Ten Urara

[Itazura ichiban]

I remember this being the first Dorama I got hooked on. Sadly, it's not listed on this site.

Can anyone provide artiste info?

In my relentless search, I came up with the dollmaker who provided the dolls for the series:
Yuki Atae: The World of Yuki Atae
I think the heroine's mother was supposed to be making these.
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[bmwracer]

Itazura ichiban wrote:

I remember this being the first Dorama I got hooked on.

Then shouldn't you be posting this comment in that thread?

[dochira]

If the rest of the thread is about Ten Urara, then it's all good. I also remember this series.

Hope this helps out: D-addicts Wiki page

[Itazura ichiban]

I did post on that thread, but I am specifically asking about the cast, wondering why no data on this dorama, sharing the doll maker's site, stuff about the specific dorama.
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[Andru]

Itazura ichiban wrote:

I did post on that thread, but I am specifically asking about the cast, wondering why no data on this dorama, sharing the doll maker's site, stuff about the specific dorama.

You should pick up a copy of the "Dorama Encyclopedia" (Stone Bridge Press, available at Kinokuniya). Their listing for Ten Urara has a wrong date (should be 1998 not 1989), but it has the following data:

Cast - Risa Sudo, May Kiuchi, Hideko Hara, Tekeshi Kato, Kaoru Kobayashi, Junko Ikeuchi.

Note that this was an NHK "morning dorama" which is in a slightly different category from the more typical "J-dorama" which are shown in the evenings in Japan (at least the first time around) on a non-NHK channel. Even the Dorama Encyclopedia doesn't list them all. For example, while it does include Ten Urara and the one that was on KTSF after it, Suzuran, it does not include the two before it, "Futarriko" and "Hashiranken." They also typically have 150 original episodes spanning a 26 week period (shown in Japan as 15-minute episodes, 6 days a week), so if you are recording them, they are far more difficult to manage than the usual 10-12 episodes of a "standard" dorama.

BTW, I do have the entire series in my tape archives somewhere.

[dochira]

Andru wrote:

BTW, I do have the entire series in my tape archives somewhere.

Impressive. I don't think I would have the patience to record an entire NHK asadora series.

[Itazura ichiban]

That "morning dorama" tidbit is very interesting. Toward the end of the show's run, many scenes would take place in a cafe in the morning, and the light would slant across in a way specific to morning light. I thought it quite attractive. Now that I know it was geared toward morning viewing, everything becomes clear.
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[Itazura ichiban]

delete.
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[Itazura ichiban]

delete.
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[Itazura ichiban]

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[dochira]

^ Problems with posting??

[Tu_triky]

dochira wrote:

^ Problems with posting??

there's an izakaya here call "Haru Ulala...."

[dochira]

Tu_triky wrote:

There's an izakaya here call "Haru Ulala...."

I thought there were no 'L's in Japanese...

[Tu_triky]

dochira wrote:

I thought there were no 'L's in Japanese...

call it Halu Ulala or Haru Urara....or ra ra shish boom bah...it's all the same shiet...

[Andru]

dochira wrote:

Impressive. I don't think I would have the patience to record an entire NHK asadora series.

Actually, I didn't compile the whole series on a convenient set of tapes. What I used to do is record all the doramas I was following at the time, all mixed together in the order they were shown, and send the tapes to my sister in Philadelphia, where there is no J-TV on their KTSF-equivalent channel (only Korean TV). That's what I meant by "archives." It has only been recently, after getting a standalone DVD recorder with a built-in HD a couple of years ago, that I have been compiling entire series onto disks or tapes. With the HD, I can leave weeks or months worth of episodes on it before transferring them to portable media.

I did trade tapes once with a lady in Seattle who wanted the entire Churasan series (compiled the tapes as it was being shown on KTSF). I don't remember how many total tapes it took, but I got several regular-length dorama series from her in exchange.

[Itazura ichiban]

dochira wrote:

^ Problems with posting??

Yeah.
Note to self: Don't post here from a Sun workstation. The edit feature gets fouled up. I can't delete!
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