Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Taiga Kusunoki (Jun Matsumoto) is the son of well known actor Kotaro Kusunoki (Shiro Ito) and is also an actor himself. Unfortunately, Taiga's acting career is a few magnitudes lower than his ever popular father's career. His management company struggles to find work for Taiga, so Taiga usually spends his days with fellow second-generation actor Keita Ueno (Hideyuki Kasahara), who is also in a similar plight as Taiga. One day, the two friends go sky diving with Taiga losing losing control of his parachute. Taiga drifts away and eventually becomes stuck in a tree several miles away from his landing point. Then a woman named Shiori Kitamura (Yuko Takeuchi) passes by and helps free Taiga from the tree. It turns out Shiori is a huge fan of Taiga's father ...

Series details

• Title: Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Premiere date: 2010-07-19
• Final broadcast date listed: 2010-09-20
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• TVMaze ID: 32841
• IMDb ID: tt1666676
• TVDB ID: 178031

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2010-07-19; final listed air date 2010-09-20.

Source and licence

Adapted from Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.