Nobuta wo Produce
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| Genre | Drama |
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| Nobuta o Produce | |
| Directed by | Hitoshi Iwamoto and Norika Sakuma |
| Studio | — |
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| Written by | Gen Shiraiwa |
| Published by | Kawade Shobou Shinsha |
Nobuta o Produce (野ブタ。をプロデュース, Nobuta. o Purodyūsu) is a Japanese drama series, produced and aired in 2005 by NTV. The television show is based on the book of the same name by Gen Shiraiwa (ISBN 4-309-01683-9). The show aired on Saturdays at 9:00 pm.
Plot
Template:Spoilers Shūji Kiritani (Kazuya Kamenashi) is a very popular high school boy whose girlfriend is Mariko Uehara (Erika Toda), the most popular girl in school. Despite his popularity among other students, he is relatively alone with Akira Kusano (Tomohisa Yamashita) as the only person he hangs out with, despite constantly claiming that he can't stand the other boy. One day, a very shy girl, Nobuko Kotani (Maki Horikita) comes to school and she instantly gets picked on by a few other girls for her shyness. Shūji and Akira then decide to "produce" her, or make her popular. They nickname her "Nobuta".
Of course, producing Nobuta is not an easy task, especially when a mysterious person is trying to ruin all of Shūji and Akira's efforts. In the end, the person turns out to be Aoi, Nobuta's "friend", who later on attempts suicide in a dream shared by Aoi, Nobuta, Akira, and Shūji.
In the final episode Shūji discovers that he and his family must move out of Tokyo because of his father's job and leave Nobuta to cope by herself with Akira. However, Akira follows Shūji to his new home town and surprises him by showing up at his new school. Nobuta is left alone in Tokyo, but she is not shy anymore, and is able to smile, and she also becomes somewhat popular among the other students.
Credits
Cast
- Kazuya Kamenashi - Shūji Kiritani (桐谷 修二, Kiritani Shūji)
- Tomohisa Yamashita - Akira Kusano (草野 彰, Kusano Akira)
- Maki Horikita - Nobuko Kotani (小谷 信子, Kotani Nobuko) (aka Nobuta)
- Erika Toda - Mariko Uehara (上原 まり子, Uehara Mariko)
- Takashi Ukaji - Satoru Kiritani (桐谷 悟, Kiritani Satoru)
- Yuto Nakajima - Koji Kiritani (桐谷 浩二, Kiritani Kōji)
- Yoshinori Okada - Takeshi Yokoyama (横山 武士, Yokoyama Takeshi)
- Tomoya Ishii - Yoshida (吉田 浩, Yoshida)
- Katsumi Takahashi - Ippei Hirayama (平山 一平, Hirayama Ippei)
- Mari Natsuki - Yoko Sada (Katherine) (佐田 杳子（キャサリン）, Sada Youkou (Kyasarin))
- Fumiko Mizuta - Kozue Bando (坂東 梢, Bandō Kozue)
- Shunsuke Daito - Taniguchi
- Honami Tajima - Misa Inoue (井上 美咲, Inoue Misa)
- Akiko - Nami (佐伯 奈美, Nami)
- Tomu Suetaka - Kondo (近藤 利晃（ボケ担当）, Kondo)
Staff
- Hitoshi Iwamoto and Norika Sakuma - directors
- Hidehiro Kawano - producer
- Izumi Kizara - screenwriter
Episodes
Awards
The TV series won an impressive six awards at the 47th annual Japanese Television Academy award show:
- Best Drama
- Best Actor: Kazuya Kamenashi
- Best Supporting Actress: Maki Horikita
- Best Director
- Best Script
- Best Music
Also, Tomohisa Yamashita won best actor for Nobuta o Produce at the 2006 10th Nikkan Sports Drama Awards.
Music
The theme song is 'Seishun Amigo' by Shūji to Akira, a special group consisting of Kazuya Kamenashi and Tomohisa Yamashita, named after their drama counterparts.
Quotes
- "Nobuta Power.... CHUU NYUU!" - Akira
- "Bye-Bicycle!" - Shūji
- "Kon Kon!" - Akira (imitating a fox with his hand)
- "Shu-u-ji kun!" - Akira
- "Akira SHOCK!" - Akira
External links
- Template:Ja icon Official website
- Template:En icon Nobuta o Produce - at DramaWiki