Official Website
www.nhk.or.jp/drama/platonic
Broadcast
Sundays, 10.00 – 10.50 p.m. from 25 May 2014
Station
NHK BS Premium
Story
Single mother Mochizuki Sara has a daughter called Sari who suffers from a congenital heart disease. Sara raised her daughter on her own and has lived only for her. She feels responsible for Sari’s illness which has virtually kept the girl hospitalised since her birth. One night, Sara stumbles upon a website where youth talk about death on the internet. Angered that they do not treat their lives with respect, she ends up posting the comment, “Please give my daughter your heart since you’re going to die anyway.” It immediately results in a flood of disparaging remarks. But among them is a message that reads, “I’ll give my heart.” Several days later, when Sara goes to the meeting place with her younger brother, Kazuhisa, even though she treats the message as a joke and doubt gnaws at her, the young man who wrote it actually arrives. He says he has a brain tumour and his days are numbered. Although Sara hesitates over whether she should take up his offer, she lets the lonely young man who has no relatives live in and work at the convenience store that she runs. Then she falls in love with him … … Will Sara and the young man arrive at a great love or tragic death?
Characters
Nakayama Miho as Mochizuki Sara
A single mother with a daughter suffering from heart disease. In order to care for her daughter, Sari, who has not been able to leave the hospital, she entrusts the management of the convenience store which she owns to someone, and shuttles between home and the hospital every day. She strongly imposes fact that she is a mother on herself.
Domoto Tsuyoshi as Young Man
A mysterious man who appears in front of Mochizuki Sara. He neither tells her his name nor age and starts to live under the same roof. He seems to have once been in a research and development position for a household product manufacturer, and his interest in making his own perfumes is based on his knowledge from that time. He is actually suffering from an incurable illness.
Yoshida Eisaku as Saeki Takehiko
Mochizuki Sara’s ex-husband and Sari’s father. The sales director of a major real estate company. He is also the direct superior of Sara’s younger brother, Kazuhisa. He is the most successful among his peers. Although he appears to be an impulsive person from his brutish behaviour, he is in fact sensitive and devoted. He still loves Sara.
Nagano Mei as Mochizuki Sari
Mochizuki Sara’s only daughter. She has been told that she has a few years left if she does not have a heart transplant. Because she loves reading books, she enjoys putting the people around her into the characters of her stories.
Koizumi Kotaro as Mochizuki Kazuhisa
Mochizuki Sara’s younger brother. A salaryman of a real estate company and the direct subordinate of Sara’s ex-husband, Saeki Takehiko. Although he has a family, it seems difficult for him to stay home as he is on bad terms with his wife, and he frequently visits Sara’s home. Because only brother and sister have been living together for long, he loves his sister and relies heavily on her.
Nomura Masumi as Tsuzuki Miwa
A girl who frequently shows up at the convenience store ever since the young man overlooked her shoplifting, and seems to have a connection with him. She appears to have a dark heart.
Aoyama Noriko as Takada Yoko
The girlfriend of Saeki Takehiko, Mochizuki Sara’s ex-husband. The proprietress of a small restaurant. She was seen with Takehiko at the place of their tryst by Sara and became the direct cause of their divorce, but … …
Omi Toshinori as Kurata Atsushi
The cardiac surgeon who is the attending physician of Mochizuki Sara’s daughter. An internationally-respected authority on congenital heart disease, he has been in charge of Sari for eight years while he remained with a Boston university. An important secret pact has been laid on him by Sara.
Kaga Mariko as Yui Masako
Mochizuki Sara’s aunt. She is someone whom Sara, who is estranged from her mother, can talk to about anything and is an assuring presence. The convenience store was once a liquor store that she ran with her husband. She is now a resident of an assisted-living elder care facility and lives a leisurely life.
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