Dôsôkai (TV Series 1993)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Yuki Saitô	...	Natsuki Orihara / Ando
	Kazuhiko Nishimura	...	Fuma Ando
	Tatsuya Yamaguchi	...	Arashi Tanno
	Keiko Oginome	...	Chino Miyawaki
	Masahiro Takashima	...	Kosuke Atari
	Minako Tanaka	...	Yuiko Tanno
	Tetsuya Bessho	...	Katsushige Suguro
	Kazuko Yoshiyuki	...	Fuma's mother
	Taichi Kokubun	...	Ushio Fujishima
	Tatsuo Matsumura	...	Shigehara, Teacher
	Toshie Takada	...	Natsuki's mother
	Chigusa Nagayo	...	Shoko
	Yoshihiko Takamoku	...	Hige
	Hiromasa Taguchi
	Hôsei Komatsu	...	Gozen

Storyline

Probably the first TV drama that portrayed gay relationship/sex openly and positively on a national television in Japan. It started as 'school reunion' (that's the title). This high school sweethearts couple just married. Then the wife (Y Saito) discovered that her husband (K Nishimura) is a closet homosexual. One night she goes to a gay town in Tokyo to discover his 'another life'. She got confused, got drunk and had sex with a bi-sexual boy (T Yamaguchi), who later would have a relationship with her husband... It's not one of the best TV dramas ever made but good acting (those three and the always good K Oginome) and the theme helped its purposes. Written by Ken Arasaki  

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