[TBS] Smile

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TV Show: Smile
Japanese: スマイル
Director: Yasuharu Ishii
Writer: Takayuki Takuma
Network: TBS
Episodes:
Release Date: April 17, 2009 --
Runtime: Friday 22:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

Bito Hayakawa (Jun Matsumoto) has a Japanese mother and Filipino father. Since he was very young he has carried a complex about his mixed ethnicity. Even with his complex, Bito has a bright character and smile. Hana Mishima (Yui Aragaki) lost her voice, but she is also a bright girl that makes things around her brighter. Kazuma Ito (Kiichi Nakai) is a lawyer who likes to be noticed. He tends to look down on people with his own particular smile. Bito, Hana, and Kazuma shares a secret from the past. Because of this connection they will affect society ...

Cast

Jun Matsumoto - Bito Hayakawa
Yui Aragaki - Hana Mishima
Eiko Koike - Shiori Machimura
Masanobu Katsumura - Keisuke Kashiwagi
Gin Maeda - Sosuke Machimura
Ayumi Ishida - Midori Machimura
Kiichi Nakai - Kazuma Ito
Hidenori Tokuyama - Kinta
Suzunosuke - Kenji Kazima
Shun Oguri - Seiji Hayashi
Toshiyuki Kitami - Furuse
Masanobu Katsumura - Keisuke Kashiwagi
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi - Takayanagi


I'm excited for this but I also worried bec. I'm Filipino I'm afraid that this tv drama shows abt. the discrimination of Filipinos'.

I'm also really excited for this drama <3. I find it funny how their using Jun though...I mean he looks 100% Japanese too me. Is Japan known to be really racist? Because, it's not like the character Jun plays is not Japanese at all, either way if I was Fillipino I'd still watch it. Because it's just a drama and to me ethnicity doesn't matter, I just view people as people not their ethnicity. In fact whenever people at my school for example take their ethnicity as pride...I find it real dumb. Because it doesn't matter at all what their backround is, but how people will view them is based on their personality.

I think you still should watch it nikkiand not take the discrimanition they show in it to heart. Because, like most dramas...it'll probably have an ending that teaches not to be racist. Kinda like how school drama's (like Gokusen and some others) teaches to go to school and enjoy it no matter what.

so far this drama is a bit weird...maybe because some things are happening too fast and because the plot strings are so interwoven...

maybe it'll get better with time :X

I've only seen up to ep 2, because those are the only ones I can find with subs. Anyone know where I can find the others with subs??

I haven't watched it yet cause I'm with other dramas at the moment.
The plot doesn't catch my attention but I'll give it a try because of Jun and Gaki.