Details
Title: 私の青空
Title (romaji): Watashi no Aozora
Also known as: My Blue Sky
Genre: Asadora drama, family drama
Episodes: 156 (15 mins. each)
Viewership ratings: Ep1=23.9, High=28.3, Avg=24.1
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2000-Apr-3 to 2000-Sep-30
Air time: Monday thru Saturday at 08:15
Related TV shows: Watashi no Aozora 2002
Series Synopsis
The 62nd NHK Asadora Drama is Watashi no Aozora. Locations include Oma-cho, Aomori and Chuo-ku, Tokyo. This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father, Murai Kento had aspirations to be a professional boxer but due to a detached retina he was forced to abandon his dream. Leaving Nazuna behind, he left for America, with another woman, to get treatment for his eye-problem, unaware that Nazuna was pregnant. As his life is boxing he quickly returns to the ring after the operation turns out to be successful and once again he dreams of becoming a professional boxer. However, success eludes him and he returns home to Japan. Nazuna meanwhile has given birth to her son and moved to Tokyo to search for Kento. By chance she finds Kento. When discovers he has become a father, he tries to make up for lost time. The show picks up their story as Nazuna, Taiyo and Kento begin family life together. Of course things are not as simple as they appear... ---groink
Cast
Tabata Tomoko as Kitayama Nazuna (heroine, age 19)
Shinoda Takuma (篠田拓馬) as Kitayama Taiyo (Nazuma's son)
Tsutsui Michitaka as Murai Kento (Taiyo's father)
Ito Shiro as Kitayama Tatsuo
Kaga Mariko as Kitayama Tamae
Fukaura Kanako as Tonegawa Chiyoko
Miyake Ken as Sato Takeshi
Onita Atsushi (大仁田厚) as Muhou Matsu
Yamazaki Yuta
Yana Nobuo
Ato Kai
Yamamoto Shinya
Akasaka Akira
Sugai Kin
Kasugai Seina
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Uchidate Makiko
Narrator: Kubo Junko (久保純子)
