Churasan
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- Title: ちゅらさん
- Title (romaji): Churasan
- Also known as: The Promise to the Chura Sea
- Genre: Asadora drama, family drama
- Episodes: 156 Episodes x 15 minutes
- Viewership: Ep1=21.3, High=29.3, Avg=22.2
- Broadcast network: NHK
- Broadcast period: 2001-Apr-02 to 2001-Sep-29
- Theme song: Best Friend by Kiroro
- Related TV shows: Churasan 2, Churasan 3, Churasan 4
Synopsis
The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the U.S. Eleven years later, Kamimura Shizuko and her two sons, Kazuya and Fumiya, from Tokyo come to stay as the guests of a small inn run by Eri's family. Eri's fun-loving, yet eccentric family welcomes them warmly. However, Eri is shocked to hear one of the sons, Kazuya is terminally ill and Shizuko and her sons came to Okinawa to spend his last moment together in beautiful nature. Fumiya, Kazuya's younger brother, and Eri promise to marry each other someday. However after Kazuya's death, Fumiya and his mother leave the island to go back to Tokyo. Years later, they are reunited, Eri as a nurse and Fumiya, a doctor, working at the same hospital in Tokyo.
The story's settings include Okinawa, Naha, and Tokyo.
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Cast
- Kuninaka Ryoko as Uemura Eri
- Kohashi Kenji as Uemura Fumiya
- Sakai Masaaki as Kohagura Keibun
- Tanaka Yoshiko as Kohagura Katsuko
- Yamada Takayuki as Kohagura Keitatsu
- Yamaguchi Ayumi as Kohabura Shoko
- Kitamura Kazuo as Shimada Daishin
- Kanno Miho as Jyonouchi Maria
- Gori as Kohabura Keisho
- Sato Aiko as Kohagura Nanako
- Toda Keiko as Shimoyanagi Satoko
- Miyara Shinobu as Yonabaru Makoto
- Fujiki Hayato as Kaneshiro Masahide
- Shimizu Michiko as Kanda Hidemi
- Yo Kimiko Shibata Yoko
- Kawata Hiroki as Shimabukuro Shoichi
- Ayukawa Makoto as Joji Ganaha
- Kabira Jay as Ganaha Takeshi
- Maehara Eri as Yonabaru Rumiko
- Suzuki Shogo as Uemura Kazuya
- Maya Kyoko as Uemura Shizuko
- Taira Tomi as Kohagura Hana
- Tanami Yatsuko as Shimada Mizue
- Becky as Kinjou Yukari
- Konishi Manami as Nishinomiya Haruka
- Murata Takehiro as Shibata Kouzou
- Endo Yuya
- Kikuchi Rinko
- Agarita Aki
- Sugiura Masafumi
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Okada Yoshikazu
- Director: Enokido Takayasu (榎戸崇泰), Endo Satoshi (遠藤理史), Otomo Keiji (大友啟史), Fujii Yasushi (藤井靖), Takahashi Ren, Watanabe Kazuki (渡辺一貴), Horikirizono Kentaro (堀切園健太郎)
- Music: Maruyama Kazunori (丸山和範)
Recognitions
- 30th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actress (Kuninaka Ryoko)
- 30th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Taira Tomi)
- 30th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Newcomer (Gori)
- 30th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Screenwriter (Okada Yoshikazu)
Trivia
- After watching episode 86 (2001-Jul-11), a number of viewers called NHK complaining about a scene involving alcohol drinking. In the episode, a young man and the father of his girlfriend engaged in a drinking competition with Okinawan liquor, Awamori, for the sake of his proposed marriage to Eri. Most of the complaints claimed that the scene encouraged and glorified excessive drinking that could cause an acute alcohol poisoning. The "Okinawa Bottoms-Up Prevention Conference" representing parents who have lost their children to acute alcohol poisoning allegedly demanded that NHK run a character generator warning saying that this style of drinking would put the drinker in danger of death.
- A 3-part highlights SP will air on NHK 2007-Jan-1 through 3 from 16:40 to 17:55 (JST). A highlights SP is a compilation of key moments of a series.
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