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Heaven's Coin
Drama
Episodes
Part 1: 12 episodes, Part 2: 12 episodes
Original broadcast
October, 1996
Duration
Part 1: approx. 60 min. each / Part 2: #1 and #12 approx. 90 min., #2-#11 approx. 60 min.
Track
Japanese
Genre
Drama
Cast
Noriko Sakai, Takao Osawa, Yutaka Takenouchi

A woman without a voice and a man without memories...
"HEAVEN'S COIN" is a smash hit drama series depicting bittersweet feelings and weariness of love, which left all of Japan in tears.

HEAVEN'S COIN -Part 1-

A woman and a man fall in love in Hokkaido. Aya is deaf and mute, but enjoys her life, thanks to her optimistic and cheerful personality. Shuichi is a surgeon with a kind heart. He receives a job offer from a hospital in Tokyo, and leaves the small town by telling Aya, "Let's get married. I will definitely return here to come for you." However, soon after arriving in Tokyo, he is injured, leading to a loss of memory.

Aya comes to Tokyo and devotedly takes care of hospitalized Shuichi. The two become closer and closer with each passing day, but Aya couldn't avoid having complicated feelings for Shuichi, who still couldn't recall who she is and what he had promised her while in Hokkaido.

Meanwhile, Aya meets Shuichi's freewheeling brother Takumi who is also a doctor working at the hospital. Takumi also falls seriously in love with Aya. Moreover, Shoko, the daughter of a large conglomerate, begins attending to Shuichi, dreaming of marrying him. As Aya and Shuichi try to steer their love story to a happy ending, they find themselves facing devious tactics set up by Takumi and Shoko.

HEAVEN'S COIN -Part 2-

Despite her love for Shuichi, Aya leaves him and returns to Hokkaido by herself after deciding that Shuichi would live happily with Shoko. Takumi follows Aya to confess his true feelings for her by saying he would even wait for another hundred years until she could love him.

One year passes by. While Aya is enjoying her new life with Takumi in Hokkaido, Shuichi continues to think about her. Shuichi's true feelings for Aya grow stronger and stronger after he lost his wife Shoko. At the same time, Takumi becomes paralyzed in an accident though he was finally able to keep his loved one by his side. Just as Aya is truly at a loss and unable to decide which man to choose, she faces another tragedy of losing her eyesight in an accident.

This story in the second series of HEAVEN'S COIN unfolds as the destinies of one woman and a pair of brothers are continuously tested by people around them, including a man conspiring to take over the hospital which Takumi and Shuichi inherited from their father.

"What does it mean to love someone?" "How do we attain true happiness?" "Is money all we need to become happy?"
NTV proudly presents this legendary drama series which delivers such universal themes to the viewers.