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Liaison (2023)
Country | Japan |
Season Year | Winter 2023 |
Air Dates | Jan 20, 2023 – Mar 10, 2023 |
Episodes | 8 |
Runtime | 60 |
Timeslot | Friday at 11:15 pm |
Network(s) | TV Asahi |
Official Site | |
Licensed | No |
Synopsis
Doctor Sayama Taku (Yamazaki Ikusaburo) runs Sayama Kodomo Clinic, which specialises in child psychiatry. His family owns a general hospital but he chose to take over his aunt’s small clinic in the outskirts. As a result, Taku is treated as an oddball by the family. However, he has a certain conviction. As someone who has been living with autism spectrum disorder, he understands the struggles more than anyone and values the time he has with child patients and their families. Toono Shiho (Matsumoto Honoka), a medical intern at Taku’s clinic, loves children. When she was interning at a university hospital’s pediatrics department, she kept making mistakes until she ended up committing a blunder that could have led to a grave accident. Her professor told her to give up on becoming a doctor. Around the same time, she learned that she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Shiho was at the point of letting go of her dream to be a doctor. But an encounter with Taku gave her the encouragement that she needed to carry on.
Cast
- Yamazaki Ikusaburo as Sayama Taku
- Lead Role
- Matsumoto Honoka as Tono Shiho
- Lead Role
- Kuriyama Chiaki as Mukaiyama Kazuki
- Support Role
- Korenaga Hitomi as Ichikawa Nagisa
- Support Role
- Shida Mirai as Hori Rin
- Support Role
- Tozuka Junki as Kawashima Masaki
- Support Role
- Fubuki Jun as Sayama Rie
- Support Role
- Asami Shiho as Tono Shiho
- Guest Role
- Young
- Kawahara Eito as Yuzuki Ryota
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 1
- Sato Renwa as Hasebe Mie
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 1
- Hoshino Mari as Yuzuki Yukie
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 1
- Asakura Aki as Hasebe Sachiko
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 1
- Kimijima Mitsuki as Higashida Kana
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 1
- Nonaka Isao as Iwasaki
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 1
- Nakanishi Enishi as Yu
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 1
- Koyama Sou as Ikoma Sho
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 1
- Seshio
- Guest Role
- Driver
- Episode(s): 1
- Asada Halo as Takigawa Yuri
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 2
- Okada Yoshinori as Takigawa Osamu
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 2
- Fujishige Masataka as Tanabe Katsumi
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 2
- Nomura Masumi as Murata Maki
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 2
- Tanaka Teruhiro as Koki
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 2
- Akikura Ryoko
- Guest Role
- Koki's mother
- Episode(s): 2
- Sawada Yuno as Kakizaki Nozomi
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 3
- Kurokawa Tomoka as Kakizaki Takako
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 3
- Onoue Hiroyuki as Kakizaki Satoshi
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 3
- Takahashi Yoko
- Guest Role
- Takako's friend
- Episode(s): 3
- Ueno Sumire
- Guest Role
- Takako's friend
- Episode(s): 3
- Yasu Akiko
- Guest Role
- Takako's friend
- Episode(s): 3
- Yagishita Koga
- Guest Role
- Group of Boys
- Episode(s): 3
- Toyoda Haruto
- Guest Role
- Group of Boys
- Episode(s): 3
- Shogaki Minato
- Guest Role
- Group of Boys
- Episode(s): 3
- Tadokoro Chisa
- Guest Role
- Woman
- Episode(s): 3
- Kazuki
- Guest Role
- Boy
- Episode(s): 3
- Kataoka Rin as Furukawa Juri
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
- Anami Atsuko as Furukawa Tomoyo
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
- Akamatsu Shin as Furukawa Daisuke
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
- Kudo Mio as Sara
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
- Suzuki Rio as Shizuku
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
- Fukumuro Rion as Miho
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
- Miyashita Takahiro as Imagawa
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
- Narahara Masahiro as Kondo
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
- Honoka Rin as Kiyomiya
- Guest Role
- Episode(s): 4
Crew
- Yoshida Noriko
- Screenwriter
- Komatsu Takashi
- Director
- Takezono Hajime
- Director
- Saito Yuki (1979)
- Director
- Nishioka To Neil
- Screenwriter
- Tokuda Masahiro
- Composer
Music
Theme Song 1
Theme Song 2
Theme Song 3
Promotional images, screencaps, .gifs, etc.
5 Reviews for Liaison
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royMay 28, 2023Midnightwalk’s review – LiaisonIs this helpful?
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ShaunMarch 26, 2023 SPOILERHeartwarming and wholesome!Is this helpful?
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Dinner0801March 12, 2023Refreshing and Warm
A wonderful drama with an important theme that faces in a deep but delicate way,a straight though very soft language about autism is Avery wide and complete language/mode .
The cast is exceptional and the acting of any participant is extremely good, detailed but with the best delicacy skills .
I know is not your flashy WOW drama cast , doesn’t scream like Avengers of JDramas are here to change your life ,but for who can watch it raw will have a comfortable cup of the best tea or hot chocolate or the most comfortable Frappucino sold in your Starbucks or chain you have !
It reminds me a bit (for the delicate way to speak and cast and beauty ) Toumei na Yurikago with Kiyohara Kaya and Seto Koji !
Exactly Matsumoto Honoka and Yamasaki Ikusaburo bring the freshness and the deep of a theme that usually is avoided or represented only in a extreme way ,but Autism is a wide spectrum !
Please give this drama a chance if you can watch it raw ,esp when you feel a bit down or lonely or you need yourself and need to cut the outside world ,open the device you use ,your favorite comfortable drink/food/ sweet/ snack and shut the outside world to see it,at the end of every episode you will feel the warmth of the drama ,and start up again with the interrupted realityIs this helpful? -
LexJune 3, 2023machikeita’s review – LiaisonIs this helpful?
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jschocoFebruary 24, 2024jschoco’s review – LiaisonIs this helpful?
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