Sakura (NHK)
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Details
- Title: さくら
- Title (romaji): Sakura
- Episodes: 156 15-minute episodes
- Genre: Human drama
- Air time: Monday thru Saturday at 8:15am
- Viewership: Ep1=20.3, High=27.5, Avg=23.3
- Broadcast network: NHK
- Broadcast period: 2002-Apr-1 to 2002-Sep-28
Series Synopsis
The 66th NHK Asadora Drama is Sakura. Settings include Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), Takayama, Gifu, and Tokyo. The story is about a recent college graduate, Matsushita Sakura (Elizabeth), a fourth-generation Japanese American woman born and raised in Hawaii. Sakura's haole boyfriend, Roby, gets a job in New York and plans to take Sakura with him. Sakura is unhappy about the possible move. Later, during a family meeting, Sakura breaks the news to everyone that she'll be taking on a temporary one-year teaching job in Japan, teaching English at an all-boys middle school, in order to examine her family roots. Roby is shocked to hear the news, and immediately asks Sakura to marry him. Although she does accept the proposal, Roby and Sakura agree to delay their wedding for one year until she comes back to Hawaii. Sakura will be staying with her maternal grandparents. However, there is friction between Sakura's mom and grandfather because her mom married a Japanese-Hawaiian. How will things go for Sakura in Japan? Will she get along with her grandfather? Will she lose her heart to a Japanese man? Will she come back to Hawaii? --- written by groink
Cast
- Takano Shiho as Matsushita Sakura (heroine)
- Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Keisuke Katsuragi
- Teraizumi Ken as Matsushita Ichiro
- Ohta Hiromi as Matsushita Kyoko (Sakura's mother)
- Tsushima Keiko as Matsushita Toshiko
- Itakura Kaori as Matsushita Momo
- Kobayashi Asei
- Nakamura Meiko
- Noguchi Goro
- Ootaki Hideji
- Naito Taketoshi
- Asada Miyoko
- Enari Masamoto
- Nagasawa Masami
- Kumagai Mami as Midori Ayusawa
- Thane Camus as Robert "Roby" Hoffman
- Imamura Keiko
- Sasaki Sumie
- Okumura Kouen
- Kasai Kenji
- Numata Yoichi
- Ramos Ruy
- Saitou Yosuke
- Kawamoto Takanori
- Takahashi Kaori
- Ono Mayumi
- Emori Toru as Masaharu Nakasone (Principal of Akebono Junior High School in Gifu)
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Tabuchi Kumiko
- Producer:
- Director:
- Music:
External Links
- JDorama.com
- Discussion at japan-guide.com
- 13th JAMCO Symposium, discussing Japanese Americans and TV dramas
- "Sakura" on The Internet Movie Database