The Ghost Writer's Wife
The Ghost Writer's Wife is a Japanese television drama series and the 113th Asadora series, following Anpan. This is a work of fiction modeled after the life of Setsu Koizumi, wife of the Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, known for works such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
Plot
Toki Matsuno was born into a prestigious samurai family, but the Meiji Restoration brought an end to the age of the samurai. Her father's new business ventures failed, and the family was forced into poverty. It was at this time that a job as a maid to a foreign English teacher named Heavin came to Toki. Though there were barriers of language and culture between them, they grew close through their shared interest in "Kaidan".Cast
Principal
- Akari Takaishi as Toki Matsuno
- *Miharu Fukuchi as young Toki
- Tommy Bastow as Lefkada Heavin, Toki's husband
Matsuno family
- Takashi Okabe as Tsukasanosuke Matsuno, Toki's adoptive father
- Chizuru Ikewaki as Fumi Matsuno, Toki's adoptive mother
- Fumiyo Kohinata as Kan'emon Matsuno, Toki's adoptive grandfather
Ushimizu family
- Shinichi Tsutsumi as Den Ushimizu, Toki's birth father
- Keiko Kitagawa as Tae Ushimizu, Toki's birth mother
- Rihito Itagaki as Sannojo Ushimizu
Others
- Ryo Yoshizawa as Yūichi Nishikōri
- Rairu Sugita as Joe Nishikōri
- Kanichiro as Ginjiro Yamane
- Wan Marui as Sawa Nozu
- Honami Sato as Nami
- Shirō Sano as Yasumune Etō, the Governor of Shimane Prefecture
- Kana Kita as Riyo Etō, Yasumune's daughter
- Anna Kurasawa as Chiyo
- Kono Adachi as Sen
- Kenji Iwaya as Zentaro Moriyama, debt collector
- Mizuki Maehara as Zenitaro Moriyama, Zentaro's son
- Katsuhisa Namase as Heita Hanada
- Nobue Iketani as Tsuru Hanada
- Maru Nouchi as Ume
- Udai Iwasaki as Goro Kajitani
- Mayumi Asaka as Tatsu Ueno
- Taisei Sakai as Morimichi Nakamura
- Tokio Emoto as Saiji Yamahashi
- Yukito Hodaka as Seiichi Masaki
- Kyohei Shimokawa as Haruo Kotani
- Charlotte Kate Fox as Eliza Belsland
- Shogo Hama as Takichi Shoda
- Hosaki Tanaka as Hatsuemon Kanenari
- Meisha Brooks as Martha, Lefkada Heavin's first wife
Voice cast
- Eriko Watanabe as the Snake
- Miho Kimura as the Frog