Complete (J-Drama) Byakuyako

Complete (J-Drama) Byakuyako

Renzoku

Title: 白夜行

Title (romaji): Byakuyako

Also known as: Journey Under a Midnight Sun

Genre: Romance, suspense

Episodes: 11

Broadcast network: TBS

Broadcast period: 2006, January 12 to 2006, March 23

Air time: Thursday 21:00

Theme song: Kage by Shibasaki Kou

Synopsis

When Ryoji finds out that the object of his father's perversion is his first love, Yukiho, he kills him. To his horror, Yukiho's mother forced her to do so to relieve their dire economic straits. Yukiho also retaliates in similar manner by staging a suicide for her mother as well as herself. It's been 14 years since then and the boy that gave up everything and the girl that waged her life on the boy are struggling to continue to love each other. They grow up attempting to keep it secret and ride out the statute of limitations. In order to protect Yukiho, and improve her life, Ryoji enters the world of vice and dabbles in crimes to support her.

Cast

Yamada Takayuki as Kirihara Ryoji

Izumisawa Yuuki as Kirihara Ryoji

Ayase Haruka as Karasawa Yukiho

Fukuda Mayuko as Nishimoto (Karasawa) Yukiho

Watabe Atsuro as Matsuura Isamu

Kashiwabara Takashi as Shinozuka Kazunari

Tanaka Koutaro as Koga Hisashi

Koide Keisuke as Sonomura Tomohiko

Tanaka Kei as Kikuchi Michihiro

Yachigusa Kaoru as Karasawa Reiko

Okunuki Kaoru as Nishiguchi Namie

Otsuka Chihiro as Kawashima Eriko

Kurasawa Momoko as Fujimura Miyako

Kasugai Seina as Kotake Ryoko

Shioya Shun as Takamiya Makoto

Sato Hitomi as Misawa Chizuru

Hirata Mitsuru as Kirihara Yosuke

Aso Yumi as Kirihara Yaeko

Kawai Michiko as Nishimoto Fumiyo

Yo Kimiko as Taniguchi Mafumi

Nishida Naomi as Kurihara Noriko

Takeda Tetsuya as Sasagaki Junzo

Guests

Godai Takayuki (ep1)

Nishida Natsumi (ep2)

Onoue Hiroyuki (ep2)

Otsuka Yoshie (ep2-3)

Yamauchi Nao (ep2,4-5,7)

Nishiyama Mayuko (ep2,5-6,8)

Fujimori Shohei (ep3)

Mizumori Kota (ep3)

Mukai Osamu (ep3)

Asaoka Mirei (ep3)

Matoba Koji as Enomoto Hiroshi (ep3)

Suzuki Jun (ep4)

Okuda Erika (ep4-6)

Harada Chieko (ep6)

Sunaga Kei (ep7,11)

Yashiba Toshihiro (ep8)

Fujishige Masataka (ep8)

Hirata Yuka (ep8,11)

Aoki Kazuyo (ep9)

Mukai Masao (ep11)

Omura Ayako (ep11)

Abe Ryohei

Movie

Title: 白夜行

Title (romaji): Byakuyako

Also known as: Journey Under a Midnight Sun

Genre: Romance, suspense

Release date: 2011, January 29

Synopsis

A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho (Maki Horikita) and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji.

As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...

Cast

Maki Horikita as Yukiho Karasawa

Kengo Kora as Ryouji Kirihara

Eichihiro Funakushi as Junjo Sasagaki

Nobuo Kyo as Kazunari Shinozuka

Yurie Midori as Eriko Kawashima

Urara Awata as Noriko Kurihara

Yuki Imai as Ryouji Kirihara (10 years old)

Shiori Fukumoto as Yukiho Karasawa (10 years old)

Tetsushi Tanaka as Isamu Matsuura

Keiko Toda as Mikiko Kirihara

Kumi Nakamura as Reiko Karasawa

Yorie Yamashita

Yoshihiro Nozoe