Details
Title: 天うらら
Title (romaji): Ten Urara
Episodes: unknown x 15 minutes
Genre: Human drama
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 1998-Apr-06 through 1998-Oct-03
Air time: Monday thru Saturday 8:15 to 8:30
Viewership ratings: Ep1=26.3, High=35.6, Avg=27.7
Series Synopsis
The 58th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Ten Urara. Story's settings include Nikko, Tochigi and Koto, Tokyo. This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong ambition of becoming a carpenter and building homes. The story takes place from the later part of the Showa era to present day Heisei rule. The heroine of the story, Kawashima Urara, lost her father at the tender age of seven and this drama depicts her life as she grows from a young school girl, through puberty and adolescence and on into her adult years as an independent woman who owns her own carpentry business. As Urara grows into a beautiful and strong woman and a talented carpenter, her family around her goes through many difficult and trying times. This story of becoming an independent businesswoman in the male-dominated world of carpentry accurately reflects the lives and struggles of the young women in present day Japan who are trying to make a career for themselves in addition to balancing the demands of family obligations, friends and lovers. ---groink
Cast
Sudo Risa as Kawashima Urara (heroine, age 21)
Kiuchi Maya (木内茉弥) as Kawashima Urara (7 years old)
Hara Hideko as Tomoko (Urara's mother)
Oura Ryuichi
Saito Yoko (斎藤陽子)
Sakurai Sachiko
Fuwa Mansaku
Negishi Toshie
Ikeuchi Junko as Hatsuko (Urara's grandmother)
Kato Takeshi as Kojiro (Urara's grandfather)
Kobayashi Kaoru
Watanabe Eriko
Suzuki Kazuma
Hayashiya Kobuhei
Saito Keiko
Oshima Yoko
Matsumura Tatsuo (松村達雄)
Moriwaki Kenji
Tokui Yuu
Ariyoshi Hiroiki (有吉弘行)
Uchiyama Shinji
Nakama Yukie
Mitsuura Yasuko (光浦靖子)
Azuma Chizuru
Kochihira Chika
Production Credits
Original story: Kadono Haruko (門野晴子)
Screenwriter: Kamiyama Yumiko (神山由美子)
Director:
Music: Koroku Reijiro (小六禮次郎)
