Plot
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.
Cast
Nao Minamisawa
as Takemiya Mei
Junpei Mizobata
as Nishino Atsushi
Ryo Tajima
as Kamiya Mitsuru
Sayuri Iwata
as Haruna Takemiya
Ryô Kimura
as Riku Takahashi
Rei Okamoto
as Mia Amagishi
Anna Ishibashi
as Asami Tadokoro
Nanami Sakuraba
as Sara Nakagawa
Yanagishita Tomo
as Natsuki Fujiwara
Kasumi Suzuki
as Yuri Nakanishi