Amachan backdrop
Amachan poster
Trailer
Amachan
8.3
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15m
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2013
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Ended
Overview
Amachan is the 88th 2013 NHK asadora written by Kankuro Kudo (Tiger and Dragon, Unobore Deka). It's about Amano Aki (Nounen Rena), a 16 year old girl from Tokyo who goes to her mother's former home in Sodegahama, a fishing village in Kitasanriku, Iwate prefecture for the summer break. She falls in love with the sea and its people, and decides to stay on to become an Ama (women divers who fetch clams and sea urchins for tourists) just like her grandmother, Natsu (Miyamoto Nobuko). Her decision is welcomed wholeheartedly by Natsu and the other locals. However, her mother Haruko (Koizumi Kyoko) does not like the idea at first. She has a strained relationship with Natsu, and her extreme dislike of the sea, diving and the countryside is one of the reasons why she left her hometown 24 years ago. Eventually, she decides to stay in Sodegahama with Aki, considering that she is contemplating on getting a divorce anyway and does not want to go back to her husband in Tokyo. She also notices that it might be good for Aki for she seems livelier and happier in Kitasanriku than in Tokyo. The road towards becoming a full-fledged Ama-san is tough for Aki as she encounters tests and hurdles. One day, a video of her as an Ama gets uploaded in the city's tourism website, transforming an ordinary high school girl into an overnight Internet sensation. Suddenly she is called upon to use this opportunity to attract tourists to a city suffering from depopulation.

Cast
Non poster
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Aki Amano
Ai Hashimoto poster
Ai Hashimoto
Yui Adachi
Nobuko Miyamoto poster
Nobuko Miyamoto
Natsu Amano
Kyoko Koizumi poster
Kyoko Koizumi
Haruko Amano
Kasumi Arimura poster
Kasumi Arimura
Young Haruko Amano
Hiroko Yakushimaru poster
Hiroko Yakushimaru
Hiromi Suzuka
Tetta Sugimoto poster
Tetta Sugimoto
Daikichi Oomukai
Masahiro Higashide poster
Masahiro Higashide
Young Daikichi Ōmukai
Teppei Koike poster
Teppei Koike
Hiroshi Adachi
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa poster
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Masayoshi Yoshida
Ryuhei Matsuda poster
Ryuhei Matsuda
Takuma Mizuguchi
Toshinori Omi poster
Toshinori Omi
Masamune Kurokawa
Keizo Kanie poster
Keizo Kanie
Chūbee Amano
Eri Watanabe poster
Eri Watanabe
Yayoi Konno
Daikichi Sugawara poster
Daikichi Sugawara
Atsushi Konno
Hana Kino poster
Hana Kino
Katsue Osanai
Denden poster
Denden
Rokurō Osanai
Jun Miho poster
Jun Miho
Misuzu Kumagai
Hairi Katagiri poster
Hairi Katagiri
Sayuri Anbe
Mitsuru Fukikoshi poster
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Tamotsu Sugawara

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