Official Website
www.nhk.or.jp/drama/sonohi
Broadcast
Sundays, 10.00 – 10.50 p.m. from 23 March 2014
Station
NHK BS Premium
Story
In March, Harada Kensuke visits Shinmachi with his wife Kazumi who has terminal cancer. This was where they lived when they were newlyweds. Last summer, Kazumi suffered from health problems. After a checkup, she was given a year to live. While Kazumi was going in and out of hospital, she asked Kensuke not to tell their two sons Kenya and Daisuke about her life expectancy. Kensuke has mixed feelings, but he listens to her request. In spring, six months after her cancer was detected, Kensuke and Kazumi visit Shinmachi in accordance with her wishes. The two of them arrive at the apartment where they started living together … … Late one night, the hospital where Kazumi has been hospitalised calls to notify Kensuke that she is in a critical condition. He mentally prepares their two sons and himself.
Characters
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Harada Kensuke
A former company employee turned freelance illustrator. Kazumi whom he married initially supported him financially, but he soon gained recognition and runs a small design company. His wife’s diagnosis is a bolt from the blue. He is sorrowful and loses his bearings, but reflects on the family.
Dan Rei as Harada Kazumi
She married Harada Kensuke when they were co-workers in a company. She had two son. When Kensuke started his own company, she resigned and became a full-time housewife. She undergoes tests at a hospital for a pain in her back and is unexpectedly given a year to live. However, she keeps a lid on this to the end to prevent her children from being sad.
Kondo Yoshimasa as Nagahara Masaki
The doctor in charge of treating Harada Kazumi.
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