Beautiful Rain
2012 Japanese TV series or program
Beautiful Rain (ビューティフルレイン) is a 2012 Japanese television drama series. It stars Etsushi Toyokawa as Keisuke and Mana Ashida as Miu, his daughter. Keisuke is diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which drastically affects the family's life.
Beautiful Rain aired from 1 July 2012 as part of Fuji Television's Dramatic Sunday time slot, from 9pm to 9:54pm.
01Cast
- Etsushi Toyokawa as Keisuke Kinoshita
- Mana Ashida as Miu Kinoshita
- Shohei Miura as Akio Katsuta
- Denden as Kiyoshi Muneta
- Ken Yasuda as Yutaka Koga
- Sayuri Kokusho as Serai Takagi
- Haruko Arai as Kotaro Arai
- Asaya Kimijima as Kenta Tachibana
- Riko Yoshida as Nako Matsuyama
- Mitsuko Oka as Chieko Nakamura
- Keizo Kanie as Tomio Nakamura
- Miki Nakatani as Akane Nishiwaki
02Episodes
| Episode title | Romanized title | Translation of title | Broadcast date | Ratings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ep. 1 | 最近、父ちゃんは忘れ物が多い… | Saikin, tōchan wa wasuremono ga ōi… | Recently, Dad seems to have forgotten many things... | July 1, 2012 | 12.9% |
| Ep. 2 | 記憶を失うとき一番大切な人を傷つける | Kioku o ushinau toki ichiban taisetsunahito o kizutsukeru | When you lose your memory, the most important people to you will be hurt | July 8, 2012 | 9.5% |
| Ep. 3 | …父ちゃん、アルツハイマーってなに? | … Tōchan, arutsuhaimā tte nani? | ...Dad, what is Alzheimer's? | July 15, 2012 | 8.6% |
| Ep. 4 | 母が遺した贈り物…父娘の切ない約束 | Haha ga nokoshita okurimono… chichi musume no setsunai yakusoku | The gift that your mother left behind... The painful pact between dad and mom | July 22, 2012 | 13.0% |
| Ep. 5 | 忘れたくない…父と娘の夏の想い出 | Wasuretakunai… chichitoko no natsu no omoide | The memory that I do not want to forget...The memories of a father's and daughter's summer together | July 29, 2012 | 9.5% |
| Ep. 6 | 親子だからこそ…、言えない秘密 | Oyakodakara koso…, ienai himitsu | That is why between a parent and a child... there is no secrets that cannot be said | August 5, 2012 | 10.9% |
| Ep. 7 | 二人で暮らせない辛い父の決断… | Futari de kurasenai tsurai chichi no ketsudan… | Father's painful decision that the two of us cannot live together | August 12, 2012 | 8.0% |
| Ep. 8 | 親なのに、離れる。親だから、離れる | Oyananoni, hanareru. Oyadakara, hanareru | Parents will leave nonetheless, so parents, please leave | August 19, 2012 | 8.7% |
| Ep. 9 | 娘の未来のために…今、伝えるべき真実 | Musume no mirai no tameni… ima, tsutaerubeki shinjitsu | For the sake of my daughter's future, I will tell the truth now | August 26, 2012 | 9.3% |
| Ep. 10 | 父ちゃん、美雨の事忘れちゃうの? | Tōchan, Miu no koto wasure chau no? | Dad, have you forgotten about Miu's things? | September 2, 2012 | 10.5% |
| Ep. 11 | 残された時間、娘のために今できること | Nokosa reta jikan, musume no tame ni imadekirukoto | Do what you can now with your daughter in the time that you have left. | September 9, 2012 | 9.6% |
| Ep. 12 | 私が全部おぼえているよ | Watashi ga zenbu oboete iru yo | I will remember everything. | September 16, 2012 | 9.6% |
| Ratings for Kanto region (average rating: 10.1%) | |||||
Sources and credits
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- Beautiful Rain poster.jpg by Unknown author, Fair use
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