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Churasan

2001 · 4 seasons · 15m per episode · Drama, Family, Comedy

The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the U.S. Eleven years later, Kamimura Shizuko and her two sons, Kazuya and Fumiya, from Tokyo come to stay as the guests of a small inn run by Eri’s family. Eri’s fun-loving, yet eccentric family welcomes them warmly. However, Eri is shocked to hear one of the sons, Kazuya is terminally ill and Shizuko and her sons came to Okinawa to spend his last moment together in beautiful nature. Fumiya, Kazuya’s younger brother, and Eri promise to marry each other someday. However after Kazuya’s death, Fumiya and his mother leave the island to go back to Tokyo. Years later, they are reunited, Eri as a nurse and Fumiya, a doctor, working at the same hospital in Tokyo.

Seasons

• Churasan season 1 — 156 episodes (April 3, 2001)
• Churasan season 2 — 6 episodes (March 31, 2003)
• Churasan season 3 — 5 episodes (September 13, 2004)
• Churasan season 4 — 2 episodes (January 13, 2007)

Cast

• Ryoko Kuninaka as Uemura Eri
• Kimiko Yo as Shibata Yoko
• Miho Kanno as Jyonouchi Maria
• Gori as Kohabura Keisho
• Masaaki Sakai as Kohagura Keibun
• Yoshiko Tanaka as Kohagura Katsuko
• Takayuki Yamada as Kohagura Keitatsu
• Kazuo Kitamura as Shimada Daishin
• Kenji Kohashi as Uemura Fumiya
• Aiko Sato as Kohagura Nanako
• Nanako Takushi as 多恵子（たえこ，「ゆがふ」の従業員）

Details

First aired

April 3, 2001

Episodes

169

Genres

Drama, Family, Comedy

Network

NHK BS1

Status

Ended

TMDB score

9.7 / 10 from 3 votes