Details
Title: どんど晴れ
Title (romaji): Dondo Bare
Genre: Family drama
Episodes: 156 (15 mins. each)
Viewership rating: 14.9 (1st), 19.4 (avg), 24.8 (peek)
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2007-Apr-2 to 2007-Sep-29
Air time: Monday through Saturday at 8:15
Theme song: Daijobu by Oda Kazumaza
Series Synopsis
The 76th NHK Asadora is Dondobare. Locations include Morioka, Iwate. Natsumi is the 23-year-old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her father to become a pastry chef. She lives with her parents and younger brother in Yokohama. One day she travels to Iwate Prefecture with her boyfriend Masaki for his grandmother Katsuno's 77th birthday. While they are there, Katsuno, head okami of a famous ryokan in Morioka City, becomes ill and asks Masaki to return to run the ryokan. Natsumi returns to Yokohama and later Masaki visits, asking her to disregard their earlier plans to get married because he will return to Morioka as requested by Katsuno. However, Natsumi surprises him with a vow to become the ryokan's okami. Is Natsumi in for clear skies as suggested by the series name? ---groink
Cast
Heroine
Higa Manami as Asakura Natsumi (heroine)
Uchida Asahi as Kagami Masaki (27)
Asakura Family - Yokohama
Mori Masako as Asakura Fusako (47)
Osugi Ren as Asakura Keigo (50)
Kamiki Ryunosuke as Asakura Toyoma
Ryokan Inn "Kagami Inn"
Uchida Asahi as Kagami Masaki (fiancee)
Miyamoto Nobuko as Kagami Tamaki ("Kagami House" proprietess)
Suzuki Masayuki as Kagami Hisanori (master)
Azuma Mikihisa as Kagami Shinichi (oldest son)
Hinagata Akiko as Kagami Emiko (Shinichi's wife)
Suzuki Sotaro as Kagami Kenta (Shinichi's eldest son)
Komuro Yuta (小室優太) as Kagami Yuta (second son)
Kanie Ippei (蟹江一平) as Kagami Koji
Kusabue Mitsuko as Kagami Katsuno (大女将) (Head proprietress)
Nakae Yuri (中江有里) as Kagami Toshie
Other Residents of Kagami Inn
Aki Takejo (あき竹城) as Ono Tokie (head maid)
Kawamura Yukie as Matsumoto Kana (maid)
Shiraishi Miho as Harada Ayaka
Takahashi Gentaro (高橋元太郎) as Nakamoto Tsutomu (clerk)
Iwate Residents
Fukikoshi Mitsuru as Iwamoto Jujiro ("IHATOVE" tea master)
Daniel Kahl as Billy Jonathan (Botanist at Iwate University)
Suzuki Ranran as Mizumori Aki (photographer)
Watanabe Kunito (渡邉邦門) as Kishimoto Satoshi (Nambu iron casting pupil)
Nagato Hiroyuki as Sasaki Heiji (Nanbu iron casting craftsman)
Yokohama Residents
Aizawa Sayo as Fujimura Kaori
Sasaki Isao (ささきいさお) as Yoshizawa Masato
Beppu Ayumi (別府あゆみ) as Takebayashi Kumiko
Nakahara Takeo as Yamamuro Hideki
Others
Yamamoto Kei as Yoshida (ep15-18, 54, 77, 78)
Ryu Shi Won as Junso (ep25-30, 54)
Toyota Maho as Saito Aiko (ep36-54)
Kawachi Tamio (ep3)
Sunaga Kei (ep4, 110)
Ebisu Yoshikazu (ep10, 22, 63)
Obayashi Takeshi (ep13, 18)
Horai Teruko (蓬莱照子) (ep13, 18))
Nakahara Kanan (中原果南) (ep78)
Hayama Yuria (葉山ゆりあ) (ep27)
Nanase Kazuki (七世一樹) (ep28, 30)
Tanaka Yoji (ep27, 29)
Maggie Shinji (マギー審司) (ep30)
Toyota Maho (ep36-54)
Kawaguchi Shouhei (ep36-54)
Kimura Gen (木村元) (ep74, 75)
Nukumizu Youichi (ep89-91)
Nakajima Hisayuki (中島久之) (ep88-91)
Iijima Daisuke (飯島大介) (ep100, 114)
Okuda Eiji (ep103-105, 107-109)
Ameku Michiko (ep104, 107-109)
Anna (あんな) (ep104-107, 109)
Sasano Takato (ささの貴斗) (ep104-107, 109)
Taniyama Takeru (谷山毅) (ep104-107, 109)
Aihara Suzuka (相原鈴夏) (ep104-107, 109)
Matsuura Ayu (松浦愛弓) (ep104, 105)
Fukasawa Arashi (ep105-108)
Numata Baku (ep103, 105, 106)
Shobuke Miya (正部家ミヤ) (ep105)
Manatsu Ryu (真夏竜) (ep111)
Denden (ep123-126)
Kitami Toshiyuki (ep130-132)
Kojima Miyuki (児島美ゆき) (ep130-132)
Ishihara Yoshizumi (ep116, 129, 132-143, 146, 147, 149~)
Nonami Maho (ep132-134, 136, 142)
Nakao Akira (ep134 (voice only), 136, 142, 143, 147)
Thane Camus (ep143, 146, 147, 150)
Ikeuchi Mansaku (ep143, 146, 147, 150)
Youna (ヨンア) (ep143, 146, 147, 150)
Tanami Yatsuko (ep146, 148)
Production Credits
Original writing: Komatsu Eriko (小松江里子)
Scenario:
Producer: Naito Shinsuke (内藤愼介)
Music:
Casting: Zashiki Warashi
Awards
54th Television Drama Academy Awards: Special Award - Higa Manami
