Details
Title: 真夏のメリークリスマス
Title (romaji): Manatsu no Merry Christmas
Also known as: Merry Christmas in Summer
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Friendship, romance
Episodes: 10
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2000-Oct-13 to 2000-Dec-15
Air time: Friday 22:00
Theme song: Angel song -ivu no kane- angel song -イウの鐘- [The Brilliant Green]
Synopsis
Ryo is a former professional boxer who becomes a collector for a loan shark. He grew up in an orphanage in Okinawa Prefecture with heroine Haru, Natsumi, an aspiring actress, and two others. One of them is now a lawyer who has had to bail Ryo out and the other a lucky young woman adopted by a rich family. Haru, too, was adopted and has never once left the island where she grew up. When her adopted mother dies, she decides to go to Tokyo to find the old group. Being naive to the ways of the modern urban world, she almost ends up being sold off into the sex industry as soon as she sets foot on Tokyo's fair shores, but Ryo comes to her rescue.
Cast
Takenouchi Yutaka as Ryo
Nakatani Miki as Haru
Kato Ai as Natsumi
Sugimoto Tetta
Uehara Misa
Osugi Ren
Hatano Hiroko
Yamada Maiko
Fukusawa Kuniyuki
Ibu Masato
Miura Haruma
Tanaka Koutaro
Asami Reina
Production Credits
Screenwriters: Shimizu Higashi, Seki Erika, Aiuchi Mio, Hara Katsuko
Producers: Ueda Hiroki, Iyoda Hidenori
Directors: Shono Jiro, Imai Natsuki, Takenoshita Kanji
