The NHK Asadora drama series "Anpan " starring Mio Imada (General TV, Monday to Saturday at 8:00 am and others) will broadcast its fifth week, "Life is a game of happiness." In the 22nd episode on April 29th...
In the previous, 21st episode, in 1936, Nobu (Imada) moves into the dormitory of a women's normal school, seen off by her family and Takashi ( Takumi Kitamura ).
Nobu and Usako ( Kumi Takiuchi ) are frightened by the strictness of their militaristic homeroom teacher Yukiko Kuroi ( Sara Shida Kumi) and the seniors. And so, Nobu and his friends' lives change completely. Meanwhile, Taku, a student preparing to enter high school, hears Chihiro (Motoki Nakazawa) talk passionately about his future. Suddenly, Taku screams out what's on his mind. Inspired by Chihiro, Taku finally lets out his true feelings about what he wants to do. ...And so the story unfolds.
In episode 22, encouraged by Hiroshi (Yutaka Takenouchi), Taka decides to take the entrance exam for art school.
However, he is troubled when he finds out that he has a math exam coming up, which he is not good at. At the same time, Nobu is busy washing his senior's laundry while encouraging Usako, who has started to cry and complain. Kuroi, the homeroom teacher, appears and tells him, "Be strong for the sake of your country." Meanwhile, when Nobu returns to the Asada family for the first time in a month, Taka tells her that he plans to make a living by painting.
"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."
