Red Thread of Fate

Akai Ito is Japanese television drama series based on a popular mobile phone novel written by Mei about two soulmates - junior high school students Mei and Atsushi - who must overcome drugs, rape and attempted suicide in order to be together. The love story was an online hit in 2006 and later published as a series of five books which sold 1.8 million copies.

• Noriko HanzawaWriter
• Chiho WatanabeWriter
• Yasuhiro KawamuraDirector
• Taisuke KawamuraDirector
• Shosuke MurakamiDirector

• Nao MinamisawaTakemiya Mei
• Junpei MizobataNishino Atsushi
• Ryo TajimaKamiya Mitsuru
• Sayuri IwataHaruna Takemiya
• Ryo KimuraRiku Takahashi
• Rei OkamotoMia Amagishi
• Anna IshibashiAsami Tadokoro
• Hitomi MiyauchiSara Nakagawa
• Yanagishita TomoNatsuki Fujiwara
• Kasumi SuzukiYuri Nakanishi
• Hiroshi YazakiYuya Shinozaki
• Kaoru HirataMiyabi Kawaguchi