Unmei no Hito

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• Drama: Unmei no Hito
• Romaji: Unmei no Hito
• Japanese: 運命の人
• Director: Nobuhiro Doi, Ken Yoshida
• Writer: Toyoko Yamasaki (novel), Hiroshi Hashimoto
• Network: TBS
• Episodes: 10
• Release Date: January 15 - March 18, 2012
• Runtime: Sunday 21:00-21:54
• TV Ratings: 12.0%
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

A newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and U.S. government. A woman who is the deputy director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs becomes a key figure in the story.

Notes

1. Based on Toyoko Yamasaki's 2009 novel "Unmei no Hito"
2. The novel "Unmei no Hito" itself is based on the true story of Okinawa journalist Takichi Nishiyama who uncovered a secret pact between the U.S. and Japanese government over the reversion of the Okinawa islands to the Japanese government. Takichi Nishiyama then became involved in a sex scandal with a Ministry of Foreign Affairs worker who leaked the document.[1]

Cast

Masahiro Motoki	Takako Matsu	Yoko Maki	Nao Omori	Kinya Kitaoji
Ryota Yuminari	Yuriko Yuminari	Akiko Miki	Kazuo Yamabe	Keisaku Sahashi

Yutaka Matsushige	Yukiya Kitamura	Yuya Endo	Tetta Sugimoto	Zen Kajihara
Shuichi Tsukasa	Ryo Kiyohara	Mitsuru Kaneda	Shigeru Araki	Kouwa Hagino

Denden	Kotaro Yoshida	Katsuhiko Watabiki	Ryo Ishibashi	Kazushige Komatsu
Shiro Ebisu	Soichi Kuru	Tomofumi Oodate	Suguru Anzai	Isamu Yamamoto

Kenjiro Ishimaru	Takeshi Masu	Jitsuko Yoshimura	Isao Hashizume	Kei Yamamoto
Vice-Minister Hayashi	Magoroku Yoshida	Shizu Yuminari	Seisuke Yuminari	Taizo Yakumo

Yukiko Takabayashi	Hiroki Hasegawa	Yuki Imai	Ryutaro Yamazaki	Yuki Shibamoto
Kase Yakumo	Rei Koinuma	Yoichi Yuminari	Junji Yuminari	Fusako Aoyama

Taizo Harada	Mantaro Koichi	Masato Ibu	Kazuyuki Asano	Toshiro Yanagiba
Takuya Miki	Detective Iguchi	Masaharu Totoki	Yasuyuki Mori	Tadashi Oonoki

Mitsuru Fukikoshi	Tetsuo Fushimi	Asuka Kurosawa	Hidekazu Mashima	Ayumu Saito
Isao Sakamoto	Lawyer Takatsuki	Chieko Sakamoto	Yuya Matsunaka	Yuzo Torii

Eri Fuse	Takashi Sasano	Akira Emoto	Shinya Owada	Hirotaro Honda
Kiyomi Edakawa	Takeo Bukude	Masayoshi Kodaira	Kiichi Aikawa	Yasuhiro Sonegawa

Mansaku Fuwa	Kamejiro Ichikawa
Kakuzou Tabuchi	Hiroshi Yokomizo

Additional Cast Members:

• Issei Takubo - Zenichi Suzumori
• Tatsuhito Okuda - ep.1
• Hideyuki Kasahara - ep.2
• Toshiki Ayata - ep.2
• Seiji Nozoe - Sunagawa (ep.3)
• Yasushi Fuchikami - Toru Saida (ep.4)
• Kenichi Yajima - Michio Masaki (ep.4)
• Ryuji Yamamoto - Iwashiro (ep.4)
• Kenji Mizuhashi - Tetsushi Yabutani (ep.4)
• Masanobu Sakata - Hanjo Kasama (ep.4)
• Yoshiyuki Morishita - ep.4
• Hideki Nakano - ep.4
• Akira Otaka - Hiroshi Motoyama (ep.5-8)
• Masahiro Kohama - ep.5-9
• Kazuaki Hankai - Katsuji Hasegawa (ep.6,9)
• Sokyu Fujita - ep.7
• Shingo Tsurumi - Yutaka Matsumi (ep.8)
• Katsuya Kobayashi - ep.8
• Yuichi Yasoda - ep.8
• Masaki Suda - ep.9
• Riku Hagiwara - ep.9
• Minami - Michi Jyahana (ep.10)
• Shigeru Izumiya - Asatomo Tokuyama (ep.10)
• Kanji Tsuda - Akira Gibo (ep.10)
• Masane Tsukayama - Takeshi Aniya (ep.10)
• Akira Fukuhara - ep.10
• Emiri Kai - Mina Aoyama
• Kimihiko Hasegawa - Goda

Episode Ratings

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	01/15/2012	13.0%
02	01/22/2012	11.3%
03	01/29/2012	11.6%
04	02/05/2012	11.6%
05	02/12/2012	10.8%
06	02/19/2012	9.9%
07	02/26/2012	13.2%
08	03/11/2012	10.4%
09	03/18/2012	11.9%
10	03/04/2012	14.!%
Average		12.0%

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

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Nana Feb 12 2018 11:25 am The drama is very good and suspenseful.......until the last episode! Suddenly the 2 female leading actresses became supporting actress and the whole episode was dominated by another girl who can’t even speak and act properly. Making her the lead for the last episode. I seriously can’t stand her and basically skipped half the episode.

It’s good that the drama went on to show the truth in Okinawa but making the male lead fell in love with a rape victim in the ladt episode instead of concentrating on the political and historical view seriously downgraded the whole drama.

I think it’s best to stop watching after Ep 9. Ep 10 is a drag and horrible.

External Links

• "Okinawa-gate: The Unknown Scandal", "Time," "May 1, 2007".