Beautiful Rain

Beautiful Rain (ビューティフルレイン) is a 2012 Japanese television series. It features actor Etsushi Toyokawa and Mana Ashida as Keisuke and Miu respectively, a father and daughter pair. Keisuke was suddenly diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which drastically affected their family's life.

Beautiful Rain
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Genre	Drama
Starring	Etsushi Toyokawa, Mana Ashida
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	54 minutes
Production companies	Fuji TV Kyodo TV
Original release
Network	Fuji TV
Release	July 1, 2012 (2012-07-01) – September 2012 (2012-09)

Beautiful Rain was aired from 1 July 2012 as part of Fuji Television's Dramatic Sunday time slot, which airs every Sunday from 9pm to 9:54pm.^[1]

Cast

• Etsushi Toyokawa as Keisuke Kinoshita
• Mana Ashida as Miu Kinoshita
• Shohei Miura as Akio Katsuta
• Denden as Kiyoshi Muneta
• Ken Yasuda as Yutaka Koga
• Sayuri Kokusho as Serai Takagi
• Haruko Arai as Kotaro Arai
• Asaya Kimijima as Kenta Tachibana
• Riko Yoshida as Nako Matsuyama
• Mitsuko Oka as Chieko Nakamura
• Keizo Kanie as Tomio Nakamura
• Miki Nakatani as Akane Nishiwaki

Episodes

	Episode title	Romanized title	Translation of title	Broadcast date	Ratings[2]
Ep. 1	最近、父ちゃんは忘れ物が多い…	Saikin, tōchan wa wasuremono ga ōi…	Recently, Dad seems to have forgotten many things...	July 1, 2012	12.9%
Ep. 2	記憶を失うとき一番大切な人を傷つける	Kioku o ushinau toki ichiban taisetsunahito o kizutsukeru	When you lose your memory, the most important people to you will be hurt	July 8, 2012	9.5%
Ep. 3	…父ちゃん、アルツハイマーってなに?	… Tōchan, arutsuhaimā tte nani?	...Dad, what is Alzheimer's?	July 15, 2012	8.6%
Ep. 4	母が遺した贈り物…父娘の切ない約束	Haha ga nokoshita okurimono… chichi musume no setsunai yakusoku	The gift that your mother left behind... The painful pact between dad and mom	July 22, 2012	13.0%
Ep. 5	忘れたくない…父と娘の夏の想い出	Wasuretakunai… chichitoko no natsu no omoide	The memory that I do not want to forget...The memories of a father's and daughter's summer together	July 29, 2012	9.5%
Ep. 6	親子だからこそ…、言えない秘密	Oyakodakara koso…, ienai himitsu	That is why between a parent and a child... there is no secrets that cannot be said	August 5, 2012	10.9%
Ep. 7	二人で暮らせない辛い父の決断…	Futari de kurasenai tsurai chichi no ketsudan…	Father's painful decision that the two of us cannot live together	August 12, 2012	8.0%
Ep. 8	親なのに、離れる。親だから、離れる	Oyananoni, hanareru. Oyadakara, hanareru	Parents will leave nonetheless, so parents, please leave	August 19, 2012	8.7%
Ep. 9	娘の未来のために…今、伝えるべき真実	Musume no mirai no tameni… ima, tsutaerubeki shinjitsu	For the sake of my daughter's future, I will tell the truth now	August 26, 2012	9.3%
Ep. 10	父ちゃん、美雨の事忘れちゃうの?	Tōchan, Miu no koto wasure chau no?	Dad, have you forgotten about Miu's things?	September 2, 2012	10.5%
Ep. 11	残された時間、娘のために今できること	Nokosa reta jikan, musume no tame ni imadekirukoto	Do what you can now with your daughter in the time that you have left.	September 9, 2012	9.6%
Ep. 12	私が全部おぼえているよ	Watashi ga zenbu oboete iru yo	I will remember everything.	September 16, 2012	9.6%
Ratings for Kanto region (average rating: 10.1%)[2]