Details
Name: やんちゃくれ
Name (romaji): Yanchakure
Genre: Asadora drama, human drama
Episodes: 150 x 15 minute episodes
Viewership: Ep1=24.0, High=26.3, Avg=22.5
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 1998-Oct-05 to 1999-Apr-03
Theme song: Asobo by ulfuls
Synopsis
The 59th NHK Asadora Drama is Yanchakure. Location includes Osaka. In Osaka, "yanchakure" is a bit of an old word which is used to describe tomboyish or mischievous young girls. Mizushima Nagisa happens to be such a girl, that, no matter how well-intentioned her motives nor how hard she tries, Nagisa just seems to end up failing. In fact, she has failed at different things in her life so many times that she has come to see it as a source of personal strength, her philosophy being one of, "It's natural for a human being to fail many times in the course of their life and thanks to those failures we can become adults."
Set in Osaka from 1977 to 1999, this is the story of Nagisa one young woman coming of age in a small but long-established family of shipbuilders located along the Yodo River that flows through the city of Osaka. Nagisa goes to a traditional all-girls high school and participates in the rowing club. Nagisa's picture is run by a sports paper after she wins a local competition resulting in severe punishment by her school. Nagisa goes on to work at the sports paper and there, on an interview assignment, she meets the Olympic cyclist, Ooba Takashi and falls in love. From there Nagisa's life takes some dramatic twists and turns promising to keep audiences tuning in daily. Once again NHK tackles important issues for women in modern Japan in this drama; early marriage, divorce, self-discovery, work, family and finding one's place as a woman in the shifting tides of Japanese society. ---groink
Cast
Konishi Miho as Mizushima Nagisa (heroine, age 21)
Yachigusa Kaoru
Emoto Akira
Takada Shoko (高田聖子)
Takahashi Kazuya as Ooba Takashi
Riju Go
Harada Daijiro
Kaibe Tsuyoshi
Fuji Mariko
Hosomi Daisuke (細見大輔)
Takasugi Ko
Tokoshima Yoshiko
Tendo Yoshimi (天童よしみ)
Mr. Okure (Mr.オクレ)
Fukiishi Kazue
Hazama Kanpei
Nanjo Kouki (南条好輝)
Kyokudo Konanryo (旭堂小南陵)
Akino Yoko
Osaka Jun (逢坂じゅん)
Sagawa Mitsuo
Mizusawa Aki
Irikawa Yasunori (入川保則)
Azusa Mayuko
Hanaki Kyo (花紀京)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Nakayama Noriko (中山乃莉子), Ishihara Bull
Notes
Konishi Miho was chosen out of a pool of 1789 applicants. Before she was chosen, she was working at a company as an office lady.
