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Ranman

Details

• Title: らんまん
• Title (romaji): Ranman
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Drama
• Episodes: 130
• Broadcast network: NHK
• Broadcast period: 2023-Apr-03 to 2023-Sep-29
• Air time: Mon-Fri 8:00
• Theme song: Ai no Hana by Aimyon

Synopsis

Around the end of the Edo period, Makino Mantaro was born into a wealthy family that runs a sake brewery in Kochi. Due to his weak body, Mantaro was often bullied but he showed huge interest and talent in plants. He decided to drop out of elementary school and studied botany with the dream of "discovering all the plants in Japan" and create his own botanical illustration book.

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Cast

Makino Family Kamiki Ryunosuke as Makino Mantaro Mori Yurito as child Mantaro Kobayashi Masahito as Mantaro (ages 9 to 12) Hamabe Minami as Makino (Nishimura) Sueko (Mantaro's wife) Hirosue Ryoko as Makino Hisa (Mantaro's mother) Sakuma Yui as Makino Aya (Mantaro's elder sister) Ota Yuno as young Aya Takahashi Maaya as young Aya Matsuzaka Keiko as Makino Taki (Mantaro's grandmother) Endo Sakura as Makino Chitose Matsuoka Koudai as Makino Momoki Honda Miyu as Makino Chizuru Sake Brewery "Mineya" Komatsu Toshimasa as Ichizo Ishimura Mika as Fuji Shison Jun as Takeo (Head attendant's son) Inoue Ryota as young Takeo Minamide Ryoka as teen Takeo Kasamatsu Sho as Kokichi (Brewer) Banke Ichiro as young Kokichi Nakamura Riho as Tama (Maid) Akagi Yuma as Sadakichi "Mineya" branch Sugawara Daikichi as Toyoji Sakaguchi Ryotaro as Shinji Shimizu Shin as Kihei Other People at Kochi Miyano Mamoru as Hayakawa Itsuma Uzaki Ryudo as Nakahama Manjiro Shimazaki Wakako as Kusuno Kie (Civil Liberties Movement supporter) Terawaki Yasufumi as Ikeda Ranko (Head of academic institute) Hamada Tatsuomi as Yamamoto Kotetsu Terada Kokoro as Yamamoto Kotetsu Sumita Takashi as Ushikutei Kyubei Nishimura Family / Japanese Confectionery Shop "Hakubaido" Makise Riho as Nishimura Matsu (Sueko's mother) Miyazawa Emma as Kasazaki Mie (Matsu's younger sister) Ikeuchi Mansaku as Abe Bunta (Confectioner) Boarding House "Jittokunagaya" Daito Shunsuke as Kuraki Hayato (Resident / Former Shogitai member) Narumi Riko as Kuraki Ei (Hayato's wife) Suwa Yui as Kuraki Kano Suzuki Rinko as young Kano Ninomiya Rikuto as Kuraki Kensaku Shibuya Soraji as young Kensaku Ikeda Tetsuhiro as Oikawa Fukuji (Resident / Dried fish seller) Yamaya Kasumi as Usami Yu (Resident / Restaurant maid) Ando Tamae as Eguchi Rin (Landlord)

University of Tokyo's Botany Department Kaname Jun as Tanabe Akihisa Tanaka Tetsushi as Tokunaga Seiichi Konno Hiroki as Okubo Shozaburo Maehara Kou as Hatano Yasuhisa Maehara Mizuki as Fujimaru Jiro Shibuya Kento as Hosoda Kosuke Takahashi Rio as Iijima Satoru Kishino Kenta as Shiba Toyotaka Inoue Sora as Yamane Hironori Inukai Naoki as Sawaguchi Shinsuke Kameda Yoshiaki as Nomiya Sakutaro Yamamoto Koji as Mimasaka Hideyoshi Ohata Printing Office Okuda Eiji as Ohata Gihei Tsuruta Mayu as Ohata Ichi Tamura Meimi as Ohata Kayo Kawai Katsuo as Iwashita Sadaharu Abe Ryohei as Maeda Kojiro Yamane Kazuma as Miyamoto Shinpei People around Sueko Irei Kanata as Takato Masanari Umefune Ariei as Takato Yae Kongochi Takeshi as Kashima Nakata Seina as Tanabe Satoko People in Shibuya Serizawa Tateto as Aratani Satarō Umezawa Masayo as Aratani Kane Inoue Jun as Sato Hiroshi Iriyama Noriko as Toyoka Misaki Rion as Hazuki Kaiho Naoto as Kobayashi Ichizo Other People at Tokyo Nakamura Aoi as Hirose Yuichiro (Mantaro's friend) Iwata Ryu as young Yuichiro Tanabe Seiichi as Noda Motoyoshi (Botanist) Ito Seiko (いとうせいこう) as Satonaka Yoshio (Botanist) Government Ishikawa Zen as Saeki Ryotaro Mikami Ichiro as Shirakawa Naganori Machida Mizuki as Nasukawa Masamune Morioka Ryu as Ajima Keiichi Hashimoto Satoshi as Mori Arinori Suzuki Soma as Kakegawa Michinari Others Dean Fujioka as Sakamoto Ryoma Enoki Takaaki as Tsukada Akinori Tsunashima Gotaro as Hotta Tetsukan Niina Motohiro as Hotta Kanta Ogura Hisahiro as Nakao Murakami Kazu as Matsuya Sato Masahiro as Ikedaya Minagawa Sarutoki as Iwasaki Yanosuke Kondo Koen as Onda Tadanori Mikami Masashi as Sano Kichigoro Yamamoto Hiroshi Mimasaka Hideyoshi Musaka Naomasa as Isobe Nakagawa Taishi as Nagamori Toru

Production Credits

• Narrator: Miyazaki Aoi
• Screenwriter: Osada Ikue (長田育恵)
• Producer: Itagaki Maiko, Asanuma Toshinobu (浅沼利信), Fujiwara Takahisa (藤原敬久)
• Director: Watanabe Yoshio, Tsuda Atsuko (津田温子), Fukagawa Takashi (深川貴志)
• Music: Abe Umitaro (阿部海太郎)

Recognitions

• 117th Television Drama Academy Awards (Summer 2023): Best Theme song - Ai no Hana by Aimyon

External Links

• Official post
• Japanese Wikipedia

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