Details
Title: 筆談ホステス
Title (romaji): Hitsudan Hostess
Tagline: 母と娘、愛と感動の25年。届け!わたしの心
Tagline (romaji): Haha to Musume, Ai to Kando no 25 nen. Todoke! Watashi no Kokoro
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Autobiography
Viewership rating: 12.2
Broadcast network: TBS, MBS
Broadcast date: 2010-Jan-10
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Ending theme song: Departures by SQUAREHOOD
Synopsis
The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-one hostess in Ginza despite being deaf.
"Hitsudan Hostess" was published by Kobunsha this past May, and so far it has sold roughly 115,000 copies. The book depicts the life of Saito, who was born in Aomori and became deaf at the age of 1 due to an illness. She rebelled against her strict parents, and she ran away from home several times as a youth. At a local club, she began taking an interest in "hitsudan" (communicating through writing), which she later made use of when she moved to Tokyo and became a popular hostess at a Ginza club. --Tokyograph
Cast
Kitagawa Keiko as Saito Rie
Tanaka Yoshiko as Saito Emiko
Fukushi Seiji as Saito Satoshi
Kose Tatsuya as child Saito Satoshi
Nashimoto Kenjiro as Saito Shiro
Tezuka Satomi as Nagai Kyoko
Inoue Jun as Kobashi Fumiyo
Toda Naho as Kawaharu Miharu
Sasano Takashi as Segawa Kozo
Aso Natsuko as Hikari
Oriyama Miyu
Kinosaki Naoto
Production Credits
Original writing: Hitsudan Hostess by Saito Rie
Screenwriter: Kato Ayako (加藤綾子)
Producer: Shimura Akira (志村彰), Mori Masahiro
Director: Takezono Hajime
