- Drama: Good Life ~Arigatou, Papa. Sayonara~
- Romaji: Good Life ~Arigatou, Papa. Sayonara~
- Japanese: グッドライフ~ありがとう、パパ。さよなら~
- Director: Yoshishige Miyake, Keiichiro Shiraki
- Writer: Jo Chang-In (novel), Satomi Oshima, Tomomi Okubo
- Producer: Takahiro Kasaoki, Jun Kimura
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episodes: 11
- Release Date: April 19, 2011 – June 28, 2011
- Runtime: Tuesday 22:00 – 22:54
- TV Ratings: 8.6% (weekly average)
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©
Daichi Sawamoto (Takashi Sorimachi) is a society reporter for a newspaper company. One day, his wife Kaori (Haruka Igawa) leaves behind divorce papers for him to sign. Daichi begins to take care of his 6-year-old his son Hakumo (Amon Kabe) alone.
Meanwhile, Child Life Specialist Nanami (Nana Eikura) begins work at a pediatrics hospital. She tries to have good relationships with the nurses, but the nurses are unfamiliar with her work.
Daichi gets a phone call from Hakumo’s homeroom teacher Ryoji (Hirofumi Araki). Ryoji tells him that his son was injured, but Daichi hangs up and goes to his lawyer’s office to settle his divorce.
6-year-old Hakumo tells Dr. Minato (Tsuyoshi Ihara) that his injury is no big deal, but he has felt knee pain for some time. Dr. Minato gets a sense of foreboding.
Notes
- Based on the Korean best seller “Kashigoki” by Jo Chang-In, which was first published in 2000 & has sold over 2,000,000 copies.
Cast
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Takashi Sorimachi | Amon Kabe | Haruka Igawa | Nana Eikura | Tsuyoshi Ihara | Takeshi Kaga |
Daichi Sawamoto | Hakumo Sawamoto | Kaori Sawamoto | Nanami Konno | Dr. Minato Maruyama | Shinpei Yukimura |
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Hirofumi Araki | Kunito Watanabe | Natsuko Nagaike | Toshiyuki Kitami |
Ryoji Hosokawa | Keiji Kuroki | Yuka Adachi | Shinichi Okuda |
Additional Cast Members:
- Yutaka Matsushige – Daichi’s father
- Masumi Ohkawa – Daichi’s mother
- Waku Sakaguchi – Daichi Sawamoto (young)
- Rena Haruyama – Miyoko Kamata
- Megumi Kobashi – Yoko Mizushima (ep1,3)
- Ayumi Maruo – Kaori Sawamoto colleague (ep.4,9)
- Jung Woo-Sung – Dr Lee (ep.6,7)
- Yurika Tajima – Eiko Inoue
- Megumi Hata – Aoi Segawa (ep.1-8,10-11)
- Kaisei Honda – Kai (ep.1-8,10-11)
- Eru Yamada – Sora Taninaka (ep.1-8,11)
- Sakikai Sekido – Kenta Sekine (ep.8,10)
- Yuta Kanai – Kojima (ep.1-2,4)
- Rikiya – Takayuki Fukushima (ep.1-3)
- Ryuji Yamamoto – Tani (ep.1-3)
- Masahiro Toda – (ep.4-6)
- Atsuko Fukuda – Miki Minagawa (ep.1-7)
- Rena Haruyama – Miyoko Kamata (ep.1-7)
- Junko Hamura – Miyavi Mayama (ep.1-7)
- Umi Yamano – head nurse (ep.1-2)
- Kokoa Ishii – Hana (ep.1,2)
- Koko Mori – Mari Azuma (ep.3)
- Kaoru Okunuki – Miki Fujimoto (ep.2-4)
- Ryo Iwamatsu – Lawyer Ninomiya (ep.1)
- Nasubi – convenience store clerk (ep.1)
- Hajime Yamazaki – Naito (ep.7-8)
- Jinta Nishizawa – surgeon (ep.9)
- Katsuo Nakamura – photographer (ep.9)
- Shunji Kanai – lawyer (ep.11)
- Takashi Ito
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