Tokyo Friends

Premise

Tokyo Friends is a Japanese television drama released on June 3, 2005. Unlike many other dramas, it was never aired on TV but released as a set of 3 DVDs. Volumes one and two contain the first 4 episodes while volume three contains the last episode. Each episode is approximately 70 minutes.

The Tokyo Friends Premium Box was also released which includes all 5 episodes, a bonus DVD, and 12 postcards. Although this is a very typical Tokyo-story and was never aired on TV, it was quite successful probably because it was Ai Otsuka's debut as an actress.

Cast and characters

Leading cast

• Ai Otsuka as Rei Iwatsuki（岩槻 玲）
• Eita Nagayama as Ryuji Shintani（新谷 隆司）
• Rio Matsumoto as Hirono Hayama（羽山 ひろの）
• Yoko Maki as Ryoko Fujiki（藤木 涼子）
• Mao Kobayashi as Maki Abiko（我孫子 真希）
• Kazuki Kitamura as Keitaro Sasakawa（笹川 敬太郎）
• Ryuta Sato as Kenichi Satomi（里見 健一）
• Kei Tanaka as Wataru Iwatsuki（岩槻 航）

Supporting cast

• Yuta Hiraoka as Hidetoshi Tanaka（田中 秀俊）
• Takashi Itō as Takayuki Okuda（奥田 孝之）
• Shunta Nakamura as Mitsuo Nagase（永瀬 充男）
• Masanobu Katsumura as Kazuo Sasakawa（笹川 和夫）
• Arata Furuta as Takeshi Wada（和田 岳志）
• Kuranosuke Sasaki as Toru Kohashi（小橋 亨）
• Yutaka Matsushige as Shirakawa（白川）
• Mari Hoshino as Akemi Kiuchi（木内 暁美）
• Yu Misaki as Yoshie Sasakawa（笹川 佳恵）

Guest cast

• Masataka Tsutsumi

Episodes

This series spans 2 seasons with 6 episodes.

Production

Release

References

1. The Movie Database (TMDB)
2. TVMaze
3. IMDb
4. Official Website
5. EpisodeTime Show Page