Mori no Asagao

Mori no Asagao
モリのアサガオ
Manga
Written by
Published by	Futabasha
Magazine	Weekly Manga Action
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	2004 – 2007
Television drama
Directed by
Produced by
Written by	,
Music by	Toshiyuki Watanabe
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 18, 2010 – December 20, 2010
Episodes	10
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Mori no Asagao (モリのアサガオ, "The Forest's Morning Glories") is a Japanese manga series by . It won the 11th Grand Prize for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2007.^[1] It was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2010.^[2]

Synopsis[]

New prison guard Naoki Oikawa gets assigned to the death row section. He strikes a friendship with Watase Mitsuru, who, rather conveniently (contrast with Freeze Me), far from being a sadist, a sociopathic killer or rapist, dangerous to society or even particularly cruel, is actually quite a sympathetic character, someone that, unable to get justice from the system, killed the man that murdered his parents. The fact that he did not target defenceless and innocent victims for no good reason, but rather had a motive that could be understood, allows the guard to put himself in his shoes and understand his reasons and point of view, and provides a contrast between the unfairness of his circumstances, his undeserved fate, and the fact that system had failed to vindicate his parents, leaving him with no other alternative besides being cast in the role of the powerless victim. Gradually Naoki begins to wonder about the necessity of the death penalty and the meanings of such concepts as repentance and forgiveness.

Television series[]

Cast[]

• Atsushi Itō – Naoki Oikawa (22)
• Arata – Mitsuru Watase (22)
• Yuu Kashii – Asami Sawasaki (Oikawa's girlfriend) (22)
• Haruka Kinami – Kana Mochizuki (19)
• Akira Emoto – Keizukuri Hukahori (59)
• Sansei Shiomi – Yuzo Wakaboyashi (62)
• Mitsuki Tanimura – Yoshioka Koharu
• Youichi Nukumizu – Toshikazu Seko
• Bengal – Toshiyuki Tanizaki
• – Kazuaki Satonaka
• Yasuyuki Maekawa – Ryo Goto
• – Seido Oikawa (Oikawa's father)
• – Sawako Oikawa (Oikawa's mother)
• – Takako Toma

Guest[]

• Shido Nakamura – Tadashishi Kouzai (ep1)
• – Akira Ishimine (ep1)
• – Katsuhiro Hoshiyama (ep1-2)
• Yuri Nakamura – Taeko Kuramoti (ep2)
• Mitsuru Hirata – Takeshi Sasano (ep3)
• Mari Hamada – Victim's parents (ep3)
• Yumiko Shaku – Yuko Nishida (ep4-5)
• Kanji Tsuda – Sako Nishi (ep4-5,7)
• Yuki Imai – Shinya Hukuda (ep4-5)
• – Kengo Hukuda (ep5)
• Ryo Ishibashi – Eichiro Akashi (ep6)
• Minoru Tanaka – Takashi Touzyou (ep6)
• – Chief Justice (ep6)
• – Kento Yamamoto (ep7)
• – Miyoko Yoshikawa (ep7)
• – President of shipping company (ep7)
• Rei Okamoto – Kazuko Funaki (ep7)
• – (ep8)

Episode information[]

References[]

External links[]

• TV drama official website at TV Tokyo

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