Series

Red Torrent

1977 · 1 season · Drama

Takeshi Osawa (Ken Utsui), an assistant professor of piano at a music college, is remarrying his first love, the widowed Yumiko Tashiro (Kayo Matsuo). Yumiko's son, Toshio, is a young man whose piano playing Takeshi heard and recognized as talented. However, upon learning that Takeshi was a rival of his biological father, Seiji Tashiro (Ken Ogata), who is said to have committed suicide, Toshio becomes violently opposed to Yumiko. Takeshi is troubled by Toshio's attitude, but with the encouragement of his younger brother, Minoru, a conductor, he succeeds in teaching him traditional piano, and Toshio ends up studying at the music college. An unconventional figure at the university, Toshio approaches Hanae Miyajima, the granddaughter of the university president. This action later sparks turmoil for those around him as it becomes intertwined with the university's succession issue. Furthermore, Toshio's father, Seiji, who was thought to be dead, suddenly appears...

Keiko Takeshita

Miyajima Hanae

Momoe Yamaguchi

Oozawa Michiko

Keiko Kishi

Kimoto Mitsuko

Ken Utsui

Oozawa Takeshi

Yutaka Mizutani

Tashiro Toshio

First aired

June 3, 1977

Last aired

June 3, 1977

Status

Ended

Original language

Japanese

Episodes

1

Genres

Drama

• Season 11 episode · 1977