again, our Yamapi shows us how important family/love is…
I am not surprised about his sincere wise words.. it’s just like him…

quite old review, I am sorry I don’t know who to credit on this!

Yamashita Tomohisa

People are connected more by feeling than by blood, right?
I want (you) to experience this feeling…

I also had a time when I rebelled against my mother. I didn’t want to see her face and went to a friend’s house to stay there. When I think about that now, I wonder whatever was up with me then, but back then I didn’t understand anything. Well, in my case my friends arranged for me to go home again and as a result I realized how much my mother means to me. This is why I understand to the point of being painful the feelings of the character Yôsuke-kun [AN: This is the name of his character in the dorama special "Budô no ki - satooya to kodomotachi no ai no monogatari", "Tree of grapes - a story about the love between foster parents and their children"]. When I read the script, I cried. Even when you don’t share the same blood, when your names are different, emotionally it still is a true bond between parent and child. There’s a scene when Yôsuke is rehabilitating and goes to buy his parents a splendid souvenir, and they tell him “You don’t need to do this.” At that, Yôsuke replies “I’m doing it because I want to.” This kind of verbal exchange was very deep.

There happened a lot of things in Yôsuke’s life and he was tossed about by fate, but maybe… I think he had a very rich life. He came to appreciate other people and he was overflowing with love, I think, he was happy. I learned about the foster parents system for the first time. I’ll be very happy if I managed to make you all understand about it a little bit better. It would be even better if by watching the dorama you would come to appreciate your parents and the feelings of other people. More than by blood, people are connected by their feelings. Me too, I have friends that I connect with on a deeper level, like telepathy, like siblings they understand everything. I often think how strange and wonderful this is. I want you to think about the feeling of love… this is the kind of dorama it is.