Beautiful Rain
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| starring = Etsushi Toyokawa, Mana Ashida
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| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
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| runtime = 54 minutes
| company = Fuji TV
Kyodo TV
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| first_aired = {{start date|2012|7|1}}
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{{nihongo|Beautiful Rain|ビューティフルレイン}} is a 2012 Japanese television series. It features actor Etsushi Toyokawa and Mana Ashida as Keisuke and Miu respectively, a father and daughter pair. Keisuke was suddenly diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which drastically affected their family's life.
Beautiful Rain was aired from 1 July 2012 as part of Fuji Television's Dramatic Sunday time slot, which airs every Sunday from 9pm to 9:54pm.{{cite web | url= http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/movie/2013595/full/ |script-title=ja:豊川悦司、芦田愛菜にデレデレ「特に顔が好き、好みのタイプ」 | language=Japanese |accessdate= 2012-07-24 |work= Oricon, Inc. | date=2012-06-28}}
Cast
- 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
Episodes
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| 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% |
| colspan="6"| Ratings for Kanto region (average rating: 10.1%) |
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References
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External links
- {{official website |http://www.fujitv.co.jp/beautifulrain/index.html}} {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://www.facebook.com/fujitv.beautifulrain Beautiful Rain on Facebook] {{in lang|ja}}
- {{IMDb title|2398353}}
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{{Succession box
| before = Kazoku no Uta
(15/4/2012 - 3/6/2012)
| title = Fuji TV Dramatic Sunday
ドラマチック・サンデー
Sundays 21:00 - 21:54 (JST)
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| after = ''Tokyo Airport: Air Traffic Controller
(14/10/2012 - December 2012)
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Category:Japanese drama television series
Category:2012 Japanese television series debuts