Byakuyako
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- Title: 白夜行
- Title (romaji): Byakuyakou
- Also known as: Midnight Sun Journey
- Episodes: 11
- Genre: Romance, suspense, mystery, human drama
- Viewership ratings: 12.28%
- Broadcast network: TBS
- Broadcast period: 2006-Jan-12 to 2006-Mar-23
- Air time: Thursday 21:00 to 21:54 (ep1 is 2 hours)
- Theme song: Kage (影) by Shibasaki Kou
Synopsis 1
Loving you was the crime, and not being able to meet you is the punishment . . . A young boy kills the father in order to protect the first girl he's ever loved, causing the girl to kill the mother in order to protect the boy. It's been 14 years since then and the boy that gave up everything and the girl that waged her life on the boy are struggling to continue to love each other. If you can't call that love, then what can you call it? The cruel, lonely, and pure tale of two spirits. Stars Yamada Takayuki and Ayase Haruka.
Synopsis 2
Yamada plays Ryouji who finds out that his first love, Yukiho is forced into child pornography by his own father and kills him. To his horror, the object of his father's perversion is Yukiho, whose mother forced her to do so to relieve their dire economic straits. Yukiho also retaliates in similar manner by staging a suicide for her mother as well as herself. They grow up attempting to keep it secret and ride out the statute of limitations. In order to protect Yukiho and improve her life, Ryouji enters the world of vice and dabbles in crimes to support Yukiho.
Cast
- Yamada Takayuki as Kirihara Ryouji (桐原亮司)
- Izumisawa Yuuki as Kirihara Ryouji (幼少時代桐原亮司)
- Ayase Haruka as Karasawa Yukiho (唐沢雪穂)
- Fukuda Mayuko as Nishimoto (Karasawa) Yukiho (幼少時代唐沢雪穂 / 西本雪穂)
- Watabe Atsuro as Matsuura Isamu (松浦勇)
- Kashiwabara Takashi as Shinozuka Kazunari (篠塚一成)
- Tanaka Koutaro as Koga Hisashi (古賀久志)
- Koide Keisuke as Sonomura Tomohiko (園村友彦)
- Tanaka Kei as Kikuchi Michihiro (菊池道広)
- Yachigusa Kaoru as Karasawa Reiko (唐沢礼子)
- Nishida Naomi as Kurihara Noriko (栗原典子)
- Okunuki Kaoru as Nishiguchi Namie (西口奈美江)
- Otsuka Chihiro as Kawashima Eriko (川島江利子)
- Shioya Shun as Takamiya Makoto (高宮誠)
- Aso Yumi as Kirihara Yaeko (桐原弥生子)
- Hirata Mitsuru as Kirihara Yousuke (桐原洋介)
- Yo Kimiko as Taniguchi Mafumi (谷口真文)
- Takeda Tetsuya as Sasagaki Junzou (笹垣潤三)
- Kurosawa Momoko as Fujimura Miyako (藤村都子)
- Kawai Michiko as Nishimoto Fumiyo (西本文代) (ep01)
- Matoba Koji as (榎本宏) (ep03)
- Asaoka Mirei (ep03)
- Okuda Erika (ep04-06)
- Sato Hitomi as (三沢千都留) (ep07)
- Hirata Yuka (ep08, 11)
- Nishiyama Mayuko
Production Credits
- Original story: Higashino Keigo
- Screenwriter: Morishita Yoshiko
- Producer: Ishimaru Akihiko
- Director: Hirakawa Yuichiro, Nasuta Atsushi, Ishii Yasuharu
- Music: Kouno Shin
Episode Information
| Episode | Air date | Title (Kana) / Synopsis | Title (English) | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 2006-01-12 | 少年はなぜ父を？少女はなぜ母を？14年間の壮大な愛と絶望の物語 | 14.2% | |
| 02 | 2006-01-19 | 閉ざされた未来に | 13.4% | |
| 03 | 2006-01-26 | さよならの光 | 11.0% | |
| 04 | 2006-02-02 | 罪と罰 | 10.7% | |
| 05 | 2006-02-09 | 決別する二人 | 11.8% | |
| 06 | 2006-02-16 | 白夜の終わり | 10.7% | |
| 07 | 2006-02-23 | 美しき亡霊の決意 | 12.3% | |
| 08 | 2006-03-02 | 泥に咲いた花の夢 | 12.3% | |
| 09 | 2006-03-09 | こぼれ落ちた過去 | 12.0% | |
| 10 | 2006-03-16 | 開く過去の扉 | 12.6% | |
| 11 | 2006-03-23 | 白夜の果て | 14.1% |
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Awards
- 48th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Drama
- 48th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actor: Yamada Takayuki
- 48th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting: Actress: Ayase Haruka
- 48th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor: Takeda Tetsuya
Notes
- This drama reunited cast & crew from award-winning & popular dorama, Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu.
- Production took 6 months to persuade the author to agree to this drama adaptation from the novel which has sold over 1.2 million copies since its release in 1999 and has become the top bestselling suspense novel.
- Shibasaki Kou wrote the lyrics for the theme song Kage. The single was released on 2006-Feb-15. The MV will feature footage from the drama.
- Izumisawa Yuuki & Fukuda Mayuko were chosen from 180 kids from the audition.
- A 30 second commercial during this drama costs $224,000 US Dollars. Third highest behind Rondo ($233,000) and Saiyuuki ($269,000) for the 2006 Winter season.
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