Complete [J-Drama] Last Friends

Title: ラスト・フレンズ

Title (English): Last Friends

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Friendship, human drama, gay/lesbian

Episodes: 11 + 1 Special

Broadcast network: Fuji TV

Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-10 to 2008-Jun-19

Air time: Thursday 22:00

Theme song: Prisoner Of Love by Utada Hikaru

Synopsis

Last Friends tackles issues that afflict the current generation. Michiru's mother has brought a man back to their home and she is bullied at her workplace where she works as a beauty parlour assistant. She starts cohabiting with her boyfriend, a good young man who works at the Child Welfare Division and the only person who can give her emotional support, but ends up the victim of domestic violence and becomes fearful of love. The boyishly charming Ruka was a classmate of Michiru's in junior high school. She has performed brilliantly as a motocross racer and aims to win the national championship, but as the story progresses, a deep worry that she can neither confide in her parents or close friends grows evident. Takeru is a hair and makeup artist acquainted with Ruka. He is a good confidant to females due to his kindness and perceptiveness, and finds himself attracted to Ruka but has a phobia of sex as a result of a past trauma. The three of them become house mates and through their associations with others, gain the capacity to be positive about life.

Cast

Nagasawa Masami as Aida Michiru

Ueno Juri as Kishimoto Ruka

Eita as Mizushima Takeru

Nishikido Ryo as Oikawa Sosuke

Mizukawa Asami as Takigawa Eri

Yamazaki Shigenori as Ogura Tomohiko

Nishihara Aki as Hiratsuka Reina

Ranka Rea as Mita Sayuri

Hirano Sayaka (平野早香) as Okabe Mayumi

Baisho Mitsuko as Aida Chinatsu

Nagashima Mitsuki as Kishimoto Shogo

Shibuya Takeru as Higuchi Naoya

Kitami Toshiyuki as Endo Kenichiro

Ito Yuko as Shirahata Yuko

Tanaka Tetsushi as Hayashida Kazumi

Asaka Mayumi as Kishimoto Yoko

Hirata Mitsuru as Kishimoto Shuji

Guests

Gamo Mayu (蒲生麻由) (ep1,4)

Higashi Yuki (ひがし由貴) (ep1,7,10,SP)

Nomura Erika (野村映里利) (ep1)

Hamada Michihiko (浜田道彦) (ep1,11)

Kiyomi Jun (キヨミジュン) (ep1)

Natsukawa Asaki (夏川亜咲) (ep1)

Mai (舞雪) (ep1)

Komine Yuko (小峰悠子) (ep3)

Kawamura Saori (川村早織梨) (ep4,7)

Kanako (かなこ) (ep4)

Shimizu Kazuhiro (清水和博) (ep4,8)

Yoshida Tomokazu (ep4)

Nishida Saki (西田早希) (ep4)

Ishii Haruka (石井春花) (ep5)

Uchikura Kenji (内倉憲二) (ep5-6,8,SP)

Motokawa Ransho (本川嵐翔) (ep6-7,SP)

Watabe Aya (渡部彩) (ep7)

Horiguchi Takayoshi (堀口敬巧) (ep7)

Miyagi Arisa (宮城有沙) (ep7,SP)

Watanabe Tetsushi (渡辺哲史) (ep7,SP)

Uemura Kihachiro (植村喜八郎) (ep8)

Nakazawa Junko (ep8-9)

Asaki (ep8)

Komizu Aya (小水彩) (ep8)

Tashiro Mai (小水彩) (ep8)

Wasamoto Nahoko (和佐本菜穂子) (ep8)

Okumura Mao (奥村真央) (ep8)

Takada Makiko (高田麻紀子) (ep8)

Nanjo Chihiro (南條千尋) (ep8)

Takeshima Yasunari (竹嶋康成) (ep9-10)

Ebina Kiyokazu (蝦名清一) (ep9)

Mimura Takayo (ep9)

Yoshimura Tamao (吉村玉緒) (ep10)

Tsuchida Ashimo (土田アシモ) (ep10)

Takishita Tsuyoshi (滝下毅) (ep10)

Yoshino Yoshiko (よしのよしこ) (ep10,SP)

Daiya (ダイヤ) (ep10)

Nagano Satomi (ep11)

Haruki Misayo (ep11)

Shirai Keita (白井圭太) (ep11)

Okazaki Hiroshi (岡崎宏) (ep11)

Mori Fujio (森富士夫) (ep11)

Matsuyama Hisako (松山尚子) (ep11)

Omori Akemi as Nagatani Shizue (ep11)