Details
Title: ハルとナツ
Title (romaji): Haru to Natsu / Haru e Natsu
Genre: Fictional, based on historical events
Episodes: 5
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2005-Oct-02 to 2005-Oct-06
Air time: 21:00
Synopsis
A special drama commemorating the 80th anniversary of NHK’s broadcasting service. The story is about two sisters who meet each other again after living separated in Japan and Brazil for 70 years. In 1934, Haru and her family emigrated from Hokkaido to Brazil. Haru’s younger sister Natsu, however, was left behind in Japan because of an eye disease. 70 years later, Haru visits Japan and locates the whereabouts of Natsu but the younger sister, who thinks she was abandoned by the family, rejects Haru. After a while, the two find out that both wrote numbers of letters to the other though the letters have been left undelivered to the addressees. Through the discovered letters, the sisters learn each other’s life; Haru lived in Brazil as a member of an immigrant-laborer family surviving various difficulties while Natsu lived in Japan through the Second World War and postwar economic growth depending on herself and managing a business. The drama portrays the separated sisters’ lives full of ups and downs as well as their family ties, asking the meaning of "homeland" and "family."
Cast
Present Day
Mori Mitsuko as Takakura Haru
Nogiwa Yoko as Yamabe Natsu
Imai Tsubasa as Takakura Yamato
Nishida Ken as Yamabe Akihiko
Izumi Pinko as Nakahara Misa
Nomura Akiko as Nakahara Ine
Yajima Kenichi as Ooda
Showa Era
Yonekura Ryoko as Takakura Haru
Nakama Yukie as Takakura (Yamabe) Natsu
Murata Takehiro as Takakura Chuji
Sugata Haruka (姿晴香) as Takakura Shizu
Okada Yoshinori as Nakayama Ryuta
Kohashi Kenji as Kinta
Omori Nao as George Harada
Mizumachi Reiko (水町レイコ)
Yoshimi Kazutoyo (吉見一豊)
Takashima Masahiro as Yamashita Takuya
Ishibashi Ryo as Commander Unno
Yuki Saori as Nakayama Toki
Emoto Akira as Nakayama Kotaro
Saito Yosuke as Yamashita Heizo
Watanabe Misako as Takakura Nobu
Negishi Toshie as Takakura Kane
Tayama Ryosei as Takakura Yosaku
Shida Mirai
Saito Nana (斉藤奈々)
Igawa Hisashi as Tokuji
Kitamura Kazuki
Episodes Titles & Ratings
"Sisters" - 18.1
"Separated by the Land in the South and North" - 17.4
"Perpetrually on the Move" - 18.8
"A Destiny of Love and Sadness" - 19.1
"xxxx" - 18.5
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Hashida Sugako
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki
Notes
An encore presentation of the series will be shown on NHK 2006-Mar-26 through 2006-Mar-30. Times are 22:30-00:00 (26th), and 23:00-00:15 (27th-30th). All times/dates are JST.
