Platonic (Japanese Drama)

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Drama: Platonic
Romaji: Puratonikku
Japanese: プラトニック
Director: Kyoji Otsuka, Makoto Naganuma, Hiroshi Yoshino, Hiroshi Matsubara
Writer: Shinji Nojima
Producer: Hiroshi Matsubara
Network: NHK
Episodes: 8
Release Date: May 25 - July 13, 2014
Runtime: Sundays 2:00-22:50
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Sara (Miho Nakayama) is a single mother with one daughter. Her daughter suffers from a heart disease and Sara desperately wants her daughter to get better. One day, a mysterious young man (Tsuyoshi Domoto) appears in front of Sara and her daughter. He tells her that he wants to save her daughter's life. Sara comes to love him. Soon, Sarah is shaken between her identity as a mother and a woman.

Notes

It has been 12 years since actress Miho Nakayama has starred in a drama series. Her last drama series in which she starred is 2002 Fuji TV drama series "Home & Away".

Cast



Miho Nakayama	Tsuyoshi Domoto	Eisaku Yoshida	Mei Nagano	Kotaro Koizumi
Sara Mochizuki	young man	Takehiko Saek	Sari Mochizuki	Kazuhisa Mochizuki



Jun Nishihara	Goki Maeda	Masumi Nomura	Toshinori Omi	Isao Bito
Tatsuo Usui	Shogo Hirosue	Miwa Tsuzuki	Atsushi Kurata	Tetsu

Mariko Kaga

Masako Yui

Additional Cast Members:

Comments

jinjoo May 30 2017 8:55 pm i just stumbled upon this drama while looking for something to watch & now am glued! i really am enjoying this drama albeit i hvnt finished but thought of coming here to find out more about these Japanese actors, i usually am more familiar with K actors/tresses but the leads are pretty good! the lead actress is beautiful, i think i'll be wanting to watch more of these two leads after this one! i highly recommend this, it's something poignant & two thumbs up!

Naty May 26 2017 6:44 pm I like that dorama, and the acting skills of Tsuyoshi, Idon know what i do if i was her, some episodes were like heavy.. but at the end, yes it was kind of predictable anyway i recommend it.

ace Nov 03 2014 11:39 am An engaging, if somewhat predictable, drama. I have not watched anything with Miho Nakayama in it that I recall but she did a pretty decent job. The premise is kind of unique. I could actually relate to the mother to a degree.

While I am pretty much against the whole disease-of-the-week type programing asian cinema seems addicted to, this posed some interesting philosophical questions. Right and wrong are relative terms at the best of times and in this situation it would blur even more, I'd think. Not to give spoilers but I was disappointed in the ending. I think I'd liked to have seen it play out differently just because you knew it was coming. But it was a short drama so it didn't need to needlessly pad the story out, which was a real plus.

It reminded me of Nagareboshi in a way.

I'd recommend it as long as you ain't looking for a laugh.

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