Official Website
www.nhk.or.jp/drama/caroling
Broadcast
Tuesdays, 11.15 – 11.50 p.m. from 4 November 2014
Station
NHK BS Premium
Story
Around the time the atmosphere in the world is filled with cheer in preparation for Christmas, there are people completely detached from the gaiety with which Christmas Eve is eagerly anticipated. Some 20 days to Christmas, Daiwa Shunsuke and Orihara Shuko, a former couple who work at a children’s apparel company, learns that it will cease business at Christmas. With even its adjoining after-school care centre being shut down, Shuko decides to return to Niigata. Tadokoro Kohei, an elementary school boy who goes to the centre, is distressed by his parents. They are close to divorce and he wants to do something. He asks with Shuko to go with him to the Yokohama osteopathic clinic where his father works, but encounters debt-collecting gangsters over there. These gangsters are kindhearted small-timers who have descended into the underworld business although not by choice. The three groups seek love, get betrayed and have troubles. Even so, they struggle hard in their attempt to take a step out. Will the former couple be able to convey the love they have for each other? Can the boy prevent the divorce of his parents and protect his family? Will the small-time gangsters be able to hold on to love and tread the respectable path? These three groups somehow get entangled in this story with laughter and tears. Will Christmas miracles happen?
Characters
Miura Takahiro as Daiwa Shunsuke
A salesman who works for Angel Maker, a child apparel manufacturer which will cease business at Christmas. Although he is a fine young man with a straightforward personality, he has trauma about family relationships. He used to date Orihara Shuko and intended to marry her. However, they broke up because of his own background. Even so, they still have lingering affection for each other.
Yuka as Orihara Shuko
Daiwa Shunsuke ex-girlfriend. She loves children and takes care of them at Angel Maker’s after-school care centre. She and Shunsuke are colleagues now. She regrets not trying to understand his troubles when they were dating. She has decided to leave Tokyo at year and and return to her hometown of Niigata at the end of the year. However, she cannot cut off her feelings for Shunsuke.
Suzuki Fuku as Tadokoro Kohei
An elementary school student who attends Angel Maker’s after-school care centre. He is the go-between for his parents who are separated and heading for divorce. He wishes that the family will spend Christmas together. He loves writing stories and is rather grown-up in some areas.
Abe Joji as Akagi Mamoru
He may be a reluctant small-time gangster, but he is by nature a kind man. He is concerned about his hopeless followers who have no place to go as well as Rei who is suffering because of her father’s debts.
Sakurai Atsuko as Tadokoro Keiko
Tadokoro Kohei’s mother. It has been decided that she will get an overseas promotion. She has been considering formally divorcing her husband and taking up her new post with her son Kohei. She is regularly busy. Because of that, she is not able to take a look at him.
Ishii Masanori as Tadokoro Yuji
Tadokoro Kohei’s father. His capable wife, Keiko, worked for the same company and beat him to a promotion. Their family life is not smooth sailing too. He is currently doing an apprenticeship at a osteopathic clinic in Yokohama.
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