Kami no Shizuku | 神の雫 | Les Gouttes de Dieu (2009)

Title: Kami no Shizuku | 神の雫 | Les Gouttes de Dieu

English title: Drops of God

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Human Drama

Episodes: 9

Average viewership rating: 6.1 (Kanto region)

Broadcast network: NTV

Broadcast period: January 19 - March 10, 2009

Air time: Tuesday 22:00

Director: Nakajima Satoru, Ishio Jun

Writer: Watanabe Yusuke, Agi Tadashi (manga), Okimoto Shu (manga)

KAT-TUN member?: Kamenashi Kazuya as Kanzaki Shizuku

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Story

Two men compete in a fateful quest to solve a mystery in this thrilling human drama about wine. The story is based on a New York Times Best Selling manga series of the same title in which the comic books sold more than 2 million copies in Japan and Korea, and extended its popularity to France, the home of wine.

Shizuku (Kazuya Kamenashi) is the son of a world-renowned wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki (Ikko Furuya). Refusing to follow his father's path, he had become a salesman at a major beer company, only to find himself transferred to the newly-founded Wine Division at his company. Rumour has it that the transfer had to do with his father being a great critic, but Shizuku himself had been a rebellious son and had no interest in wine.

Suddenly his father Yutaka passes away, leaving a wine collection worth more than two billion yen (20 billion US$). According to his will, the son who guesses correctly all of the vintage years and names of the so-called "Apostles," 6 ultimate bottles of wine selected by Yutaka himself, plus the "Kami No Shizuku," in other words "The Drops of the Gods" - the rare wine that stands at the top of it all, shall inherit the whole collection.

A fierce competition begins as Issei Tomine (Seiichi Tanabe), a renowned somme-lier and wine critic reveals that he was adopted by Yutaka and steps forward into the battle for the priceless collection.

-- From AsianMediaWiki.com

 

Cast & Crew

  • Kamenashi Kazuya as Kanzaki Shizuku
  • Tanabe Seiichi as Tomine Issei
  • Naka Riisa as Shinohara Miyabi
  • Toda Naho as Kiryu Ryoko
  • Masu Takeshi as Kawarage Shigeru
  • Taguchi Hiromasa as Honma Chosuke
  • Sasaki Nozomi as Sara
  • Hirakata Genki (平方元基) as Kido Ryusuke
  • Hagi Mika as Minamoto Saori
  • Uchida Yuki as Saionji Maki
  • Tatsumi Takuro as Fujieda Shiro
  • Takenaka Naoto as Doi Robert
  • Furuya Ikko as Kanzaki Yutaka 

(info from http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Kami_no_Shizuku)

 

Episodes

Episode 1 (04/16/2009) - 10.3%
Episode 2 (04/23/2009) - 7.3%
Episode 3 (04/30/2009) - 6.2%
Episode 4 (05/07/2009) - 5.0%
Episode 5 (05/14/2009) - 6.0%
Episode 6 (05/21/2009) - 4.9%
Episode 7 (05/28/2009) - 4.7%
Episode 8 (06/04/2009) - 4.9%
Episode 9 (06/11/2009) - 5.4%  

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

 

Awards

 

Additional info

The theme song "ONE DROP" was sung by KAT-TUN.

 

Links

Official website (JP)

Wikipedia article (JP)

Wikipedia article

Wikipedia article about the original manga

D-Addicts Wiki

IMDb