Gajimaru Restaurant's Love

Sep 20, 2014

1h 37m

★ 6.5

Overview

Mizuho takes over a restaurant in Nago, Okinawa, which was left to her by her grandmother. She single-handedly runs “Gajimaru Diner”, named after the large, deeply-rooted Gajimaru (banyan) tree in the area. Eventually, circumstances lead to her being brought together with an unknown traveler named Hayato, her ex-boyfriend Shota who returns after living in Tokyo for the past seven years, and a woman named Riko who shares something with both of them. As they work at the diner together, their relationships reveal themselves differently than what they had in mind.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

BS-TBS

Gajimaru Restaurant's Love Trailers

Cast

Mizuho

Haru

Hayato

Yū Koyanagi

Riko

Haruka

Suchiru

Natsumi Ikema

Shota

Dori Sakurada

Katsuhiro Higo

Dandy Sakano

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