Tonbi 2013
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Details
- Title: とんび
- Title (romaji): Tonbi
- Title (English):
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre:
- Episodes: 5
- Viewership rating: TBD
- Broadcast network: NHK
- Broadcast period: 2013-Jan-07
- Air time: Saturday 21:00
- Theme song: TBA
Synopsis
It is the year 1962 in the bustling Seto Inland Sea port town of Bingo in the prefecture of Hiroshima. Ichikawa Yasuo, who goes by the name Yasu, is a truck driver with a transportation company. He has fathered a baby boy called Akira with his wife, Misako, and is over the moon. But one day, Misako suddenly dies in place of Akira in an accident. Yasu, who had been abandoned by his father when he was a child, asks himself over and over again what he should do as Akira’s father even as he struggles with work and child raising. His childhood friends Taeko, the proprietress of his favourite small restaurant ‘Tanagi’; Shoun, a worldly head priest; Shoun’s wife Yukie; Shoun’s father Kaiun; and the young employee Kuzuhara watch over Yasu, the awkward father, and Akira as if he is their own child. Akira grows into a strapping youth devoted to baseball. However, just before his elementary school graduation, Akira asks Taeko to tell him the truth about his mother’s death … --jdramas.wordpress.com
Cast
- Tsutsumi Shinichi as Ichikawa Yasuo
- Nishida Naomi as Ichikawa Misako
- Hirata Mitsuru as Yasuo's father
- Ikematsu Sosuke as Ichikawa Akira
- Koizumi Kyoko as Taeko
- Okamoto Asuza as Yasuko
- Furuta Arata as Shoun
- Tsukaji Muga as Kusuhara
- Koichi Mantaro as Shimano Akiyuki
- Tokui Yuu as Hagimoto Kacho
- Moro Morooka as Yamamoto
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Habara Daisuke
- Chief Producer:
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- Music: