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[[File:Ame ni Kieta Himawari.jpg|thumb|240px|Ame ni Kieta Himawari]]

==Details==
*'''Title:''' 雨に消えた向日葵
*'''Title (romaji):''' Ame ni Kieta Himawari
*'''Title (English):''' The Sunflower Disappeared in the Rain
*'''Format:''' Renzoku
*'''Genre:''' Mystery, Investigation, Crime
*'''Episodes:''' 5
*'''Broadcast network:''' WOWOW
*'''Broadcast period:''' 2022-Jul-24 to 2022-Aug-21
*'''Air time:''' Sunday 22:00

==Synopsis==
On a rainy day, 11-year-old girl Ishioka Aoi, suddenly disappeared around a rice field road where sunflowers bloom, leaving only one umbrella. Inspector Nara Kenichi rushes to the scene after receiving the report. He meets Ishioka Masanori, Aoi's father, who has been living separately from his family, while he and his wife are in the middle of divorce proceedings. Masanori wants to participate in the search and while searching for Aoi, Kenichi remembers his younger sister, Mayuko, who has been shutting herself off from everyone after being attacked when she was a student. This incident caused Kenichi to become a detective as he regretted not being able to protect his sister. Due to this, Kenichi wants to do his best to bring Aoi back to her family.

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==Cast==
;Main Cast
*[[Muro Tsuyoshi]] as Nara Kenichi
**[[Kaizu Hinata]] (海津陽) as child Kenichi
*[[Sato Ryuta]] as Ishioka Masanori

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;Saitama Prefectural Police Station, Criminal Investigation Department
*[[Horibe Keisuke]] as Hiruma Kensaku
*[[Nakagoshi Noriko]] as Omae Hisako
*[[Sakata Masanobu]] as Koyama Hiroyasu
*[[Kaji Masaki]] as Morikawa Junichi
*[[Komatsu Toshimasa]] as Furuya Eisuke

;Sakado Police Station, Criminal Investigation Department
*[[Konno Hiroki]] as Okumura Yuta
*[[Sakata Tadashi]] as Kurehara Shinji

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;Ishioka Family
*[[Yuui Ryoko]] as Ishioka Akina
*[[Yonekura Reia]] as Ishioka Saki
*[[Oshima Miyu]] as Ishioka Aoi

;Nara Family
*[[Hiraiwa Kami]] as Nara Mayuko
**[[Miyachi Mishika]] as child Mayuko (ep4-5)
*[[Umezawa Masayo]] as Nara Fumiyo

;Others
*[[Sawai Miyuu]] as Asami Tae
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==Production Credits==
*'''Original work:''' Novel by Yoshikawa Eri
*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Seki Erika]]
*'''Producer:''' [[Tokuda Takehisa]] (徳田雄久), [[Takamaru Masataka]]
*'''Director:''' [[Hijikata Masato]], [[Iwata Kazuyuki]]
*'''Music:''' [[Manabe Akihiro]]

==External Links==
*[https://www.wowow.co.jp/drama/original/himawari/ Official site]
*[[Wikipedia:ja:雨に消えた向日葵#テレビドラマ|Japanese Wikipedia]]

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