Top Cast
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Yuko Asano
Saho Sano
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Sae Isshiki
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Yui Natsukawa
Seki Yamanaka
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Hitomi Kuroki
Kaho Tanouchi
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Hiroki Matsukata
Izou Tanouchi
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Hidetoshi Nishijima
Takeda Ryota
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Eiichiro Funakoshi
Takero Sano
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Jun Etoh
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Shigemitsu Ogi
Overview
In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family's sake business.
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