Breathless Summer (2012)
| First Air Date: | 2012, July 10 |
| Last Air Date: | 2012, September 18 |
| Status: | Ended |
| Seasons: | 1 |
| Episodes: | 11 |
| Episode Runtime: | 55 min |
| Countries: | Japan |
| Cast: | Yoshino Kimura, Emi Takei, Yosuke Eguchi, Jun Kaname, Reika Kirishima, Kinya Kitaoji, Aoi Nakamura, Fuka Koshiba, Miyoko Asada, Mikie Hara, Reika Hashimoto |
Overview:
A 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a forbidden love that cannot be accepted by the people around them. Breathless Summer is as much a social drama as it is a love story. Takei plays said girl who learns that her mother never recorded her birth in their family register. While falling into despair after finding out the secret about her birth yet wholeheartedly trying to live to regain "herself", she happens to run into a former journalist who is suffering from a deep scar in his heart himself. Although they could be father and daughter, they start to develop much stronger feelings for each other, a love forbidden by society.