Manpuku
| Manpuku | |
|---|---|
| Original title | まんぷく |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Yasushi Fukuda |
| Directed by | Yoshio Watanabe Mojiri Adachi Keita Hosaka Kazufumi Matsuoka Kei Nakaizumi |
| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Mana Ashida |
| Opening theme | "Anata to Toulattattta" by Dreams Come True |
| Composer | Kenji Kawai |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 151 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Hitoshi Manabe |
| Producer | Reijirō Horinouchi |
| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Production company | NHK Osaka |
| Original release | |
| Network | NHK |
| Release | October 1, 2018 – March 30, 2019 |
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 concluded on 30 March 2019. The series is based on the lives of Momofuku Andō, who invented instant ramen, and his wife Masako.[1] Sakura Ando was selected to play the lead and is the first actress to play an Asadora heroine who is herself a mother.[2]
Plot
Fukuko Imai graduates from high school in 1938 and is about to begin work at a high-class hotel in Osaka. Her oldest sister Saki is about to get married, so Fukuko arranges for an inventor, Manpei Tachibana, to do a show at the ceremony using his new slide projectors. A few years later, when Japan is at war, they meet again and start dating, but Fukuko's mother Suzu wants her to marry the man she selects. Manpei tries to help by finding a good hospital when Saki is diagnosed with tuberculosis, but Saki's death only makes Suzu object to him even more. Things become even worse when Manpei is arrested by the Kenpeitai for supposedly illegally selling military goods. Manpei withstands the daily brutal interrogations as Fukuko's hard efforts eventually unearth the truth that Manpei's partner was the culprit. Fukuko nurses him back to health and Suzu finally consents to their marriage.
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
- Masaya Kato as Akira Kawakami
- Riho Makise as Shinobu Kawakami
- Mai Fukagawa as Yoshino Kōda
- Eiji Okuda
- Tetsushi Tanaka
References
- ^ "朝ドラ『まんぷく』のモデル「安藤百福」の本当の素顔とは". 週刊現代 (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ "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)