Wagaya no Rekishi

Wagaya no Rekishi
Genre	Drama, romance-drama, family, comedy
Created by	Kōki Mitani
Directed by	Keita Kono
Starring	Kou Shibasaki Kōichi Satō Seishiro Kato Jun Matsumoto Ryuta Sato Maki Horikita
Narrated by	Kōji Yakusho
Theme music composer	Takayuki Hattori
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	3 episodes
Production
Producers	Yumiko Shigeoka[1] Hideki Inada Hiroko Emori
Production location	Japan
Original release
Network	Fuji TV
Release	April 9 (2010-04-09) – April 11, 2010 (2010-04-11)

Wagaya no Rekishi (わが家の歴史, "The History of My Family") is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, that aired on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010 to celebrate its 50th anniversary.^[2][3] The show was known for its star-studded cast.^[4]

Synopsis

Masako (Kou Shibasaki) is the eldest daughter of the Yame family, living in Fukuoka, Kyushu. She leaves school to help support her good, but naive parents and four siblings. The drama centers on the family members and people they meet in the post-war Japan. The story takes place between 1945 and 1964, chronicling the lives of the seven members of the fictional Yame family.^[5]

Cast

• Kou Shibasaki as Masako Yame
• Kōichi Satō as Taizo Onizuka
• Seishiro Kato as Minoru Yame
• Jun Matsumoto as Yoshio Yame
• Ryuta Sato as Muneo Yame
• Maki Horikita as Namiko Yame
• Mio Miyatake as young Namiko
• Nana Eikura as Fusako Yame
• Masami Nagasawa as Yukari Ichinose
• Yo Oizumi as Tsuru
• Tetsuji Tamayama as Ryugo Oura
• Koji Yamamoto as Mitsunari Ano
• Sawa Suzuki as Maria
• Junji Takada as Miyoji Koga
• Yūki Amami as Chiaki Onizuka
• Sumiko Fuji as Maki Yame
• Toshiyuki Nishida as Tokijiro Yame
• Kenji Anan as Manager of a host club Nagaiyoru

Prominent and other figures of the Showa Era

• Noritake Kinashi (Tunnels) as Kenichi Enomoto
• Akiyoshi Nakao as Hideo Murata
• Emi Wakui as Machiko Hasegawa
• Takuzō Kadono as Shigeru Yoshida
• Tatsuya Fujiwara as Osamu Tezuka
• Shun Oguri as Ken Takakura
• Masanobu Takashima as Hideo Itokawa
• Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as Rikidozan
• Keiko Toda as Shizuko Kasagi
• Shinji Takeda as Yoshio Shirai
• Takashi Ukaji as Akira Kurosawa
• Takayuki Yamada as Tatsuya Nakadai
• Shirō Itō as Roppa Furukawa
• Norito Yashima as Shusaku Endo
• Eiji Wentz as Akihiro Maruyama
• Saki Aibu as Misora Hibari
  • Maya Sakura as Misora Hibari (child)
• Masaaki Uchino as Kozo Masuda
• Muga Tsukaji as Kiyoshi Yamashita
• Koji Ishizaka as Kafū Nagai
• Fumiyo Kohinata as Nobusuke Kishi
• Zina Blausova as Marilyn Monroe
• Masaki Okada as Masashi Miyazaki (fictional figure)
• Susumu Terajima as Shoji Hiiragi (fictional figure)
• Kiichi Nakai as Juichi Shishimaru (fictional figure)

Episode ratings

Episode	Ratings (Kanto)
1	21.2
2	18.4
3	21.1
Average	20.3

Source:^[6]

References

1. "Interview for Wagaya no Rekishi (in Japanese)"
2. "Ameba - 我が家の歴史(in Japanese)"
3. TVM わが家の歴史. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
4. "Wagaya no Rekishi"
5. わが家の歴史 50th Anniversary of Fuji TV (in Japanese). Fuji Television Network, Inc. Archived from the original on 2009-09-14. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
6. 豪華キャスト集結のフジ系ドラマ『わが家の歴史』、3夜平均20.3%を記録 (in Japanese). oricon ME inc. Retrieved 2015-05-13.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)