Amachan

Amachan (2013)

Amachan is the 88th 2013 NHK asadora written by Kankuro Kudo (Tiger and Dragon, Unobore Deka). It's about Amano Aki (Nounen Rena), a 16 year old girl from Tokyo who goes to her mother's former home in Sodegahama, a fishing village in Kitasanriku, Iwate prefecture for the summer break. She falls in love with the sea and its people, and decides to stay on to become an Ama (women divers who fetch clams and sea urchins for tourists) just like her grandmother, Natsu (Miyamoto Nobuko). Her decision is welcomed wholeheartedly by Natsu and the other locals. However, her mother Haruko (Koizumi Kyoko) does not like the idea at first. She has a strained relationship with Natsu, and her extreme dislike of the sea, diving and the countryside is one of the reasons why she left her hometown 24 years ago. Eventually, she decides to stay in Sodegahama with Aki, considering that she is contemplating on getting a divorce anyway and does not want to go back to her husband in Tokyo. She also notices that it might be good for Aki for she seems livelier and happier in Kitasanriku than in Tokyo. The road towards becoming a full-fledged Ama-san is tough for Aki as she encounters tests and hurdles. One day, a video of her as an Ama gets uploaded in the city's tourism website, transforming an ordinary high school girl into an overnight Internet sensation. Suddenly she is called upon to use this opportunity to attract tourists to a city suffering from depopulation.

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  • First Air Date: 2013-04-01
  • Last Air Date: 2013-12-31
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 157
  • Episode Runtime: 15 min.
  • Network: NHK BS Premium
  • Creator: Kankuro Kudo, Teruyuki Yoshida, Toki Kajiwara, Go Inoue, Tomohiro Kuwano, 西村武五郎

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Seasons

  • Season 0

    6 Episodes

  • Season 1

    157 Episodes

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Cast

  • Non

    天野秋

  • Ai Hashimoto

    足立结衣

  • Nobuko Miyamoto

    天野夏

  • Kyoko Koizumi

    天野春子

  • Kasumi Arimura

    天野春子(少女)

  • Hiroko Yakushimaru

    铃鹿博美

  • Tetta Sugimoto

    大向大吉

  • Masahiro Higashide

    大向大吉(青年)

  • Teppei Koike

    足立洋

  • Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

    吉田正义

  • Ryuhei Matsuda

    水口琢磨

  • Toshinori Omi

    黑川正宗

  • Keizo Kanie

    天野忠兵卫

  • Eri Watanabe

    今野弥生

  • Daikichi Sugawara

    今野笃

  • Hana Kino

    长内胜枝

  • Denden

    长内六郎

  • Jun Miho

    熊谷美壽壽

  • Hairi Katagiri

    安部小百合

  • Mitsuru Fukikoshi

    菅原保

  • Sei Hiraizumi

    足立功

  • Akiko Yagi

    足立芳江

  • Sansei Shiomi

    小田勉

  • Sota Fukushi

    种市浩一

  • Arata Furuta

    荒卷太一

  • Mayu Matsuoka

    入间诗织

  • Ito Ohno

    Mana Endō

  • Rio Yamashita

    宫下步美

  • Mio Yuki

    小野寺薰子

  • Rika Adachi

    Megu Arima

  • Pierre Taki

    Umezu

  • Suzuki Matsuo

    甲斐

  • Inori Minase

    成田丽奈

  • Kasumi Yamaya

    Sakuraba

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