Akai Ito DVD Box (DVD) (Japan Version) DVD Region 2
Matsuda Kenji
| Watanabe Noriko
| Ogi Shigemitsu
| Kawamura Taisuke (Director)
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Based on the best-selling mobile phone novel, Akai Ito follows the destined romance of two youth who are torn apart by trials but, as if tied together by the red thread of fate, keep being led back to each other. Oft compared to Koizora, Akai Ito was conceived as both a TV mini-series and a feature film with the same cast and crew and closely related narrative. The 11-episode TV drama was aired on Fuji TV from December 2008 to February 2009. Akai Ito touches on tough issues like suicide, drug addiction, abuse, and divorce, while remaining at its core a moving coming-of-age story about youth, love, and friendship. Rising stars Minamisawa Nao (One Pound Gospel) and Mizobata Junpei (Boss, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e) play the film's star-crossed lovers along with a fresh supporting cast that includes Yanagishita Tomo (Takumi-kun: Soshite Harukaze ni Sasayaite), Kimura Ryo (Nodame Cantabile), and Iwata Sayuri (Puzzle).
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With a loving family and close friends by her side, schoolgirl Mei (Minamisawa Nao) always greets life with a wide smile and infectious cheer. After losing her longtime crush, she meets transfer student Atsushi (Mizobata Junpei), a quiet and secretive guy who joins her circle of friends. Mei and Atsushi soon find they have much in common: they share the same birthday - February 29 - and met each other before as kids. Though seemingly destined for each other, the two separate when Atsushi discovers a tragic secret about their past. Kept in the dark about the truth, Mei can only hold strong to fate as love, family, and friendship begin to fall apart.
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| Product Title: | Akai Ito DVD Box (DVD) (Japan Version) Akai Ito DVD Box (DVD) (日本版) Akai Ito DVD Box (DVD) (日本版) 赤い糸 DVD-BOX Akai Ito DVD Box (DVD) (Japan Version) |
| Also known as: | Threads of Destiny / Red Thread of Destiny Threads of Destiny / Red Thread of Destiny Threads of Destiny / Red Thread of Destiny Threads of Destiny / Red Thread of Destiny Threads of Destiny / Red Thread of Destiny |
| Artist Name(s): | Matsuda Kenji | Watanabe Noriko | Ogi Shigemitsu | Suzuki Kosuke | Komoto Masahiro | Kimura Ryo | Yamamoto Mirai | Iwata Sayuri | Ishibashi Anna | Yanagishita Tomo | Minamisawa Nao | Sakuraba Nanami | Mizobata Junpei 松田賢二 | 渡邊典子 | 小木茂光 | 鈴木浩介 | 甲本雅裕 | 木村了 | Yamamoto Mirai | Iwata Sayuri | Ishibashi Anna | 柳下大 | 南澤奈央 | Sakuraba Nanami | 溝端淳平 松田贤二 | Watanabe Noriko | 小木茂光 | 铃木浩介 | 甲本雅裕 | Kimura Ryo | Yamamoto Mirai | Iwata Sayuri | Ishibashi Anna | 柳下大 | 南泽奈央 | Sakuraba Nanami | 沟端淳平 松田賢二 | 渡辺典子 | 小木茂光 | 鈴木浩介 | 甲本雅裕 | 木村了 | 山本未來 | 岩田さゆり | 鈴木かすみ | 岡本玲 | 石橋杏奈 | 柳下大 | 南沢奈央 | 桜庭ななみ | 溝端淳平 | 田島亮 Matsuda Kenji | Watanabe Noriko | Ogi Shigemitsu | Suzuki Kosuke | Komoto Masahiro | Kimura Ryo | Yamamoto Mirai | Iwata Sayuri | Ishibashi Anna | Yanagishita Tomo | Minamisawa Nao | Sakuraba Nanami | Mizobata Junpei |
| Director: | Kawamura Taisuke | Murakami Shosuke 川村泰祐 | 村上正典 Kawamura Taisuke | 村上正典 川村泰祐 | 村上正典 Kawamura Taisuke | Murakami Shosuke |
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| Release Date: | 2009-07-15 |
| Publisher Product Code: | PCBC-61601 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa, Greenland and the Middle East (including Egypt) What is it? |
| Publisher: | Fuji TV Video Planning |
| Shipment Unit: | 4 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1019757243 |
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2008年12月からフジテレビ系列で放送された、青春ラブストーリー。大ヒットを博したケータイ小説のドラマ化で、映画と連続TVドラマとのコラボレーションでも話題になった。ヒロイン役の南沢奈央をはじめ、溝端淳平や木村了など、気鋭の若手がそれぞれの役を好演。映画とドラマ、それぞれが完成されたラブストーリーとなっている。6枚組BOXとしてリリースされる本作には、スペシャル映像などが収められた特典ディスクが封入されている。 ■映像特典：特典DISC付
