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Details

• Title: 歌姫
• Title (romaji): Utahime
• Also known as: Songstress / Diva
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Romance
• Episodes: 11
• Broadcast network: TBS
• Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-12 to 2007-Dec-21
• Air time: Friday 22:00
• Theme songs:
  • Main theme: SEISYuN by TOKIO
  • Insert theme: change the world by Eric Clapton

Synopsis

Koizumi Akira, a son of a popular songstress, travels to a small-town cinema in far-off Kochi Prefecture to watch the closing movie before the theatre shuts its doors forever. The movie takes place in the same village but during the Showa 30s (1950s), in the years following the war. The story follows a young soldier who washes ashore on the beach one day, having lost his memory. He is "adopted" by the family who owns the village cinema and given the name Shimanto Taro. Although his past remains a mystery, Taro becomes good friends with many of the villagers, discovering his love for movies and falling in love with a feisty young girl.

Cast

Correlation chart

• Nagase Tomoya as Shimanto Taro/Koizumi Akira
• Aibu Saki as Kishida Suzu
• Takada Junji (高田純次) as Kishida Katsuo
• Fubuki Jun as Kishida Hamako
• Sato Ryuta as Croissant no Matsu
• Ohkura Tadayoshi as Jinguji-kun
• Okouchi Nanako as Kohinata Izumi
• Toyama Kyoko as Mary
• Akiyama Ryuji as Akutagawa
• Iijima Bobobo (飯島ぼぼぼ) as German
• Ono Ryo (小野了) as Matsunaka
• Furuya Ikko as Yamanouchi Oyabun
• Judy Ong as Koizumi Sakura
• Koike Eiko as Oikawa Miwako
• Saito Yuki as Sabako
• Nishimura Kiyotaka (西村清孝) as Kohinata Shinkichi
• Tanaka Hideyuki (田中秀幸) as the narrator

Guests

• Okada Yoshinori as Moririn (ep1)
• Sato Megumi as Mika (ep1)
• Koshimura Tomokazu (越村友一) as Hoodlum A (ep1-3,5-8)
• Sawada Masashi (澤田誠志) as Hoodlum B (ep1-3,5-8)
• Hisa Issei (比佐一成) as the cigar shop owner, Chinmo-san (ep1-3,5-8)
• Akira Tetsunori (明樂哲典) as the fisherman Panty-kun (ep1-3,5-8)
• Teramoto Sumina (寺本純菜) as Suzu (10 years old) (ep1-3,5-8)
• Hikita Hidemi (疋田英美) as Izumi (16 years old) (ep1,3,8)
• Yamamoto Yuusuke (山本祐輔) as the emcee (ep1-2)
• Kikawa Junichi (木川淳一) (ep1)
• Henmi Tsutomu (辺見務) (ep1)
• Imaizumi Amane (今泉あまね) (ep1)
• Kinbara Yasunari (金原泰成) (ep1)
• Taguchi Kazumasa (田口主将) as Dr. Kamayatsu (ep2,4,7)
• Abe Mitsuko (阿部光子) as Hamako's grandma (ep4)
• Sugita Kippei (杉田吉平) (ep5-6)
• Takemori Risa (竹森りさ) (ep5)
• Maruyama Akira (丸山麗) as Russia (ep6-8)
• Matsumura Yuki as Hisamatsu (ep8)

Production Credits

• Original Work: Satake Mikio
• Screenwriter: Satake Mikio
• Producer: Isoyama Aki
• Director: Tsuboi Toshio (ep1-2,5,8), Kaneko Fuminori (ep3-4), Kimura Masakazu (木村政和) (ep6)
• Musical producer: Shida Hirohide (志田博英)
• Music: Fukushima Yuko (福島祐子), Takami Yu (高見優)

Episode Title

• Ep. 01: The song of a woman's painful, unrequited love and a furious man's spirit!
• Ep. 02: The song of a hot-blooded man's soul! A fragment of his memory returns!
• Ep. 03: Through teary eyes his soul mate appears
• Ep. 04: I'll never give my girl to him!
• Ep. 05: When she changes from little sister to the woman he loves
• Ep. 06: The woman he loved in lost memories?
• Ep. 07: The miracle of a husband and wife who were reborn and met again
• Ep. 08: Kiss