Complete [J-Drama] Manatsu no Merry Christmas

Title: 真夏のメリークリスマス

Title (romaji): Manatsu no Merry Christmas

Also known as: Merry Christmas in Summer

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Friendship, romance

Episodes: 10

Broadcast network: TBS

Broadcast period: 2000-Oct-13 to 2000-Dec-15

Air time: Friday 22:00

Theme song: Angel song -ivu no kane- angel song -イウの鐘- [The Brilliant Green]

Synopsis

Ryo is a former professional boxer who becomes a collector for a loan shark. He grew up in an orphanage in Okinawa Prefecture with heroine Haru, Natsumi, an aspiring actress, and two others. One of them is now a lawyer who has had to bail Ryo out and the other a lucky young woman adopted by a rich family. Haru, too, was adopted and has never once left the island where she grew up. When her adopted mother dies, she decides to go to Tokyo to find the old group. Being naive to the ways of the modern urban world, she almost ends up being sold off into the sex industry as soon as she sets foot on Tokyo's fair shores, but Ryo comes to her rescue.

Cast

Takenouchi Yutaka as Ryo

Nakatani Miki as Haru

Kato Ai as Natsumi

Sugimoto Tetta

Uehara Misa

Osugi Ren

Hatano Hiroko

Yamada Maiko

Fukusawa Kuniyuki

Ibu Masato

Miura Haruma

Tanaka Koutaro

Asami Reina