Limited series · Nippon TV
A Moonlight Nights Passing
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Haru
Runa Nomiya
10 eps
Kumiko Aso
Ryoko Sawatsuji
10 eps
Shuntaro Yanagi
Tetsuya Tamura
10 eps
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Hiroki Kominato
10 eps
Naoki Tanaka
Kikuo Sawatsuji
10 eps
Mako Ishino
10 eps
Ryo Ishibashi
10 eps
Ryuto Sakuma
Kazuto
11 eps
Nozomi Sasaki
Ikushima Aiko
1 eps
Daichi Asai
Kadomura Makoto
1 eps
Kazulaser
Host
1 eps
Masami Hisamoto
Sato Yoriko
1 eps
Takeshi Tomizawa
Sato Tsuyoshi
1 eps
Hiroyuki Takagishi
Owener-Chef
1 eps
Makiya Yamaguchi
Tatsuo
1 eps
Yoji Iwase
Sato Shinichi
1 eps
Jun Hasegawa
Takeno
1 eps
Machiko Kochi
Sato Makiko
1 eps
Tsuyoshi Nakano
Sato Munehisa
1 eps
Sawa Suzuki
Sato Kiwako
1 eps
Hiroyuki Iguchi
Sato Kazuya
1 eps
Kentaro Tamura
1 eps
Mamoru Hagiwara
1 eps
Masatô Ibu
Kurata Fumihiko
1 eps
Tomoya Maeno
Yano Kazuomi
1 eps
Miku Ichinose
Woman
1 eps
Haruto Yoshida
Suzumoto Yuichi
1 eps
Kumiko Endo
Nanami Satsuki
1 eps
Toru Nomaguchi
1 eps
二井景彪
1 eps
田野井健
1 eps
Yuri Tsunematsu
1 eps
Rintaro Hinotsu
1 eps
Itsuji Itao
1 eps
Kie Kitano
1 eps
Aya Enjoji
1 eps
Chiaki Kawamo
1 eps
Yuki Sato
1 eps
Ryosuke Sota
1 eps
吉田結衣
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How A Moonlight Nights Passing actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
A Moonlight Nights Passing reads strongest on Bingeability, Cliffhanger Intensity and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A transgender bar owner and a troubled housewife uncover buried regrets and get caught in a murder mystery in Osaka, where literature and intuition guide them toward the truth.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Tadahisa DosakaProducer
- 水嶋陽Producer
- Masanori MatsuyamaProducer
- Rena OdaProducer
Direction
- 明石広人Director
- Shunpei MaruyaDirector
Music
- Oh!BeOriginal Music Composer
- Achilles DamigosOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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