Brother Beat (ブラザー☆ビート Burazā Bīto) is a Japanese television drama consisting of eleven episodes, which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 13 to December 22, 2005.
Cast:
Harue Sakurai – Misako Tanaka (mother, works at a supermarket)
Tsutomu Sakurai – Hidekazu Akai (father, dies when his sons are young)
Tatsuya Sakurai – Tetsuji Tamayama (oldest brother, works as a salaryman)
Child Tatsuya – Yūki Izumisawa
Riku Sakurai – Mokomichi Hayami (middle brother, swim instructor at a gym)
Child Riku – Ryōhei Hirota
Junpei Sakurai – Akiyoshi Nakao (youngest brother, college student)
Hideki Noguchi – Katsuhisa Namase (Harue’s manager at the supermarket; main love interest for her)
Chisato Tamura – Ryoko Kuninaka (works at the supermarket with Harue; main love interest for Tatsuya)
Ai Kudō – Reina Asami
Miyuki Aizawa – Mayuko Iwasa
Section Chief Yamaguchi – Akio Kaneda (Tatsuya’s boss)
Azuma – Hideo Tsubota
Yoshii – Hiro Mizushima
Saori Tsukahara – Minami Ōtomo
Yumiko Toda – Miyako Takeuchi
Megumi Nomura – Hiroko Yamashita
Kyōko Nishihara – Naoko Miya
Keiko – Kazusa Matsuda
Aki & Rie Yoshihara – Aya Okamoto
Morimura – Tomoharu Hasegawa
Miyuki Aizawa’s father – Kenichi Yajima
Fusako Tamura – Kyōko Uemura (Chisato’s mother)
Shōgo Tamura – Takuzō Kadono (Chisato’s father)
Kei Tamura – Hideo Ishiguro (Chisato’s younger brother)
Staff:
Writer – Eriko Komatsu
Directors – Kanji Takenoshita, Shin Katō, Jun Mutō
Producer – Hitohiro Itō
Broadcaster – Tokyo Broadcasting System
Music – Def Tech (main themes “Broken Hearts” and “My Way”)