Details
Title: 愛するために愛されたい
Title (romaji): Aisuru Tame ni Aisaretai
Also known as: Loved to Love
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, with some supernatural content
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 6.7
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2003-Jul-03 to 2003-Sep-04
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Moon Over Bourbon Street, Cornelius version / Sting
Synopsis
Motoharu Akiyama is an elite pilot who has just completed astronaut training at NASA. Something happened in his past that caused him to go out searching for the meaning and purpose of life. However, he hasn't been able to find a satisfactory reply and the void in his heart has only expanded. But Akiyama has a meeting that changes his life. He meets Reiko Nishina, a director at an investment bank, who is looking at investing in an attempt at the first Japanese space shuttle launch. Although the meeting was pure chance, it affects Reiko greatly. She realizes that although it looks like she has everything, there is something she wants that she doesn't have. And this meeting has an effect on those around them also... --- TBS
Cast
Sakaguchi Kenji as Akiyama Motoharu
Kuroki Hitomi as Nishina Reiko
Yanagiba Toshiro
Kikukawa Rei
Yamada Yu
Takeda Nobuhiro
Kusakari Masao
Kyokuyama Eri
Endo Naoya
Saiki Noka
Hira Takehiro
Nishioka Tokuma
Production Cast
Screenwriters: Umeda Mika, Takei Aya (武井彩)
Producer: Nakayama Kazuki (中山和記)
Directors: Kobayashi Yoshinori, Matsuda Hidetomo, Hoshida Yoshiko (星田良子), Morinaga Yoshiro (森永恭朗)
Music: Ishida Katsunori
