Director
Screenwriter
Main Role
- Toda Erika Main Role
Support Role
- Kitamura KazukiKawahara Jyouji [Kimiko's father]Support Role
- Tomita Yasuko Support Role
- Miyauchi HitomiKawahara Naoko [Kimiko's younger sister]Support Role
- Fukuda MayukoKawahara Yuriko [Kimiko's youngest sister]Support Role
- Matsushita KouheiSoyoda Hachiro [Potter at "Marukuma Pottery" & Kimiko's husband]Support Role
- Ito KentaroKawahara Takeshi [Eldest son of Kimiko]Support Role
- Hayashi KentoOhno Shinsaku [Kimiko's childhood friend]Support Role
- Zaizen NaomiOhno Yoko [Shinsaku's mother]Support Role
- MagyOhno Tadanobu [Shinsaku's father]Support Role
- Oshima YukoKumagai Teruko [Kimiko's childhood friend]Support Role
- Sakata MasanobuKumagai Hideo [Teruko's father]Support Role
- Honda DaisukeKumagai Toshiharu [Teruko's husband]Support Role
- Murasaki MayaKumagai Megumi [Teruko's daughter]Support Role
- Fukuzaki NayutaKumagai Ryuya [Teruko's youngest son]Support Role
- Nishimura Yoriko[Helper in Kumagai family]Support Role
- Issey OgataFukano Shinsen [Painter & Kimiko's teacher in pottery]Support Role
- Shukugawa AtomIkenouchi Tomisaburo [Fukano's first disciple]Support Role
- Endo YuyaTsuyama Akiyasu [Former researcher]Support Role
- Murakami ShojiYoshinogawa Zen [Potter at "Murakami Pottery"]Support Role
- Konno MahiruTachibana Hiroe [Staff of "Shigaraki Ceramics Research Institute"]Support Role
- Nakamura IkujiShibata Kanji [Director of "Shigaraki Ceramics Research Institute"]Support Role
- Matsuda RukaMana Ishii [Office clerk of "Shigaraki Ceramics Research Institute"]Support Role
- Onoue HiroyukiKakei Musashimaru [Training room leader at "Shigaraki Ceramics Research Institute"]Support Role
- Yuasa TakashiTeraoka Takashi [Kimiko's homeroom teacher]Support Role
- Sugiura KotonoSasaki Kyoko [Shinsaku's classmate]Support Role
- Nanase KouNagayama Daisuke [Takeshi's best friend]Support Role
- Oe ShimpeiTakarada Manabu [Takeshi's best friend]Support Role
- Mizuno MikiAndo Chiyako [Newspaper reporter for "Daily Osaka"]Support Role
- Mizobata JunpeiSakata Keisuke [Medical student]Support Role
- Kimoto TakehiroTanaka Yutarou [Mysterious man at "Arakisou"]Support Role
- Hano AkiAraki Sada [Hostess of "Arakisou"]Support Role
- Nishikawa TakanoriGeorge Fujikawa [World-renowned artist]Support Role
- Satsukawa AimiIzumida AkikoSupport Role
- Sato RyutaKusama SoichiroSupport Role
- Inagaki GoroOsaki ShigeyoshiSupport Role
- Iida KisukeSakuma NobuhiroSupport Role
- Karasuma SetsukoKoike AnriSupport Role
- Kuroshima YuinaMatsunaga MitsuSupport Role
- Yukihira AikaKusama SatokoSupport Role
- Kusumi KaoruHidaka ReikoSupport Role
- MusashiMotogiSupport Role
- SaoriYasuda RikakoSupport Role
- Kawashima YuaKawahara Kimiko [Young]Support Role
- Inagaki KurumiKawahara Yuriko [Child]Support Role
- Sumida MoenoKawahara Yuriko [Young]Support Role
- Yokomizo NahoKumagai Teruko [Young]Support Role
- Adachi RiekoAkemiSupport Role
- Asahi KokoOhno Momo [Shinsaku's second daughter]Support Role
- Naganuma IkuyaInaba GoroSupport Role
- Mitsubayashi KyokoOkubo NobukoSupport Role
- Nakasu TomaKawahara Takeshi [Young]Support Role
- Shibuya Tengai IIIGozo KinosakiSupport Role
- Fukuda TenkyuKudoSupport Role
- Masakado YoshinoriSamejima MasayukiSupport Role
Guest Role
- Nakayama YoshihiroKonda Akira (Week 21)Guest Role
- Ishida AkiraTakarada SaburoGuest Role
- Yasuhara RunaKawahara Naoko [Childhood]Guest Role
- Takami TakeshiMori (Ep. 9, 31, 71)Guest Role
- Ohashi AzusaEikoGuest Role
- Matsuki KenzoInohara [Staff at "Daily Osaka"] (Ep. 18-20, 29)Guest Role
Unknown
- Hashimoto Ise[Child]Unknown
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