Juken no Kamisama

Details[edit]

Title: 受験の神様
Title (romaji): Juken no Kamisama
Also known as: The Goddess of Exams
Format: Renzoku
Genre: School, family
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 09.5 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2007-Jul-14 to 2007-Sep-22 (ep6 Aug 25)
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Honjitsu, Mijukumono by TOKIO

Synopsis[edit]

Thirty-five year old Umezawa Isamu works for a major trading firm and is a single dad to his only son, Hiroshi, a sixth-grader who hates to study but loves to play baseball. Ever since his wife divorced him on a whim five years ago, his days have been a constant struggle to keep up with work and household chores. One day, Isamu sets out on the task of finding his son a prep school for junior high entrance exams, but he becomes desperate when finding that most schools have already closed off applications. It is at such a time that Isamu hears about the Goddess of Exams. Rumor has it that she was accepted at all of the 17 topnotch junior high schools with top scores 2 years ago and that whoever she tutors makes it into the school of their wish, one hundred percent. Isamu finds out that the girl's name is Sugawara Michiko and begins a frantic search for her. When Isamu finally finds Michiko and pleads her to tutor Hiroshi, she demands, "If you want me to tutor your son, kneel down at my feet and beg." --NTV

Cast[edit]

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Yamaguchi Tatsuya as Umezawa Isamu
Narumi Riko as Sugawara Michiko
Nagashima Mitsuki as Umezawa Hiroshi
Morimoto Ryutaro as Saionji Yoshitsugu
Osonoe Eri (小薗江愛理) as Tezuka Megumi
Morisaki Hiroyuki (森崎博之) as Saionji Kimitsugu
Miyaji Masako as Saionji Fumie
Kaito Ken as Matsuoka Kosuke
Kuroda Yuki as Yamamoto Shinichi
Ogawa Nana as Nishida Mari
Ishibashi Anna as Wada Saori
Morimoto Shintaro as Saionji Tadatsugu
Arai Kentaro as Nakao Kazuki
Nishimura Masahiko as Amaki Shigeo
Sudo Risa as Tezuka Yumi
Ohkura Koji as Tezuka Shinsaku
Yachigusa Kaoru as Umezawa Nobuko

Guests[edit]

Sasaki Yuya (佐々木裕也) (ep1-2)
Ogi Shigemitsu as President Mitamura (ep1)
Fukazawa Atsushi (ep1)
Suzuki Mie (鈴木美恵) (ep1,7,9)
Kikuchi Kinya as Muroguchi Ryota (ep2,7)
Ito Masayuki (ep2)
Kawabuchi Yoshikazu (川渕良和) (ep2,9)
Asazato Mari (麻里万里) (ep2)
Murakami Wataru (村上航) (ep2,5,9)
Mikami Satoshi (三上哲) (ep2)
Izumisawa Yuuki as Amaki Aran (ep3,5,9-10)
Inowaki Kai (井之脇海) (ep3,5)
Hattori Anna (服部杏奈) (ep3)
Maeda Gin as President Isobe (ep3-4)
Hasegawa Tomoharu as Kasai (ep3)
Sato Jiro as Yoshida (ep3)
Nakamaru Shinsho (ep3)
Nomura Suzuno as Ryoko (ep4,7,10)

Fukuchi Asami as Fukumoto Aki (ep4,7,8,10)
Kaneo Mizuho (兼尾瑞穂) (ep4,7)
Anan Kenji as Sakata (ep4)
Megumi Ryuichiro (恵隆一郎) (ep5)
Harumi Shiho (春海四方) (ep5)
Inomata Taichi (猪股太一) (ep5)
Morita Ganz (森田ガンツ) (ep5)
Yonemoto Raiki as Umezawa Eita (ep6)
Yoshida Kakeru as Umezawa Takuma (ep6)
Nagato Hiroyuki as Umezawa Kojiro (ep6,8)
Kobayashi Takashi (ep6,8)
Matsunaga Reiko (ep6,8)
Tawaragi Tota (ep8)
Fukumoto Shinichi (ep8)
Uno Tasuku (ep8)
Maeda Goki (ep9)
Tezuka Satomi (ep9)
Asaki Nobuyuki (浅木信幸) (ep9)

Production Credits[edit]

Screenwriter: Fukuma Masahiro (福間正浩)
Producer: Nishi Norihiko, Suzuki Satoshi, Watanabe Hirohito
Director: Iwamoto Hitoshi (ep1-2,4,8,10), Otani Taro (ep3,5,7), Honma Miyuki (本間美由紀) (ep6,9)
Music: Ike Yoshihiro

Episode Information[edit]

Episode	Subtitle	Kanto	Kansai	Nationwide
01	The traveling man problem	14.7	??.?	??.?
02	Transcribing Chinese characters	09.3	??.?	??.?
03	Separation of the powers	07.1	??.?	??.?
04	Summer Triangle	07.8	??.?	??.?
05	The Fibonacci sequence	06.2	??.?	??.?
06	The mechanisms of digestion	08.3	??.?	??.?
07	Marketing	07.6	??.?	??.?
08	Stories and a change of heart	11.5	??.?	??.?
09	Antonym	11.7	??.?	??.?
10	The solution to the traveling man problem	10.3	??.?	??.?
Average	--	09.5	??.?	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

External Links[edit]

Spring 2007	NTV	Autumn 2007
Kuitan 2	Saturday 21:00	Dream Again