Massan (2014)
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Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, a Scotswoman Taketsuru met while studying abroad. American actress Charlotte Kate Fox stars as Ellie Kameyama opposite Japanese actor Tetsuji Tamayama as Masaharu Kameyama in a fictionalized account of Rita's travels to Japan and Taketsuru's attempts to begin the Nikka Whisky Distilling company. The story starts in Taisho era year 9, 1920 and the storyline develops for the next 50 years: The son and heir to a sake brewery in Hiroshima has discovered a passion for making whiskey. Blessed by his employer, he travels alone to Scotland to learn how to make the finest Whiskey. After two years, he returns to Japan with his expertise and dream of making Whiskey and his new foreigner wife. - Actors:
- Tetsuji Tamayama, Charlotte Kate Fox, Noriko Eguchi, Yôko Matsuoka, Ananda Jacobs, Tony Nakajima, David McFall, Ken Yamamura, Russell Totten, Christopher Pellegrini
- Genres:
- TV Dramas
- Countries:
- Japan
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