Director
Narrator
Producer
Screenwriter
Main Role
- Izumi PinkoKojima SatsukiMain Role
Support Role
- Utsui KenOkakura Daikichi [Satsuki's father]Support Role
- Nagayama AikoNoda Yayoi [Satsuki's eldest sister]Support Role
- Nakada YoshikoTakahashi Fumiko [Satsuki's second sister]Support Role
- Nomura MamiOhara Yoko [Satsuki's third sister]Support Role
- Fujita TomokoHonma Nagako [Satsuki's youngest sister]Support Role
- Nomura AkikoAoyama Taki [Restaurant 'Okakura' landlady]Support Role
- Hasegawa JunMoriyama SotaSupport Role
- Ikeuchi JunkoKomiya ReikoSupport Role
- Maeda GinNoda Ryo [Yayoi's husband]Support Role
- Iwabuchi TakeshiNoda Takeshi [Yayoi and Ryo's son]Support Role
- Mabuchi ErikaNoda Sae [Takeshi's wife]Support Role
- Watanabe TakutoNoda YukiSupport Role
- Mizumachi ReikoKitagawa Tomoko [Principal and nursery teacher at Kitagawa Nursery School]Support Role
- Kadono TakuzoKojima Isamu [Satsuki's husband]Support Role
- Enari KazukiKojima Shin [Satsuki and Isamu's son]Support Role
- Shimizu YukiOi TakakoSupport Role
- Yoshimura RyoTaguchi Ai [Satsuki and Isamu's daughter]Support Role
- Murata TakehiroTaguchi Makoto [Ai's husband]Support Role
- Okamoto NobutoTajima ShuheiSupport Role
- Nakajima ShokoTajima SeikoSupport Role
- Enomoto TatsuoMatsumoto TatsuoSupport Role
- Sawada MasamiKojima Hisako [Kimi's eldest daughter]Support Role
- Kishida SatoshiYamashita Kenji [Hisako's ex-husband]Support Role
- Azuma TerumiKojima Kuniko [Kimi's second daughter]Support Role
- Owada BakuNonoshita Chota [Kuniko's ex-husband]Support Role
- Uno NaomiNonoshita Kazu [Chota's daughter]Support Role
- Kumagai MamiKikumura Minori [Kazu's mother]Support Role
- Toushin YoshikazuToda Tsukasa [Kazu's friend]Support Role
- Natsuki YokoOi Naoko [Takako's mother]Support Role
- Mitamura KunihikoTakahashi Toru [Fumiko's ex-husband]Support Role
- Tomita ShinnosukeTakahashi Nozomi [Fumiko and Toru's son]Support Role
- Yamashita YorieKaneda Toshiko [Fumiko's friend]Support Role
- Sato B-sakuKaneda Densuke [Toshiko's husband]Support Role
- Tokushige SatoshiOhara Akira [Yoko's husband]Support Role
- Uekusa KatsuhideHonma Eisaku [Nagako's husband]Support Role
- Otani RenaHonma Hinako [Nagako and Eisaku's daughter]Support Role
- Kyo UtakoHonma Tsuneko [Eisaku and Yuki's mother]Support Role
- Aikawa KinyaKanbayashi Kiyoaki [Tsuneko's common-law husband]Support Role
- Kobayashi AyakoHonma Yuki [Eisaku's sister]Support Role
Guest Role
- Nomura ShinjiGohanya Takagi (Ep. 1)Guest Role
- Tsuji Shinobu[Kindergartener's mother] (Ep. 1)Guest Role
- Harumi Shihou[Takeshi's debt collector] (Ep. 2)Guest Role
- Nitanda Masazumi[Takeshi's debt collector] (Ep. 2)Guest Role
- Inoue TakashiKawakami Tetsuo (Ep. 8)Guest Role
- Kataoka Tomie[Customer] (Ep. 20)Guest Role
- Sunaga KeiKosaka [Eisaku's doctor] (Ep. 26)Guest Role
- Sasaki IttetsuYano Ippei (Ep. 31)Guest Role
- Fujitani MikiNancy (Ep. 37)Guest Role
- Hidari TonpeiTsunekichi [Ramen shop owner] (Ep. 39)Guest Role
- Azumi Shinichiro[Moderator] (Ep. 49)Guest Role
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