Gift (television series)

Infobox television
show_name = Gift


caption = promotional poster of "Gift"
format = Drama
runtime = 52 min. each episode
starring = Takuya Kimura (木村拓哉)
Muroi Shigeru (室井滋)
country = Japan
network = Fuji TV
first_aired = 16 April 1997
last_aired = 25 June 1997
num_episodes = 11

nihongo|Gift|ギフト|Gifuto is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from April 16 1997 to June 25 1997 every Wednesday. It features music by Bryan Ferry (main theme song) and Howard Jones (ending theme song).It raised a lot of issues in Japanese society due to its casual use of a butterfly knife and its resulting violence.

Cast

*Kimura Takuya as Yukio/Takehiro
*Muroi Shigeru as Naomi
*Baisho Mitsuko as Inspector Sakuhara
*Imai Masayuki as Norasanei
*Kobayashi Satomi as Shika
*Shinohara Ryoko as Chiaki
*Momoi Kaori as Dr. Ika

ynopsis

Naomi, a middle-aged woman (Muroi Shigeru), plans to meet her boyfriend with whom she has planned to skip the country, along with 50 billion yen in cash. When she arrives at the apartment, there is no boyfriend, no money but a trail of blood leading to a closet. Opening the closet, a nude, blood covered body (Kimura Takuya) falls out. She rushes the young man to a hospital, hoping once he wakes up, he can tell her where her boyfriend and the money went. However, the young man has lost his memory. She gives him a new identity, calling him Yukio, and then employs him as a courier at her company to keep track of him in case he ever recovers his memory. As he works for Naomi, Yukio slowly discovers who he was and what has led him to the man he is now.

External links

* [http://liliantws.tripod.com/gift/gift.htm SMAP WONDERLAND - Gift]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/6223/gift1.html Cho Kakkoii Extensive plot for each episode]