Hanako to Anne
| Hanako to Anne | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Miho Nakazono |
| Directed by | Tsuyoshi Yanagawa Zen'nosuke Matsūra |
| Starring |
Yuriko Yoshitaka Tsuyoshi Ihara Shigeru Muroi Ryōhei Suzuki Kento Kaku Haru Kuroki Masataka Kubota Rie Tomosaka Miyoko Asada Renji Ishibashi Yukie Nakama |
| Narrated by | Akihiro Miwa |
| Opening theme | "Nijiiro" by Ayaka |
| Composer(s) | Yuki Kajiura |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 156 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Takeshi Susaki |
| Location(s) | Japan |
| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Production company(s) | NHK |
| Release | |
| Original network | NHK |
| Original release | March 31 – September 27, 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Gochisōsan |
| Followed by | Massan |
Hanako to Anne (花子とアン Hanako to An?) is a Japanese television drama series, the 90th Asadora series broadcast on NHK. It debuted on March 31, 2014, and is broadcast Monday through Saturday mornings, with a scheduled to end of September 27, 2014. It is based on the novel An no Yurikago Muraoka Hanako no Shogai by Eri Muraoka, which is the story of her grandmother Hanako Muraoka (1893–1968, maiden name Annaka), the first to translate Anne of Green Gables into Japanese. The drama describes her trials, tribulations and triumphs at school and some of the lifelong friendships she made there, and her life after graduating and working at a publishing company and as a translator. As a subplot, it also narrates the dramatic life of Muraoka's old friend, Byakuren Yanagiwara, the tanka poet who was a cousin of Emperor Taishō. The series stars Yuriko Yoshitaka as Hanako. Anime composer Yuki Kajiura composed the music for the series. The series was a ratings success.
The story begins with Hanako and her children narrowly escaping death during the April 1945 bombing of Tokyo, clutching her precious manuscript. The drama then returns to the past to tell the story of roughly the first half of her life. Born Hana Ando to a small and poor farming family in Yamanashi Prefecture's Kōfu city, she was too busy with household chores to go to school until her Christian father, Kippei Ando, a somewhat educated wandering salesman who married the kind but illiterate Fuji, gave her a picture book when she was seven years old. This sparked a girl who already had a powerful imagination and love for stories. Noticing her interest in it, he sent her to a local primary school, where she quickly learned to read and write. Despite family opposition, he arranged for her to enter a Christian school in Tokyo, the Shuwa School for Girls, on a scholarship. Hana does poorly there at first, especially at English, but prompted by the principal, she takes up a passion for the English language. A few years later, nearing graduation, she does a part-time job at a publishing company, where she impresses everyone with translation skills, including Eiji Muraoka, the heir to a printing company, who gives her an English dictionary. At school, she decides to become friends with Renko Hayama, a difficult woman, much older than the rest, who had been sent to the school by her aristocratic family after dissatisfying the family of her first husband. During the school production of Romeo and Juliet, starring Renko as Juliet and Hana's friend Daigo as Romeo, and translated by Hana, Renko finally opens up to Hana and the two become the best of friends. Hana, however, is furious when Renko suddenly leaves the school without telling her to marry Densuke Kano, a coal-mining baron from Fukuoka Kyushu, not knowing Renko's family had again forced her into a political marriage. Hana continues on to the upper school, and it is at that time she encounters Kayo, her younger sister who had been contracted to a sewing mill, but had fled the miserable conditions. She helps her get back on her feet, but with little employment for an intelligent, independent woman, Hana leaves Kayo in Tokyo upon graduation and returns to Kōfu to become a teacher at her old primary school.
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