Bara no nai Hanaya [Flower Shop without A Rose]

Bara no nai Hanaya
~Flower Shop without A Rose~

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Broadcast: Fuji TV, January - March 2008 (starts on Jan 14th!)
Air-time: Mondays, 9 PM
Themesong: "Zutto Issho sa" by Yamashita Tatsuro

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Casts:
Katori Shingo as Shiomi Eiji
Takeuchi Yuko as Shirato Mio
Shaku Yumiko as Ono Yuki
Matsuda Shota as Kudo Naoya
Ikeuchi Junko as Hishida Keiko
Miura Tomokazu as Anzai Teruo
Terajima Susumu as Shijo Kengo
Motokariya Yuika as Shizuku's mother
Yagi Yuki as Shiomi Shizuku

Scriptwriter: Nojima Shinji (Kou Kou Kyoushi, Miseinen, Under The Same Roof, Strawberry on Shortcake, Golden Bowl, PRIDE)

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The blind beauty, Shirato Mio...

The media is making a fuss that this drama will be as big as Hitotsu Yane no Shita [Under The Same Roof], starring Eguchi Yousuke, Fukuyama Masaharu, and Sakai Noriko, that aired 15 years ago. Well, let's just see :mrgreen:


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Synopsis of Episode 1
translated by Yanie

Shiomi Eiji (Katori Shingo) is a hard-worker man who manages a small flower shop, while raising his little daughter alone. He lives a simple life together with his daughter. His 8 years old daughter, Shizuku, is a healthy child and goes to school everyday.

One day, he come across a blind lady, Shirato Mio (Takeuchi Yuko), who was sheltering herself from the rain below his shop's eaves. Naturally, he invited her to come inside the shop, but Mio refused stating that she doesn't need his sympathy. Strangely, the two first met is full of misunderstandings...

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Right on that moment, Shizuku's teacher, Ono Yuki (Shaku Yumiko) called Eiji, so he run to the school immediately. Recently, Shizuku has been going to school with her head covered by a paperbag. Eiji thought there must be a big problem, but when he enter the classroom, he sees something unexpected...

A 71 years old lady, Hishida Keiko (Ikeuchi Junko), Eiji's benefactor who has taught him knowledge about flowers, tries to talk to Shizuku about it, but it didn't get to a conclusion.

On that night, when Eiji delivered a flower bouquet to a host club, he met a young man, Kudo Naoya (Matsuda Shota), one of the host, who were blamed and attacked by his co-workers. Eiji who cannot stay quiet when he sees this, helped him and invited him to his small house.

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Now, in the house, there are Eiji, Shizuku, Mio who gets along immediately with Shizuku, Naoya who becomes a freeloader in the house, and Keiko who comes once in awhile, they all unexpectedly has come to live under the same roof together. Adding the master of the cafe across the flower shop who is also the flower shop's guarantor because he believes in Eiji, is Shijo Kengo (Terajima Susumu), and Yuki-sensei, Shizuku's teacher, the story will show different kinds of love.

Meanwhile, a big hospital's president, Anzai Teruo (Tomokazu Miura), has been aftering Eiji desperately. What is he chasing Eiji for?

source: Bara no nai Hanaya Official Website

sugoi.. it looks like a very promising drama.. and the casts are superb!! :applaud: looking forward watching it!! I hopew they will sub it as soon as possible :mrgreen:

and I also like the title of the drama.. even though it's a little weird :sweat:

Thanks for posting. The hype is a bit over the top I feel, but looking forward to it. :woot:

"Motokariya Yuika as Shizuku's mother "
She looks hardly old enough to be a mother, let alone an eight years old's... Hope the plot isn't too weird, and the characters don't suffer too much. Being written by Shinji Nojima and all. :sweat:

xploring wrote:"Motokariya Yuika as Shizuku's mother "
She looks hardly old enough to be a mother, let alone an eight years old's... Hope the plot isn't too weird, and the characters don't suffer too much. Being written by Shinji Nojima and all. :sweat:

Motokariya Yuika's character is suppose to look young. According to the magazine articles, her character is 22 years old in the flashback scenes. She only appears in flashback. She is Eiji's wife who died 8 years ago, right after she gave birth to Shizuku, their daughter ^_^

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edited and translated by Yanie
source: Bara no nai Hanaya Official Website

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Bara no nai Hanaya 20-secs CM (2.6 MB) link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/l5ot7e

Thanks for the CM yanie :) I think I am gonna watch this. I've seen seen Takeuchi Yuko act before but she looks really promising, not to mention she's darn pretty!

Lol, I couldn't believe it when she got tackled by the old guy from HachiKuro in the bowling special :rofl:

atskv9 wrote:Thanks for the CM yanie :) I think I am gonna watch this. I've seen seen Takeuchi Yuko act before but she looks really promising, not to mention she's darn pretty!

