Details
Title: 新・人間交差点
Title (romaji): Shin Ningen Kosaten
Also known as: New Human Scramble
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 3
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2006-Aug-19 to 2006-Sep-2
Air time: Saturday 21:00-21:58
Synopsis
A story about a 73-year-old man who used to be a newspaper reporter. Terashima Yoshiji lives and farms alone in Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture after leaving a newspaper in Osaka over 20 years ago. One day, his sister's granddaughter Marie, who is a novice newspaper journalist, visits him. To Marie, who has faced hardship at work, Yoshiji shows unpublished articles he wrote some decades ago. The two visits the people who were covered in the articles and Marie regains her passion for her job through finding out their lives 20 years since then. On the other hand, Yoshiji is confronted with his past, which he has kept secret. -- NHK
Cast
Nakadai Tatsuya as Terashima Yoshiji
Akagi Harue
Sato Eriko
Kuroda Yu (黒田有)
Kagami Saki
Notes
The coverage of the North Korean missle testing story by NHK is causing some of their shows to be re-scheduled. This drama was pushed from 2006-Jul-29 to 2006-Aug-19 start.
