Unmei no Hito
Unmei no Hito is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It was serialized in monthly magazine Bungei Shunjū from 2005 to 2009. The series was published as a four-volume set in 2009 and was later adapted into a television series starring Masahiro Motoki in 2012.
Plot
Ryota Yuminari of the Maicho Shimbun broke a scoop about a secret agreement between Japan and the United States regarding the reversion of Okinawa, but it was an act that made an enemy of the state authorities.Television adaptation
Cast
;Main- Masahiro Motoki as Ryota Yuminari
- Takako Matsu as Yuriko Yuminari, Ryota's wife
- Yōko Makias Akiko Miki
- Nao Omori as Kazuo Yamabe, the ace reporter of Yominichi Shimbun
- Kin'ya Kitaōji as the prime minister Keisaku Sahashi
- Isao Hashizume as Ryota's father
- Jitsuko Yoshimura as Ryota's mother
- Yuki Imai as Yoichi, Ryota and Yuriko's eldest son
- *Masaki Suda as Yoichi
- Ryutaro Yamasaki as Junji, Ryota and Yuriko's second son
- *Riku Hagiwara as Junji
- Kei Yamamoto as Yuriko's father
- Yukiko Takabayashi as Yuriko's mother
- Hiroki Hasegawa as Rei Koinuma
- Yutaka Matsushige as Shuichi Tsukasa
- Yukiya Kitamura as Kiyohara
- Yuya Endo as Kaneda
- Hideyuki Kasahara as Nakamura
- Tetta Sugimoto as Araki
- Kōtarō Yoshida as Hisadome
- Katsuhiko Watabiki as Ōdate
- Akira Emoto as Masayoshi Kodaira
- Takashi Sasano as Takeo Fukude
- Mansaku Fuwa as Kakuzo Tabuchi
- Shinya Owada as Kiichi Aikawa
- Hirotarō Honda as Yasuhiro Sonegawa
- Issei Takubo as Zen'ichi Suzumori
- Ichikawa Ennosuke IV as Hiroshi Yokomizo
- Ryo Ishibashi as Suguru Anzai
- Takeshi Masu as Magoroku Yoshida
- Masatō Ibu as Masaharu Totoki
- Hidekazu Mashima as Yuya Matsunaka
- Ayumu Saito as Yuzo Torii
- Masane Tsukayama as Takeshi Aniya