Kai
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For Korean singer with the same name, see Kai (singer).
Details
- Title: 櫂
- Title (romaji): Kai
- Also known as: The Oar
- Genre: Drama
- Episodes: 3
- Broadcast network: NHK
- Broadcast period: 1999-May-06 to 1999-May-20
Synopsis
Kiwa is Iwago’s devoted wife. A former wrestling champion, he has become a ‘zegen’: He buys young girls from poor families and sells them to geisha houses. He is quite successful but Kiwa, although she accepts his money, loathes his work. One day Iwago comes back with a young girl he’s bought from a man who wanted to sell her in China. They adopt her and Kiwa raises her, as a respectable girl, with her two sons. But Iwago wants to manage the career of a singer who becomes his mistress and the situation becomes very tense for the couple.
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Cast
- Matsu Takako
- Nakamura Toru
- Nagato Hiroyuki
- Kaga Mariko
- Hideo Murota (室田 日出男)
- Fujitani Miki
- Yuri Nakae (中江友梨)
- Sendo Akiho
- Aso Kumiko
- Hayashi Michiko
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Tomiko Miyao (冨川元文)
- Director: Oyama Katsumi (大山勝美)