Affectionate Time
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- TV Show: Affectionate Time
- Romaji: Yasashii jikan
- Japanese: 優しい時間
- Director: Rieko Miyamoto, Daisuke Tajima, Masaki Nishiura
- Writer: Akio Kobayashi, So Kuramoto, Akihiro Tago, Noriko Yoshida
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episode: 11
- Release Date: January 13-March 24, 2005
- Runtime: Thurs. 22;00-22:54
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
This story takes place in a little coffee shop in a pristine village that seems to have been forgotten by time. The theme is the warmhearted bonds between persons, which is a focal point of dramas by the famous screenwriter Sou Kuramoto. In this drama, a story of reviving the bond between father and son unfolds before a background of varied human events. Another theme is "tenderness" as the drama poses the question: "What is genuine human tenderness?" This is a question for viewers to ponder as they witness the thawing of relations between the two main characters. The main character, Yukichi, used to be a topflight businessman at a trading company abroad. With the unexpected death of his wife Megumi in an car accident, he quits his elite job although shortly before retirement and starts up "The Forest Clock," a little coffee shop, in the Hokkaido town of Furano, his wife's birthplace. Responsible for his wife's death is his son Takuro. Since the accident Yukichi has not seen Takuro. As it turns out, Takuro is studying pottery not far from where his father is living, but Yukichi is unaware of this. …Fuji TV
Cast
Starring
- Akira Terao - Wakui Yukichi
- Kazunari Ninomiya - Wakui Takuro
- Masami Nagasawa - Minagawa Azusa
- Shinobu Otake - Wakui Megumi
- Mayumi Asaka - Amano Yoko
- Hiroshi Fuse - Otonari
- Tsutomu Ikeda
- Zen Kajiwara
- Tae Kimura
- Saburo Kitajima
- Fumiyo Kohinata
- Kyoko Koizumi
- Jun Kunimura - Tateishi
- Akaji Maro - Amano Rokosuke
- Shunta Nakamura
- Takehiko Ono
- Kuranosuke Sasaki
- Sumie Sasaki
- Kotaro Shiga
- Misa Shimizu - Inoue Mikako (the widow)
- Risa Sudo
- Kaoru Sugita
- Tomoko Tabata
- Katsumi Takahashi
- Kei Tanaka
- Kenjiro Nashimoto
- Satomi Tezuka - Mizutani Miko
- Saburo Tokito - Mizutani Saburo
- Hatsuo Yamaya
- Kimiko Yo - Kujo Tomoko
- Rei Yoshii - Noriko Aoyma (ep. 3)
- Meikyo Yamada - ep.6
- Katsuhiko Sasaki - ep.7
- Satoshi Tokushige - ep.8-9
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