Overview
Akai Ito is Japanese television drama series based on a popular mobile phone novel written by Mei about two soulmates - junior high school students Mei and Atsushi - who must overcome drugs, rape and attempted suicide in order to be together. The love story was an online hit in 2006 and later published as a series of five books which sold 1.8 million copies.
Cast
- Nao Minamisawa as Takemiya Mei
- Junpei Mizobata as Nishino Atsushi
- Ryo Tajima as Kamiya Mitsuru
- Sayuri Iwata as Haruna Takemiya
- Ryo Kimura as Riku Takahashi
- Rei Okamoto as Mia Amagishi
- Anna Ishibashi as Asami Tadokoro
- Hitomi Miyauchi as Sara Nakagawa
- Yanagishita Tomo as Natsuki Fujiwara
- Kasumi Suzuki as Yuri Nakanishi