Breathless Summer - Iki Mo Dekinai Natsu

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Drama: Breathless Summer (English title)
Romaji: Iki Mo Dekinai Natsu
Japanese: 息もできない夏
Director: Keita Kono, Takao Kinoshita
Writer: Chiho Watanabe, Hidenori Joho, Misuzu Chiba
Producer: Taku Kawanishi
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 11
Release Date: July 10 - September 18, 2012
Runtime: Tuesday 21:00-21:54
Genre: Romance
TV Ratings: 9.8% (weekly average)
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Rei Tanizaki (Emi Takei) discovers a secret involving her birth and falls into despair. She meets ex-newspaper reporter Ryuichiro Kiyama (Yosuke Eguchi) and faces her fate. Ryuichiro Kiyama worked as a newspaper reporter, but due to an incident quit his job and now works as a temporary employee in the district office.

Cast



Emi Takei	Yosuke Eguchi	Yoshino Kimura	Miyoko Asada	Fuka Koshiba
Rei Tanizaki	Ryuichiro Kiyama	Yoko Tanizaki	Kaori Tanizaki	Mao Tanizaki



Aoi Nakamura	Kinya Kitaoji	Mikie Hara	Jun Kaname
Kota Kusano	Shusaku Natsume	Satsuki Igawa	Hiroki Ayukawa

Additional Cast Members:

Reika Kirishima - Asami Kataoka
Mari Hamada - Mitsuko Tadokoro
Rikiya - Daisuke Nakatsu
Reika Hashimoto - Eri Abekawa
Kazuki Shimizu - Jun Nishikawa
Katsunobu - Sotaro Tsutsui
Arata Saeki - Kiyama’s co-worker
Yu Kamio - Keisuke Tanizaki
Masano Kosuge - nurse
Naho Yokomizo - Rei Tanizaki (young)
Ayaka Onishi - Izumi (ep.5)
Kento Shibuya - (ep.5)
Hajime Inoue - (ep.5,10)
Shin Shimizu - Lawyer Aoki (ep.6)
Atsuko Anami - (ep.8)
Hiroo Otaka - doctor (ep.10-11)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	07/10/2012	12.1%
02	07/17/2012	10.2%
03	07/24/2012	11.0%
04	07/31/2012	9.3%
05	08/07/2012	10.1%
06	08/14/2013	8.1%
07	08/21/2012	10.6%
08	08/28/2012	8.2%
09	09/04/2012	11.0%
10	09/11/2012	7.8%
11	09/18/2012	8.6%
Average		12.4%

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Comments

NeeNee Jul 19 2012 4:31 pm @dubit

Because of Japan's law, Rei cannot be easily added into the family register. They need quite a lot of proof of Rei's existence, from school records, childhood photos, birth certificate, mother's health book, etc. and that is just to get the process started. After that, she will still be entered in the ex-husband's family registry and will then need to be brought over to her mother's. It's a very complicated process.

rosannmoe Jul 16 2012 3:05 am i love itt tooo..cant wait to watch second episode!!!!love emi takei

dubit Jul 14 2012 8:50 am WAHHH!!! This is going to be a good drama! I can tell already! When I read the plot line I was so happy! Love me some scandal! Poor Rei! SPOILER! I dont understand the Japanese culture so for give me what I am about to say, why doesn't her mom just put her in the family registry now! obviously this can easily be corrected! But it I wonder why didnt the mom do it way earlier! She was aware what that this was going to be a problem for Rei in the future!!

But I cant not wait to see the love affair!!!!! O_O

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