Kokoro (TV series)

Kokoro (こころ) is a Japanese television drama series and the 68th Asadora series, following Manten. It premiered on March 31, 2003 and concluded on September 27, 2003.

Plot

Cast

Suenaga and Asakura family

• Noriko Nakagoshi as Kokoro Asakura (her maiden name was Suenaga)
• Ran Itō as Misako Suenaga, Kokoro's mother
• Keiko Kishi as Izumi Kiyono, Kokoro's grandmother (also as narrator)
• Akira Terao as Takuro Suenaga, Kokoro's father
• Tōru Nakamura as Yusaku Asakura, Kokoro's husband
• Tomoka Kurokawa as Sachi Asakura, Yusaku and Kanna's daughter
• Ryohei Hirota as YÅ«ta Asakura, Yusaku and Kanna's son
• Kōjirō Kusanagi as Yuri Asakura, Yusaku's father
• Akemi Omori as Haruko Asakura, Yusaku's mother
• Naomi Zaizen as Kanna Fujii, Yusaku's ex-wife

Hotta family

• Hiroshi Tamaki as Takumi Hotta, a fireworks craftsman
• Takeshi Onishi as Tadashi Hotta, Takumi's brother
• Taisaku Akino as Denzo Hotta, Takumi and Tadashi's father
• Yuka Itaya as Mariko Hotta, Tadashi's wife

Employees at Kiyokawa

• Hatsuo Yamaya as Tetsuo Tange, an eel chef at Kiyokawa
• Yukiko Shimizu as Yoshie Chino, a Kiyokawa waitress
• Kunikazu Katsumata as Yasuo Seino, a chef at Kiyokawa
• Moro Morooka as Jō Goi, a board chief
• Yoshitora Okamoto as Carlos Tanaka, a Japanese Brazilian employee at Kiyokawa

People in Asakusa

• Kenichi Nagira as Mantaro Yamamoto, the owner of Yamamoto-ya
• Eiko Koike as Towako Yamamoto, Mantaro's daughter and Kokoro's best friend
• Ryo Kato as Jiro Yamamoto, Mantaro's son and Towako's brother
• Moto Fuyuki as Tetsuo Ōba, the owner of Ōba-yu
• Mika Hada as Kasumi Ōba, Tetsuo's daughter and a heiress of Ōba-yu
• Takahiro Azuma as Katsuo Ōba, Kasumi's husband
• Rumiko Sogawa as Sumiko Ōba, Tetsuo's wife and Kasumi's mother
• Raita Ryu as Ikkoku Nakajima, the owner of Nakajima Fireworks
• Sadao Abe as Gin Nakajima, Ikkoku's son
• Hiroshi Inuzuka as Sadao Yoshikawa, a man who runs the tailor shop
• Papaya Suzuki as Kaoru Ochiai, a doctor and Yusaku's friend
• Yasukiyo Umeno as Isao Fujioka
• Masuyuki Shida as Tsutomu Fujioka, Isao's son
• Miki Matsumoto as Mayumi Sugii, a nurse

People in Yamakoshi village

• Kazuko Kato as Saori Uesugi, daughter of a fireworks factory manager
• Shinjirō Ehara as Eizō Uesugi, a fireworks factory owner
• Sachiko Sakurai as Yumeko Murakami, Tatsuzo's daughter
• Susumu Kurobe as Tatsuzo Murakami, a carp producer and Yumeko's father
• Sarutoki Minagawa as Mamoru Hoshikawa, Tatsuzo's sub-ordinate

Others

• Mayuko Takata as Ryōko Tachibana, a single mother and Kokoro's senior
• Nami Ichinohe as Rikako Tamakoshi, Kokoro's colleague
• Kaito Shiono as Kazuhiro Tachibana, Ryōko's son
• Tsutomu Isobe as Kazunari Tamakoshi, Rikako's father
• Rumiko Koyanagi as Koemi Chino, Yoshie's sister

References

External links

• Official website