Alsace no Aozora

Details

• Title: アルザスの青い空
• Title (romaji): Alsace no Aozora
• Also known as: From the Blue Sky in Alsace
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Human, family drama
• Episodes: 12
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Broadcast period: 1985-Oct-10 to 1985-Dec-26
• Air time: Thursday 22:00

Synopsis

Yoshimura Yukio is a businessman on duty in Europe. His family life crumbles because he was too busy with his work. After his wife Ayako leaves him and returns to Tokyo with their daughter, he starts to wander eventually settling in a beautiful small village in Alsace, France where he is warmly welcomed by the villagers. He decides to stay and begins a new, more peaceful life. --Fuji Creative

Cast

• Sakaguchi Ryoko (坂口良子) as Yoshimura Ayako
• Yamashita Shinji as Yoshimura Yukio
• Oginome Keiko as Nakajima Natsuko
• Yazaki Shigeru (矢崎滋) as Izawa Junji
• Takazawa Junko (高沢順子) as Izawa Yoshimi
• Fujita Mariko (藤田亜里早) as Yoshimura Junko
• Iwakuni Makoto (岩国誠) as Izawa Daisuke
• Chii Takeo as Matsuoka Haruo
• Kishibe Ittoku as Fujikawa Toshio
• Negishi Toshie as Oda Yuko
• Asari Kazuyo as Fujikawa Yuriko
• Eric H. Eric (E・H・エリック) as Father Charles

• Chiaki Minoru (千秋実) as Fujikawa Yusuke
• Yano Taiji (矢野泰二) as Tomita Akira
• Motoyama Shinji (本山真二) as Taniyama Yuichi
• Nakajima Shoko
• Migita Soichiro (右田聡一郎)
• Obayashi Takeshi
• Aikawa Keiko (相川佳子)
• Ashizawa Takako (芦沢孝子)
• Takahashi Masaya
• Takahashi Yoshiaki (高橋良明)
• Shoji Eiken (庄司永建)
• Kita Michie (喜多道枝)

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Okubo Shoichiro (大久保昌一良)
• Producer: Nakamura Toshio (中村敏夫), Yamada Yoshiaki (山田良明)
• Director: Tokuni Koki (戸國浩器), Matsuda Hidetomo
• Music: Kikuchi Shunsuke

Notes

• This was shot in the beautiful natural setting of Alsace in northeast France.

External Links

• Japanese Wikipedia
• JDorama.com