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Red Thread of Destiny
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According to East Asian folklore, lovers are tied together by an invisible and unbreakable "red thread of destiny". This old-fashioned romanticism about red threads and fated love provides the wistful wrapping for the 2008 youth drama Akai Ito. Based on a mania cellphone novel about a schoolgirl's supposedly real-life experiences, the romantic mini-series about two teens who must overcome many roadblocks to be together squeezes buckets of Lifetime Television trials into its 11 episodes. Yet, it manages to stay fairly down to earth and affecting during its bumpy adolescent journey. Many serious revelations and responsibilities are thrown the way of Akai Ito's young protagonists, Mei (Minamisawa Nao) and A-kun (Mizobata Junpei). After crossing paths as children, they serendipitously meet and bond again as junior high school students. It turns out they share not only the same leap year birthday, but also a tragically intertwined family history that makes it difficult for them to be together in the drama-ridden present. Akai Ito runs through serious issues like drugs, abuse, adoption, suicide, divorce, and teen pregnancy, along with the wishy-washy hookups and breakups, relationship woes, and coming-of-age rites that come with the youth drama package. Despite packing in such heavy subject matter, for the most part the story never ventures into the outright teen-fantasy melodrama of say Koizora, and actually handles many of these tough issues with convincing sensitivity and a positive message. There's way too much going on to be wholly believable, but the series does a fairly good job in its depiction of conflicts like abusive relationships and A-kun's mother's drug addiction problem. It helps also that both protagonists are ultimately just regular, decent, unexciting teenagers responding to some extraordinary circumstances, as they provide a calm and rational anchor to the story that saves it from emotional excess. (And thankfully, there's no terminal disease.) Perhaps Akai Ito's strongest and most realistic point is the way it chronicles how relationships form and fall apart as time passes, be it with friends, lovers, or family. Care is taken to not cast characters as either good or bad, but rather flawed to different degrees, and thus capable of hurting themselves and those they love. Standing at the epicenter of dramarama land, Mei and A-kun seem far too nice and J-drama chaste to be real, but they make a couple worth rooting for. Both Minamisawa Nao and Mizobata Junpei should have solid careers ahead of them. Reminding of a young Hirosue Ryoko, Minamisawa is particularly refreshing for really coming across as a normal schoolgirl, who is pretty in a plain way and bubbly without being cutesy. Akai Ito is also notable for its execution as it was produced as both a movie and a mini-series, with the former basically being a much shorter edit of the story. The movie was released theatrically during a lull in the TV broadcast schedule after the first few episodes were aired. The mini-series acted as a teaser to attract audiences to cinemas, and in turn the movie then acted as a teaser to encourage audiences to watch the rest of the series. With TV ratings falling and TV spin-off movies raking in box office, this double-pronged strategy makes for an interesting marketing experiment (the Pocky tie-in campaign was also a nice touch), and it may be a sign of what's to come. For those who don't want to invest 11 episodes' time, the movie version of Akai Ito, Threads of Destiny, offers a decent bite-sized version of the story - but the TV series is by far the better watch to get the full picture. |
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