Details
Title: だんだん
Title (romaji): Dandan
Episodes: 150 (15 mins. each)
Genre: Family drama
Viewership ratings: 1st=16.8, high=18.7, avg=16.2
Air time: Monday through Saturday at 8:15
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2008-Sep-29 to 2009-Mar-28
Series Synopsis
The 79th NHK Asadora is Dandan, a story about twin girls Megumi and Nozomi who had been separated at birth by their parent's divorce, but meet unexpectedly and discover their tight bonding. Together they decide to seek their career in singing. Tajima Megumi is an active high school girl in Shimane prefecture who loves to sings in a band on the streets. Ichijo Nozomi is a maiko - an apprentice geisha raised strictly by her geisha mother in Kyoto. The two girls meet by coincidence one day, and realize they had been brought to each other by a powerful fate because of their striking resemblance. Locations include Shimane and Kyoto. Dandan means "thank you" in the Izumo dialect.
Cast
Mikura Mana
Mikura Kana
Matsue
Yoshida Eisaku
Suzuki Sawa
Kinosaki Naoto
Mitsubayashi Kyoko
Kishibe Ittoku
Ishikura Saburo
Miyata Keiko (宮田圭子)
Soganoya Yasokichi (曾我廼家八十吉)
Kuboyama Tomohiro (久保山知洋)
Sagawa Mitsuo
Anan Kenji
Kawai Michiko
Higashijima Yuki (東島悠起)
Terada Yuki (寺田有希)
Tsuchie Mutsuko (土江六子) and Mori Yumiko (母里由美子) of LOCO
Kyoto
Ishida Hikari
Fujimura Shiho
Kyono Kotomi
Ito Mai (伊藤麻衣)
Kobayashi Akiko (こばやしあきこ)
Taga Masaru (多賀勝一)
Natsuyagi Isao
Kimura Fumino (木村文乃)
Shigeyama Ippei (茂山逸平)
Kataoka Shizuka (片岡静香)
Ibu Masato
Yamaguchi Shogo (山口翔悟)
