Details
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Title (romaji): Churasan
Also known as: The Promise to the Chura Sea
Genre: Asadora drama, family drama
Episodes: 156 Episodes x 15 minutes
Viewership: Ep1=21.3, High=29.3, Avg=22.2
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2001-Apr-02 to 2001-Sep-29
Theme song: Best Friend by Kiroro
Related TV shows: Churasan 2, Churasan 3, Churasan 4
Synopsis
The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the U.S. Eleven years later, Kamimura Shizuko and her two sons, Kazuya and Fumiya, from Tokyo come to stay as the guests of a small inn run by Eri’s family. Eri’s fun-loving, yet eccentric family welcomes them warmly. However, Eri is shocked to hear one of the sons, Kazuya is terminally ill and Shizuko and her sons came to Okinawa to spend his last moment together in beautiful nature. Fumiya, Kazuya’s younger brother, and Eri promise to marry each other someday. However after Kazuya’s death, Fumiya and his mother leave the island to go back to Tokyo. Years later, they are reunited, Eri as a nurse and Fumiya, a doctor, working at the same hospital in Tokyo.
The story's settings include Okinawa, Naha, and Tokyo.
Cast
Kuninaka Ryoko as Uemura Eri
Kohashi Kenji as Uemura Fumiya
Sakai Masaaki as Kohagura Keibun
Tanaka Yoshiko as Kohagura Katsuko
Yamada Takayuki as Kohagura Keitatsu
Yamaguchi Ayumi as Kohabura Shoko
Kitamura Kazuo as Shimada Daishin
Kanno Miho as Jyonouchi Maria
Gori as Kohabura Keisho
Sato Aiko as Kohagura Nanako
Toda Keiko as Shimoyanagi Satoko
Miyara Shinobu as Yonabaru Makoto
Fujiki Hayato as Kaneshiro Masahide
Shimizu Michiko as Kanda Hidemi
Yo Kimiko Shibata Yoko
Kawata Hiroki as Shimabukuro Shoichi
Ayukawa Makoto as Joji Ganaha
Kabira Jay as Ganaha Takeshi
Maehara Eri as Yonabaru Rumiko
Suzuki Shogo as Uemura Kazuya
Maya Kyoko as Uemura Shizuko
Taira Tomi as Kohagura Hana
Tanami Yatsuko as Shimada Mizue
Becky as Kinjou Yukari
Konishi Manami as Nishinomiya Haruka
Murata Takehiro as Shibata Kouzou
Endo Yuya
Kikuchi Rinko
Agarita Aki
Sugiura Masafumi
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Okada Yoshikazu
Directors: Enokido Takayasu (????), Endo Satoshi (????), Otomo Keiji (????), Fujii Yasushi (???), Takahashi Ren (???), Watanabe Kazuki (????), Horikirizono Kentaro (??????)
Music: Maruyama Kazunori (????)
Recognitions
30th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actress (Kuninaka Ryoko)
30th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Taira Tomi)
30th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Newcomer (Gori)
30th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Screenwriter (Okada Yoshikazu)
Trivia
After watching episode 86 (2001-Jul-11), a number of viewers called NHK complaining about a scene involving alcohol drinking. In the episode, a young man and the father of his girlfriend engaged in a drinking competition with Okinawan liquor, Awamori, for the sake of his proposed marriage to Eri. Most of the complaints claimed that the scene encouraged and glorified excessive drinking that could cause an acute alcohol poisoning. The "Okinawa Bottoms-Up Prevention Conference" representing parents who have lost their children to acute alcohol poisoning allegedly demanded that NHK run a character generator warning saying that this style of drinking would put the drinker in danger of death.
A 3-part highlights SP will air on NHK 2007-Jan-1 through 3 from 16:40 to 17:55 (JST). A highlights SP is a compilation of key moments of a series.
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