Details
Title: 幸せになりたい！
Title (romaji): Shiawase ni Naritai!
Also known as: I Want to be Happy!
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Family
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 11.4
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2005-Jul-14 to 2005-Sep-15
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Himawari by Sugar
Synopsis
Hikari (Kyoko Fukada) has to take care of her sick mother and two younger brothers. They are informed that their missing father has died, and later find out he left them a huge 10 million yen debt. They are a very poor family. They have no money or food. To pay off the debt, Hikari lands a cleaning job at the UBS TV company. On the other side, there's Masako Nagai (Matsushita Yuki), a struggling UBS TV drama producer. The men she works with are somewhat sexist.
Through an incident within UBS, Masako discovers Hikari's talents as a creative person with a great imagination for drama writing. With no allies within UBS, she decides to hire Hikari, training her to be an assistant producer.
Hikari's happiness is keeping her family fed and paying off her father's debt. Masako's happiness is to gain respect within UBS by excelling as a drama producer.
Cast
Fukada Kyoko as Asada Hikari
Matsushita Yuki as Nagai Masako
Tanihara Shosuke as Hasegawa Junichi
Tsurumi Shingo as Iijima Akira
Ito Kazue as Hoshino Sanae
Oshinari Shugo as Tajima Yojiro
Ihara Tsuyoshi as Sakuma Yuya
Tsugawa Masahiko as Kumano Yutaro
Gin Pun Chou as Asada Yoshie
Shinoda Takuma (篠田拓馬) as Asada Takeshi
Ayabe Shuto (綾部守人) as Asada Satoru
Screenwriter: Morosawa Kazuyuki (両沢和幸)
Producers: Oga Fumiko (大賀文子), Morosawa Kazuyuki, Kato Akira (加藤章)
Directors: Morosawa Kazuyuki, Takano Eiji (高野英治), Matsukawa Kasashi (松川嵩史), Hori Hideki (堀英樹)
Music: Kamomiya Ryo (鴨宮諒)
General:
Format.......: AVI
File Size....: 705,68 MiB
Duration.....: 46mn 44s
Bitrate......: 2 111 Kbps
Subtitles....: English .SRT
Source.......: HDTV
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Video:
Video Format......: VC-1
Video Codec.......: WMV3
Bitrate...........: 1 939 Kbps
Frame Rate........: 29.970 fps
Aspect Ratio......: 16:9
Resolution........: 1280x720
Audio #1:
Format..........: MPEG Audio
Bitrate.........: 160 Kbps
Channels........: 2 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Japanese
