The first and second weeks of the NHK morning drama " Anpan " starring Mio Imada(General Asadora , Monday to Saturday at 8:00 a.m. and others) will be rebroadcast on General TV from 12:40 a.m. on April 12.
" Anpan" is based on the married couple Takashi Yanase(1919-2013) and Nobu Komatsu(1918-1993), the manga artist and picture book writer who created "Anpanman." It is a "story of love and courage" that will make you feel the joy of living, depicting how these two, who were once nobody, overcame all sorts of rough seas to become "Anpanman," the embodiment of "unreversible justice."
The first week, "Humans are lonely," is about a girl in the early Showa era who runs through the town of Kochi at a tremendous speed, known as "Hachikin Onobu" (Yuzuna Nagase). Nobu's grandfather, Nobu Asada(Kotaro Yoshida), has been running a stonemasonry business for generations in the Asada family, but her father, Yutaro (Ryo Kase ), who has no intention of taking over, travels around the country and abroad for a trading company and tells Nobu, "Girls should be ambitious too." Meanwhile, Takashi Yanai ( Kazunari Ninomiya Ninomiya), died of illness at a young age, is taken by his mother, Tomiko (Nanako Matsushima), to the home of his uncle, Hiroshi ( Nanako Matsushima ), who runs the Yanai Clinic in Gomenyo-cho, and meets Nobu at the elementary school where he transfers to. Just then, a huge shock hits the Asada family.
In the second episode, "Good Day, Mr. Fushiawase," Nobu's grandfather, Kamaji, a stonemason, injures his arm in an accident. In an attempt to do something about it, Nobu takes Kusakichi (Sadao Abe) to the Asada family home. He is initially turned away by Kamaji, but with the help of Hatako (Noriko Eguchi), Kusakichi starts a business baking "Anpan" (sweet bean buns) at the Asada family home. Meanwhile, the Yanai family receives a letter from Taku's mother, Tomiko, who they haven't heard from in a while. Taku goes to look for Tomiko, partly for his younger brother Chihiro (Masataka Hirayama), who has a fever and wants to see their mother, but...
◇The rebroadcast schedule is as follows (also available on NHK Plus):
Week 1 (1st to 5th) April 12th 12:40 a.m. to 1:55 a.m.
Week 2 (6th to 10th) April 12th 1:55am to 3:10am
