Dragon Zakura (TV series)
| Dragon Zakura | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Genre | School drama |
| Written by | Takehiko Hata |
| Directed by | Renpei Tsukamoto, Marehiro Karaki, Takashi Komatsu |
| Starring | Hiroshi Abe |
| Theme music composer | Kyo Nakanishi |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Editors | Kouichi Enda, Mayumi Shimizu |
| Production companies | Media Mix Japan Co., Ltd, TBS |
| Original release | |
| Network | TBS |
| Release | July 8 – September 16, 2005 |
| Related | |
| Master of Study | |
Dragon Zakura (Doragon Zakura) is a Japanese live action television series based on the manga of the same name.
Cast
Teachers
- Hiroshi Abe as Kenji Sakuragi, a lawyer and the homeroom teacher for the special class
- Kyōko Hasegawa as Mamako Ino, an English teacher from Ryūzan High School. She takes care of History lessons for the special class.
- Yōko Nogiwa as Yuriko Tatsuno, the director of Ryūzan High School and the wife of former owner
- Yōsuke Saitō as Tokihisa Kondō, the vice-principal of Ryūzan High School.
- David Ito as Masanao Ochiai, a teacher from Ryūzan High School
- Tōru Shinagawa as Tetsunosuke Yanagi, the Mathematics teacher for the special class
- Minori Terada - Ryūzaburō Akutayama, the Japanese language teacher for the special class
- Susumu Kobayashi as Shutaro Ain, the Science teacher for the special class
- Akio Kaneda as Hiroshi Kawaguchi, the English language teacher for the special class
- Shin Yazawa as Nozomi Yamamoto, Mamako's friend and a teacher of Shūmeikan High School.
Students of the special class
- Tomohisa Yamashita as Yūsuke Yajima
- Masami Nagasawa as Naomi Mizuno
- Teppei Koike as Hideki Ogata
- Yui Aragaki as Yoshino Kōsaka
- Akiyoshi Nakao as Ichirō Okuno
- Saeko as Maki Kobayashi
Family members of special class students
- Mako Ishino as Setsuko Yajima, Yūsuke's mother
- Jun Miho as Yūko Mizuno, Naomi's mother
- Kei Sunaga as Kōsei Ogata, Hideki's father
- Tomoko Aihara as Mariko Ogata, Hideki's mother
- Yōko Kurita as Megumi Kōsaka, Yoshino's mother
- Kazuko Katō as Miyako Okuno, Ichirō's mother
- Momosuke Mizutani as Jirō Okuno, Ichirō's twin brother. He is a student of Shūmeikan High School)
- Nobue Iketani as Mitsue Kobayashi, Maki's mother
Other students of Ryūzan High School
- Akari Hori as Asumi Toda, an idol who repeatedly sends Maki e-mails from her workplace
- Ayano Gunji as Saori Abe, Naomi's friend. She had requested Naomi to introduce her to Yūsuke
Others
- Hiroki Murakami as Yoshio Tanaka, one of Nozomi's suitors. He is a law graduate of Tokyo University. An arrogant man, he is proud of his academic and social standing even though he is neither handsome nor fit.
- Mitsuru Karahashi as Yasushi Sawamatsu, the second suitor of Nozomi. A high school dropout, he is rather simple-minded with "awesome" as his favorite phrase and a very limited vocabulary. His favorite pastime is playing Pachinko and he only has a part-time job.
Episodes
| Ratings for Kanto region (average rating: 16.41%)[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Theme song
The theme song of the show is "Realize" by melody. and the insert song "Colorful" by Tomohisa Yamashita.
References
- ^ "Video Research Ratings" (in Japanese). Video Research Ltd. Retrieved 2012-07-07.