Mori no Asagao

Mori no Asagao (モリのアサガオ, lit. "The Forest's Morning Glories") is a Japanese manga series by Mamora Gōda. It won the 11th Grand Prize for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2007.[1] It was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2010.[2]

Mori no Asagao
モリのアサガオ
Manga
Written byMamora Gōda
Published byFutabasha
MagazineWeekly Manga Action
DemographicSeinen
Original run2004 – 2007
Television drama
Directed byAkimitsu Sasaki
Produced byShinji Okabe
Junpei Nakagawa
Noboru Morita
Atsushi Kurosawa
Written byDaisuke Habara, Shizuka Oki
Music byToshiyuki Watanabe
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run October 18, 2010 – December 20, 2010
Episodes10

Synopsis

New prison guard Naoki Oikawa gets assigned to the death row section. He strikes a friendship with Watase Mitsuru, who, rather conveniently (contrast with Freeze Me), far from being a sadist, a sociopathic killer or rapist, dangerous to society or even particularly cruel, is actually quite a sympathetic character, someone that, unable to get justice from the system, killed the man that murdered his parents. The fact that he did not target defenceless and innocent victims for no good reason, but rather had a motive that could be understood, allows the guard to put himself in his shoes and understand his reasons and point of view, and provides a contrast between the unfairness of his circumstances, his undeserved fate, and the fact that system had failed to vindicate his parents, leaving him with no other alternative besides being cast in the role of the powerless victim. Gradually Naoki begins to wonder about the necessity of the death penalty and the meanings of such concepts as repentance and forgiveness.

Television series

Cast
  • Atsushi Itō – Naoki Oikawa (22)
  • Arata – Mitsuru Watase (22)
  • Yuu Kashii – Asami Sawasaki (Oikawa's girlfriend) (22)
  • Haruka Kinami – Kana Mochizuki (19)
  • Akira Emoto – Keizukuri Hukahori (59)
  • Sansei Shiomi – Yuzo Wakaboyashi (62)
  • Mitsuki Tanimura – Yoshioka Koharu
  • Youichi Nukumizu – Toshikazu Seko
  • Bengal – Toshiyuki Tanizaki
  • Masahiro Toda – Kazuaki Satonaka
  • Yasuyuki Maekawa – Ryo Goto
  • Ren Oosugi – Seido Oikawa (Oikawa's father)
  • Yoshie Ichige – Sawako Oikawa (Oikawa's mother)
  • Akiko Aizuki – Takako Toma

Guest
  • Shido Nakamura – Tadashishi Kouzai (ep1)
  • Naomasa Musaka – Akira Ishimine (ep1)
  • Koji Ohkura – Katsuhiro Hoshiyama (ep1-2)
  • Yuri Nakamura – Taeko Kuramoti (ep2)
  • Mitsuru Hirata – Takeshi Sasano (ep3)
  • Mari Hamada – Victim's parents (ep3)
  • Yumiko Shaku – Yuko Nishida (ep4-5)
  • Kanji Tsuda – Sako Nishi (ep4-5,7)
  • Yuki Imai – Shinya Hukuda (ep4-5)
  • Hiromasa Taguchi – Kengo Hukuda (ep5)
  • Ryo Ishibashi – Eichiro Akashi (ep6)
  • Minoru Tanaka – Takashi Touzyou (ep6)
  • Kotaro Shiga – Chief Justice (ep6)
  • Mashima Hidekazu – Kento Yamamoto (ep7)
  • Saki Matsuda – Miyoko Yoshikawa (ep7)
  • Yojin Hino – President of shipping company (ep7)
  • Rei Okamoto – Kazuko Funaki (ep7)
  • Mayuko Nishiyama – (ep8)

Episode information
EpisodeTitleWriterDirectorOriginal airdateRatings
(Kanto)
1New prison officers to move hearts and condemned "bonds" story
(新人刑務官と死刑囚心動かす“絆”物語)		Daisuke HabaraAkimitsu SasakiOct 18, 2010
22.00 - 23.09		5.8
2Instruction execution
(死刑執行命令)		Daisuke HabaraAkimitsu SasakiOct 25, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		3.8
3Give flowers to the condemned
(死刑囚へ贈る花)		Shizuka OkiMakito MurakamiNov 1, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		4.6
4Wedding Bride prison
(獄中結婚の花嫁)		Daisuke HabaraMakito MurakamiNov 8, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		4.3
5Capital punishment against the families?
(極刑反対の遺族!?)		Shizuka OkiTomoyuki FurumayaNov 15, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		4.1
6Gray man 33 years of false accusation
(冤罪33年の白髪男)		Daisuke HabaraMunenobu YamauchiNov 22, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		3.2
7Father's death row prison guard rookie!!
(新人刑務官の父の死刑囚!!)		Daisuke HabaraMunenobu YamauchiNov 29, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		2.2
8Visits last miracle
(最期の面会の奇跡)		Shizuka OkiTomoyuki FurumayaDec 6, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		3.0
9To the final chapter! Siblings Cry of the Soul Secrets
(最終章へ! 魂の叫び兄妹の秘密)		Tago Akihiro
Shizuka Oki		Akimitsu SasakiDec 13, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		2.2
10Only to one person familiar with the last ...
(たった一人の親友へ最後の…)		Shizuka OkiAkimitsu SasakiDec 20, 2010
22.00 - 22.54		2.9
Viewership ratings: 3.6%
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References
  1. "2007 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards" (in Japanese). Japan Media Arts Plaza, Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
  2. "Gantz, Maria-sama, Mori no Asagao Promos Streamed". Anime News Network. October 2, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
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