Dondo Bare
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Dondo Bare
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Details
- Title: どんど晴れ
- Title (romaji): Dondo Bare
- Also known as: Dondo Hare
- Genre: Family drama
- Episodes: 156 (15 mins. each)
- Viewership rating: 14.9 (1st), 19.4 (avg), 24.8 (peek)
- Broadcast network: NHK
- Broadcast period: 2007-Apr-2 to 2007-Sep-29
- Air time: Monday through Saturday at 8:15
- Theme song: Daijobu by Oda Kazumaza
Synopsis
The 76th NHK Asadora is Dondobare. Locations include Morioka, Iwate. Natsumi is the 23-year-old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her father to become a pastry chef. She lives with her parents and younger brother in Yokohama. One day she travels to Iwate Prefecture with her boyfriend Masaki for his grandmother Katsuno's 77th birthday. While they are there, Katsuno, head okami of a famous ryokan in Morioka City, becomes ill and asks Masaki to return to run the ryokan. Natsumi returns to Yokohama and later Masaki visits, asking her to disregard their earlier plans to get married because he will return to Morioka as requested by Katsuno. However, Natsumi surprises him with a vow to become the ryokan's okami. Is Natsumi in for clear skies as suggested by the series name? ---groink
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Cast
Heroine
- Higa Manami as Asakura Natsumi (heroine)
- Uchida Asahi as Kagami Masaki (27)
Asakura Family - Yokohama
- Mori Masako as Asakura Fusako (47)
- Osugi Ren as Asakura Keigo (50)
- Kamiki Ryunosuke as Asakura Toyoma
Ryokan Inn "Kagami Inn"
- Uchida Asahi as Kagami Masaki (fiancee)
- Miyamoto Nobuko as Kagami Tamaki ("Kagami House" proprietess)
- Suzuki Masayuki as Kagami Hisanori (master)
- Azuma Mikihisa as Kagami Shinichi (oldest son)
- Hinagata Akiko as Kagami Emiko (Shinichi's wife)
- Suzuki Sotaro as Kagami Kenta (Shinichi's eldest son)
- Komuro Yuta (小室優太) as Kagami Yuta (second son)
- Kanie Ippei (蟹江一平) as Kagami Koji
- Kusabue Mitsuko as Kagami Katsuno (大女将) (Head proprietress)
- Nakae Yuri (中江有里) as Kagami Toshie
Narrator
Other Residents of Kagami Inn
- Aki Takejo as Ono Tokie (head maid)
- Kawamura Yukie as Matsumoto Kana (maid)
- Shiraishi Miho as Harada Ayaka
- Takahashi Gentaro as Nakamoto Tsutomu (clerk)
Iwate Residents
- Fukikoshi Mitsuru as Iwamoto Jujiro ("IHATOVE" tea master)
- Daniel Kahl as Billy Jonathan (Botanist at Iwate University)
- Suzuki Ranran as Mizumori Aki (photographer)
- Watanabe Kunito as Kishimoto Satoshi (Nambu iron casting pupil)
- Nagato Hiroyuki as Sasaki Heiji (Nanbu iron casting craftsman)
Yokohama Residents
- Aizawa Sayo as Fujimura Kaori
- Sasaki Isao (ささきいさお) as Yoshizawa Masato
- Beppu Ayumi (別府あゆみ) as Takebayashi Kumiko
- Nakahara Takeo as Yamamuro Hideki
Others
- Yamamoto Kei as Yoshida (ep15-18, 54, 77, 78)
- Ryu Shi Won as Junso (ep25-30, 54)
- Toyota Maho as Saito Aiko (ep36-54)
- Kawachi Tamio (ep3)
- Sunaga Kei (ep4, 110)
- Ebisu Yoshikazu (ep10, 22, 63)
- Obayashi Takeshi (ep13, 18)
- Horai Teruko (蓬莱照子) (ep13, 18))
- Nakahara Kanan (ep78)
- Hayama Yuria (葉山ゆりあ) (ep27)
- Nanase Kazuki (七世一樹) (ep28, 30)
- Tanaka Yoji (ep27, 29)
- Maggy Shinji (ep30)
- Toyota Maho (ep36-54)
- Kawaguchi Shouhei (ep36-54)
- Kimura Gen (ep74, 75)
- Nukumizu Youichi (ep89-91)
- Nakajima Hisayuki (中島久之) (ep88-91)
- Iijima Daisuke (飯島大介) (ep100, 114)
- Okuda Eiji (ep103-105, 107-109)
- Ameku Michiko (ep104, 107-109)
- Anna (あんな) (ep104-107, 109)
- Sasano Takato (ささの貴斗) (ep104-107, 109)
- Taniyama Takeru (谷山毅) (ep104-107, 109)
- Aihara Suzuka (相原鈴夏) (ep104-107, 109)
- Matsuura Ayu (松浦愛弓) (ep104, 105)
- Fukasawa Arashi (ep105-108)
- Numata Baku (ep103, 105, 106)
- Shobuke Miya (正部家ミヤ) (ep105)
- Manatsu Ryu (真夏竜) (ep111)
- Denden (ep123-126)
- Kitami Toshiyuki (ep130-132)
- Kojima Miyuki (児島美ゆき) (ep130-132)
- Ishihara Yoshizumi (ep116, 129, 132-143, 146, 147, 149~)
- Nonami Maho (ep132-134, 136, 142)
- Nakao Akira (ep134 (voice only), 136, 142, 143, 147)
- Thane Camus (ep143, 146, 147, 150)
- Ikeuchi Mansaku (ep143, 146, 147, 150)
- Youna (ヨンア) (ep143, 146, 147, 150)
- Tanami Yatsuko (ep146, 148)
Production Credits
- Original writing: Komatsu Eriko
- Director: Watanabe Yoshio
- Producer: Naito Shinsuke
- Music:
- Casting: Zashiki Warashi
Awards
- 54th Television Drama Academy Awards: Special Award - Higa Manami
Notes
- Manami was chosen by Zashiki Warashi, out of 2,156 applicants.
- The title, Dondo Bare, means happy-ending in the local Iwate dialect. Hare is also a homonym with the Japanese word for "a clear sky", and Dondo Bare also signifies perfect blue skies above Mt. Iwate.
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