In-Complete (J-Drama) Tokyo Tower

In-Complete (J-Drama) Tokyo Tower

Title: 東京タワー

Title (romaji): Tokyo Tower

Tagline: オカンとボクと、時々、オトン

Tagline (romaji): Okan to Boku to, tokidoki, Oton

Tagline (English): Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Genre: Family, drama

Broadcast network: Fuji TV

Special

Release date: 2005, January 15

Synopsis

Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several women, young and older, whereas Toru is a romantic with his heart set on on certain lady.

Cast

Hitomi Kuroki as Shifumi Asano

Junichi Okada as Toru Kojima

Jun Matsumoto as Koji Ohara

Shinobu Terajima as Kimiko Kawano

Kento Handa as Hashimoto

Aya Hirayama as Yoshida

Rosa Katô as Yuri (as Rosa Kato)

Gorô Kishitani as Asano

Hiroyuki Miyasako as Kawano

Shelley Sweeney as Shelley Sweeney

Kimiko Yo as Yoko Kojima

Movie 1 (Not Yet)

Broadcast date: 2006, November 18

Air time: Saturday 21:00

Theme song: Tokyo by BEGIN

Renzoku

Episodes: 11

Broadcast period: 2007, January 08 to 2007, March 19

Air time: Monday 21:00

Theme song: Tsubomi by Kobukuro

Synopsis

Tokyo Tower--it was the first thing that caught the young man's eyes when he came to Tokyo, the brightly-lit big city. Everything looks big, crowded and chaotic to him who was raised single-handedly by his mother in a rural town. Torn between loves and yarning to be independent, he chooses to live in this city where he's going to experience love, insecurity, desperation, and hope. Based on a bestselling book, this heartwarming drama follows a young man's struggle to find the meaning of life, and the strong bond between him and his mother. This is a real tear-shedder with hearty humor for every generation.

Cast

Hayami Mokomichi as Nakagawa Masaya / Boku

Hirota Ryohei as young Nakagawa Masaya

Baisho Mitsuko as Nakagawa Eiko/Okan

Izumiya Shigeru as Nakagawa Choji/Oton

Kashii Yu as Sasaki Manami (Boku's girlfriend)

Hiraoka Yuta as Narusawa Hajime

Emoto Tasuku as Yamada Kohei

Takaoka Sousuke as Tokomoto Hiroto

Sasaki Sumie as Nakagawa Tomiko

Yamazaki Yuta as Maeno Kazuo

Akagi Harue as Fujimoto Haru

Asada Miyoko as Fujimoto Kanae

Bo-Lin Chen as Leo

Kinouchi Akiko

Shirakawa Minami

Fukazawa Atsushi (ep1)

Saito Yosuke (ep1)

Ishiguro Ken (ep2)

Hanahara Teruko (ep3)

Oshima Yoko (ep7)

Pierre Taki

Ikeda Kaori

Movie 2

Release date: 2007, April 14

Synopsis

For Masaya, the last happy memory with his parents together, is his hopelessly drunk Dad forcing him to eat yakitori chicken bars… and being hit by Mom… Masaya was 3 years old at that time. Mom and Masaya left Dad and started living in a town famous for coal mining. Mom worked in her sister’s small diner and raised Masaya by herself. The life was peaceful there, free from Dad.

After graduating from high school, Masaya successfully entered an Art University in Tokyo, the place he has always longed to be. However, life never really goes on as a person wishes. His life was rotten. Life was all about fooling around with his friends and killing time. He could not dare call Mom to tell her his situation.

It is now 1990, and Masaya is working just to return the debt, which were mounted while just living in Tokyo and doing nothing. He did whatever he was asked to do, and without really expecting, somehow earned his living as an illustrator/columnist. One day he gets a call from his aunt informing that his mom has cancer. Masaya makes up his mind and calls Mom, to invite her to live with him.

Mom arrives in Tokyo. After living apart for 15 years,Masaya and Mom start living together in Tokyo. Masaya's life seems to have finally started moving once again. Soon, people around him started to frequently gather at his house to eat her delicious food. The house is always filled with happy faces and laughter. However, nothing lasts forever.As they have feared,Mom’s cancer has relapsed.

“The day”Masaya is most afraid of draws close…

Cast

Joe Odagiri as Masaya

Kirin Kiki as Masaya's mom

Yayako Uchida as Masaya's mom (young)

Takako Matsu as Mizue

Kaoru Kobayashi as Masaya's dad

Satoshi Tomiura as Masaya (adolescent)

Tamae Ando

YosiYosi Arakawa as Enomoto

Akira Emoto

Junko Emoto

Chisako Hara as Masaya's grandmother

Hiroyuki Hirayama as Isoyama

Itsuji Itao

Ayumi Ito as Tamami

Ryo Iwamatsu

Ryo Katsuji as Hirakuri

Asako Kobayashi

Kyoko Koizumi as Property agent

Hijiri Kojima

Hitomi Kurihara

Mariya

Miyuki Matsuda

Ken Mitsuishi

Aoi Miyazaki as DJ

Toru Nakamura

Tsubaki Nekoze

Seiji Rokkaku

Sumie Sasaki as Ogura's grandmother

Noriko Sengoku

Sansei Shiomi

Tomorowo Taguchi as Mailman

Rena Takeshita

Shohei Tanaka

Tetsushi Tanaka

Susumu Terajima

Kumiko Tsuchiya as High school teacher

Osamu Tsuji as Hose

Nahoko Yoshimoto

Mieko Yuuki as Emiko (Masay’s grandmother)

Misako Watanabe