Anata Ni Aete Yokatta is one of my ALL-TIME favorite J-pop songs from my "golden age" of J-pop/drama discovery, and to see it as the music for this really sweet drama opening scene showing "Papa" (Masakazu Tamura) walking down the drive outside of the house with his daughter "Nat-chan"(Koizumi herself) throughout the years really warmed my heart!
Looks like a drama I really would have loved back in the day...Kyoko is warm and fun as the titular daughter Natchan and Tamura (RIP, Ninzaburo-san!) doing his dapper best as the beleaguered Dad! Along with them we have an eclectic cast including Yumi Shirakawa, Maho Toyota, Senri Oe and even DOWNTOWN's Masatoshi Hamada!
PS: I'm actually pretty surprised that I hadn't already made a post for Anata ni Aete Yokatta years ago as it's truly one of the BIG Jpop tracks of my LIFE! Nice that this wonderful discovery of Papa to Natchan prompted me to get around to actually making one!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com