Complete (J-Drama) Hoshi no Kinka

Complete (J-Drama) Hoshi no Kinka

Season 1

Title: 星の金貨

Also known as: Heaven's Coins / Die Sterntaler

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Romance, medical

Episodes: 12

Broadcast network: NTV

Broadcast period: 1995, April 12 to 1995, July 12

Opening theme song: Aoi Usagi, by Sakai Noriko (Hoshi no Kinka OST)

Synopsis

A woman named Aya is working in Hokkaido for a doctor, Shuichi, that left Tokyo for personal reasons. Aya is both deaf and mute and she’s secretly in love with Shuichi. After awhile Aya tells him, but Shuichi has decided to return to Tokyo to work but promise Aya that he will return soon and then they will get married. Shortly after he has an accident resulting in a memory loss. Time passes and Aya decides to go to Tokyo to find out what happened.

Cast

Sakai Noriko

Osawa Takao

Takenouchi Yutaka

Hosokawa Naomi

Ibu Masato

Ryu Raita

Sakai Wakako

Tanaka Minako

Kitahara Masaki

Kato Zenpaku

Nishimura Tomomi

Nakamaru Shinsho

Oka Mitsuko

Nishio Takumi

Hisamoto Tomoko

Kikuchi Norie

Nakano Kumiko

Hotaru Yukijirou

Tateishi Ryoko

Tayama Ryosei

Season 2

Title: 續。星の金貨 / Zoku Hoshi no Kinka

Also Known As: Heaven's Coins 2 / Die Sterntaler 2

Episodes: 12 + Special

Broadcasted by: NTV

Broadcast period: 1996, Oktober 09 to 1996, December 25

Opening theme song: Kagami no Doresu / Sakai Noriko

Synopsis

After living together in Hokkaido for around a year, Takumi and Aya return to Tokyo to attend Sonoko's wedding. Knowing that Aya still couldn't forget Shuichi, Takumi decides to give way and let Aya return to Hokkaido with his brother. Just when they are flying off, Takumi has an accident and his legs could no longer move. Feeling that Takumi has always being very good to her, Aya chooses to live with him, and painfully breaks off with Shuichi. She takes up two jobs to uphold the home, but the depressed Takumi starts thinking Aya as pitying him after some talks of others, and bangs all his anger on her.

Cast

Sakai Noriko

Osawa Takao

Takenouchi Yutaka

Nishimura Tomomi

Toda Naho

Sawamura Ikki

Nishio Takumi

Tanaka Minako

Oka Mitsuko

Hosho Mai

Hosokawa Naomi

Season 3

Title: 新・星の金貨

Title (romaji): Shin Hoshi no Kinka

Also known as: Die Sterntaler / Heaven's Coins 3

Genre: Human drama

Episodes: 10

Broadcast network: NTV

Broadcast period: 2001, April 25 to 2001 June 27

Air time: Wednesday 22:00-22:54

Theme song: Garasu no Tsubasa ~Hoshi no Kinka~ by Hoshino Mari

Synopsis

Abandoned at the age of five by her mother, deaf and mute Mahiru Morita's life has been filled with sorrow. Living with adoptive parents in Okinawa, she is also routinely treated cruelly at home and at school. But hope springs eternal as she dreams of one day finding her true mother living in far-off Tokyo. Can her dream come true? When young Kazuki, a young man attending university in Tokyo, comes to visit Okinawa on a scuba diving expedition, a life-threatening incident brings the two young hearts together. As their adventure unfolds, young Kazuki recounts to Mahiru the fable of how a young girl is showered with coins from heaven in admiration of her purity of heart. Is Mahiru the one?

Cast

Hoshino Mari as Morita Mahiru

Fujiwara Tatsuya as Muraoka Kazuki

Okina Megumi as Hasegawa Mizuki

Yoshizawa Hisashi as Iwase Makoto

Takasugi Mizuho as Sawagi Hiroto

Yanagisawa Nana as Iwase Rinne

Enoki Takaaki as Mamiya Shusuke

Tanaka Minako as Koizumi Miwa

Shiina Noriko (椎名法子) as Hashimoto Yukari

Osugi Ren as Ishiwatari

Yoshida Hideko as Ishiwatari

Konishi Manami as Aso Eri

Minegishi Toru as Sawaki Mitsuhiko

Tezuka Satomi as Fujisaki Ritsuko

Takewaki Muga (竹脇無我) as Nakatani

Yamamoto Azusa