Details
Title: 陽だまりの樹
Title (romaji): Hidamari no Ki
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Jidaigeki
Episodes: 12
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Broadcast network: NHK BS
Broadcast period: 2012-Apr-06 start
Air time: Friday 20:00
Theme song: Hana ni Nare by Fumiya Sashida (指田郁也)
Synopsis
It is 1855, the year following the Treaty of Peace and Amity between the United States and Japan. 26-year-old samurai Ibuya Manjiro succeeded his father and has been serving at the Hitachifuchu domain’s residence for four months. He trains more seriously than everyone else to the extent that he gets on the wrong side of the other samurais. On the other hand, Tezuka Ryoan, a doctor of Western medicine, distresses his father Ryosen who practises at a public clinic in the Hitachifuchu domain, because of his womanising. One day, Manjiro who has joined the training hall of Chiba Shusaku, encounters trouble with his fellow pupils. He crosses swords with a senior pupil and sustains a severe gash after a hard fight. Ryoan visits a reluctant Manjiro in place of his father and stitches up the wound. While this is in fact his first surgery, he handles it with an unerring hand. The knowledge that Ryoan is also romantically interested in Oseki, chafes at Manjiro for he secretly loves her and vows to protect her chastity. But when Ryoan is attacked by a samurai, Manjiro promptly cuts him down. That person is none other than the senior pupil at Chiba’s training hall. jdramas.wordpress.com
Cast
Ichihara Hayato as Ibuya Manjiro
Narimiya Hiroki as Tezuka Ryoan
Kurokawa Mei as Oseki
Otsuka Shinobu as Otsune
Fueki Yuko as Oshina
Otsuka Chihiro as Aya
Tsugawa Masahiko as Fujita Toko
Nishioka Tokuma
Ikegami Kimiko
Sasano Takashi
Kotegawa Yuko
Ozeki Shinji (尾関伸嗣)
Ozawa Kazuyoshi (小沢和義)
Tsuchiya Yuuichi (土屋裕一)
Hanjoumaru Hiroshi (本城丸裕)
Meguro Yuuki (目黒祐樹)
Yamaguchi Ayumi
Production Credits
Original writing: Tezuka Osamu (手塚治虫)
Screenwriter: Maekawa Yoichi (前川洋一)
Directors: Fujio Takashi, Yamauchi Munenobu (山内宗信), Okano Hironobu (岡野宏信)
Music: Honda Toshiyuki (本多俊之)
