Details
Title: ガンジス河でバタフライ
Title (romaji): Ganges Gawa de Butterfly
Also known as: Butterfly at the Ganges River
Genre: Human drama
Format: Tanpatsu, in two parts
Viewership ratings: 07.6 (1st), 06.2 (2nd)
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast dates: 2007-Oct-05 and 2007-Oct-06
Air time: Friday 23:15 and Saturday 23:00
Theme song: Haneyume by Yaida Hitomi
Synopsis
Teruko, a third year university student, comes across as a forthright and sunny girl but is in truth a rather timid person. She's also the sort who easily gets carried away and does things impetuously only to regret her actions later. Influenced by her older brother who has taken to wandering the world, Teruko too hopes to make her own journey one day but she lacks the courage, content to live the life of a normal university student ... However, she's also plagued with the insecurity of having done nothing she can be proud of in her lifetime, and mustering all her courage embarks on a solo trip to India ... While in India, she meets a fellow backpacker, Shingo. Teruko first regards Shingo as a frivolous person but as his encouraging words clear her hesitation and touches her, she falls in love with him. Then, Teruko plans to head to Bodh Gaya to see India's biggest festival but Shingo ... ...--jade_frost
Cast
Nagasawa Masami as Takano Teruko
Tsukamoto Takashi as Shingo
Arakawa Yoshiyoshi as Takano Akinori
Minagawa Sarutoki (皆川猿時) as Maruyama
Kajiwara Shigeru (梶原しげる)
Nakatani Miki as Tetsuko (guest appearance)
Ishibashi Renji as Takano Shogo
Takeshita Keiko as Takano Noriko
Miyazawa Saeko (宮沢紗恵子) as Sakai
Tachibana Ayano as Chin
Maekawa Takanori (前川貴紀)
Kinoshita Chie (木下智恵)
Toyama Toshiya
Nakamura Ryuten (中村隆天)`
Ripon (リポン)
Oshima Hikaru (大島光)
Ito Kodai (伊藤広大)
Hasegawa Homare (長谷川ほまれ)
Sunny Francis (サニー・フランシス) (vocal)
Adamson (アダムソン)
Abe Rokuro (阿部六郎)
Takayanagi Yoko (高柳葉子)
Kawarada Yasuke (河原田ヤスケ)
Otsuka Hiroshi (大塚洋)
Takami Kuri (高見くり)
Sushil Patra
Nirupama Berma
Lodari Sharma
Kalmanya Bhopal
Sushil Dahiya
Paritosh Chodri
Suman Patyal
Fellows
Y.C. Kanna
Shrishti Patyal
Sanjū
Sadanand Patil
Chinmay Das
Production Credits
Original writing: Takano Teruko (たかのてるこ)
Screenwriter: Kudo Kankuro
Production: Ishikawa Osamu (石川治), Suzuki Takeyuki (鈴木武幸)
Executive producers: Tsugimatsu Kazuya (継松和也), Omori Toshikatsu (大森敏勝), Kato Mitsugu (加藤貢)
Chief producer: Kano Takaya (狩野隆也)
Producers: Ota Masahito (太田雅人), Takano Teruko (高野照子), Inoue Norimune (井上昇宗)
Director: Ri Toshio (李闘士男)
Music: Coba
Notes
Kudo Kankuro stayed in India for 2 weeks in order to write the script for this series.
The drama celebrates the 45th anniversary of the founding of Nagoya Broadcasting Network, NBN.
