Details
Title: 歌姫
Title (romaji): Utahime
Also known as: Songstress / Diva
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 07.9(Kanto)
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-12 to 2007-Dec-21
Air time: Friday 22:00
Theme songs:
Main theme: SEISYuN by TOKIO
Insert theme: change the world by Eric Clapton
Synopsis
Koizumi Akira, a son of a popular songstress, travels to a small-town cinema in far-off Kochi Prefecture to watch the closing movie before the theatre shuts its doors forever. The movie takes place in the same village but during the Showa 30s (1950s), in the years following the war. The story follows a young soldier who washes ashore on the beach one day, having lost his memory. He is "adopted" by the family who owns the village cinema and given the name Shimanto Taro. Although his past remains a mystery, Taro becomes good friends with many of the villagers, discovering his love for movies and falling in love with a feisty young girl.
Cast
Nagase Tomoya as Shimanto Taro/Koizumi Akira
Aibu Saki as Kishida Suzu/Matsunaka Ruriko
Teramoto Sumina as young Suzu (10 years old)
Koike Eiko as Oikawa Miwako
Sato Ryuta as Croissant no Matsu
Ohkura Tadayoshi as Jinguji-kun (James)
Takada Junji (高田純次) as Kishida Katsuo
Fubuki Jun as Kishida Hamako
Saito Yuki as Sabako
Toyama Kyoko as Mary
Iijima Bobobo (飯島ぼぼぼ) as German
Furuya Ikko as Yamanouchi Oyabun
Okouchi Nanako as Kohinata Izumi
Hikita Hidemi (疋田英美) as young Izumi (16 years old) (ep1,3,8)
Nishimura Kiyotaka (西村清孝) as Kohinata Shinkichi
Akiyama Ryuji as Akutagawa Tadashi
Judy Ong as Koizumi Sakura
Ono Ryo as Matsunaka Keiichiro
Maruyama Akira (丸山麗) as Russia (Mary's boyfriend)
Taguchi Kazumasa (田口主将) as Dr. Kamayatsu
Tanaka Hideyuki (田中秀幸) as the narrator
Guests
Okada Yoshinori as Moririn (ep1)
Sato Megumi as Mika (ep1)
Koshimura Tomokazu (越村友一) as Hoodlum A (ep1-3,5-10)
Sawada Masashi (澤田誠志) as Hoodlum B (ep1-3,5-10)
Hisa Issei (比佐一成) as the cigar shop owner, Chinmo-san (ep1-3,5-11)
Akira Tetsunori (明樂哲典) as the fisherman Panty-kun (ep1-3,5-11)
Yamamoto Yuusuke (山本祐輔) as the emcee (ep1-2)
Kikawa Junichi (木川淳一) (ep1)
Henmi Tsutomu (辺見務) (ep1)
Imaizumi Amane (今泉あまね) (ep1)
Kinbara Yasunari (金原泰成) (ep1)
Abe Mitsuko (阿部光子) as Hamako's grandma (ep4)
Sugita Kippei (杉田吉平) (ep5-6)
Takemori Risa (竹森りさ) (ep5)
Matsumura Yuki as Hisamatsu (ep8-10)
Production Credits
Original Work: Satake Mikio
Screenwriter: Satake Mikio
Producer: Isoyama Aki
Director: Tsuboi Toshio (ep1-2,5,8,11), Kaneko Fuminori (ep3-4,9-11), Kimura Masakazu (木村政和) (ep6,11), Satake Mikio (ep11)
Musical producer: Shida Hirohide
Music: Fukushima Yuko (福島祐子), Takami Yu
Episode Title
Ep. 01: The song of a woman's painful, unrequited love and a furious man's spirit!
Ep. 02: The song of a hot-blooded man's soul! A fragment of his memory returns!
Ep. 03: Through teary eyes his soul mate appears
Ep. 04: I'll never give my girl to him!
Ep. 05: When she changes from little sister to the woman he loves
Ep. 06: The woman he loved in lost memories?
Ep. 07: The miracle of a husband and wife who were reborn and met again
Ep. 08: Kiss
Ep. 09: If only there were two of you
Ep. 10: A once-in-a-lifetime proposal
Ep. 11: I'll make you a happy woman
