The NHK Asadora drama series "Anpan " starring Mio Imada (General TV, Monday to Saturday at 8:00 a.m. and others) will broadcast its 8th week, "Encounter and Separation." The 39th episode on May 22nd is...
" 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."
In episode 39, after the holidays, Nobu (Imada) feels distressed for the first time when he sees his students reciting the Imperial Rescript on Education.
At the same time, Takashi (Takumi Kitamura) receives a letter from Chihiro (Motoki Nakazawa). After reading the letter, Takashi learns that Go (Kanata Hosoda) has been killed in the war and that Nobu has received a marriage proposal... Meanwhile, Jiro (Ayumu Nakajima) comes to visit the Asada family. Kamaji (Kotaro Yoshida) and the others exclaim in admiration at the photo of Nobu he has brought with him. Jiro says that he actually came to ask a favor, and Nobu responds...
