Narimichi, born to a high ranking Tokugawa family, spends his sheltered days bored and lonely. One night, the family retainer, Seta Sukejiro tells Narimichi a story involving Tenku, a monster who resides in the mountains near his hometown of Setamura. Narimichi is fascinated by the tale and heads off to Setamura with Seta Sukejiro.
Rai lives in the mountains near Setamura. She lives with her foster father Riemon. 20 years ago Riemon refused orders to kill young Rai over disputes over water rights and since then has raised her as his own child. Rie often threatens villagers who come into the mountains to not damage the mountains.
On the way to Setamura, Narimichi decides to ride alone into the mountains to where the rumored Tenku lives. There he comes across Rai. Narimichi, now back in Setamura, tells Sukejiro of a female Tenku he came across in the mountains. Sukejiro responds that he is sure the woman he saw is his younger sister Yu - who was kidnapped 20 years ago.
Rie, who was told by her foster father to go live with her birth family, then comes to live in the village of Setamura as Yu. Narimichi and Yu meet once again near the lightning tree. Yu, having grown up alone in the mountains, knows nothing of the class system and treats Narimichi in a frank, honest way. They are both attracted to each other...", "video": { "@type": "VideoObject", "name": "The Lightning Tree (2010) - Episode 1", "description": "Watch The Lightning Tree (2010) - Episode 1 online.", "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/drama/GPKR9c.jpg", "uploadDate": "2020-07-18", "embedUrl": "https://hndrama.cc/embed/drama/10541/1", "potentialAction": [ { "@type": "WatchAction", "target": { "@type": "EntryPoint", "urlTemplate": "https://dwish.pro/e/8o2f9grjji49" } }, { "@type": "WatchAction", "target": { "@type": "EntryPoint", "urlTemplate": "https://dood.wf/e/yuzh3x2suzc5" } } ] }, "actor": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Okada Masaki", "alternateName": "岡田将生", "birthDate": "August 15, 1989", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Okada Masaki, born in Edogawa-Ku, Tokyo, is a Japanese actor managed by Stardust Promotion. Okada was scouted in Harajuku when he was in the second year of junior high school. Initially, he refused the offer as he was absorbed in the activities of the basketball club. After entering high school he contacted the office and made his debut in 2006. He was enrolled in a university in Tokyo in parallel with his entertainment activities, but dropped out of the university at the end of 2009 and devoted himself to acting.
Okada's breakthrough came two years after his debut. From the winter of 2008 to 2009, Okada appeared in the starring roles for five movies that were released consecutively - "Someday's Dreamers", "Halfway", "Honokaa Boy", "Gravity's Clowns" and "Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu". These performances led him to the "Best New Artist" award at the 34th edition of the Hochi Film Award. He was also nominated for "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role" at the 34th Japan Academy Film Prize for "Akunin" (2009) and "Confessions" (2010).
In 2012, Okada played the role of Minamoto no Yoritomo and also served as the narrator of the Taiga drama "Taira no Kiyomori". It was his first-ever appearance in a Taiga drama, and he became the youngest actor to portray the role of Minamoto no Yoritomo at the age of 22.
Okada made his stage debut in 2014 with "Total Eclipse", directed by Ninagawa Yukio. Most recently, he was portrayed Katsura Kotaro in the live-action film series "Gintama".", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/4egEdk_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Koide Keisuke", "alternateName": "小出恵介, 小出惠介, こいで けいすけ, 코이데 케이스케, Keisuke Koide, Кэисукэ Коидэ", "birthDate": "February 20, 1984", "nationality": "Minato, Tokyo, Japan", "description": "Keisuke Koide is a Japanese actor. In June 2017, he was exposed to drinking with a minor (17-year-old girl) and had an improper sexual relationship. His agency Amuse Inc. announced that he would cease activities indefinitely. He has reached an out-of-court settlement with that girl. However, Amuse terminated their contract with him in 2018. In October 2018, he went to the United States to continue his performing arts activities. On August 21st, 2020, he officially announced his comeback. He has signed an exclusive contract with Rhythmedia.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/koide-keisuke.png" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kora Kengo", "alternateName": "高良健吾", "birthDate": "November 12, 1987", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kora Kengo is a Japanese actor and model who has gained recognition for roles in films such as "Sad Vacation", "Into the White Night", "The Millenial Rapture", "The Egoists", "Snakes and Earrings" and "Norwegian Wood".
Kengo has gained a lot of recognition for his versatility and wide range of works. He started out by playing small supporting roles, but his talent and intensity as an actor was easily recognizable and acclaimed filmmakers began casting him in their movies.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/1jv47_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Osugi Ren", "alternateName": "大杉漣", "birthDate": "September 27, 1951", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Osugi Ren (born Osugi Takashi) was a Japanese actor. For his work in Cure, Hana-bi and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima. In the DVDcommentary, to the mpd.psycho (TV Miniseries) series, director Takashi Miike said that he admired Osugi's experience to shift quickly from comic and imbecilic to authoritative and earnest.
