Gift
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Details
- Title: ギフト
- Title (English): Gift
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Drama, mystery
- Episodes: 11
- Viewership ratings: Avg: 18.2%, high: 23.0% (Kanto)
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 1997-Apr-16 to 1997-Jun-25
- Air time: Wednesday 21:00
- Theme song: Tokyo Joe by Bryan Ferry
Synopsis
Naomi, a middle-aged woman, goes to a house to meet her boyfriend with whom she had planned to skip the country, along with 50 billion yen in cash. When she gets to the house, there is no boyfriend, no money and a trail of blood leading to a closet. Opening the closet causes this nude, blood covered body to come falling out. She gets the young man into a hospital to revive him in hopes he can tell her where the boyfriend and the money went, but the guy from the closet has lost his memory. She gives him a new identity, calling him Yukio, and then employs him as a courier at her company to keep track of him in case he ever recovers his memory. As he works for Naomi, Yukio slowly discovers who he was and what has led him to the man he is now.
User/Viewer Ratings
Cast
- Main Cast
- Kimura Takuya as Hayasaka Yukio
- Muroi Shigeru as Koshigoe Naomi
- Shinohara Ryoko as Akiyama Chiaki
- Imai Masayuki as Nonagase Sadayuki (Naomi's subordinate)
- Imawano Kiyoshiro as Tamura Akira
- Kajihara Zen as Tsukuba Shinji
- Kasugai Seina as Furuhashi Noriko (Naomi's subordinate)
- Shimamura Chigusa (島村千草) as Hatayama Kikue (Juliet's assistant)
- Tsunoda Tomomi (角田ともみ) as Kuniko's younger sister
- Kobayashi Satomi as Juliet Hoshikawa
- Baisho Mitsuko as Inspector Sakuhara
- Guests
- Kirari (ep1)
- Bito Isao (ep1)
- Shimizu Shogo (ep1)
- Kato Ai (ep1)
- Akagi Harue as Tome (ep2)
- Igawa Hisashi (ep2)
- Nakamaru Shinsho (ep2)
- Kondo Yoshimasa (ep2)
- Kishibe Ittoku (ep3)
- Kosaka Miyuki (香坂みゆき) (ep3)
- Suzuki Anne as Sayaka (ep3)
- Otsuka Chikao (大塚周夫) (ep3)
- Takasugi Ko (ep3)
- Ban Daisuke (ep3)
- Momoi Kaori (ep4)
- Kitamura Soichiro (ep4)
- Ishimaru Kenjiro (ep4)
- Haba Yuichi (ep4)
- Osugi Ren (ep4)
- Ikezu Shoko (ep4)
- Okouchi Nanako (ep5)
- Kurosawa Asuka as Kuniko (ep5)
- Rokkaku Seiji (ep5)
- Shiraishi Hitomi (白石ひとみ) (ep5)
- Arai Yasuhiro (ep5)
- Uzaki Ryudo (ep6)
- Kaneda Akio (ep6)
- Oki Naomi as Midori (ep6)
- Hazuki Riona as Aoi (ep7)
- Terawaki Yasufumi (ep7)
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (ep7)
- Nekoze Tsubaki (ep7)
- Aijima Kazuyuki (ep7)
- Matsushita Yuki (ep8)
- Fujitani Miwako (ep9)
- Tajima Honami (田島穂奈美) as Natsumi (ep9)
- Mitsuishi Ken (ep9)
- Umegaki Yoshiaki (梅垣義明) (ep9)
- Ogata Ken (ep10-11)
- Suzuki Kyoka (ep10-11)
- Maki Kurodo (ep10-11)
- Kato Zenpaku (ep10-11)
- Tayama Ryosei (ep10-11)
- Arimori Narimi (ep10-11)
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Iida Joji, Inoue Yumiko
- Producer: Yamaguchi Masatoshi
- Director: Kawake Shunsaku, Nakae Isamu, Sawada Kensaku
- Music: Hinata Toshifumi, Yoshimata Ryo
Episode Ratings
| Date | Episode | Ratings (Kanto) |
|---|---|---|
| 1997-04-16 | 01 | 23.0% |
| 1997-04-23 | 02 | 18.7% |
| 1997-04-30 | 03 | 15.5% |
| 1997-05-07 | 04 | 17.8% |
| 1997-05-14 | 05 | 16.6% |
| 1997-05-21 | 06 | 15.9% |
| 1997-05-28 | 07 | 15.6% |
| 1997-06-04 | 08 | 16.9% |
| 1997-06-11 | 09 | 19.0% |
| 1997-06-18 | 10 | 16.5% |
| 1997-06-25 | 11 | 20.9% |
| Average | 18.2% | |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.
Trivia
- Kimura Takuya's use of a butterfly knife from this drama prompted a spate of copycat attacks by disaffected teenagers. The series was forbidden to broadcast and forced to prune down before it got the green light. At the beginning of 1998, it caused several victims, one of whom was a school teacher stabbed to death. The adolescent murderer admitted imitating Takuya's behavior in "Gift". The media blamed him for this butterfly knife hysteria. The series was forbidden to rebroadcast forever, and videos of the series disappeared from shop shelves.