The Tale of Nishino

Feb 8, 2014

2h 2m

★ 6.8

Overview

Yukihiko Nishino is very popular with women, but, in the end, he is always dumped by a woman. Yukihiko seeks out his true love.

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

TOHO

d-rights

Kansai Television

dentsu

Mainichi Shimbun

Ken-On

Gambit

CyberAgent

KDDI

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Cast

Yukihiko Nishino

Yutaka Takenouchi

Manami

Machiko Ono

Subaru

Riko Narumi

Tama

Fumino Kimura

Kanoko

Tsubasa Honda

Natsumi

Kumiko Aso

Sayuri Sasaki

Sawako Agawa

Woman on crutches

Yoko Fujita

Director Asahina

Shirô Namiki

Minami's father

Yoji Tanaka

Minami

Yurika Nakamura

Cooking class teacher

Yuni Takimoto

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