Ten Urara
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Details
- Title: 天うらら
- Title (romaji): Ten Urara
- Episodes: 156 x 15 minutes
- Genre: Human drama
- Broadcast network: NHK
- Broadcast period: 1998-Apr-06 through 1998-Oct-03
- Air time: Monday thru Saturday 8:15 to 8:30
- Viewership ratings: Ep1=26.3, High=35.6, Avg=27.7
Synopsis
The 58th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Ten Urara. Story's settings include Nikko, Tochigi and Koto, Tokyo. This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong ambition of becoming a carpenter and building homes. The story takes place from the later part of the Showa era to present day Heisei rule. The heroine of the story, Kawashima Urara, lost her father at the tender age of seven and this drama depicts her life as she grows from a young school girl, through puberty and adolescence and on into her adult years as an independent woman who owns her own carpentry business. As Urara grows into a beautiful and strong woman and a talented carpenter, her family around her goes through many difficult and trying times. This story of becoming an independent businesswoman in the male-dominated world of carpentry accurately reflects the lives and struggles of the young women in present day Japan who are trying to make a career for themselves in addition to balancing the demands of family obligations, friends and lovers. ---groink
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Cast
- Sudo Risa as Kawashima Urara (heroine, age 21)
- Kiuchi Maya (木内茉弥) as Kawashima Urara (7 years old)
- Hara Hideko as Tomoko (Urara's mother)
- Oura Ryuichi
- Saito Yoko (斎藤陽子)
- Sakurai Sachiko
- Fuwa Mansaku
- Negishi Toshie
- Ikeuchi Junko as Hatsuko (Urara's grandmother)
- Kato Takeshi as Kojiro (Urara's grandfather)
- Kobayashi Kaoru
- Watanabe Eri
- Suzuki Kazuma
- Hayashiya Kobuhei
- Saito Keiko
- Oshima Yoko
- Matsumura Tatsuo (松村達雄)
- Moriwaki Kenji
- Tokui Yuu
- Ariyoshi Hiroiki (有吉弘行)
- Uchiyama Shinji
- Nakama Yukie
- Mitsuura Yasuko
- Azuma Chizuru
- Kochihira Chika
Production Credits
- Original writing: Kadono Haruko (門野晴子)
- Screenwriter: Kamiyama Yumiko
- Music: Koroku Reijiro
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