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==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
*[[Mikami Hiroshi]] as Kudo Togo | *[[Mikami Hiroshi]] as Kudo Togo | ||
| − | *[[Amami Yuki]] as Takahata | + | *[[Amami Yuki]] as Takahata Aki |
*[[Ishida Yuriko]] as Kudo Sumiko | *[[Ishida Yuriko]] as Kudo Sumiko | ||
*[[Sato Aiko]] as Hirayama Masami | *[[Sato Aiko]] as Hirayama Masami | ||
Revision as of 15:36, 7 March 2006
Details
- Title: 薔薇の十字架 / Bara no Jyujika
- Also known as: Cross of Roses
- Episodes: 11
- Genre: Love, Dark, Family
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2002-10-10 to 2002-12-12
- Air time:
- Theme Song: Cry by Faith Hill
Synopsis
Togo is 37, married, has no kids and lives with his mother. He is a television commercial director and has won numerous awards for his works. What he most wants to do is make commercials that people will long remember. It is the commercials that he personally doesn't like though, that gain the most recognition. He's even complained to one of the younger guys that he works with about his boss getting on his back for trying to put too much artistic creativity into his commercials. His boss wants him to simply make commercials the way the clients ask for.
Togo's wife Sumiko, who is not even pregnant, receives baby presents on just about a daily basis from her mother-in-law. She tries to play the "good daughter-in-law" by politely accepting the gifts. Her mother-in-law seems to be mentally punishing Sumiko for not giving her a grandchild, but it appears that Sumiko really does not want to get pregnant.
Not being able to have children, and work not going the way he wants starts eating at Togo. It is just at this time that his life takes a big turn...One day when he is supposed to meet a model that his friend wants to introduce him to; he mistakenly takes a woman by the name of Akira for the model. After getting to know her, Akira tells him "I don't want a relationship or to get married. I just want you to help me to have a child," and things begin to heat up from there.
Akira, who works at a foreign-affiliated computer manufacturer, is your typical career woman. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she lives with her mother and younger sister Masami. Because of a traumatic experience that she had when she was young, she has lost all faith in men.
Before meeting Akira, Togo was about to give up on have a bigger family. So the more he meets Akira, the more he seriously starts considering her offer. The plan they come up with is after Akira has the baby, they won't ever see each other again. But after the baby is born, both Togo and Akira start having a change of heart.
Sumiko later finds out about Togo's secret. And just when Togo has made up his mind to leave her for Akira, Sumiko starts striking back. Both their friends and families wind up getting involved, and before you know it Akira and Togo begin slipping apart.
Who should Togo really be with?
What has possessed Akira to go this far just to have a child?
How will Sumiko get revenge?
This is an all new kind of melodrama about a man that wants children, but can't have them with his wife; and a single-woman that wants to have a child of her own. It is also about what children mean to both sexes.
Fuji TV
Cast
- Mikami Hiroshi as Kudo Togo
- Amami Yuki as Takahata Aki
- Ishida Yuriko as Kudo Sumiko
- Sato Aiko as Hirayama Masami
- Katsumura Masanobu as Kitamura Jin
- Tamayama Tetsuji as Kamiya Kyosuke
- Goda Masashi as Ihara Junya
- Nekoze Tsubaki as Yamazaki Eri
- Nishiyama Mayuko as Mimura Hinako
- Nakao Mie
- Nagauchi Minako
- Tayama Ryosei
- Fukuda Mayuko
Production Credits
- Original novel:
- Screenwriter:
- Producer:
- Director:
- Music: