Details
Title: 優しい時間
Title (romaji): Yasashii Jikan
Also known as: Affectionate Time
Genre: Human drama
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 14.9
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2005-Jan-13 to 2005-Mar-24
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: Ashita by Hirahara Ayaka
Synopsis
This is the story about one small coffee shop located in the northern island of Hokkaido.
Yukichi Wakui used to work as a successful businessman at a prestigious trading firm. He worked for several years in New York as well as other cities around the world. When his wife Megumi died at the age of 47 in a car accident three years ago, he decided to leave the company. He was only 57. When Megumi died in the accident, her 18-year-old son Takuro was at the wheel.
Yukichi declined an offer to switch to an affiliate company after his retirement, and moved to Megumi's hometown Furano, Hokkaido instead. There he started a small coffee shop named "The Forest Clock."
Unbeknownst to Yukichi, Takuro is working as an apprentice pottery maker in Biei—a town located 50km away from Furano. His father hasn't spoken a word to him since the accident.
One day, Takuro meets Azusa, the lovely Forest Clock employee who has a habit of accidentally breaking the shop's plates and cups. It doesn't take long for the two to fall in love.
Will the wall of ice between father and son ever melt?
Adding color to the drama are the conversations between Yukichi and the tourists and café-goers who drop in the shop. --Fuji TV
Cast
Terao Akira as Wakui Yukichi
Ninomiya Kazunari as Wakui Takuro
Nagasawa Masami as Minagawa Azusa
Yo Kimiko as Kujo Tomoko
Otake Shinobu as Wakui Megumi
Maro Akaji as Amano Rokusuke
Asaka Mayumi as Amano Yoko
Yamaya Hatsuo as Takamatsu
Nashimoto Kenjiro as Aiba
Masana Bokuzo as Tamura
Tanaka Kei as Anzai Mitsuo
Morigami Chie (森上千絵) as Uchimura Riri
Takahashi Fumiko (高橋史子) as Mimita Emiko
Yamashita Sumito (山下澄人) as Kazama
Kubo Takanori (久保隆徳) as Sakuma
Naya Masatomo (納谷真大) as Takigawa
Suitsu Satoshi (水津聡) as Yokoyama
Rokujo Hisayuki (六条寿倖) as Nagasawa
Fuse Hiroshi as Otonari
Shimizu Misa as Inoue Mikako (the widow)
Kunimura Jun as Tateishi
Guests
Tokito Saburo as Mizutani Saburo (ep1, 10)
Tezuka Satomi as Mizutani Miko (ep1, 10)
Tsukayama Masane
Nakamura Shunta as Kawanishi Ken (ep2)
Tabata Tomoko as Kawanishi Hideko (ep2)
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Matsuda (ep3, 8)
Yoshii Rei as Aoyama Noriko (ep3)
Hoshino Gen as Amano Yoichi (ep3)
Kimura Midoriko as Otonari Haruko (ep5)
Kohinata Fumiyo (ep5)
Shiga Kotaro (ep5)
Kimura Tae as Itsuki (ep6)
Koike Mie (小池美枝) (ep6)
Tamagawa Misa (玉川美沙) (ep6)
Ono Takehiko (ep6)
Nagayama Takashi (ep6)
Kajihara Zen (ep6)
Yamada Meikyo (ep6)
Kitajima Saburo as Nakazato (ep7)
Sasaki Sumie as Kida Toshiko (ep7)
Sasaki Katsuhiko as Kawai (ep7)
Tajima Reiko as Kawai Ayako (ep7)
Tokushige Satoshi as Domoto (ep8, 9)
Miyashita Yuji (ep8)
Ikeda Tsutomu (ep8)
Nakamaru Shinsho (ep8)
Koizumi Kyoko (ep9)
Sugita Kaoru as Takigawa Tamako (ep10)
Takahashi Katsumi as Kameda (ep11)
Sudo Risa as Tateishi Maya (ep11)
Uto Shuusei as Wakui Takuro (child)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Kuramoto Sou, Yoshida Noriko, Tago Akihiro (田子明弘), Kobayashi Akio (小林彰夫)
Producer: Wakamatsu Hiroki, Asano Sumi (浅野澄美)
Director: Tajima Daisuke, Miyamoto Rieko, Nishiura Masaki
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki, Andre Gagnon (アンドレ．ギャニオン)
Yasashii Jikan
