Official Website
www.nhk.or.jp/drama/dakara
Broadcast
Sundays, 10.00 – 10.50 p.m. from 11 January 2015
Station
NHK BS Premium
Story
Morimura Tomomi is a full-time housewife scorned by her husband, Hiromitsu, and their two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. She invites her family to dine out at a restaurant on her 46th birthday. However, her second son, Yuta, backs out at the last minute. Hiromitsu says he will go if she picks him up. The family does not even wish her happy birthday. Tomomi has tolerated their self-centered behaviour all this while. But her husband’s icy words that no one is even paying her any attention, prompt her to get up and walk away. Leaving home in disgust, Tomomi embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is her first time heading directly west on the highway and she speeds along. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen by a woman she had given a lift to at a service area. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth … …
Characters
Suzuki Kyoka as Morimura Tomomi
A full-time housewife. Although she is belittled by her family, she has been putting up with it every day. However, because of the celebratory meal she initiated for her own 46th birthday, she is made to be the driver, her choice of restaurant is insulted, and ends up forgetting to wear the high heels that she had purchased for this day. Deeply hurt by her husband’s words that no one is even paying any attention to her, she leaves her family behind and drives the car westwards on the expressway.
Sugimoto Tetta as Morimura Hiromitsu
Morimura Tomomi’s husband. The head of public relations of a housing developer’s publicity department. A selfish man who puts his own entertainment first. He only hands over 200,000 yen to Tomomi each month and his interest is investing money. His platitude is, “This won’t apply to society.” His insensitive words on his wife’s birthday spurs her to leave home.
Hamada Tatsuomi as Morimura Yuta
Morimura Tomomi’s second son. A first-year high school student. He has a tendency to withdraw from the outside world because of his addiction to internet games. When his mother warns him not to spend all his time on gaming, he would shout abuse at her. He is her greatest worry.
Maeda Goki as Morimura Kenta
Morimura Tomomi’s eldest son. A university student who is hunting for a job. He knows how to swim with the tide. He passively observes his parents’ marital relationship. He has a girlfriend in the same university and frequently hangs out in her room.
Takahashi Issei as Kameda Shogo
A volunteer who supports Yamaoka’s lecture activities He is a pupil of a famous professor and is researching military history at Nagasaki Chuo University’s Department of Literature. However, Morimura Tomomi can see that he has some secret.
YOU as Takigawa Chisako
Morimura Tomomi’s good friend since high school days. She runs a beauty salon in Fukuoka. She learns that Tomomi has left home and supports her, but is at times harsh in her opinions. She is cohabiting with a man 16 years her junior, but has given up having children.
Ono Yuriko as Sakurada Mone
Morimura Tomomi finds her walking barefoot in the service area and gives her a lift. She had a quarrel with her fiance while on their way to Shimonoseki to pay a visit to her family and was left behind at the service area.
Toyohara Kosuke as Miyauchi Shigeru
He dated Morimura Tomomi in high school. Their love did not succeed because he went on to study at a Kyoto medical school and they lost contact. In truth, he gave up being a doctor and married into a family that has a well-established ceramic ware shop in Nagasaki.
Sasano Takashi as Takeuchi
The chairman of the golf club that Morimura Hiromitsu belongs to. He mistakenly hears that Hiromitsu sexually harassed a beautiful female member and orders him to take a break. He personally has designs on the female member.
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