Details
Title: 愛と死をみつめて
Title (romaji): Ai to Shi wo Mitsumete
Also known as: Looking at Love and Death
Format: Tanpatsu, in two parts
Genre: Human drama
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2006-Mar-18 and 2006-Mar-19
Theme song: Memai and Ai to Shi wo Mitsumete ~Dreams Come True Version~, by Dreams Come True
Based on a real-life novel by Kawano Minoru about a senior high school girl, Michiko (Miko) who contracted a terminal illness and the 400-plus letters she and her boyfriend Minoru (Mako) attending university wrote to each other over 3 years. Miko died at the age of 21 subsequently.
Cast
Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Mako
Hirosue Ryoko as Miko (Michiko)
Koyuki as Mako's wife
Yusuke Santamaria as the doctor
Takahashi Katsumi as Mako's father
Muroi Shigeru as Mako's mother
Osugi Ren as Miko's father
Ito Ran as Miko's mother
Azuma Mikihisa as Miko's older brother
Ichikawa Yui as Miko's younger sister
Yamaguchi Sayaka as Miko's friend
Yoshioka Miho
Hirata Mitsuru
Seki Keisuke
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Kamata Toshio (鎌田敏夫)
Director: Inudo Isshin (犬童一心)
Music: Mizoguchi Hajime
