Agri

Agri

Details

• Title: あぐり
• Title (romaji): Agri
• Also known as: Aguri
• Format: Asadora
• Genre: Human drama
• Episodes: 156 x 15 minutes
• Viewership ratings: Ep1=25.4, High=31.5, Avg=28.4
• Broadcast network: NHK
• Broadcast period: 1997-Apr-07 to 1997-Oct-04
• Air time: Monday thru Saturday

Series Synopsis

The 56th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Agri. Story's settings include Okayama and Tokyo (Ichigaya). This renzoku chronicles the life of a Showa period hairdresser, and is based on a true life story of Moshizuki Agri. Agri has worked for over 70 years as a beautician. She is a successful business woman who survived the war by becoming a farmer. During the war, going to the beauty salon was considered a frivolity, so many such businesses went bankrupt as Japan suffered from the energy spent as all the yen was fueled into the war effort.

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Cast

Kawamura Family

• Tanaka Misato as Kawamura Agri (heroine, age 20)
• Tamura Ryo as Kawamura Akira
• Matsubara Chieko as Kawamura Misa
• Ihara Yuki as Kawamura Itsuki
  • Kurasawa Momoko as Kawamura Itsuki (young)
• Isono Kiriko as Saeki Fukiko

Mochizuki Family

• Nomura Mansai as Mochizuki Eisuke
• Satomi Kotaro as Mochizuki Kentaro
• Hoshi Yuriko as Mochizuki Mitsuyo
• Yamada Jundai as Mochizuki Junnosuke
  • Ikuta Toma as Junnosuke (boyhood)
• Mabuchi Erika as Mochizuki Kazuko
• Fujiwara Mayuka as Mochizuki Rie
• Wakabayashi Hisaya as Mochizuki Yuzo

Hayashi Family

• Takashima Masanobu as Hayashi Akira
• Goto Takuya as Hayashi Yosuke

Eisuke's literary companions

• Kusabue Mitsuko as Uehara Setsuko
• Nomura Hironobu as Tsujimura Rintaro
• Morimoto Leo as Mori Jun
• Tonesaku Toshihide as Kawahara Jinpachi
• Akiyama Takeshi as Takayama Hiroshi
• Kobayashi Megumi as Suzune

Cherry Yamaoka

• Natori Yuko as Yamaoka Sakurako
• Yoshino Sayaka as Yamaoka Machiko
• Omori Akemi as Yamaoka Sachi
• Hiramatsu Takuma as Yamaoka Takeshi
• Oimori Reiko as Ichikawa Kazuyo
• Kobama Ai as Ishimori Tokiko
• Yoshimoto Takami as Iwasaki Chiyoko
• Kobayashi Chiharu as Matsushima Kinuyo
• Takahashi Hitomi as Ishizaka Kazuko
• Iwamato Masuyo as Nagahori Kimiko

Agri Beauty Salon

• Suzuki Sawa as Nakano Tatsuko
• Hosokawa Fumie as Ota Tome
• Konishi Hiroyuki as Motoya Fujio
• Miura Rieko as Yasuda Sawako
• Ozaki Eijiro as Kimura
• Aso Kaori as Ikuta Chika
• Sawamura Azusa as Sato Hiroko
• Takamura Hisae as Accounting section chief

Junnosuke's companions

• Oji Megumi as Ikeda Ryoko
• Sekiguchi Tomohiro as Iwamoto Naohisa
• Ikeuchi Mansaku as Fukuzawa Minami
• Koiso Katsuya as Ogawa Yasukichi

Mochizuki-gumi officials

• Yamamoto Shinya as Isobe
• Kariya Shunsuke as Izawa Tsumagoro
• Umezawa Masayo as Shio
• Aoki Mayuko as Kayo
• Oya Yukari as Haru
• Nemoto Chiaki as Tsuru
• Isshiki Saiko as Aki
• Mineno Katsunari as Chikichi

People in Okayama

• Sasamine Ai as Nakamura Minko
• Yamada Kuniko as Yamagami Tsuruko
• Sasaki Isao as Tsushima
• Sugimoto Yu as Kobayakawa
• Kimosabe Ponta as Kinugasa
• Anan Kenji as Chuno
• Mizuno Haruo as Chief
• Saito Haruhiko as Iwami Shinichi
• Seki Etsuko as Tane

People of Tokyo

• Sugai Kin as Iwabuchi Ume
• Kawamata Shinobu as Iwabuchi Haruko
• Suzuki Kazuma as Iwabuchi Yoshizo
• Yoshiyuki Kazuko as Hirayama Masako
• Nishida Hikaru as Ayakoji Takako
• Tsushima Keiko as Osawa Sachiko
• Asano Kayo as Imamura Tsutako
• Shimada Tomonosuke as Imamura Yusuke
• Nakayama Jin as Katagiri Shinjiro
• Bito Isao as Sasaki
• Tsunogae Kazue as Daitokuji Kiku
• Nakagawa Anna as Midorikawa Yasuko
• Tokoshima Yoshiko as Nonomura Miwako
• Hayashi Mariko as Toriumi Mitsuko
• Hotaru Yukijiro as Tsuchiya
• Takahashi Katsumi as police officer

Others

• Miura Haruma as Shotaro
• Asakura Shinji as Ogawa Kinji
• Miyaji Masako as Ogawa Mine
• Arifuku Masashi as Vice-principal Kito
• Era Jun

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Yoshiyuki Aguri

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia

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