A new character relationship chart for the NHK Asadora drama series "Kaze,Kaoru " (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), starring Ai Mikami and Juri Kosaka , has been released on the drama's official website. The chart covers the seventh week, "Todokanu Koe" (Unreachable Voice), which begins on May 11th, and adds 12 new characters from Teito Medical University Hospital, where Rin (Mikami), Naomi (Uesaka), and the other first-generation nursing school students are doing their practical training as nursing apprentices.
The character relationship charts released this time consist of two charts: "People at the Hospital and Nursing School" and "People Surrounding Rin and Naomi." The "People at the Hospital and Nursing School" chart includes not only the members of the Umeoka Girls' School Nursing School where Rin and Naomi study, but also newly added characters such as doctors and nurses (traditional nurses who have worked at the hospital since before the Trained Nurses era and have not received specialized training) and patients from Teito Medical University Hospital.
The new characters include Shigetaro Tada (Michitaka Tsutsui), the director of Teito Medical University Hospital; Yukinari Watanabe (Kanro Morita), the vice director; Masuo Imai (Yudai Furukawa), the professor of surgery; Kunio Fujita (Ryotaro Sakaguchi), the associate professor of surgery; Katsuji Kurokawa (Kisei Hirano), the surgical assistant; nurses Fuyu Nagata (Tsubaki Nekozawa), Yoshi Sunaga (Mayumi Myojo), and Tsuya Miura (Ayaka Higashino); janitor Mansaku Shibata (Kazuki Iio); and patients Chikako Izumi (Yukie Nakama), Yaichiro Sonobe (Yoshihiro Nozoe), and Chuzo Maruyama (Tokie Wakabayashi).
Meanwhile, the names of four people who had disappeared from the relationship chart in the fifth week—Katsu Kaishu (Tsurutaro Kataoka), the landlord of the tenement where Naomi lives, Oya Kahei (Shio Harumi), and Naomi's neighbors, Oya Toyo (Yoneko Matsukane) and Oya Kiku (Yuriko Hirooka)—have "reappeared" in the section titled "People surrounding Rin and Naomi." As Rin and Naomi begin their nursing careers in earnest, the relationship chart has changed dramatically.
" Kaze,Kaoru" is a buddy drama set in the Meiji era, featuring two trained nurses, Chika Ozeki and Masa Suzuki. The two graduates of the same nursing school struggle with how to interact with patients and doctors, clash with each other, grow as individuals, and eventually become the "ultimate buddy duo."
