Gift (television series)

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Gift
promotional poster of Gift
Format	Drama
Starring	Takuya Kimura (木村拓哉) Muroi Shigeru (室井滋)
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	11
Production
Running time	52 min. each episode
Broadcast
Original channel	Fuji TV
Original run	16 April 1997 – 25 June 1997

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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Synopsis

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.