Season 1 • Episode 9
LatestAoi Miura was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but he now works as an assistant at a small architectural office in Tokyo. One summer day, he meets his childhood friend and first love, Akari Serizawa. During their school days they spent every day hanging out together until the fireworks night in their third year of high school. That night, Akari suddenly disappeared. Now, Akari has a man named Aoi.
Cinematography
Toyama's mountains and Tokyo's glass—two prisons, beautifully shot.
Writing
Dialogue so restrained you'll scream at the screen.
Acting
Sota Fukushi's quiet devastation in every hesitation.
Sota Fukushi
Aoi Miura
Tsubasa Honda
Akari Serizawa
Shuhei Nomura
Shota Aoi
Sakurako Ohara
Nanami Miura
Karen Otomo
Kokone Yamashiro
Yui Ichikawa
Ruiko Saeki
Mizuki Yamamoto
Mirei Tominaga
Azusa Babazono
Erika Takanashi
Yoh Yoshida
Mariko Niwa
Tomoya Maeno
Teruyoshi Kotani
Kaoru Kobayashi
Hirotoshi Serizawa
Yua Shinkawa
Kazuha Sawada
Taiga Nakano
Kohei Kanazawa
Masaru Nagai
Shinichi Isohara
Riku Hagiwara
Yuma Hoshino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sota Fukushi and Tsubasa Honda reunited after 'Kamen Rider Fourze'—this time with considerably more emotional damage.
The title 'Koinaka' combines 'koi' (love) and 'naka' (relationship/inside)—but also echoes 'koishi' (pebble), the small hard thing you can't dislodge.
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