The fourth episode of the NHK Asadora drama series "Kaze,Kaoru " (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), starring Ai Mikami and Juri Kosaka , aired on April 2nd, and it has been revealed that the average viewership rating (according to Video Research, Kanto region) was 14.0% for households and 8.0% for individuals. The individual viewership rating of 8.0% is a slight increase from the 7.8% of the third episode aired the previous day.
" 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 fourth episode, Rin's father, Shin'emon (played by Kazuki Kitamura), falls ill, and Rin (played by Mikami) gathers money from the household to hire someone to nurse him.
Meanwhile, Mitsu (Mizuki Mizuno) and Yasu (Miharu Hayasaka), who had been going through with the arranged marriage, try to return to Tochigi from Tokyo, but the village is sealed off and they cannot go home. At the bridge at the village boundary, Mitsu hears something from Nakamura (Takashi Kobayashi), a former retainer of the Ichinose family...and the story unfolds from there.
