Enka no Joou
Enka no Joou
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Contents
Details
- Title: 演歌の女王 (えんか の じょおう)
- Title (romaji): Enka no Joou
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Comedy
- Episodes: 10
- Viewership rating: 9.1
- Broadcast network: NTV
- Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-13 to 2007-Mar-17
- Air time: Saturday 21:00
- Theme song: Kimi no Suki na Toko by Hirai Ken
Synopsis
Himawari is an unsuccessful 39-year-old enka singer who has bad luck with men and money. Born into an Osaka takoyaki shop, the young Himawari was inspired by her father's words to immerse herself in enka. At the age of 13 her father disappears and her mother, bitter over the husband that left her, remarries--but Himawari has trouble adjusting to a new father and brother. With her father's words in her head--"You're the #1 singer in all of Japan!"--Himawari immediately heads to Tokyo after high school and makes her debut as an enka singer.
Cast
- Amami Yuki as Ookochi Himawari
- Harada Taizo as Tamaru Hitoshi
- Sakai Wakana as Ichijo Masami
- Narumi Riko as Gomi Sadako
- Kikawada Masaya as Nobutomo Katsuya
- Hirayama Hiroyuki as Yazawa (bento shop manager)
- Takei Akashi as Hanada Shin
- Takahata Atsuko as Nobutomo Hoshie
- Hankai Kazuaki as Shida
- Fukuda Mayuko as Nobutomo Sachiko
- Nukumizu Youichi as Nukumizu Keiji
- Danta Yasunori as Hagimoto Jiro
- Ikeuchi Junko as Tamaru Michiyo
- Hada Michiko as Koda (Hitoshi's high school classmate) (ep1)
- Nishiyama Mayuko as Hanada Kyoko (Shin's mother) (ep2,9)
- Murai Katsuyuki (村井克行) as Hanada Ryoichi (ep2,9)
- Okouchi Hiroshi (ep3)
- Sasaki Hikari (佐々木ひかり) (ep3,10)
- Ito Sairi (ep3,10)
- Yanagita Erika (ep3,10)
- Oshikawa Daisuke (押川大輔) (ep3,10)
- Kitou Utano (鬼頭歌乃) (ep3,10)
- Kajiwara Hikari (ep3,10)
- Kakuike Erina (角池恵里菜) (ep3,10)
- Takasugi Mizuho as Sachiko's stepfather (ep4,5)
- Matsukawa Naruki (ep5)
- George Yamamoto (山本譲二) as himself (ep6)
- Haba Yuichi (ep6)
- Yajima Kenichi (ep7)
- Nakajima Hiroko (ep7)
- Nishioka Tokuma (ep9)
- Kamata Atsushi (鎌田篤) (ep10)
- Yanagitani Yuka (ep10)
- Shigatani Yui (志賀谷ゆい) (ep10)
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Yukawa Kazuhiko
- Producer: Ohira Futoshi, Ota Masaharu
- Director: Ootsuka Kyoji, Iwamoto Hitoshi, Kiuchi Taketo (木内健人)
- Music: Ike Yoshihiro
Episode Information
| Episode | Subtitle | Ratings (Kanto) |
Ratings (Kansai) | Ratings (Nationwide) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Oh my God! There are people as unlucky as this!? Enter Ookouchi Himawari | 10.9 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 02 | An invincible woman who devours misfortune and gives birth to happiness | 09.5 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 03 | A message for you who is being bullied... | 08.5 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 04 | The right way to confess to the person you like | 09.9 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 05 | The family's in trouble!! The last-ditch rescue effort | 08.2 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 06 | Her first acapella performance summons a miracle!! | 08.0 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 07 | Goodbye, love... I'm forsaking Tokyo | 09.1 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 08 | I'll kill you, and then commit suicide! | 08.7 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 09 | To live or to die, a woman's crossroads | 07.7 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 10 | Her voice echoes to the heavens and makes miracles happen | 10.4 | ??.? | ??.? |
| Average | 09.1 | ??.? | ??.? |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.
Notes
- Along with Amami Yuki and Fukuda Mayuko, many of the guests in Jyoou no Kyoushitsu make a reappearance in this drama.
External Links
| Autumn 2006 | NTV | Spring 2007 |
| Tatta Hitotsu no Koi | Saturday 21:00 | Kuitan |
