Suna no Shiro (manga)

Suna no Shiro (Japanese: 砂の城, lit. "Sand Castles") is a Japanese manga series created by Yukari Ichijō. It was serialized in Ribon between July 1977 through July 1979 and September 1980 through November 1981.

A TV adaptation was created as an afternoon series by Tōkai Television and Fuji and aired from July 30, 1997, through October 3, 1997.

The TV adaption was produced by Tōkai Television and aired on Fuji from July 30 through October 3, 1997. The TV adaptation keeps the general story though changes the setting to Shōwa era Japan.

On Shōwa 32 (1957), Miyuri Iwaki is born into a wealthy family that runs a traditional Japanese hotel in Izura, Ibaraki. At the same moment, a baby boy is found abandoned in from of the hotel. Yūichi--the owner of the hotel--had longed for a son and convinced his wife Sayako to raise the two babies as twins. The baby boy was named Hirafu and grew up with Miyuri as brother and sister. As the two grow, they realize that they are not actual siblings and grow to love each other.

• Miyuri Iwaki: Ryōko Morishita, Kumiko Ōba, Mizuho Igarashi, Maya Ōno
• Hirafu Iwaki: Atsuhiro Satō
• Aya Iwaki: Yōko Minamida
• Sayako Iwaki: Rumi Sakakibara
• Yūichi Iwaki: Jinya Satō
• Isako Funamura: Saori Yagi, Marumi Shiraishi
• Takeshi Tsudayama: Takayuki Godai
• Tanako Ōba: Emi Shindō
• Fuyumi: Rei Nakayama
• Tane: Tomie Kataoka
• Hideo: Hiroto Yoshimitsu
• Hokuhan Mizuhara: Tōru Minegishi