Series

Brothers

1998 · 1 season · Drama · Comedy

The tale of four brothers and their widower father, who heads a large Buddhist temple in Tokyo. Goro Kishitani, the oldest brother, does not want to take over the temple. He prefers only to pass through now and then to exercise his eldest brother prerogative and hit No. 2 brother Masahiro Nakai over the head. Nakai, who really wants to be a sportswriter, appears to be in line for the temple takeover and zips around in a motorcycle helmet and Buddhist robes to chant sutras for the dead. Papa-san frequents Ginza clubs and had a cigarette or a toothpick dangling from his mouth for most of the first episode. He hires an "Otonashi Karen look-alike" (Kimura Yoshino) with a crush on Nakai as housekeeper and she bops around the temple grounds as if it was Shibuya on a Sunday. The opening sequence where they all grab guitars, line up in black robes in front of the temple incense burner.

Masahiro Nakai

Fujiwara Shinjin (Jin)

Yoshino Kimura

Hatori Nana

Goro Kishitani

Fujiwara Shinbu [Bu]

Tsubasa Imai

Fujiwara Shinyu

Yoshio Harada

Fujiwara Shingaku (Papa-san)

Yûko Itô

Mari Hoshino

Toshiaki Karasawa

• Kensaku SawadaDirector
• Atsuko HashibeWriter

First aired

April 13, 1998

Last aired

June 29, 1998

Status

Ended

Original language

Japanese

Episodes

12

Genres

Drama, Comedy

• (jp) season 112 episodes · 1998