Binbo Danshi

Details[edit]

Title: 貧乏男子
Title (romaji): Binbo Danshi
Tagline: ボンビーメン / Bomb bee men
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 9
Viewership ratings: 11.6(Kanto)
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-15 to 2008-Mar-11
Air time: Tuesday 22:00
Theme song: Monochrome by BENNIE K
- Insert song: Ue wo Muite Arukou by Suzuki Masayuki

Synopsis[edit]

Koyama Kazumi is a poor but optimistic college student who firmly believing that there are more important things than money. Despite his own poverty he ends up taking on other people's debts and faces various challenges to pay off those debts. --Tokyograph

Cast[edit]

Correlation chart

Oguri Shun as Koyama Kazumi
Yashima Norito as Hikita Shuzo
Yamada Yu as Nakahara Mimi
Miura Haruma as Shiraishi Ryo
Yusuke Santamaria as Omuomu
Kamiji Yusuke as Teruteru
Otoo Takuma as Chagie
Ichige Yoshie as Koyama Shizue
Naka Riisa as Shinjo Sumire
Shibue Joji as Sunagawa Takayuki
Shikauchi Takashi (鹿内孝) as Inoue Goro
Suzunosuke as Katagiri Hiroshi
Ito Yumi as Kurata Wakana
Okada Ryosuke (岡田亮輔) as Akagi (Kazumi's Classmate)
Ishida Yudai (石田勇大) as Nakata (Kazumi's Classmate)
Kai Makoto (甲斐誠) as Uekusa (Kazumi's Classmate)
Tomikawa Kazuhito as Tsunoda
Morita Yosuke (森田陽祐) as Wakamatsu
Kojika Keiji (小鹿敬司) as Shimura
Masuda Shuichiro (増田修一朗) as Nagasaka
Takiguchi Yukihiro as Abe (Host)

Guests[edit]

Yazaki Hiroshi (ep1)
Hankai Kazuaki as Kazumi's colleague (ep3)
Iriyama Noriko as Hikita's fiance (ep3)
Tokui Yuu as trainer (ep4)
Yamazaki Hajime as Shiraishi Yu (ep6,8)
Imae Fuyuko (今江冬子) as Miwa (ep7)
Kasai Kenji as Suzuki (ep7)
Yamashita Yorie (ep8)
Abe Shohei

Episode Information[edit]

Episode	Subtitle	Ratings (Kanto)	Ratings (Kansai)	Ratings (Nationwide)
01	A man that can't say no...The arrival of Bomb bee men	16.5	??.?	??.?
02	Bomb bee men vs women who buy too much	13.2	??.?	??.?
03	Bomb bee men vs man who can't get married	12.5	??.?	??.?
04	Bomb bee men, love at first sight!	09.2	??.?	??.?
05	Bomb bee men vs the confession of the ultimate mother	10.2	??.?	??.?
06	Bomb bee return all his debts!? Tears of reunion with his father	10.3	??.?	??.?
07	Bomb bee loses his job offer!?	09.6	??.?	??.?
08	Bomb bee men gets angry	11.2	??.?	??.?
09	Bomb bee men graduates!	11.4	??.?	??.?
Average	--	11.6	??.?	??

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Production Credits[edit]

Screenwriter: Yamaoka Shinsuke (山岡真介), Yamaura Masahiro (山浦雅大)
Producer: Hazeyama Yuko, Kuwabara Joya (桑原丈弥), Nakazawa Susumu
Director: Inomata Ryuichi, Yoshino Hiroshi, Shigeyama Yoshinori (茂山佳則)
Music: Sawano Hiroyuki

External Links[edit]

Autumn 2007	NTV	Spring 2008
Yukan Club	Tuesday 22:00	Osen