Teppan (TV series)

Teppan
Genre	Drama
Written by	Toshio Terada Masako Imai Erika Seki
Directed by	Tsuyoshi Inoue
Starring	Miori Takimoto Narumi Yasuda Ken'ichi Endō Shingo Yanagisawa Toshinori Omi Shūji Kashiwabara Hidekazu Akai Rie Tomosaka Raita Ryū Sumiko Fuji
Narrated by	Tamao Nakamura
Opening theme	"Himawari" by Taro Hakase
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	151
Production
Producer	Kazuki Miki
Running time	15 minutes
Production company	NHK Osaka
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	September 27, 2010 (2010-09-27) – April 2, 2011 (2011-04-02)

Teppan (てっぱん) is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto, in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and decides to move to Osaka to start an okonomiyaki restaurant. The title word "teppan" refers to the metal surface on which okonomiyaki are cooked. The series, while interrupted by the Tohoku earthquake, averaged a 17.2% rating (in the Kanto region), making it the fourth most popular of the Asadora dramas in the previous five years.

Cast

• Miori Takimoto, as Akari Murakami, the heroine
• Narumi Yasuda, as Michiko Murakami, Akari's adoptive mother
• Ken'ichi Endō, as Jō Murakami, Akari's adoptive father
• Shingo Yanagisawa
• Toshinori Omi
• Shūji Kashiwabara
• Hidekazu Akai
• Rie Tomosaka
• Sumiko Fuji, as Hatsune Tanaka, Akari's real grandmother
• Tamao Nakamura (narrator)
• Haruka Kinami, as Tanaka Chiharu

International broadcast

• The broadcast rights for the drama were sold to Sri Lanka with the intention of dubbing it into Sinhalese.