Lol, I couldn't believe it when she got tackled by the old guy from HachiKuro in the bowling special :rofl:

really you haven't watched her? you should try lunch queen :mrgreen:

INTERVIEW 1: Katori Shingo-san (acting the role as Shiomi Eiji)

translated by Yanie

Q. What was your impression the first time you read Nojima Shinji-san's "Bara no nai Hanaya" script?
I've loved Nojima-san's works since a long time ago. I've once starred "Miseinen" drama written by Nojima-san, but has not been playing in a drama written by him, since then. I've been playing the roles, like in "NINxNIN~Ninja Hattori-kun THE MOVIE" and "SAIYUUKI", instead, which feels 'kinda' apart from Nojima-san's pieces.
Now, I'm finally going to star a drama written by him again, and I've read "Bara no nai Hanaya" script, then I've realized all over again that I do like Nojima-san's story. His stories really captures people's hearts. Unusually, he writes many "dialogues" which are not expressed by words. Things that are usually not really often, or not good to be said, are said in his scripts. Actually, there are lines in the scripts that I don't really want to recite, however I have no choice but to recite it. Each line is really capturing. I've only read the beginning, yet I feel really moved already.

Q. How about the first time you had an introduction meeting with the other casts and staffs? When you read the script together with them?
The introduction meeting's atmosphere was sullen (laughs). Actually, introduction meeting in any kind of productions would have this sullen kind of air. It's the first time for staffs and casts to meet, so everyone's nervous. It always started by the producers, who gives stutter greetings, thus it becomes contagious for the others (laughs). Of course, I was also nervous, it gave a feeling of "I hope this meeting finishes soon".

Q. What do you think of your co-stars on that moment?
Even from the script-reading time, everyone fits their role's images perfectly. It felt like the images I had of the characters when I read the script has appeared before my eyes. In previous productions, I slowly started to feel "This person fits the image, da naa..." as the filming progressed. But this time, the moment I met them, I immediately knew "This person must be playing this role!". I never really experienced that before.

Q. What kind of character is Eiji?
I really think "There are parts of him that resembles me". Although I have sides like Son Gokuu, but actually I also have sides of myself that I don't really want people to know. Though I don't want people to know, or don't want to show it in front of others, coincidentally there are not many people who can pull off that side of me. Eiji has many of that side of me, so I guess this time everyone might be able to see my other side that I've been hiding all this time.

Q. Has it been a long time since you play a human role?
First of all, I'm very happy about it (laughs). But at the same time, it's also difficult. Now, there are times when I thought that a "not human" role was easier to act. Well, I guess each role has it's own difficulties. For instance, Gokuu always shows this high tension acts, but on the contrary, it is difficult to hold it back now.
It's the kind of difficulties that "Is it okay if I act this in a natural way?", and to express it in a natural way, is exactly the difficult part. Of course, Eiji is totally different than Gokuu. And what I've been doing in the filming this time, is to empty my mind when I'm acting the role. Not thinking of anything, and just emptied my head. Then I tried to recite each of my lines...
I really didn't think of "on this moment, I should say it in this intonation", not at all. Though there's a possibility it'll become a bad result, but it is also actually a "straight-reading", so if the result's good, it might be better that way.

Q. This is the first time you're playing the role as a father, ne. Is there any strange feeling about it?
Not at all. When I read the paper's articles headlines, "Shingo Papa!", I just realized "Aa~, so I've never played the role as a father before?" (laughs). I really don't think of any special way to act the role just because it's the first time I'm playing the role as a father.

Q. What is your impression of your co-star, Takeuchi Yuko?
I feel really happy to be able to star a drama with her. Because she's the kind of actress that will make actors thinks "it'll be great if I can act a drama together with her someday". Not only as her co-star, but I feel excited of what kind of acting she will show this time, as a common person too. The more we discuss about it, the more we feel excited about it.

Q. This drama's genre is "human love story", right?
That expression is very appropriate. This is a human drama, and also, not just a man and woman's type of love, but it also has many types of human relationship's love. This drama also shows the type of hate that is caused by a love.

Q. It seems like the story's development is the kind that's hard to imagine, ne.
Yes. In each episode, there will be unthinkable, sudden and extreme developments, and that applies for Episode 2, 3 and 4 too... that's what I love the most from this story. And the staffs who has read more than Ep.4 told me, "The development will get more extreme later,". Wow, I cannot imagine, since even from the first and second episode are quite extreme already (laughs). So, I guess for those who doesn't know the contents of the script are lucky. If you read alot of it already, then you watch the previous scenes, you'll think "Aa... because it's gonna be like that later, so it's like this on this moment...", and you'll think many more things.
So, minna-san, please look forward to those developments and watch the show.


