Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter (2005): Cast

Set in the late Tokugawa era, tension rises between the shogunate and the Chōshū domain over how to deal with foreign powers. Touma Kusaka, unlike his fellow samurai, secretly studies English to foster better relations with the West. He hires Keiichirō Akizuki, a bakufu agent, as his tutor and their lessons soon develop into a deep, conflicted bond.

• YM Director Yoshihisa Matsumoto

• Shin-ichiro Miki
• Toshiyuki Morikawa
• SM Showtaro Morikubo

Also known as

• Winter Cicada
• Fuyu no Semi
• 겨울 매미 (2007)
• 冬之蝉：特别编集版