Details
Title: 母親失格
Title (romaji): Hahaoya Shikkaku
Also known as: An Unfit Mother
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 62
Broadcast network: Fuji TV, Tokai TV
Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-04 to 2007-Mar-30
Air time: Weekdays 13:30-14:00
Theme song: The Rose by SunMin
Synopsis
This afternoon drama follows Hiromi Kato, a girl who never felt love from her mother, but ended up working in a nursery as an adult. Her childhood friend, Chikako Matsushita, had run away from her strict mother when she was younger. Together, the two of them bond through their feelings toward their mothers. But they both fall for the same man. Chikako ends up giving birth to a girl, Chihiro, whom she decides to abandon. Hiromi, reminded of herself as a child, takes the baby and begins a new life raising the child. Fourteen years later, Chikako reappears, asking to take Chihiro back... Tokyograph
Cast
Yoshimoto Miyoko as Kuramoto (Kato) Hiromi
Hara Chiaki as Matsushita Chikako
Hiruma Yoshinori (比留間由哲)
Gin Pun Chou
Hidari Tokie (左時枝)
Minegishi Toru
Terada Chiho (寺田千穂)
Isshiki Saiko (一色彩子)
Satoi Kenta
Mitani Yumi (三谷侑未)
Morimoto Sarasa (森本更紗)
Abe Erena
Nakamura Yuzuru (中村讓)
Uchino Kenta (内野謙太)
Shinoda Kaoru (篠田薫)
Yuri Naoko (由利尚子)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Ito Toshiya (いとう斗士八), Fukuda Yuko (福田裕子), Tabe Toshiyuki (田部俊行)
Producer: Ichino Naochika (市野直親), Okubo Naomi (大久保直実), 大越大士
Director: Aburatani Seiji (油谷誠至), Fujiki Yasuyuki (藤木靖之), Oi Toshio (大井利夫)
Music: Endo Koji (遠藤浩二)
