Details
Title: アイシテル
Title (romaji): Aishiteru
Broadcast network: NTV
Genre: Human drama
Seaon 1
Title: アイシテル~海容~
Title (romaji): Aishiteru~Kaiyo~
Title (English): I Love You~Forgiveness~
Format: Renzoku
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 14.7 (Kanto)
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-15 to 2009-Jun-17
Air time: Wednesday 22:00
Theme songs:
- Ending theme: Aishiteru by MONKEY MAJIK
- Insert theme: Utsushie by Aragaki Yui
Typical mother Noguchi Satsuki spent her days trying to balance her life as a wife to her hard-working husband Kazuhiko and mother to their only son Tomoya, a seemingly withdrawn fifth-grader with whom Satsuki struggled to communicate. Seiko and Ozawa Hideaki, living in the same neighborhood as the Noguchi family, were raising a rebellious junior high school daughter Mihoko and their first son Kiyotaka a second-grader who was showered with much love and affection by his mother.
On that ill-fated day when Kiyotaka was reported missing and was later found dead, Tomoya was taken into custody by police as the prime murder suspect. Tomoya slowly begins to open up about his innermost feelings as the hidden truth reveals the true motive behind his cruel act of violence. Satsuki, as mother of the perpetrator, comes face-to-face with her son's true self while Seiko, as mother of the victim, deals with her sorrow and anger. --NTV
Cast
Noguchi Family
Inamori Izumi as Noguchi Satsuki
Yamamoto Taro as Noguchi Kazuhiko
Kakazu Issei as Noguchi Tomoya
Ozawa Family
Itaya Yuka as Ozawa Seiko
Sano Shiro as Ozawa Hideaki
Kawashima Umika as Ozawa Mihoko
Sato Shion as Ozawa Kiyotaka
Tomita Family
Tanaka Misako as Tomita Yoko
Yoshikawa Fumiki as Tomita Kenta
Morita Family
Tabata Tomoko as Morita Ayano
Fujita Yumiko as Morita Toshie
Police
Takayama Takehisa as Saeki Masashi
Komatsu Kazushige (as Detective Koizumi
Dankan as Detective Kikuchi
Others
Shimura Rena as Maiko
Oriyama Miyu as Hiromi
Nekoze Tsubaki as Kashiwagi Eri
Noguchi Mao as Kashiwagi Haruka
Kaneko Takatoshi as Takahashi
Ozora Mayumi as Masako
Ito Masayuki as judge
Production Credits
Original writing (manga): Aishiteru by Ito Minoru (伊藤実)
Producers: Tsugiya Hisashi, Chiba Yukitoshi
Directors: Yoshino Hiroshi, Kunimoto Masahiro
Music: S.E.N.S.
