Title: 白夜行 Title (romaji): Byakuyako Also known as: Journey Under a Midnight Sun Genre: Romance, suspense Episodes: 11 Viewership ratings: 12.28 Broadcast network: TBS Broadcast period: 2006-Jan-12 to 2006-Mar-23 Air time: Thursday 21:00 Theme song: Kage by Shibasaki Kou **Synopsis** When Ryoji finds out that the object of his father's perversion is his first love, Yukiho, he kills him. To his horror, Yukiho's mother forced her to do so to relieve their dire economic straits. Yukiho also retaliates in similar manner by staging a suicide for her mother as well as herself. It's been 14 years since then and the boy that gave up everything and the girl that waged her life on the boy are struggling to continue to love each other. They grow up attempting to keep it secret and ride out the statute of limitations. In order to protect Yukiho, and improve her life, Ryoji enters the world of vice and dabbles in crimes to support her. **Cast** Yamada Takayuki as Kirihara Ryoji Izumisawa Yuuki as Kirihara Ryoji Ayase Haruka as Karasawa Yukiho Fukuda Mayuko as Nishimoto (Karasawa) Yukiho Watabe Atsuro as Matsuura Isamu Kashiwabara Takashi as Shinozuka Kazunari Tanaka Koutaro as Koga Hisashi Koide Keisuke as Sonomura Tomohiko Tanaka Kei as Kikuchi Michihiro Yachigusa Kaoru as Karasawa Reiko Okunuki Kaoru as Nishiguchi Namie Otsuka Chihiro as Kawashima Eriko Kurasawa Momoko as Fujimura Miyako Kasugai Seina as Kotake Ryoko Shioya Shun as Takamiya Makoto Sato Hitomi as Misawa Chizuru Hirata Mitsuru as Kirihara Yosuke Aso Yumi as Kirihara Yaeko Kawai Michiko as Nishimoto Fumiyo Yo Kimiko as Taniguchi Mafumi Nishida Naomi as Kurihara Noriko Takeda Tetsuya as Sasagaki Junzo **Guests** Godai Takayuki (ep1) Nishida Natsumi (ep2) Onoue Hiroyuki (ep2) Otsuka Yoshie (ep2-3) Yamauchi Nao (ep2,4-5,7) Nishiyama Mayuko (ep2,5-6,8) Fujimori Shohei (ep3) Mizumori Kota (ep3) Mukai Osamu (ep3) Asaoka Mirei (ep3) Matoba Koji as Enomoto Hiroshi (ep3) Suzuki Jun (ep4) Okuda Erika (ep4-6) Harada Chieko (ep6) Sunaga Kei (ep7,11) Yashiba Toshihiro (ep8) Fujishige Masataka (ep8) Hirata Yuka (ep8,11) Aoki Kazuyo (ep9) Mukai Masao (ep11) Omura Ayako (ep11) Abe Ryohei