Kemonomichi

Kemonomichi, translated in English as The Animal Trail, is a Japanese television drama series broadcast by TV Asahi.

Production and Broadcast

The series is based on a novel by Seicho Matsumoto, with screenwriting by Toshio Terada. Direction was handled by Meiji Fujita, Hidetomo Matsuda, and Yoshito Fukumoto. The 9-episode series aired from January 12 to March 9, 2006, in the Thursday 21:00-21:54 time slot on TV Asahi.

Plot Summary

Tamiko works at a Japanese-style hotel called Hosenkaku to support her handicapped husband after abandoning her ambitions of becoming a jewelry designer. Her life shifts when a gentleman named Kotaki proposes an escape from her reality. Seeking a drastic change, Tamiko kills her husband by setting her house on fire and subsequently becomes the mistress of a political fixer named Kito.

Cast

• Ryoko Yonekura as Tamiko Narusawa
• Koichi Sato as Sojiro Kotaki
• Toru Nakamura as Haruki Hisatsune
• Chizuru Azuma as Hatsune Kisaragi
• Maki Tamaru as Mitsue Kijagi
• Mayumi Wakamura as Yoneko Saeki
• Mikijiro Hira as Kota Kito