Ai Saotome's birth name is Satomi Setoguchi.
Mitsugu Saotome's birth name is Hideyoshi Kanegae.
Taichi Saotome's birth name is Taichi Nishimura.
Ai Saotome was born on December 29, 1958, in Kagoshima, Japan.
Ai Uchikawa's birth name is Yuka Uchikawa.
Ai Iijima's birth name is Matsue Ohkubo.
Mingzhi Ai's birth name is Zhikun Huang.
Tomoko Ai's birth name is Fumiyo Murakami.
Ai Orikasa's birth name is Kikue Orikasa.
Ai Haruna's birth name is Kenji Ohnishi.
Ai Satou's birth name is Kiyoko Sato.
The cast of Ai to makoto - 2012 includes: Ayano Yo Hitoto as Miyako Saotome Masachika Ichimura as Shogo Saotome Ken Maeda as Teacher Ito Ohno as Yuki Takahara Emi Takei as Ai Saotome childhood Satoshi Tsumabuki as Makoto Taiga Kimiko Yo as Toyo Taiga
Ai Iijima died in December 2008, in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan of pneumonia.