Details
Title: 瞳 (ひとみ)
Title (romaji): Hitomi
Genre: Family drama
Episodes: 156 (15 mins. each)
Viewership ratings: 1st=16.5, High=18.5, Avg=16.4
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2008-Mar-31 to 2008-Sep-27
Air time: Monday through Saturday at 8:15
Series Synopsis
The 78th NHK Asadora is Hitomi. The series takes place in the old shitamachi area of Tokyo, and in these most recent episodes, 20-year old heroine Hitomi becomes the force around which her divorced mother, long estranged from her own father, is forced to reconcile and renew a sense of family camaraderie. This is not particularly easy, given the trifling issues and problems of modern day life that beset each of the characters, and the drama unfolds with a light comedic touch. Hitomi's upbringing is the issue that is constantly brought into focus. The family reconciliation is made possible, ironically through the death of Hitomi's grandmother. Hitomi seizes the opportunity to travel to her funeral from Sapporo. Once there, she sets out to realize her dream of becoming a dancer, all the while interfering with and disrupting her grandfather's life. ---groink
Cast
Ippongi (一本木) Family
Eikura Nana as Hitomi
Iijima Naoko as Momoko (Hitomi's mother)
Nishida Toshiyuki as Katsutaro (Hitomi's grandfather)
Sumitomo Kenichi (住友健一) as Yoshino Kota
Tsukishima - Tsukuda - Tsukiji
Maeda Gin as Ishida Yujiro
Kinomi Nana as Takagi Mari
Yasuda Ken as Ishida Yuzo
Sugai Kin as Yokoyama Ume
Ogura Hisahiro as Nakane Makoto
Kobayashi Masahiro as Nakane Hiroshi
Sasai Eisuke as Rose Mama
Takada Nobuhiko (高田延彦) as Morimoto Shosuke
Uno Misako as Endo Keiko
Okayama Hajime as Morimoto Daisuke
Foster Children
Yoshitake Reo (吉武怜朗) as Sano Akira
Morisako Ei as Oka Yuria
Nakamura Sakuya as Saito Shota
Friends
Mitsushima Hikari as Hashimoto Junko
Tano Asami (田野アサミ) as Kitagawa Yuka
Suzuki Seina (鈴木聖奈) as Tanaka Moe
Koko (香子) as RAY (Hoshizaki Reiko)
Maki Daisuke as KEN
Others
Kondo Masaomi as Wakayama Yoshiyuki
Ino Manabu (猪野学) as Takayanagi Shunsuke
Totsugi Shigeyuki as Hashimoto Keichi (Junko's older brother)
Matsumoto Runa as Morita Sara
Matsukane Yoneko
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Suzuki Satoshi
Narrator: Furuno Akiko (古野晶子)
Producer: Ozaki Mitsunobu
Directors: Ozaki Mitsunobu, Manabe Hitoshi (真鍋斎), Nagikawa Yoshiro (梛川善郎)
Music: Yamashita Kosuke
