Mori no Asagao
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Details
- Title: モリのアサガオ
- Title (romaji): Mori no Asagao
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Human drama
- Episodes: 10
- Viewership rating: 3.6%
- Broadcast network: TV Tokyo
- Broadcast period: 2010-Oct-18 to 2010-Dec-20
- Air time: Monday 22:00
- Opening Theme song: Gensou Film by NIKKIE
- Ending Theme song: Material by Tsubakiya Shijuusou
Synopsis
New prison guard Oikawa Naoki gets asigned to the death row section. He strikes a friendship with Mitsuru Watase who is on death-row for the revenge murder of the man who killed his parents. Gradually Naoki begins to wonder about the necessity of the death penalty and the meanings of such concepts as repentance and forgiveness.
Cast
- Ito Atsushi as Oikawa Naoki
- ARATA as Watase Mitsuru
- Kashii Yu as Oikawa's girlfriend
- Tanimura Mitsuki
- Kinami Haruka
- Aizuki Akiko (相築あきこ)
- Toda Masahiro
- Maekawa Yasuyuki
- Bengal
- Shiomi Sansei
- Ohkura Koji
- Nukumizu Youichi
- Emoto Akira
Guests
- Nakamura Shido
- Musaka Naomasa
- Goto Soujin (ep2)
- Sato Takumi as Sasano Yuki (ep3)
Production Credits
- Original writing: Mori no Asagao by Goda Mamora (郷田マモラ) (manga)
- Screenwriter: Habara Daisuke, Oki Shizuka (旺季志ずか)
- Producer: Okabe Shinji (岡部紳二), Nakagawa Junpei, Morita Noboru, Kurosawa Atsushi (黒沢淳)
- Director: Sasaki Akimitsu (佐々木章光)
- Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki
Trivia
- TV Tokyo's first drama series in a prime time slot since 2000 (the last was Happy Ai to Kando no Monogatari 2).
- ARATA's first appearance in a drama series on a commercial broadcaster.
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