Complete (J-Drama) Akai Ito

Complete (J-Drama) Akai Ito

Renzoku

Title: 赤い糸
Title (romaji): Akai Ito
Title (english): Threads Of Destiny
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, human drama
Episodes: 11
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008, December 06 to 2009, February 28
Air time: Saturday 23:10
Theme songs:
Ending theme: 366 Nichi by HY
Insert song: Ray by lego big morl

Synopsis

Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
Struggling to rebound from her decade-long crush, Mei finds comfort in the close camaraderie of her school friends, Taka, Mia, Yuri, Natsu, Mitsu and Sara and then meets a reticent and gentle-natured boy named Atsushi. The two begin to realize that they share many things in common that seem to transcend mere coincidence: the same birthday (February 29th, 1992) and a previous encounter when they were both 8. Feeling a bond of fate, they grow closer.
But destiny can have a dark side to it, too, and a shocking revelation from both of their pasts compels Atsushi to pull away from Mei. The devastating separation then unleashes a wave of misfortune upon Mei: the death of a loved one, drug addiction and domestic violence. As circumstances seek to take control of her life, Mei struggles to maintain her faith in the tenuous thread of destiny that will reunite her with her true love.

Cast

Minamisawa Nao as Takemiya Mei
Miyatake Mio as young Mei
Mizobata Junpei as Nishino Atsushi (A-kun)
Sawaki Ruka as young Atsushi
Kimura Ryo as Takahashi Riku (Taka-chan)
Okamoto Rei as Yamagishi Mia
Ishibashi Anna as Tadokoro Mami
Sakuraba Nanami as Nakagawa Sara
Yanagishita Tomo as Fujiwara Natsuki (Natsu)
Suzuki Kasumi as Nakanishi Yuri
Tajima Yusei as Kamiya Mitsuru (Mitsu)
Iwata Sayuri as Takemiya Haruna
Yazaki Hiroshi as Shinozaki Yuya
Hirata Kaoru as Kawaguchi Miyabi
Yamada Gilson (山田ジルソン) as Koota
Wakaba Ryuya as Yasuda Shu
Hayashi Kazuyoshi (林和義) as Takahashi Tadaaki
Suzuki Kosuke as Dr. Ota
Yashiba Toshihiro as Inoue (homeroom teacher)
Hamada Manabu as Ishikawa Haruo
Yamaguchi Sayaka as Ishikawa Machiko
Matsuda Kenji as Murakoshi Koichi
Yamamoto Mirai as Nishino Natsumi
Ogi Shigemitsu as Morisaki Takamichi
Komoto Masahiro as Takemiya Toshihisa
Watanabe Noriko as Takemiya Sachiko

Others

Tawaragi Tota as the patissier (ep1)
Konno Mahiru as a science teacher (ep1)
Nakamura Asaka (中村朝佳) as Yuri (ep2,4)
Yonemura Misaki as Ai-chin (ep4-7)
Ikeda Ai (池田愛) as Yuki (ep4-7)
Iwahashi Michiko (岩橋道子) as Sara's mother (ep5-6)
Fukazawa Atsushi as a teacher (ep7)
Hiiragi Rumi as Nozomi (ep8)
Watanabe Bambi (渡辺万美)
Fujimura Naoki (藤村直樹)
Nakatani Mitsutoshi (中谷みつとし)
Murakami Kouki

Movie

Title: 赤い糸
Title (romaji): Akai Ito
Title (english): Threads Of Destiny
Release Date: 2008, December 20

Synopsis

The story was one of the best-selling novels of 2007, it revolves around the "red thread of fate" connecting the young pair Mei and Atsushi and the trials they face.

Cast

Minamisawa Nao as Takemiya Mei
Mizobata Junpei as Nishino Atsushi (A-kun)
Tajima Ryo as Kamiya Mitsuru (Mitsu)
Iwata Sayuri as Takemiya Haruna
Kimura Ryo as Takahashi Riku (Taka-chan)
Okamoto Rei as Yamagishi Mia
Ishibashi Anna as Tadokoro Mami
Sakuraba Nanami as Nakagawa Sara
Yanagishita Tomo as Fujiwara Natsuki (Natsu)
Yazaki Hiroshi as Shinozaki Yuya
Suzuki Kasumi as Nakanishi Yuri
Hirata Kaoru as Kawaguchi Miyabi
Wakaba Ryuya as Yasuda Shu
Yamamoto Mirai as Nishino Natsumi
Ogi Shigemitsu as Morisaki Takamichi
Watanabe Noriko as Takemiya Sachiko
Matsuda Kenji as Murakoshi Koichi

Additional Cast Members

Suzuki Kosuke as Dr. Ota
Iwahashi Michiko (岩橋道子) as Sara's mother
Miyatake Mio as young Mei
Yoshinori Kou