Details
Title: きらきらひかる
Title (romaji): Kira Kira Hikaru
Also known as: Shining Brightly / A Tale of Autopsy
Genre: Detective mystery, medical
Episodes: 10 Episodes + 2 specials
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 1998-Jan-13 to 1998-Mar-17
SP1: 1999-Apr-23
SP2: 2000-Apr-04
Air time: Tuesday 21:00
Theme song: Nishi e Higashi e by Mr Children
Synopsis
The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru (Fukatsu Eri) is a graduate of a medical university, also focused her discipline on neurology. One night during a student reunion, a dead body was found in the kitchen. Hikaru, who is a little regretting that she choose her focus in neurology was moved by another doctor's words, Dead bodies will not tell us what happened, that is why we have to piece together its last words.
Cast
Fukatsu Eri as Amano Hikaru
Suzuki Kyoka as Sugi Yuriko
Matsuyuki Yasuko as Tsukiyama Noriko
Kobayashi Satomi as Kurokawa Eiko
Yanagiba Toshiro as Tadokoro Shinsaku
Shinohara Ryoko as Sugi Saeko
Hayashi Yasufumi as Ayanokouji Makoto
Ishimaru Kenjiro
Nomura Eugene (野村祐人)
Guests
Azuma Mikihisa (ep1)
Takahashi Katsumi (ep1)
Katsurayama Shingo (ep1)
Tachikawa Noriko (立河宜子) (ep1)
Nagae Hidekazu (ep1)
Okamori Akira (岡森諦) (ep1)
Tachihara Hitomi (立原瞳) (ep1)
Tsunoda Tomomi (角田智美) (ep1,6)
Nashimoto Kenjiro (ep2)
Fukaura Kanako (ep2)
Yamazaki Senri (山咲千里) (ep2)
Kobayashi Susumu (ep2)
Tajima Honami (田島穂奈美) (ep2)
Yamashita Yorie (ep3)
Motai Masako (ep3)
Yamamoto Gaku (ep4)
Ozawa Maju (ep4)
Hirao Yoshiki (平尾良樹) (ep4)
Enjoji Aya (ep4)
Nakamaru Shinsho (ep4,8)
Kase Taishu (ep5)
Ito Mizuki (伊藤瑞希) (ep5)
Tomosaka Rie (ep6)
Shibukawa Kiyohiko (渋川清彦) (ep6)
Aoki Kazuyo (青木和代) (ep6)
Matsushita Yuki (ep7)
Aijima Kazuyuki (ep7)
Jo Akio (城明男) (ep7)
Sasai Eisuke (ep8-9)
Hasegawa Tetsuo (ep8)
Sato Yasue (佐藤康恵) (ep8)
Matsuda Keiji (ep9-10)
Kajihara Zen (ep9)
Nekoze Tsubaki (ep10)
Takubo Issei (ep10)
Ishiguro Ken (SP1)
Tokoshima Yoshiko (SP1)
Ito Takashi (SP1)
Takahashi Kaori (SP1)
Goda Hozumi (郷田ほづみ) (SP1)
Hatsuse Kaoru (SP1)
Toda Naho (SP2)
Fujita Yumiko (SP2)
Miyasako Hiroyuki (SP2)
Hotohara Toru (SP2)
Ogi Shigemitsu (SP2)
Nakajima Hiroko (SP2)
Ishii Kenichi (SP2)
Sato Kotomi (佐藤琴未) (SP2)
Sugawara Toshimi (SP2)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
Producer: Yamaguchi Masatoshi
Directors: Kawake Shunsaku, Miyamoto Rieko, Sakuraba Shinichi (桜庭信一), Takeuchi Hideki, Nagayama Kozo
Music: Yoshimata Ryo
Episode Titles
Ep 01: Women who are Stylish, Love and Conduct Autopsies
Ep 02: Murder? Accident? The Corpse Tells
Ep 03: Link between Cat and Drowned Body?
Ep 04: Beautiful Medical Coroner Presses for Truth in Rape Case
Ep 05: To Kill Hikaru
Ep 06: Letter from Dead Lover
Ep 07: Legitmate Self-Defence? Suspicious, Adulterous Wife
Ep 08: Corpse is the Lover My Younger Sister Stole
Ep 09: Tsukiyama Noriko is beaten, Last Words of the Teeth
Ep 10: Female Detective Bleeds to Death? Truth of the Love and Hate between Mother and Daugther from Eastern Europe to Kobe
Awards
16th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Suzuki Kyoka)
16th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Director (Nagayama Kozo)
16th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Cast
16th Television Drama Academy Awards: Special Award - Reasearch Staff
