Bara no nai Hanaya

Flower Shop Without A Rose
Genre	Romance
Starring	Shingo Katori Yuko Takeuchi Shota Matsuda
Ending theme	Zutto Issho sa (Tatsuro Yamashita)
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
Production
Location(s)	Tokyo
Running time	60 min./episode
Release
Original network	Fuji TV
Picture format	NTSC
Original release	January 14, 2008 – March 2008
External links
Website

Flower Shop Without A Rose (薔薇のない花屋 Bara no nai Hanaya) is a Japanese television drama. It is broadcast and produced by Fuji Television. Drama started with a 22.4% (Kanto Region) rating on January 14, 2008.

Plot

Eiji Shiomi is a florist. He is a single man with a young daughter named Shizuku. One day, he invites a blind woman seeking shelter under his shop awning to come in out of the rain. A surprising tale gradually unfolds as the story of their budding love transforms into a complex web of lies and dark motives. Nothing is as it seems at first, and each of the characters is burdened with their own painful secrets.

Cast

Main cast

• Shingo Katori as Shiomi Eiji
• Yūko Takeuchi as Mio Shirato
• Yumiko Shaku as Yuki Ono
• Shota Matsuda as Naoya Kudo
• Susumu Terajima as Kengo Shijo
• Junko Ikeuchi as Keiko Hishida
• Tomokazu Miura as Teruo Anzai
• Yuika Motokariya as Shizuku's mother
• Yuki Yagi as Shiomi Shizuku
• Yuki Imai as Shogo Hirota
• Tamayama Tetsuji as Kamiyama Shun

Episodes

	Episode title	Translated title	Broadcast date	Ratings
Ep. 1	北風と太陽	The North Wind and the Sun	January 14, 2008	22.4%
Ep. 2	花のように笑う人	A Smile like a Flower	January 21, 2008	19.0%
Ep. 3	終電までに探して	Find Me Before the Last Train Leaves	January 28, 2008	18.4%
Ep. 4	明かされた過去～3万人の子供たちへ	A Past Revealed: For the 30,000 Children	February 4, 2008	17.2%
Ep. 5	世界一長い告白!	The World's Longest Confession of Love	February 11, 2008	17.7%
Ep. 6	暴かれていく秘密	The Slowly Unveiling Secret	February 18, 2008	16.2%
Ep. 7	親が子供を叩く時	When the Parent Strikes the Child	February 25, 2008	16.5%
Ep. 8	さよなら父ちゃん	Goodbye, Daddy	March 3, 2008	17.8%
Ep. 9	衝撃!全ての真実	Shock! The Whole Truth	March 10, 2008	17.7%
Ep. 10	愛を取り戻すため	Reclaiming the Love That was Once Lost	March 17, 2008	19.4%
Ep. 11	薔薇を売る花屋～涙の一滴（しずく）…	The Flower Shop that Sells Roses ~ Teardrop(Shizuku)...	March 24, 2008	22.1%
Average Rating: 18.6% (kanto region)

Theme Song

• Zutto Issho sa (Together Forever) by Tatsuro Yamashita

External links

• Official Site
• Bara no nai Hanaya at the Internet Movie Database