Director
Narrator
Screenwriter
Main Role
- Watanabe Anne Main Role
- Higashide Masahiro Main Role
Support Role
- Wada MasatoIzumi Genta [Meiko's childhood friend]Support Role
- Yoshiyuki KazukoUno Tora [Meiko's grandmother, Iku's mother]Support Role
- Zaizen NaomiUno Iku [Meiko's mother]Support Role
- Harada TaizoUno Daigo [Meiko's father]Support Role
- Inowaki KaiUno Teruo [Meiko's younger brother]Support Role
- Kondo MasaomiNishikado Shozo [Yutaro's father] | Torii SutezoSupport Role
- Miyazaki YoshikoNishikado Shizu [Yutaro's stepmother]Support Role
- Kimura MidorikoNishikado Kazue [Yutaro's eldest sister]Support Role
- Takahata MitsukiNishikado Noriko [Yutaro's sister]Support Role
- Matsuura MiyabiNishikado Fuku [Meiko and Yutaro's daughter]Support Role
- Suda MasakiNishikado Taisuke [Meiko and Yutaro's son]Support Role
- Nishihata Daigo Support Role
- Yamanaka TakashiMuroi Kosai [Man who had a meal at "Kaimeiken"]Support Role
- Maeda AkiHorinohata Sakurako / Muroi Sakurako [Meiko's high school classmate]Support Role
- Abe HirokaMuroi Ayame [Kosai and Sakurako's daughter]Support Role
- Miyajima MaiNogawa Tamiko [Meiko's classmate in High School]Support Role
- Okunuki KaoruMiyamoto-Sensei [Cooking Class teacher in High School]Support Role
- Muro TsuyoshiTakemoto Yuzo [Tokyo Imperial University student,Architect]Support Role
- Ishida Takuya[Tokyo Imperial University student, Yutaro's friend]Support Role
- Oikawa Tatsuro[Professor at Tokyo Imperial University]Support Role
- Nakamura YasuhiTakagi Umasuke ["Umakai" owner]Support Role
- Kusumi KaoruMorooka Kiyo [Hiroshi and Kikuko's mother]Support Role
- Kunikida KappaMorooka Tsutomu [Hiroshi and Kikuko's father]Support Role
- Tokuda NaomiMatsushima [Vice Chairman of the Defense Women's Association]Support Role
- Namioka KazukiKazuki [Thug, Black market person]Support Role
- Ayata Toshiki Support Role
- Kurosaka Mami[Woman in a row house]Support Role
- Babazono AzusaSomemaru [Geisha]Support Role
- Furutachi KanjiAnzai Shinsuke [Swindler, claims to be a Professor of Economics at Kyoto Imperial University]Support Role
- Hoshino MariTanigawa Fumi [Woman evacuated to a first aid station near the Ximen family]Support Role
- Tsuchida HideoKatsuta Hanjiro [Man evacuated to a first aid station near the Ximen family]Support Role
- Kimisawa Yuki[Handsome man]Support Role
- Kato AiMurai AkikoSupport Role
- Nakamura OzunoMaruoka Shinjiro [Young]Support Role
- Chihara SeijiMaruoka Shinjiro [Adult]Support Role
- Kinoshita TakayukiSatomi [Senior officer of the military headquarters]Support Role
- Aizawa RinaMichiyo [Correspondent who was called a fan of Muroi]Support Role
- Tokui YuOmura SosukeSupport Role
- Kimoto TakehiroFujii KosakuSupport Role
- Shiraishi YuaMiyoSupport Role
- Yasoda YuichiIkemoto HajimeSupport Role
- Toyoshima HanaUno Meiko [Young]Support Role
- Arata YuraNishikado Noriko [Young]Support Role
- Katsura KichiyaSawada TakeoSupport Role
- Otsuka NoriyukiAizawa ToruSupport Role
- Tomoyori Yukari[Maid]Support Role
- Komaki MegumiKoda MineSupport Role
Guest Role
- Nakagawa Kozo Guest Role
- Maeda YumiTomi [Matsuo's wife]Guest Role
- Nakamura Taiki(Ep. 138)Guest Role
- Nakayama YoshihiroMorooka Hiroshi (Week 18)Guest Role
- Kobori MasahiroNishikado Shozo [Young]Guest Role
- Hosoda RyunosukeNishikado Yutaro [Young]Guest Role
Unknown
- All Kyojin[President]Unknown
- Hiro Midori[Maruya's Landlady]Unknown
- Hiccorohee Unknown
- Saionji Akio Unknown
- Takagi Keiichi Unknown
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