dark side to it, too, and a shocking revelation from both of their pasts compels Atsushi to pull away from Mei. The devastating separation then unleashes a wave of misfortune upon Mei: the death of a loved one, drug addiction and domestic violence. As circumstances seek to take control of her life, Mei struggles to maintain her faith in the tenuous thread of destiny that will reunite her with her true love.
User/Viewer Ratings
Cast
- Minamisawa Nao as Takemiya Mei
- Miyatake Mio as young Mei
- Mizobata Junpei as Nishino Atsushi (A-kun)
- Sawaki Ruka as young Atsushi
- Kimura Ryo as Takahashi Riku (Taka-chan)
- Okamoto Rei as Yamagishi Mia
- Ishibashi Anna as Tadokoro Mami
- Sakuraba Nanami as Nakagawa Sara
- Yanagishita Tomo as Fujiwara Natsuki (Natsu)
- Suzuki Kasumi as Nakanishi Yuri
- Tajima Yusei as Kamiya Mitsuru (Mitsu)
- Iwata Sayuri as Takemiya Haruna
- Yazaki Hiroshi as Shinozaki Yuya
- Hirata Kaoru as Kawaguchi Miyabi
- Yamada Gilson (山田ジルソン) as Koota
- Wakaba Ryuya as Yasuda Shu
- Hayashi Kazuyoshi as Takahashi Tadaaki
- Suzuki Kosuke as Dr. Ota
- Yashiba Toshihiro as Inoue (homeroom teacher)
- Hamada Manabu as Ishikawa Haruo
- Yamaguchi Sayaka as Ishikawa Machiko
- Matsuda Kenji as Murakoshi Koichi
- Yamamoto Mirai as Nishino Natsumi
- Ogi Shigemitsu as Morisaki Takamichi
- Komoto Masahiro as Takemiya Toshihisa
- Watanabe Noriko as Takemiya Sachiko
Others
- Tawaragi Tota as the patissier (ep1)
- Konno Mahiru as a science teacher (ep1)
- Nakamura Asaka as Yuri (ep2,4)
- Yonemura Misaki as Ai-chin (ep4-7)
- Ikeda Megumi (池田愛) as Yuki (ep4-7)
- Iwahashi Michiko as Sara's mother (ep5-6)
- Fukazawa Atsushi as a teacher (ep7)
- Hiiragi Rumi as Nozomi (ep8)
- Togawa Takahiro as detective (ep10-11)
- Watanabe Bambi (渡辺万美)
- Fujimura Naoki (藤村直樹)
- Nakatani Mitsutoshi (中谷みつとし)
- Murakami Kouki
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Hanzawa Noriko (ep1-2), Watanabe Chiho (ep3-11)
- Producer: Sekiya Masayuki (関谷正征), Taneda Yoshihiko (種田義彦), Moriyasu Aya
- Director: Murakami Shosuke (ep1-4,8-9,11), Kawamura Taisuke (ep5-7,10)
- Music: Kanno Yugo
Episode Information
| Episode | Subtitle | Kanto |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | I fell in love with you the moment I saw you | 7.5 |
| 02 | The Chocolate That Heals Loneliness | 8.4 |
| 03 | When the Two of Us Met | 7.8 |
| 04 | The Nagasaki Sky | 10.0 |
| 05 | The Ineffective Drug | 10.8 |
| 06 | The Thread is Broken | 8.0 |
| 07 | A New Love Begins | 8.4 |
| 08 | Red Thread of Fate | 8.0 |
| 09 | The 366th Day | 8.9 |
| 10 | The Children Who Can't be Adults | 7.0 |
| 11 | Even so it's okay, it seems I'm in love | 8.9 |
| Average | 8.5 | |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.
Notes
- The movie, produced by Shochiku, was released on 2008-Dec-20.
- Both movie and TV versions feature the same staff and cast and also carry storylines that are closely connected.
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