Kokoro (TV series)

Kokoro (こころ) is a Japanese television drama series and the 68th Asadora series, following Manten. It premiered on March 31, 2003 and concluded on September 27, 2003.

Suenaga and Asakura family

 * Noriko Nakagoshi as Kokoro Asakura (her maiden name was Suenaga)
 * Ran Itō as Misako Suenaga, Kokoro's mother
 * Keiko Kishi as Izumi Kiyono, Kokoro's grandmother (also as narrator)
 * Akira Terao as Takuro Suenaga, Kokoro's father
 * Tōru Nakamura as Yusaku Asakura, Kokoro's husband
 * Tomoka Kurokawa as Sachi Asakura, Yusaku and Kanna's daughter
 * Ryohei Hirota as Yūta Asakura, Yusaku and Kanna's son
 * Kōjirō Kusanagi as Yuri Asakura, Yusaku's father
 * Akemi Omori as Haruko Asakura, Yusaku's mother
 * Naomi Zaizen as Kanna Fujii, Yusaku's ex-wife

Hotta family

 * Hiroshi Tamaki as Takumi Hotta, a fireworks craftsman
 * Takeshi Onishi as Tadashi Hotta, Takumi's brother
 * Taisaku Akino as Denzo Hotta, Takumi and Tadashi's father
 * Yuka Itaya as Mariko Hotta, Tadashi's wife

Employees at Kiyokawa

 * Hatsuo Yamaya as Tetsuo Tange, an eel chef at Kiyokawa
 * Yukiko Shimizu as Yoshie Chino, a Kiyokawa waitress
 * Kunikazu Katsumata as Yasuo Seino, a chef at Kiyokawa
 * Moro Morooka as Jō Goi, a board chief
 * Yoshitora Okamoto as Carlos Tanaka, a Japanese Brazilian employee at Kiyokawa

People in Asakusa

 * Kenichi Nagira as Mantaro Yamamoto, the owner of Yamamoto-ya
 * Eiko Koike as Towako Yamamoto, Mantaro's daughter and Kokoro's best friend
 * Ryo Kato as Jiro Yamamoto, Mantaro's son and Towako's brother
 * Moto Fuyuki as Tetsuo Ōba, the owner of Ōba-yu
 * Mika Hada as Kasumi Ōba, Tetsuo's daughter and a heiress of Ōba-yu
 * Takahiro Azuma as Katsuo Ōba, Kasumi's husband
 * Rumiko Sogawa as Sumiko Ōba, Tetsuo's wife and Kasumi's mother
 * Raita Ryu as Ikkoku Nakajima, the owner of Nakajima Fireworks
 * Sadao Abe as Gin Nakajima, Ikkoku's son
 * Hiroshi Inuzuka as Sadao Yoshikawa, a man who runs the tailor shop
 * Papaya Suzuki as Kaoru Ochiai, a doctor and Yusaku's friend
 * Yasukiyo Umeno as Isao Fujioka
 * Masuyuki Shida as Tsutomu Fujioka, Isao's son
 * Miki Matsumoto as Mayumi Sugii, a nurse

People in Yamakoshi village

 * Kazuko Kato as Saori Uesugi, daughter of a fireworks factory manager
 * Shinjirō Ehara as Eizō Uesugi, a fireworks factory owner
 * Sachiko Sakurai as Yumeko Murakami, Tatsuzo's daughter
 * Susumu Kurobe as Tatsuzo Murakami, a carp producer and Yumeko's father
 * Sarutoki Minagawa as Mamoru Hoshikawa, Tatsuzo's sub-ordinate

Others

 * Mayuko Takata as Ryōko Tachibana, a single mother and Kokoro's senior
 * Nami Ichinohe as Rikako Tamakoshi, Kokoro's colleague
 * Kaito Shiono as Kazuhiro Tachibana, Ryōko's son
 * Tsutomu Isobe as Kazunari Tamakoshi, Rikako's father
 * Rumiko Koyanagi as Koemi Chino, Yoshie's sister