Manpuku
| Manpuku | |
|---|---|
| Original title | まんぷく |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Yasushi Fukuda |
| Directed by |
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| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Mana Ashida |
| Opening theme | "Anata to Toulattattta" by Dreams Come True |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 151 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Hitoshi Manabe |
| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Production company(s) | NHK Osaka |
| Release | |
| Original network | NHK |
| Original release | October 1, 2018 – March 30, 2019 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Manpuku (まんぷく), sometimes romanized as Mampuku, is a Japanese television drama series and the 99th Asadora series, following Hanbun, Aoi. It premiered on 1 October 2018, and will end on 30 March 2019. The series is based on the lives of Momofuku Andō, who invented instant ramen, and his wife Masako. Sakura Ando was selected to play the lead and is the first actress to play an Asadora heroine who is herself a mother.[1]
Cast
Imai family
- Sakura Andō as Fukuko Imai
- Keiko Matsuzaka as Suzu Imai, Fukuko's mother
- Yuki Uchida as Saki Imai, Fukuko's sister
Kōda family
- Nao Matsushita as Katsuko Kōda, Fukuko's sister
- Jun Kaname as Tadahiko Kōda, Katsuko's husband
- Yukino Kishii as Taka Kōda, Katsuko's daughter
- Konomi Okuno as Yoshino Kōda, Katsuko's daughter
- Ryuto Ueda as Shigeyuki Kōda, Katsuko's son
- Yuki Takada as Manabu Kōda, Katsuko's son
Osaka Toyo Hotel employee
- Manami Hashimoto as Megumi Hoshina, a hotel senior
- Kenjirō Fujiyama as Kōkichi Noro, Fukuko's colleague
- Narumi as Utae Kashida, a senior at the telephone exchange agency
- Kotarō Soganoya as Saburō Omaeda, a hotel manager
Others in Osaka
- Hiroki Hasegawa as Manpei Tachibana, Fukuko's husband
- Ryohei Otani as Shinichi Onozuka, Saki's husband
- Isao Hashizume as Ryōzō Mitamura
- Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Keisuke Kajitani, Manpei's partner
- Kenta Kiritani as Katsuo Sera, a trading company's manager
- Rena Matsui as Toshiko Kano
- Kumi Kureshiro as Hana Ikegami
- Kenta Hamano as Zen'nosuke Maki, a dentist
Others
- Kōji Seto as Shigeru Kanbe
- Akiyoshi Nakao as Kōsuke Oka
- Masaki Suda as Taichi Azuma, a young lawyer
- Maynard Plant (Monkey Majik) as Harry Bingham, a soldier
- Blaise Plant (Monkey Majik) as Jonathan May, a soldier
- Taiiku Okazaki as Charlie Tanaka, a Japanese soldier
References
- ↑ "朝ドラ：「まんぷく」ヒロインに安藤サクラさん - 毎日新聞". 毎日新聞 (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 October 2018.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
| NHK Asadora | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous program | Manpuku (1 October 2018 – 30 March 2019) |
Next program |
| Hanbun, Aoi (2 April 2018 – 29 September 2018) |
Natsuzora (April 2019) | |
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