NHK's Asadora drama series "Kaze,Kaoru " (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), starring Ai Mikami and Juri Kosaka , is airing its first week, "Wings and Sword." In the first episode on March 30th...
" Kaze,Kaoru" is the 114th morning Asadora. Based on the story of two trained nurses, Chika Ozeki and Masa Suzuki, who graduated from the same nursing school, the drama depicts how the two grow through their struggles and clashes with each other in how to interact with patients and doctors, and eventually become the "ultimate buddy" team. Mikami plays the main character, Rin Ichinose, and Uesaka plays the other main character, Naomi Oya.
The script is written by Tomoko Yoshizawa, who has worked on a wide range of genres, from comedies and family dramas to medical dramas and period dramas. The theme song is "Kaze to Machi" by the three-member band "Mrs. Green Apple".
In the first episode, set in 1882 (Meiji 15), Rin Ichinose (played by Mikami) was living a modest but happy life with her mother Mitsu (played by Mizuno Miki), her younger sister Yasu (played by Hayasaka Miharu), and her father Shin'emon (played by Kazuki Kitamura), a former chief retainer, in a village in the Nasu region of Tochigi Prefecture. One day, she receives unexpected news from her childhood friend Kotaro (played by Kobayashi Toranosuke).
Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Naomi Oya (played by Uesaka), who has no family, is somehow making ends meet by working at a match factory... Scene cuts have also been released.
