14-sai no Haha: Aisuru tame ni Umaretekita

14-sai no Haha: Aisuru tame ni Umaretekita
Format	Drama
Starring	Mirai Shida Haruma Miura Misako Tanaka Katsuhisa Namase Shigeru Muroi Junichi Komoto (Jicho Kacho) Sayaka Yamaguchi Atsuko Takahata Sayaka Kaneko
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	11
Production
Running time	every Wednesday 10:00 PM (60 minutes)
Broadcast
Original channel	NTV
Original run	October 11, 2006 – December 20, 2006

14-sai no Haha: Aisuru tame ni Umaretekita (14才の母 ～愛するために生まれてきた～^?, lit. "14-year-old Mother: Born for Love's Sake") is a Japanese television drama broadcast on NTV. It was aired from October 11, 2006 until December 20 of the same year.

Plot

The drama concerns 14-year-old Miki Ichinose, who becomes pregnant with her boyfriend's child. After struggling with the fact that she is pregnant, she decides that she will keep the baby and raise it by herself. The show follows what this means for her, her family, her school life, the life of her boyfriend and his family, and the society in which she resides.

Cast

Major characters

• Mirai Shida as Miki Ichinose (一ノ瀬未希, Ichinose Miki^?)
• Misako Tanaka as Kanako Ichinose (一ノ瀬加奈子, Ichinose Kanako^?)
• Katsuhisa Namase as Tadahiko Ichinose (一ノ瀬忠彦, Ichinose Tadahiko^?)
• Kazuki Koshimizu as Kenta Ichinose (一ノ瀬健太, Ichinose Kenta^?)
• Sora Ichinose (一ノ瀬そら, Ichinose Sora^?)
• Sayaka Yamaguchi as Kyoko Endo (遠藤香子, Endō Kyōko^?)
• Junichi Koumoto as Makoto Mitsui (三井マコト, Mitsui Makoto^?)
• Sayaka Kaneko as Hinako Mitsui (三井ひな子, Mitsui Hinako^?)
• Haruma Miura as Satoshi Kirino (桐野智志, Kirino Satoshi^?)
• Shigeru Muroi as Shizuka Kirino (桐野静香, Kirino Shizuka^?)
• Mitsuki Tanimura as Mayu Yanagisawa (柳沢真由那, Yanagisawa Mayu^?)
• Kie Kitano as Megumi Kubota (久保田恵, Kubota Megumi^?)
• Rina Koike as Sayaka Nagasaki (長崎さやか, Nagasaki Sayaka^?)
• Yumiko Ideguchi as Yoshiko Okumura (奥村美子, Okumura Yoshiko^?)
• Kiyo Hasegawa as Mitsue Inohara (猪原光江Inohara Mitsue^?)
• Itsumi Osawa as Rika Matsumoto (松本リカ, Matsumoto Rika^?)
• Ken Kaito as Koyo Yamazaki (山崎光陽, Yamazaki Kōyō^?)
• Shunya Isaka as Kazuaki Haraguchi (原口和明, Haraguchi Kazuaki^?)
• Atsuko Takahata as Haruko Matoba (的場春子, Matoba Haruko^?)
• Akira Onodera as Eiza Nakatani (中谷栄三, Nakatani Eiza^?)
• Kazuki Kitamura as Taku Hatano (波多野卓, Hatano Taku^?)

Minor characters

• Naho Toda (ep 8)
• Takashi Sorimachi as Tarō Tsuchida (土田太郎, Tsuchida Tarō^?) (ep 10-11)

Production

Upon preparing for this role, actress Mirai Shida asked her real-life mother for advice. She wanted to know if there were changes (in walking, appetite, etc) during pregnancy. Her mother replied, "Except for the belly becoming bigger, nothing else changes." This did not prepare Shida in any way, as stated by herself.

Originally, there were only 10 episodes. Due to the success this drama achieved, an extra episode was made.

Music

Theme song:

• "Shirushi" by Mr. Children

Soundtrack:

• "14 Sai no Haha" O.S.T - TVSANTORA

Episode Guide & Audience Rating

Episode	Broadcast date	Subtitle	Kantō Audience Rating[1]	Kansai Audience Rating[1]
1	2006/10/11	The Pregnancy of a Secondary School Student... Sorry, Mom	19.7%	21.8%
2	2006/10/18	You are Not (Our) Daughter Anymore	16.8%	18.0%
3	2006/10/25	Goodbye... My Baby	18.3%	18.1%
4	2006/11/1	Departure 　I Do Not Cry Anymore	19.4%	19.8%
5	2006/11/8	Bye-bye... The Day When (My) First Love Dies	17.3%	20.7%
6	2006/11/15	Am I Given a Maternity Record Book, Too?	16.7%	18.8%
7	2006/11/22	Can Future Be Bought with Money?	18.4%	19.0%
8	2006/11/29	Two Lives... Which One Is Chosen?	17.3%	20.5%
9	2006/12/6	Childbirth: The 24 Hours of Risking One's Own Life	16.7%	19.2%
10	2006/12/13	Laugh Once More...	21.1%	24.0%
11 (Last)	2006/12/20	The Tearful Last Episode... What Is Life?	22.4%	24.3%
Average Rating			18.55%	20.38%

The average rating for this drama was the highest rating this slot (Wednesday at 10:00 PM) achieved on NTV since 2000.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} (Japanese) Source: Video Research

External links

• Drama's official site (Japanese)
• ReviewAsia - 14 Sai no Haha Reviews