Monday, July 30, 2012

Gegege no Nyobo: Week 1 recap, screenshots and cast info



  Been waiting too long to start this as there's going to be quite a few posts for this Asadora drama that aired in 2010, have only watch the first 7 weeks out of a total of 26, though the episodes are only 15 minutes each there's 6 per week, already watched almost 11 hours of it and barely 1/4 of the way through it but really need a break from it even though it's quite good. What I'm going to do is give a brief recap of each week and plenty of shots of Nao from each week, not so many of her from week 1 as some younger actresses play her part as she's growing up.



The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki Shigeru. The story revolves around the life of the married couple, told from the perspective of Mura. --Tokyograph

 And that's really the storyline, simple yet a very long one as it starts out in 1939 and as of week 7 it's already up to the year 1963. Week one briefly starts out in 1961 as Fumie(Nao) is preparing to get married, we only see her for a short time as the story quickly goes back to 1939 when Fumie is only 7 years old. What week one really focuses on is showing Fumie growing up during the war and some of the hardships they had to endure plus really introducing her family which included her parents, 2 sisters and a brother. Fumie as a youngster was quite a shy, intorverted sort who being the youngest was at times forgotten about by her family but slowly throughout the episodes and weeks she grows up to be a strong woman who in a way becomes indispensibloe to the rest of her family. That's really what happens during the first week and for the most part the second week too as it being a total of 156 episodes things need to stretched out a bit but it's never boring.



 Future posts will also have a short recap with many screenshots of Nao from that week, however she wasn't in it too much to start off as the story was of Fumie as a youngster so not many Nao pics for this post but gives me a chance to give the cast list here, quite a big cast but really none that stay around for too many weeks, after week 4 we rarely see anyone from Fumie's family though they were such an important part of the story up until then. Check out the next 6 posts for recaps of weeks 2-7 and many pics of Nao from the show.

Broadcast period: March 29 to September 25, 2010 on NHK at 8:00 am, average rating of 18.6%.

Cast:

Nao Matsushita as Fumie Iida
Osamu Mukai as Shigeru Murai
Ren Osugi as Genbee Iida
Yoko Nogiwa as Toshi Iida
Asami Kikuchi as Fumie Iida, age 7
Miku Sato as Fumie Iida, age 10+
Rika Adachi as Yukie Iida
Gen Hoshino as Takashi Iida
Asami Katsura as Kuniko Iida
Morio Kazama as Shuhei Murai
Keiko Takeshita as Kinoyu Murai
Koji Ohkura as Yuichi Murai
Kami Hiraiwa as Chiyoko Nomura
..... plus many, many others but this was most of the main cast for the first 7 weeks.






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