The themesong of the drama is "Zutto Issho sa" (Always Together) by Yamashita Tatsuro, that will be released in March 2008. Shingo was asked about the themesong.
"This song really fits the drama, and lately I've been humming to this song. There's this "shijima" word in the lyrics and I look it up in the dictionary, and apparently it means "silence". I really love how Yamashita-san sings."

source: Bara no nai Hanaya Official Website

you really are into this drama yanie-chan :hehe:

The Casts' Greetings at the Press Conference, 19 December 2007
translated by Yanie

Nojima Shinji (scriptwriter):
Minna-san, ohisashiburi(long time no see) desu (laughs). We have gathered such a wonderful casting here. Everyone have their own acting quality type, and it's like I've been given various colours of crayons while having fun drawing the picture(*writing the script).
There's the last episode's script left for me to write from now on, and just so you get the picture, I'm thinking to end it like "New Cinema Paradise"(*Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, the 1989 Italian movie) ending. What do you think?

Nakae Isao (director):
It's been 2 weeks since we started filming, and it has progressed smoothly (laughs). In this story, there are some complex parts, so we can't talk much about the plot. I've worked together with Nojima-san so many times, and it seems that our combination gives the impression of a dark story drama image. But I can assure you, that is not the case for this time. Although we've only started filming, and I don't know how many more production I'll do in the future, but this story is definitely in my BEST 3 list for now!

Katori Shingo (Shiomi Eiji):
Just like how the director has said that this story is his Best 3, I really love this story too. There are several surprising developments in the first episode, and there are still more surprising developments in the second, third episode, then I heard from the staff that it becomes continuously surprising in each episode. I think it'll pull out our acting skills to the max. I've only read up to the second episode, though. I read the script for the second episode, right before the filming started, so I was surprised and at the same time I have to get ready to act the scene myself (laughs). If I don't do this seriously, it'll definitely be difficult. But even it's in the cold weather, we are progressing smoothly. Minna-san, please watch it. I will also definitely watch when it broadcast on TV.

Takeuchi Yuko (Shirato Mio):
There are alot of things I cannot talk about right now, so first of all, I just want everyone to watch the first episode. And yes, the filming is really progressing smoothly (laughs). Slowly the casts and staffs comes to get along with each other and everyone has good team work. Everyone are doing their best, so yoroshiku onegaiitashimasu.

Shaku Yumiko (Ono Yuki):
This is my first time in playing the role as an elementary school teacher. The kids I've been filming scenes together with, are very lively and they shared that power to me, so I managed to keep acting the part. I'd like to get used to the filming set's atmosphere soon, just like Katori-san, who is always lively on the set, just like the sun to all of us.

Matsuda Shota (Kudo Naoya):
To express it in one word, Naoya is a "noisy" guy, but he has many secrets. He's a guy who brings alot of his dark past. We're still in the beginning of the filming, so together with the directors and casts, I'd like to form this character more.

Terajima Susumu (Shijo Kengo):
I don't know much, since I haven't finish reading the script, but it's been a long time since I act in an adult drama. I hope we can finish this filming safely without anyone getting hurt. Let's not catch a cold until the closing ceremony, and I want to drink good sake with everyone!

Ikeuchi Junko (Hishida Keiko):
Nojima-san, the writer and Nakae-san, the director has strangely, given me this beautiful role. An old lady who doesn't act like her age, so I feel nervous in acting it. I hope I can do this together with everyone to the end without catching cold. I'll do my best. Yoroshiku onegaiitashimasu!

Miura Tomokazu (Anzai Teruo):
I'm playing the role as a president of a well-known hospital, who hates Eiji, the character Shingo-kun's playing, because of a reason. Why does he hate Eiji? It'll be revealed slowly in the drama. And please look forward to the changes happen to this man.

source: Bara no nai Hanaya Official Website

Katori Shingo... :smitten: :smitten:

yanie_chan wrote:[
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Kyaa!! Matsuda Shota!!! :shocked:

amyhisashi wrote:Katori Shingo... :smitten: :smitten:

are??? same with me here!

shingo :smitten: :smitten: :love_eyes: :love_eyes:

kisarazu wrote:you really are into this drama yanie-chan :hehe:

Because she's a Shingo-ichiban! :hehe:

Fye_D.Flowright wrote:

are??? same with me here!

shingo :smitten: :smitten: :love_eyes: :love_eyes:

He looks really kawaii on Nakai Drama Festival Bowling Comp. :victory:

Fye_D.Flowright wrote:

are??? same with me here!

shingo :smitten: :smitten: :love_eyes: :love_eyes:

*high five* :victory:

Thanks for the translations and everything else yanie!
:applaud: Looking forward to this. :woot:

Anyone know how long this will be? 10, 11, or 12 episodes?

Whoa. I think this could be a real success :applaud:
Nicey, nicey 1st episode.


I'm not sure about the amount of episodes. Have to check that soon.