Details
Title: さくら
Title (romaji): Sakura
Episodes: 156 15-minute episodes
Genre: Human drama
Air time: Monday thru Saturday at 8:15am
Viewership: Ep1=20.3, High=27.5, Avg=23.3
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2002-Apr-1 to 2002-Sep-28
Series Synopsis
The 66th NHK Asadora Drama is Sakura. Settings include Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), Takayama, Gifu, and Tokyo. The story is about a recent college graduate, Matsushita Sakura (Elizabeth), a fourth-generation Japanese American woman born and raised in Hawaii. Sakura's haole boyfriend, Roby, gets a job in New York and plans to take Sakura with him. Sakura is unhappy about the possible move so far across the country from her family. During a family meeting, Sakura breaks the news to everyone that she decided to take a temporary one-year job in Japan, teaching English at an all-boys middle school, in order to examine her family roots. Roby is shocked to hear the news, and immediately asks Sakura to marry him. Although she does accept the proposal, Roby and Sakura agree to delay their wedding for one year until she comes back to Hawaii. Sakura will be staying with her maternal grandparents. However, there is friction between Sakura's mom and grandfather because her mom married a Japanese-Hawaiian. How will things go for Sakura in Japan? Will she get along with her grandfather? Will she lose her heart to a Japanese man? Will she come back to Hawaii? --- written by groink
Cast
Takano Shiho as Matsushita Sakura (heroine)
Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Keisuke Katsuragi
Teraizumi Ken as Matsushita Ichiro
Ohta Hiromi as Matsushita Kyoko (Sakura's mother)
Tsushima Keiko as Matsushita Toshiko
Itakura Kaori as Matsushita Momo (Sakura's sister)
Kobayashi Asei
Nakamura Meiko
Noguchi Goro
Otaki Hideji
Naito Taketoshi
Asada Miyoko
Enari Masamoto
Nagasawa Masami
Kumagai Mami as Midori Ayusawa
Thane Camus as Robert "Roby" Hoffman
Imamura Keiko
Sasaki Sumie
Okumura Kouen
Kasai Kenji
Numata Yoichi
Ramos Ruy
Saito Yosuke
Kawamoto Takanori
Takahashi Kaori
Ono Mayumi
Emori Toru as Masaharu Nakasone (Principal of Akebono Junior High School in Gifu)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Tabuchi Kumiko
