Title: 白夜行
Title (romaji): Byakuyako
Also known as: Journey Under a Midnight Sun
Genre: Romance, suspense
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 12.28
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2006-Jan-12 to 2006-Mar-23
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Kage by Shibasaki Kou
Synopsis
When Ryoji finds out that the object of his father's perversion is his first love, Yukiho, he kills him. To his horror, Yukiho's mother forced her to do so to relieve their dire economic straits. Yukiho also retaliates in similar manner by staging a suicide for her mother as well as herself. It's been 14 years since then and the boy that gave up everything and the girl that waged her life on the boy are struggling to continue to love each other. They grow up attempting to keep it secret and ride out the statute of limitations. In order to protect Yukiho, and improve her life, Ryoji enters the world of vice and dabbles in crimes to support her.
Cast
Yamada Takayuki as Kirihara Ryoji
Izumisawa Yuuki as Kirihara Ryoji
Ayase Haruka as Karasawa Yukiho
Fukuda Mayuko as Nishimoto (Karasawa) Yukiho
Watabe Atsuro as Matsuura Isamu
Kashiwabara Takashi as Shinozuka Kazunari
Tanaka Koutaro as Koga Hisashi
Koide Keisuke as Sonomura Tomohiko
Tanaka Kei as Kikuchi Michihiro
Yachigusa Kaoru as Karasawa Reiko
Okunuki Kaoru as Nishiguchi Namie
Otsuka Chihiro as Kawashima Eriko
Kurasawa Momoko as Fujimura Miyako
Kasugai Seina as Kotake Ryoko
Shioya Shun as Takamiya Makoto
Sato Hitomi as Misawa Chizuru
Hirata Mitsuru as Kirihara Yosuke
Aso Yumi as Kirihara Yaeko
Kawai Michiko as Nishimoto Fumiyo
Yo Kimiko as Taniguchi Mafumi
Nishida Naomi as Kurihara Noriko
Takeda Tetsuya as Sasagaki Junzo
Guests
Godai Takayuki (ep1)
Nishida Natsumi (西田奈津美) (ep2)
Onoue Hiroyuki (ep2)
Otsuka Yoshie (大塚良重) (ep2-3)
Yamauchi Nao (山内奈央) (ep2,4-5,7)
Nishiyama Mayuko (ep2,5-6, cool
Fujimori Shohei (藤森祥平) (ep3)
Mizumori Kota (水森コウ太) (ep3)
Mukai Osamu (ep3)
Asaoka Mirei (ep3)
Matoba Koji as Enomoto Hiroshi (ep3)
Suzuki Jun (鈴木順) (ep4)
Okuda Erika (ep4-6)
Harada Chieko (原田千枝子) (ep6)
Sunaga Kei (ep7,11)
Yashiba Toshihiro (ep cool
Fujishige Masataka (藤重政孝) (ep cool
Hirata Yuka (ep8,11)
Aoki Kazuyo (青木和代) (ep9)
Mukai Masao (向井政生) (ep11)
Omura Ayako (ep11)
Abe Ryohei
Production Credits
Original writing (novel): Higashino Keigo
Screenwriter: Morishita Yoshiko
Producer: Ishimaru Akihiko
Directors: Hirakawa Yuichiro, Nasuda Jun, Ishii Yasuharu, Takahashi Masanao
Music: Kono Shin
Recognitions
48th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Drama
48th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actor: Yamada Takayuki
48th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting: Actress: Ayase Haruka
48th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor: Takeda Tetsuya
Notes
This drama reunited cast & crew from the award-winning & popular drama, Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu.
Production took 6 months to persuade the author to agree to the drama adaptation from the novel which has sold over 1.2 million copies since its release in 1999 and has become the top bestselling suspense novel.
Izumisawa Yuuki & Fukuda Mayuko were chosen from 180 kids from an audition.
A 30 second commercial during the drama cost $224,000 US Dollars. Third highest behind Rondo ($233,000) and Saiyuuki ($269,000) for the 2006 Winter season.
