Details
Title: ちりとてちん
Title (romaji): Chiritotechin
Renzoku
Episodes: 151 (15 mins. each)
Genre: Family drama
Ratings: 1st=17.1, high=18.8, avg=17.0 (All Kanto #s)
Air time: Monday through Saturday at 8:15
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-1 to 2008-Mar-29
Synopsis
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo. --groink
Cast
Throughout the series, NHK documentation refer to the two Wada Kiyomi's as Kiyomi-A and Kiyomi-B (different kana, but same romaji.)
Wada Family
Kanjiya Shihori as Wada Kiyomi-B (heroine)
Kuwajima Marino (桑島真里乃) as Wada Kiyomi-B
Wakui Emi as Wada Itoko (Kiyomi-B's mother)
Matsushige Yutaka as Wada Masanori (Kiyomi-B's father)
Enami Kyoko as Wada Koume (Kiyomi-B's grandmother)
Yonekura Masakane as Wada Shotaro (Kiyomi-B's grandfather)
Kyomoto Masaki as Wada Kojiro (Kiyomi-B's uncle)
Hashimoto Atsushi as Wada Shohei (Kiyomi-B's brother)
Hoshino Amon (星野亜門) as Wada Shohei
Sato Megumi as Wada Kiyomi-A
Sato Ui as Wada Kiyomi-A
Kabira Jay as Wada Hideomi (Kiyomi-A's father)
Ikuina Akiko (生稲晃子) as Kiyomi-A's mother
Tomoi Yusuke as Kiyomi-A's brother
Others
Itsuki Hiroshi (五木ひろし) as himself
Watase Tsunehiko (Kiyomi-B's Rakugo master)
Kato Toranosuke (pupil)
Shigeyama Motohiko
Aoki Munetaka as Soso
Morita Naoyuki as Soso
Katsura Kichiya
Kimura Midoriko
Tajitsu Yoko
Kimura Yuichi
Hara Sachie as Ogata Natsuko
Namioka Kazuki
Matsuo Takashi (松尾貴史)
Watanabe Masayuki (渡辺正行)
Matsunaga Reiko (松永玲子)
Kugasawa Toru (久ヶ沢徹)
Miyajima Mai
Fujiyoshi Kumiko
Katsura Yonekichi (桂よね吉)
Production Credits
Scenario: Fujimoto Yuki
Director: Endo Satoshi (遠藤理史)
Music: Sahashi Toshihiko
Narrator: Kaminuma Emiko (上沼恵美子)
