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Et Alors

Details

Title: エ・アロール
Title (romaji): Et Alors
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 8.8%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2003-Oct-09 to 2003-Dec-18
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: "LAT.43°N" by a.mia

Synopsis

Based on a work by best-selling author Junichi Watanabe, Et Alors examines the troubles caused by the romances of various residents of an inner-city retirement home. The manager of the home, Takafumi Kurusu, struggles to deal with the elderly residents' vitality and finds his own views on love and life greatly challenged. --TBS

Cast

Relationship Chart

Toyokawa Etsushi as Kurusu Takafumi
Kimura Yoshino as Sonoyama Asako
Yoshiyuki Kazuko as Okamoto Kyoko
Minami Toyokazu (三波豊和) as Kawabata Shouichi
Yamada Sumiko (山田スミ子) as Konishi Yummiko
Mizukawa Asami as Sugi Noriko
Yasui Kenichiro as Fujitani Tomoya
Kusabue Mitsuko as Enami Reika
Tsugawa Masahiko as Nomura Yoshio
Ogata Ken as Tachiki Shigeo
Hida Yasuhito

Production Credits

Original work: Watanabe Junichi (渡辺淳一)
Screenwriter: Aizawa Tomoko
Producer: Kijima Seiichiro, Kato Shoichi (加藤章一)
Director: Hirano Shunichi, Takano Eiji (高野英治), Matsuda Reijin (松田礼人)
Music: a.mia (Universal Music)

External Links

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 *'''Broadcast period:''' 2003-Oct-09 to 2003-Dec-18
 *'''Air time:''' [[TBS Kikyu|Thursday 22:00]]
-*'''Theme Song:''' ''LAT.43°N'' by a.mia
+*'''Theme song:''' ''"LAT.43°N"'' by a.mia
 ==Synopsis==
-Based on a new work by best-selling author Junichi Watanabe, Et Alors examines the troubles caused by the romances of various residents of an inner-city retirement home. The manager of the home, Takafumi Kurusu, struggles to deal with the elderly residents' vitality and finds his own views on love and life greatly challenged.
+Based on a work by best-selling author Junichi Watanabe, Et Alors examines the troubles caused by the romances of various residents of an inner-city retirement home. The manager of the home, Takafumi Kurusu, struggles to deal with the elderly residents' vitality and finds his own views on love and life greatly challenged. ''--TBS''
-The Villa Et Alors was built to accommodate elderly residents who, having been released from the restrictions of work and greater society, can live as they please. In dealing with the vitality of the residents, Kurusu and his girlfriend Asako Sonoyama are at times knocked around, at times made to really think as they learn the "Et Alors" philosophy.
-The Villa Et Alors is a stylish retirement home for those who want to use their money to live as they please after retirement. Takafumi Kurusu (Toyokawa), a doctor, has taken over management of the villa following his father's death. Villa Et Alors is unlike any other retirement home in the freedom of giving its residents and the various romances of its residents are causing a ruckus. A female resident is being strung along by the villa's playboy Tachiki (Ogata). When Kurusu asks him to tone it down, he is calmly informed by Tachiki that he is now chasing someone else - former flight attendant Reika Enami (Kusabue). As Kurusu copes with this, he learns that another resident Kyoko Okamoto (Yoshiyuki) is in love with the villa's young physiotherapist Fujitani (Yasui). Kyoko sees Fujitani repeatedly for massages as an excuse to be with him and when Kurusu gently tries to dissuade her he suddenly finds himself the object of her affections.
-Kurusu, exhausted by his charges, grumbles to his girlfriend Asako Sonoyama (Kimura) about the residents. Asako is a magazine journalist who has been reporting on the villa since it was first built. Asako puts work first and Kurusu, already once divorced thinks he isn't interested in marriage. They both agreed that they wouldn't marry but as they are drawn more and more into the Villa Et Alors, they find the residents influencing their relationship more and more.
-The phrase "Et Alors" was used by former French President Mitterrand who was responding to a question from a newspaper journalist as to whether he had fathered a daughter with a mistress. Mitterrand responded with "et alors" or "so what?" Nothing more was made of the matter. After that, a journalist at the magazine Paris Match said "if it was corruption that would be different, but we don't run stories on politicians sex lives. That's a private matter between a man and a woman and to comment on it would be boorish."
-''--TBS''
 ==Cast==
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 *'''Original work:''' [[Watanabe Junichi]] (渡辺淳一)
 *'''Screenwriter:''' [[Aizawa Tomoko]]
-*'''Producer:''' [[Kijima Seiichiro]] (貴島誠一郎), 加藤章一
+*'''Producer:''' [[Kijima Seiichiro]], [[Kato Shoichi]] (加藤章一)
-*'''Director:''' [[Hirano Shunichi]], 高野英治, 松田礼人
+*'''Director:''' [[Hirano Shunichi]], [[Takano Eiji]] (高野英治), [[Matsuda Reijin]] (松田礼人)
 *'''Music:''' a.mia (Universal Music)