Character Relationships in Not Forgotten

Kijima (played by Tatsuya Mihashi) is a protagonist in Not Forgotten. A former soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, Kijima fought alongside Ito and Murata on Peleliu during the Second World War. Nearly 80, he lives in a small, isolated house and tends his garden, having retired after a dissolute life as a yakuza. His painful memories of the war remain vivid. Heihachi (played by Minoru Ōki) appears in Not Forgotten. A veteran of the Second World War and one of the three friends who fought together on Peleliu, Heihachi is deeply shaken by his wife Shizue's impending death. He becomes a target of a religious sect's fraud scheme, and his distress drives events in the story. He is the only one of the friends to survive their bloody revenge against the sect's boss. Ito (played by Tomio Aoki) appears in Not Forgotten. A former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, Ito fought alongside Kijima and Murata on Peleliu. Nearly 80, he lives with his daughter and fortuitously meets an ikebana teacher on a bus, then begins courting her. When she later falls into madness after becoming a target of the religious sect's fraud, Ito's life is overturned. Murata Shizue (played by Keiko Utsumi) appears in Not Forgotten. Shizue is Heihachi's wife, and together they run a small bar. Stricken with cancer, she faces a grim prognosis, and her impending death deeply disturbs Heihachi. During a hospital stay, she meets Yuriko, a nurse whose family connection to one of Murata's wartime friends brings the past into their present. Yuriko (played by Masumi Sanada) appears in Not Forgotten. Yuriko is a nurse who meets Shizue at the hospital while Shizue is being treated for cancer. She is the granddaughter of Heihachi's best friend, who died during the Battle of Peleliu. Through this connection, Heihachi attends a veterans' reunion for the first time in order to meet her. Akuzawa (played by Saburo Shinoda) appears in Not Forgotten. Wakaki-hi no Kijima (played by So Yamanaka) appears in Not Forgotten. Kimura (played by Nao Omori) appears in Not Forgotten.

Character Relationship Map: Not Forgotten

Not Forgotten (2000) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.

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Directed by Makoto Shinozaki

Not Forgotten (2000) · 4.3/10 · drama

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