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The Summer Promise

2002-08-31 · 45 min / episode · Not rated

Drama · Family

Yoko is aiming to become an actress in the city far away from her home. I lost my husband in an accident during autumn salmon fishing and tried to escape from my mother who had a hard time raising with one woman. One day, a phone call returns to the home where Yoko should have forgotten. “Mom fell ...” My mother, who met on a homecoming for the first time in five years, had a hard day as a mother while having a serious illness. The captain of the sightseeing boat, who was close to retirement, touched her mother and her mother-in-law who had been absent for a long time because of her father's absence. When Yoko found that her mother's illness was actually life-threatening, Yoko had to return to the city with a ticket that could make her dream come true. Yoko understands her feelings toward her mother's feelings as her true feelings while the scent of her hometown is loosing.

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Yui NatsukawaYui Natsukawa
Tsunehiko KamijôTsunehiko Kamijô
Chieko BaishoChieko Baisho
Yu AoiYu Aoi
Ken YasudaKen Yasuda

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