Pure

ビュア

  • Winter 1996
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Pure key art
© Fuji TV
NetworkFuji TV
Broadcast8 Jan 1996 – 18 Mar 1996
Episodes13 Episodes + 1 Special
ViewershipAverage 25.9%
Fan score 9.0 from 4 reviews

Synopsis

25-year old Yuka Orihara (Emi Wakui) is a lovely and cheerful woman. We cannot really see any differences in her appearance, but she was born with a lower IQ than average. She grew up with lots of love of her parents, so she has become a good-natured girl. However, she cannot control her feelings very well, and sometimes she does something too wild, which concerns people around her. While her intellectual ability is low, she has an amazing sense in arts. She has been drawing artistic paintings, and creating unique objects which reflect her pure heart. Her mother (Jun Fubuki) always watches her with love and even her late father, who was also a painter, still influences her. Besides, she has a good friend; Ryo Kanzaki (Katsunori Takahashi). He is her cousin and like a brother to her. But Yuka's peaceful life suddenly changes when her work gets a prize at a competition to which Ryo has entered her work secretly. She is forced to come out of her small world to an unknown world. And she meets a man; Toru Sawatari (Shinichi Tsutsumi), a reporter for a photo-magazine. He used to be a journalist of a newspaper, but was demoted to an associate company a few years ago. But he is determined to return to the paper as he hates the power. Toru, who is very cool and has a past, starts having a business relationship with Yuka. He does not care about her retardation and treats her as an ordinary person. This comes from his indifference, but as Yuka believes he is a 'nice' person, he gets attracted to her purity...

Synopsis: Fuji Creative

Cast & characters 12 credited

Theme song

Pure soundtrack cover
  • “Na mo naki uta” — Mr Children

Fan reviews 4 reviews

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Really good show.

9 / 10

kook05 · 2004

Really good show, i really like it.
Great acting and story.
The ending was just so sad.

Great Acting

9 / 10

jdfan · 2003

Wakui Emi performance was really good. The script was great and I was moved. This is what Japanese Drama is all about.

Powerful performance by Wakui Emi

10 / 10

warren.mcclendon · 2002

I would rate this at 9.75. I originally saw this when it aired years ago. I just bought a copy and viewed it again. I think all the major players give great performances, but WAKUI is just extraordinary as YUKA. Her character is child like on an intelligence level, but a gifted artist as a sculptor. PURE is the physical approach presence she has with whatever she encounters during her day. Some of the characters think its fake and hate her but most are drawn to her and wish they could live their lives more like hers. Tsutsumi meets her as he is doing a story on her work and is pretty cool to her initially, but warms to her as the story progesses.

All 4 reviews