Title: 白夜行
Title (romaji): Byakuyako
Also known as: Journey Under a Midnight Sun
Genre: Romance, suspense
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 12.28
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2006-Jan-12 to 2006-Mar-23
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Kage by Shibasaki Kou
Synopsis
When Ryoji finds out that the object of his father's perversion is his first love, Yukiho, he kills him. To his horror, Yukiho's mother forced her to do so to relieve their dire economic straits. Yukiho also retaliates in similar manner by staging a suicide for her mother as well as herself. It's been 14 years since then and the boy that gave up everything and the girl that waged her life on the boy are struggling to continue to love each other. They grow up attempting to keep it secret and ride out the statute of limitations. In order to protect Yukiho, and improve her life, Ryoji enters the world of vice and dabbles in crimes to support her.
Cast
Yamada Takayuki as Kirihara Ryoji
Izumisawa Yuuki as Kirihara Ryoji
Ayase Haruka as Karasawa Yukiho
Fukuda Mayuko as Nishimoto (Karasawa) Yukiho
Watabe Atsuro as Matsuura Isamu
Kashiwabara Takashi as Shinozuka Kazunari
Tanaka Koutaro as Koga Hisashi
Koide Keisuke as Sonomura Tomohiko
Tanaka Kei as Kikuchi Michihiro
Yachigusa Kaoru as Karasawa Reiko
Okunuki Kaoru as Nishiguchi Namie
Otsuka Chihiro as Kawashima Eriko
Kurasawa Momoko as Fujimura Miyako
Kasugai Seina as Kotake Ryoko
Shioya Shun as Takamiya Makoto
Sato Hitomi as Misawa Chizuru
Hirata Mitsuru as Kirihara Yosuke
Aso Yumi as Kirihara Yaeko
Kawai Michiko as Nishimoto Fumiyo
Yo Kimiko as Taniguchi Mafumi
Nishida Naomi as Kurihara Noriko
Takeda Tetsuya as Sasagaki Junzo
Guests
Godai Takayuki (ep1)
Nishida Natsumi (ep2)
Onoue Hiroyuki (ep2)
Otsuka Yoshie (ep2-3)
Yamauchi Nao (ep2,4-5,7)
Nishiyama Mayuko (ep2,5-6,8)
Fujimori Shohei (ep3)
Mizumori Kota (ep3)
Mukai Osamu (ep3)
Asaoka Mirei (ep3)
Matoba Koji as Enomoto Hiroshi (ep3)
Suzuki Jun (ep4)
Okuda Erika (ep4-6)
Harada Chieko (ep6)
Sunaga Kei (ep7,11)
Yashiba Toshihiro (ep8)
Fujishige Masataka (ep8)
Hirata Yuka (ep8,11)
Aoki Kazuyo (ep9)
Mukai Masao (ep11)
Omura Ayako (ep11)
Abe Ryohei