On February 21, 2018, Osugi passed away due to heart failure.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/BdB8A6_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aoi Yu", "alternateName": "蒼井優", "birthDate": "August 17, 1985", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Aoi Yu is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Arisugawa in Hana and Alice (2004), also directed by Iwai, Kimiko Tanigawa in the hula dancing film Hula Girls and Hagumi Hanamoto in the 2006 live-action adaptation of the popular Honey and Clover manga series.
She has won numerous awards for her performances on screen, including the prestigious Japan Academy Prize and Kinema Junpo Awards for best-supporting actress in 2007 for Hula Girls and Rookie of the Year for continued performances in the field of Films in Media and Fine Arts by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2009.
Aoi has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Japan Academy Prize for best-supporting actress in 2007, for her portrayal of Kimiko Tanigawa in Hula Girls, for which she was critically acclaimed.
During the same year, she also received both the Blue Ribbon Award and the Yokohama Film Festival award for best actress, both for her performance in Hula Girls and her portrayal of Hagumi Hanamoto in the Honey and Clover live-action movie. She also received the Hochi Film Award, the Kinema Junpo Award, and the Mainichi Film Concours for best-supporting actress for her performances in Hula Girls, Honey and Clover, and Rainbow Song. She also received the Nikkan Sports Film Award for best new talent for her performance in Hula Girls.
Earlier, in 2005, she had also won the Japanese Professional Movie Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Tetsuko (Alice) Arisugawa in Hana and Alice.
In June 2019, she married comedian Yamasato Ryota. On February 10, 2022 they announced that they're expecting their first child. On August 10, 2022 Yamasato Ryota announced on TBS's radio program 'Suiyou JUNK Yamasato Ryota no Fumo na Giron' that his wife has given birth to a baby girl.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/0npb7_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter", "alternateName": "ピーター", "birthDate": "August 8, 1952", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Peter is a Japanese singer, dancer and actor. When he was about 15-16 years old, he was always dancing with tight shirts and pants at dancing clubs. His style and way of dancing was like "Peter Pan", so he was called "Peter". While not one in real life, Peter's androgynous appearance has enabled him to often play transvestite characters. (Source: IMDb, Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/L2wY5c.jpg" } ], "director": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hiroki Ryuichi", "alternateName": "廣木隆一", "birthDate": "January 1, 1954", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Hiroki Ryuichi is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character".
Of the directors who have graduated from “pink film” to the mainstream, Hiroki has remained perhaps the most faithful to his origins: he continues to make films on sexual themes, though titillation has given way to analysis. In the eighties, after serving as assistant to prolific “pink” director Genji Nakamura, he made pornographic films for both straight and gay audiences; likewise, his first mainstream feature, 800 Two Lap Runners (1994), explored both hetero- and homosexual feelings in its account of the awkward relationship between a teenage runner and the former girlfriend of the dead trackmate with whom he once had a sexual experience.
Hiroki’s next film, Midori, was another drama about adolescent emotions, focusing on a disaffected high school girl who feigns illness to spend time with her boyfriend. Female protagonists continued to be central to Hiroki’s most interesting work, which dealt with young adults and with their sexual conduct in the fragmented society of modern urban Japan. Tokyo Trash Baby, Vibrator, and Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World were all moving, understated films about lonely, alienated women seeking solace in romantic fantasy and transient attachments.
Hiroki shot these films on digital video, and his informal style, with its loose compositions and low-key performances, effectively dramatized the haphazard lives of his protagonists, insecure both in work and relationships. Darker and more melodramatic in the plot was L’Amant (2004), a coolly observed account of a teenage schoolgirl who sells herself for a year as a sex slave to three brothers. By refusing to pass judgment on the perverse actions it depicted, Hiroki’s detached style forced the viewer to confront his own taboos. The director again explored the extremes of sexual behavior in M (2006); described by Jasper Sharp as “a Belle de Jour for the internet age,” it charted the experiences of a housewife who begins to work as a prostitute after receiving an email from a dating website.
Besides these troubling and emotionally complex films, The Silent Big Man was an unexpectedly chaste academic work, set safely in the past, and prettily photographed against the scenic backdrops of the Inland Sea. Recalling Keisuke Kinoshita in its story of a mute teacher assigned to an island school, it lacked Kinoshita’s skill for melodrama, and though Hiroki’s dry style restrained its sentimentality somewhat, he seemed ill suited to the material.
Happily, with It’s Only Talk, a subtly compelling chronicle of the life of an unemployed thirty-something woman suffering from manic depression, Hiroki returned to his more fruitful preoccupation with the problems of contemporary urban life. Here his use of locations in Tokyo’s down-at-heel Kamata district was especially well judged, anchoring the drama in a near-documentary record of a specific place. Love on Sunday, meanwhile, revisited the territory of the director’s earliest mainstream features, exploring adolescent emotions as it charted a teenage girl’s last 24 hours in her country home. In his recent work, Hiroki has proved himself one of the modern Japanese cinema’s most intelligent students of character, as well as one of the most precise analysts of Tokyo’s twenty-first-century zeitgeist and Japan’s twenty-first-century malaise.
(Source: A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/6DKgW_5c.jpg" } ]
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