Details
Title: 夜叉
Title (romaji): Yasha
Genre: Suspense / Mystery / Action
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 6.2%
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2000-Apr-21 to 2000-Jun-30
Theme song: Desert Rose by Sting with Cheb Mami
Synopsis
The story is about a set of twin baby boys who were created/cloned in the laboratory as a part of gene altering/gene therapy experiment. Because of the nature of the project, the twins were born with superior physical strength, supernatural powers and extremely high IQ. Unfortunately, the twins were separated at birth. One of the brothers, Sei, grew up to be an elite bio-chemistry scientist in America. He was assigned to a project where he has to travel to a small island in Japan to investigate an unidentified virus that is spreading on the island. By a freak of nature, he found out that he has a twin brother, Rin, whose evil, dark personality is entirely opposite of him.
What is going to happen when they finally meet face to face? WHat are their true identities? Why were they separated at birth, what other secrets are hidden from them? Does the fast spreading virus has anything to do with the twins? Who created them? And why?
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Cast
Ito Hideaki as Sei & Rin
Abe Hiroshi as Sei's bodyguard, Kurosaki
Kashiwabara Shuji as Moichi
Taniguchi Sayaka
Otsuka Nene
Endo Yuya as young Sei
Iwaki Koichi
Fukikoshi Mitsuru
Nakane Kasumi
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Sato Shimako
Director: Sato Shimako
Music by: Fukuoka Yutaka
Notes
Based on a girls' comic (shoujo manga) by Yoshida Akimi.
