Taiyou no Kisetsu

AKA
太陽の季節
Season of the Sun

Episodes: 11

Summary

Tormented college student Tasuya was once an all-around nice guy but now seems to be balancing a gigantic grudge on his shoulder. What the grudge is has yet to be revealed, although it likely has something to do with his father and the poverty that plagues his life.

For some unknown reason, he has taken to hanging around with the richest kid in school, basically a trusting, nice guy who Tatsuya is out to destroy. He feels an uncontrollable urge to deface the rich kid's new car and chase after his fiance.

Complicating the plot further is Tatsuya's run-in with a young composer and pianist, who has a limp sustained in a car accident many years before. She, too, is rich, although Tatsuya does not know it yet.

Stuck in a stifling home environment with her pianist mother who disdains her desire to compose, the obedient young woman begins to change after a chance meeting with Tatsuya, while he seems to regain some of his humanity in his interaction with her.

Based on Ishihara Shintaro's novel.

Cast
Hideaki Takizawa - Tatsuya
Chizuru Ikewaki
Yoshinori Okada
Rio Matsumoto
Sousuke Takaoka
Shûgo Oshinari
Hirofumi Arai
Kei Ishibashi
Takuji Fukae
Rie Ishida
Marika Matsumoto
Ryouji Morimoto
Tatsuya Hirata