The NHK Asadora drama series "Anpan " starring Mio Imada (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 am and others) will broadcast its fourth week, "What Do We Live For?". In the 16th episode on April 21st...
In the previous episode, Tomiko ( Nanako Matsushima), who had not been heard from for eight years, suddenly returns.
Although he still harbors some grudge against Tomiko, Takashi (Takumi Kitamura) is happy when his manga is praised. Meanwhile, Chihiro (Motoki Nakazawa) is sitting on a seesaw reading a book, saying that he can't be as happy as his brother, when Nobu (Imada) passes by and spots him. With a troubled expression on his face, Nobu comes face to face with Takashi and his son as they are chatting in the shopping district, and tearfully tells Tomiko how he feels. And so Takashi...
In the 16th episode, Nobu, who has found her dream, begins studying hard to pass the entrance exam for a women's normal school, but her grades are not good and she is troubled. Similarly, Takashi is scolded by Chiyoko (Naho Toda) who saw her report card. However, when Hatako (Noriko Eguchi) asks Nobu to help her study, Takashi cannot refuse and accepts.
One night, as Taku goes out into the hallway struggling with mathematics, which he is not good at, he hears voices coming from Hiroshi's (Yutaka Takenouchi) study...
"Anpan" is based on the married couple Takashi Yanase(1919-2013) and Nobuyuki (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 and arrived at "Anpanman," the embodiment of "unreversible justice."
