Itoshii Uso

Details

Title: 愛しい嘘
Title (romaji): Itoshii Uso
Tagline: 優しい闇 / Yasashii Yami
Also known as: Dear My Loneliness and Darkness
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, Suspense
Episodes: 8
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2022-Jan-14 to 2022-Mar-04
Air time: Friday 23:15
Theme song: Illegal Game by Kami wa Saikoro wo Furanai

Synopsis

One day, 29-year-old manga artist assistant, Imai Mio, attended a junior high school reunion and reunited with her friends and her first love, Amemiya Shuichi after 14 years. They decided to dig out the time capsules and found a message left by a classmate who transferred out a year before the time capsules were buried. After that day, mysterious incidents occurred when each of the friends suddenly died one after another. And as it continues, everybody starts to reveal the "true side" of themselves with unstoppable loves and hates.

User/Viewer Ratings

5.00

(3 votes)

Cast

Correlation chart

Yamanishi Junior High School Alumni (Year 2021-2022)

Haru as Imai Mio (29)
Hayashi Kento as Amemiya Shuichi (29)
Mizobata Junpei as Fukazawa Ryo (29)
Motokariya Yuika as Honda Reiko (29)
Shinkawa Yua as Iwasaki Nanae (29)
Kurokawa Tomoka as Nose (Kitagawa) Yumi (29)

Enami Manga Studio

Nishio Mari as Enami Hiroko
Matsumura Sayuri as Okazaki Rie (26)
Takaoka Rinka (高岡凜花) as Kanae

Mio and Friends' Family

Tokushige Satoshi as Nose Tadashi (43 / Yumi's husband)
Funaki Sachi as Imai Taeko (Mio's mother)
Takahashi Hitomi as Amemiya Sayuri (Shuichi's mother)
Sanada Etsuko (眞田惠津子) as Fukazawa Naoko (Ryo's mother)
Mizuki Kaoru as Iwasaki Kotoe (Nanae's mother)
Aoki Tomoko (青紀ともこ) as Kitagawa Yuko (Yumi's mother)
Ikenami Genpachi as Nose Makoto (Tadashi's father)
Tachieda Ayumi (立枝歩) as Nose Kimiko (Tadashi's mother)

Yamanishi Junior High School Classmates (Year 2006-2007)

Ashikawa Yuzu (足川結珠) as Imai Mio
Araki Towa as Amemiya Shuichi
Otsuka Shin (大塚心) as Fukazawa Ryo
Kikuchi Hina (菊地姫奈) as Honda Reiko
Makino Usa as Iwasaki Nanae
Arai Miu as Kitagawa Yumi
Ikeda Yuto as Nakano Miyuki

Others

Sato Yuki as Sasaki
Ryutaro (竜太朗) as Akabane (ep1)
Suzuki Ameri (鈴木アメリ) as Itabashi (ep1)
Sankoda Yoshiki (三小田芳樹) as Nezu (ep1)
Nakae Tsubasa (中江翼) as Shibasaki (ep1)
Fujimoto Shizuka as Goto (ep2)
Nerio Hiroaki (ねりお弘晃) as Kasai (ep2)
Maniwa Ryosuke (馬庭良介) as Akiyama Yoichi (ep2,5)
Ishigami Mayumi (石神まゆみ) as Okuda (ep3)
Tsurugasaki Yoshiaki (鶴ヶ崎好昭) as Nagase (ep3)
Harada Momoko (原田もも子) as Kurokawa (ep3)
Tsuyama Toshiko (津山登志子) as Koike Teruko (ep3-4)
Azumi Keitaro (安住啓太郎) as Sawaguchi Shoichi (ep4)
Kondo Koen as Tamura Seiji (ep5)
Miyachi Mishika as Miyuki (ep5)
Nomura Masumi as Mai (ep6)
Tani Ryo (谷遼) as Kojima (ep6)
Kimura Ryo as Furuhori Kazuya (ep6-7)
Matsushima Shiho (松島志歩) as Furuhori Aki (ep7)
Shimamura Tomomi (嶋村友美) as Ando (ep7)

Production Credits

Original work: Manga Itoshii Uso, Yasashii Yami by Aimoto Mizuho
Screenwriter: Ushio Kentaro, Kanda Yu
Producer: Oe Tatsuki, Nakagome Takuya, Yamamoto Yoshihiko, Kouji Michiko
Director: Kinoshita Naomi
Music: Yokoyama Masaru

External Links

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