Details
Title: ガラスの仮面 （ガラスのかめん）
Title (romaji): Glass no Kamen
Also known as: Garasu no Kamen / Glass Mask / Mask of Glass
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Season 1
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 11.9
Broadcast period: 1997-Jul-07 to 1997-Sep-15
Theme song: Calling by B'z / Polar Star Kimi Dake Shinjite by Harubara Yuuki
Synopsis
The Glass Mask drama is based on a very popular manga of the same name by Suzue Miuchi, about a young girl named Maya whose dream is to be an actress. A legendary former stage actress, Tsukikage Chigusa, watches Maya as she reenacts drama episodes she's seen on TV. She approaches Maya and has her join her acting company, Tsukikage Theater. Tsukikage holds the production rights to a legendary masterpiece called "The Crimson Goddess," in which she had played the title role until a terrible accident burnt her face beyond surgical repair. She's been searching all of these years for someone to play the role which only the most talented actress could play, and maybe she's found that someone in Maya... --synopsis by awrittensin
Cast
Adachi Yumi as Kitajima Maya
Tanabe Seiichi as Hayami Masumi
Nogiwa Yoko as Tsukikage Chigusa
Matsumoto Megumi as Himekawa Ayumi
Kohashi Kenji as Sakurakouji Yuu
Katso Kazuko
Satoi Kenta
Togawa Kyoko
Saitou Nozomi
Saeki Hinako
Fuji Mariko
Okuyama Nana (ep1)
Production Credits
Screenwriters: Mizuhashi Fumie, Noe Miyuki
Producers: Miruta Yoshiki, Uchiyama Satoko
Directors: Nishimae Toshinori, Sugiyama Noboru, Imai Kazuhisa
Episode Titles
Ep 01: "The Girl Who Possesses a Thousand Masks"
Ep 02: "The Lonely Battle Starts Now!"
Ep 03: "Everything Depends on This Fateful Week"
Ep 04: "The Purple Rose Man! The Heroine Whose Life is at Risk"
Ep 05: "Special Training! The Actress With Bamboo Splints"
Ep 06: "Clash!! Portraying a Triple Handicap - Eternal Rivals"
Ep 07: "The Miraculous Moment! The Miraculous Girl!!"
Ep 08: "A Black Shadow Threatens the Future Crimson Goddess"
Ep 09: "First Love is Too Painful... Is Someone Out to Get Me!?"
Ep 10: "Farewell, First Love... Goodbye Forever to Mom"
Ep 11: "Tsukikage on the Verge of Death...!? Purple Rose Man's True Identity!? Maya's Disappearance From Acting, What is Her Fate!? Will Another Miracle Happen?"
