Aishiteru: Kaiyo

Aishiteru: Kaiyo (Japanese: アイシテル〜海容〜) is a Japanese television drama series that aired on NTV from April 15, 2009, to June 17, 2009. The series consists of 10 episodes and was broadcast on Wednesday nights at 22:00. It is based on the manga series by Minoru Ito.

Plot

The story focuses on the lives of two families affected by a tragic event. Satsuki Morita (Izumi Inamori) discovers that her son, Tomoya (Issei Kakazu), a fifth-grade elementary school student, has committed a murder. Simultaneously, Seiko Ozawa (Yuka Itaya) experiences the agony of a mother whose second-grade son, Kiyotaka (Shion Sato), fails to return home from school, eventually revealing the loss of her child.

Cast

The series features an ensemble cast portraying the families involved in the tragedy:

• Izumi Inamori as Satsuki Morita
• Yuka Itaya as Seiko Ozawa
• Misako Tanaka as Yoko Tomita
• Taro Yamamoto as Kazuhiko Noguchi
• Umika Kawashima as Mihoko Ozawa
• Issei Kakazu as Tomoya Noguchi
• Shion Sato as Kiyotaka Ozawa
• Shiro Sano as Hideaki Ozawa
• Tomoko Tabata as Kanami Morita

Reception

The series achieved an average viewership rating of 14.76% in the Kanto region, according to data from Video Research, Ltd. The ratings showed a steady increase throughout the broadcast, peaking at 18.6% for the final episode.

Related Works

A follow-up titled Aishiteru: Kizuna was released in 2011 on NTV.