Ohisama

Ohisama (おひさま) is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot.^[1] Originally it was planned to air from March 28, 2011 (same as 2005's Asadora series Fight) to September 24, 2011, but it was delayed due to the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. It later aired from April 4, 2011 to October 1, 2011, same as 1988's Non-chan no Yume (ノンちゃんの夢) and 1994's Piano (ぴあの).

Ohisama
Also known as	Sunshine (WakuWaku Japan)
Genre	Drama
Written by	Yoshikazu Okada
Directed by	Tomochika Kasaura
Starring	Mao Inoue Kengo Kora Hikari Mitsushima Maiko Kei Tanaka Kento Nagayama Tokio Emoto Ayumi Ito Yumi Shirakawa Eriko Watanabe Kazuyoshi Koshida Yasufumi Terawaki Tomoyo Harada Yuki Saito Kanako Higuchi Misako Watanabe Yoko Tsukasa Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Ayako Wakao
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	156
Production
Producer	Masayo Komatsu
Running time	15 minutes
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	April 4 (2011-04-04) – October 1, 2011 (2011-10-01)

Cast

• Mao Inoue as Yōko Maruyama (her maiden name was Sudō)
  • Yūki Yagi as young Yōko
  • Ayako Wakao as older Yōko Maruyama
• Kengo Kora as Kazunari Maruyama
• Hikari Mitsushima as Ikuko Tsutsui
  • Tetsuko Kuroyanagi as older Ikuko
• Maiko as Machiko Hatano (her maiden name was Sōma)
  • Yoko Tsukasa as older Machiko
• Kei Tanaka as Haruki Sudō, Yōko's eldest brother
• Kento Nagayama Sigeki Sudō, Yōko's eldest brother
• Tokio Emoto as Takeo Miyamoto
• Ayumi Ito as Natsuko Takahashi
• Yumi Shirakawa as Setsuko Miyazawa
• Eriko Watanabe as Kayo Murakami
• Kazuyoshi Koshida as Michio Maruyama
• Hiroshi Inuzuka as Takeo Miyamoto
• Yasufumi Terawaki as Ryūichi Sudō, Yōko's father
• Tomoyo Harada as Hiroko Sudō, Yōko's mother
• Yuki Saito as Fusako Haraguchi
• Kanako Higuchi as Tokoku Maruyama
• Misako Watanabe as Fujiko Kirino

International broadcast

• The broadcast rights for the drama were sold to Sri Lanka with the intention of dubbing it into Sinhalese.^[2]