Details
Title: ちゅらさん
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 (榎戸崇泰), Endo Satoshi (遠藤理史), Otomo Keiji (大友啟史), Fujii Yasushi (藤井靖), Takahashi Ren (高橋練), Watanabe Kazuki (渡辺一貴), Horikirizono Kentaro (堀切園健太郎)
Music: Maruyama Kazunori (丸山和範)
