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The long love letter - Japanese drama
 

Cast

  • Yuka Misaki ... Takako Tokiwa
  • Akio Asami ... Yusuke Kubotuka
  • Tadashi Otomo  ... Tomohisa Yamashita
  • Shou Takamatu  ... Takayuki Yamada
  • Shigeo Misaki ... Ren Osugi
  • Ryuta Fujisawa  ... Satoshi Tsumabuki
  • Noriko Sekitani ... Hiromi Nakajima
  • Jyunko Nakazawa ... Kei Ishibashi
  • Kaoru Ichinose ... Asami Mizukawa
  • Shinichi Yamada ... Asahi Uchida
  • Mizuho Nippa ... Kana Fujii

Characters

  • Yuka Misaki ... She works at a flower shop.
  • Akio Asami ... He is a mathematic teacher in Motokura High School in Yokohama. He is popular among the students.
  • Ryuta Fujisawa ... He works at Sushi bar. He was a student of Motokura High School before.
  • Noriko Sekitani ... A woman teacher who is suffering from loan.
  • Tadashi Otomo, Shou Takamatsu, Shigeo Misaki, Jyunko Nakazawa, Kaoru Ichinose, Shinichi Yamada, Mizuho Nippa ... students of Motokura High School.

Background music

  • "Loveland, island " by Tatsuro Yamashita

This drama was first broadcasted on January 9th, 2002. "Try hard to survive not to regret later. No one knows what is going to happen tomorrow." Through a love story of Yuka Misaki and Akio Asami, this drama conveys the importance of humans and their lives.

Summary

One day, Yuka Misaki, a daughter of a flower shop meets Akio Asami, a college student by chance. They are both attracted to each other, but they have no way to get in touch with each other at that time.

A year later, Yuka starts to work at her father's flower shop and Akio becomes a mathematic teacher in Motokura High School. One day in November, Yuka goes to the Motokura High School to collect money for the flowers and meets Akio again. However, they can't get along well.

In January, Yuka gets call from Ryuta Fujisawa and they promise to meet that afternoon. In the morning, Yuka goes to the school again to collect money that she couldn't collect before.

Akio finds Yuka in the playground and calls her. Just then, a big earthquake occurs. By the time it stops, their school is surrounded by dry and sandy deserts.

Not only Yuka and Akio, but also the other students including Tadashi Otomo, Shou Takamatsu, Shigeo Misaki, Jyunko Nakazawa, Shinichi Yamada, Mizuho Nippa are in the school that day.

They all get in panic, but Yuka and Akio try to support the students. At first, the students are pessimistic because there is not enough food and drinks. They don't even have natural sources. The only they have is a desert that surrounds the school. However, they starts to accept what happened to them gradually.

Many strange things happens in the desert. They see a total eclips of the sun that they can't see in 2001. They find a train which should not exist in 2001. From those two things, they notice that they are transferred to a future.

They start to think that they have to survive in that world and change the "future." Otherwise, there will be no "future." They begin to think about the reasons why they are transferred to the future. That is because they are chosen to change the future.

At the same time, they write letter to them in the past. Every one says that people have to live "now" at the best they can.

One day, a eruption occurs and the earth gets the natural sources back. In the past, they were spoiling the sources a lot without noticing. However, they learn the importance of tha natural resources by now. So, they save them and will not spoil again.

Also, they use water to water flowers to raise the flowers and grasses. Several years later, the earth revive again and the school building is surrounded by grasses instead of deserts. They tried their best to live in the future and the future is changed.

A wonderful future is waiting for the people in the past because of their works in the future.

Article text is from Wikipedia and licensed under terms of the GFDL. The original article can be found here.
 
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