| Akai Ito is Japanese television drama series based on a popular mobile phone novel written by Mei about two soulmates - junior high school students Mei and Atsushi - who must overcome drugs, rape and attempted suicide in order to be together. The love story was an online hit in 2006 and later published as a series of five books which sold 1.8 million copies. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Nanami Sakuraba | Sara Nakagawa | 11 |
| Junpei Mizobata | Nishino Atsushi | 11 |
| Mirai Yamamoto | Natsumi Nishino | 11 |
| Kenji Matsuda | Koichi Murakoshi | 11 |
| Shigemitsu Ogi | Takamichi Morisaki | 11 |