Close Range Love

Close Range Love

2014 · 1 season · 12 eps · Drama

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In high school, Sakurai Haruka, Mirei and Kanata are good friends whom everyone envies. The three of them believed their relationship would remain like this forever. Then Haruka’s stepsister Ririko suddenly returns from overseas. After several years away, she has become beautiful to the extent that classmates call her “goddess”. Although Haruka has often built walls around other people, Ririko deliberately gets close to him. One night, she barges in all of a sudden and starts to cry against his chest. “I have no where to go. You’ll let me stay here, right?” Haruka is baffled by his pushy stepsister, Mirei secretly loves Haruka and Kanata has become aware of Mirei. The distance between Haruka, Mirei and Kanata who had taken it for granted that they would always be close, starts to change little by little

Directed by Hayato Kawai · Written by Yuko Matsuda

Network: Nippon TV

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Cast

Alan Abe Sakurai Haruka
Anna Ishibashi Takizawa Mirei
Rika Adachi Koto Ririko
Yuta Kishi Ayukawa Kanata
Foo Takahashi Kajiwara Mitsuteru
Reo Nagatsuma Shiomi Go
Yuzu Higuchi Fujisawa Airi
Amane Okayama Kiritani
Airi Suzuki Maika
Nana Komatsu Kururugi Yuni

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