Hayakawa Vito has a Filipino father and a Japanese mother, but he was born and raised in Japan and has never visited the Philippines. The ever-smiling Vito works at Machimura Foods during the day, and at night, he works a part-time job trying to make his dreams come true. One day during an incident at a bookstore, he meets a girl named Mishima Hana, who lost her ability to speak due to an accident. But even though she can't speak, Vito is drawn to her beautiful smile. However, Vito becomes wrongly suspected by the police for a crime, and after meeting the lawyer Kazuma, the issue begins to grow... Together, Vito, Hana, and Kazuma will go through challenging times and have to overcome many obstacles. --Tokyograph

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  Matsumoto Jun (Hayakawa Bito)

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  Aragaki Yui (Mishima Hana)

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  Katsumura Masanobu (Keisuke Kashiwagi)

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  Nakai Kiichi (Kazuma Ito)

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  Ayano Go (Write Character name in English)

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  Tokuyama Hidenori (Kawai Kinta)

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• Mar 3, 2012 11 of 11 episodes seen

  yaddle_t
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  The story reflects some reality about society. The story is about a few characters who suffer discrimination in some form find each other and somehow help each other overcome the injustice. It's a great story which will definitely get you upset about their situation because the issues they are facing are irrelevant in most multicultural countries. The story is a little slow paced but is wonderfully told nevertheless. Ans Matsumoto Jun's smile is contagious :)

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• Jun 2, 2011 11 of 11 episodes seen

  VioletSakura
  4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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  A brilliant drama...I think every drama addicted person should watch this one.
  
  About the life of ordinary people, who have their past, with which they are not proud of. About the boomerang of life, when it brings back all the dead back in 100 times worse ways...
  
  About a guy who is trying to forget his past life, and live on honestly and maybe averagely happy, who has experienced many hardships as a son of a lonely mother who drank and took men home, leaving the child on the porch...His way of coping? Smile...a kind and genuine smile...
  
  About a girl who experienced human cruelty and lost her voice only because she was unfortunate enough to be born in a family, where the father was not honest person...
  
  About a Korean lawyer who works in Japan under a Japanese name, just so he can be accepted...
  
  These three people meet, start helping each other, fall in love, try to overcome the hardships...
  
  Again...a brilliant drama.
  
  The score is perfect, by the way, it was composed by Yamashita Kousuke...and if fits the drama just perfectly...
  
  I have watched this drama last year in winter, and I still listen to it score... read more

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  Both stories follow two men as they struggle to prove their innocence in the Japanese legal system against all odds.

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