Tonsure

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Tonsure

Details

• Title: トンスラ
• Title (English): Tonsure
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Comedy
• Episodes: 12＋SP
• Broadcast network: NTV
• Broadcast period: 2008-Oct-04 to 2008-Dec-27
• Air time: Saturday 24:55
• Theme song: Somaru yo by chatmonchy

Synopsis

Yabu is an unattractive and incompetent middle-aged publishing editor. Mika is a beautiful young author who debuted at 18 and has since written two best-sellers. When Yabu commissions some writing from Mika, she suddenly finds herself stricken with writer's block. Somehow, Yabu ends up being confined to Mika's home, resulting in a strange state of cohabitation for the mismatched pair. --Tokyograph

Cast

• Nukumizu Youichi as Yabuta Hidehiko aka Yabu

as Yabuta Yukijiro (ep4)

• Yoshitaka Yuriko as Kashiwaba Mika

Guests

• Kurine Makoto (栗根まこと) Editor-in-chief, Komori (ep1-3,5,11-12)
• Kato Ayumu (加藤歩) (ep1-3,11-12)
• Hara Kazuo (原一男) as himself (ep1)
• Eguchi Noriko as Sajima, Mika's manager (ep1)
• Yurisa (ユリサ) as Eba (ep1)
• Mori Tomomi (森ともみ) as Mayumi (ep1)
• Suga Tomio (菅登未男) as store owner (ep1)
• Yanagi Yurei (柳憂怜) as Sawaguchi, cult leader (ep2,6,10)
• Haba Yuichi as Kenichi, Mika's father (ep2,6,10)
• Sekida Aoi (関田葵) as young Mika (ep2,6,10)
• Ishii Ryuji (石井竜二) as bully (ep2)
• Udo Maki (有働真樹) as bully (ep2)
• Tsubaki Nao (椿直) as bully (ep2)
• Nagashima Shinichiro (長島伸一郎) as bully (ep2)
• Yoshimi Dai (好美大) as bully (ep2)
• Komatsu Kazushige (小松和重) as sailor (ep2)
• Kago Ai as Kurume Mai (ep3,6,11-12)
• Bando Eiji as himself (ep3)
• Sootome Keiko (五月女ケイ子) as Ogi Naomi (ep3)
• Inoue Yoshiko as Toyotomi Taeko (ep3)
• Sada Mayumi as Toyotomi Taeko (ep3)
• Nonaka Takamitsu (野中隆光) as store clerk (ep5)
• Riju Go (利重剛) as Mr. Yoshihara (ep5)
• Hirota Leona as Mrs. Yoshihara (ep5)
• Tanaka Yoji (ep5)
• Ichikawa Shinpei (市川しんぺー) as Sakurai (ep5)
• Inoue Fumiko (井上富美子) as news anchor (ep5-6)
• Nakagawake Reiji (中川礼二) (ep6)
• Kobayashi Megumi (ep6)
• Iketani Nobue (池谷のぶえ) as Kumiko (ep6-8)
• Yamane Kazuma as Kei, Mika's ex (ep6-8)
• Murata Yoko (村田洋子) (ep6)

• Muramatsu Toshifumi as exorcist (ep6-8)
• Asakura Erika (朝倉えりか) as Yasumi (ep7-8)
• Bluesky (ブルースカイ) (ep7)
• Murakami Toshiko (村上寿子) (ep7)
• Moda Ruriko (藻田留理子) (ep7)
• Kunihiro Tomiyuki as Koichi, Kumiko's husband (ep7-8)
• Hara Kintaro (原金太郎) as Takayuki (ep7-8)
• Hirata Kaoru as Yoko, Kei's fiancée (ep8)
• Nakano Kumiko (中野久美子) as Akemi (ep9)
• Owada Shinya as Joji, Yabu's father (ep9)
• Kunieda Ryohei (国枝量平) as Akemi's father (ep9)
• Takimoto Yuni (滝本ゆに) as Akemi's mother (ep9)
• Nozoe Seiji (ノゾエ征爾) as reporter (ep10-12)
• Sakai Maki as Reiko (ep10)
• Kitayama Hiroshi (北山ひろし) as samurai (ep10)
• Suda Kunihiro (須田邦裕) (ep11-12)

Production Credits

• Original writing: Novel Tonsure by Tsuzuki Hiroshi (都築浩)
• Screenwriter: Tsuzuki Hiroshi (都築浩) (ep1-2,11), Miki Satoshi (ep1), Moriya Kentaro (守屋健太郎) (ep2-3), Kakinomoto Ryu (柿本流) (ep2-3), Tanaka Makoto (田中誠) (ep4-5), Sano Tatsuya (佐野達也) (ep6), Bluesky (ブルースカイ) (ep7-8), Kobayashi Masaki (小林正樹) (ep9), Ujita Takashi (宇治田隆史) (ep10)
• Producer: Ito Hibiki (伊藤響), Muto Taishi (武藤大司), Sugita Hiromitsu (杉田浩光), Kobayashi Mitsuko (小林みつこ)
• Director: Miki Satoshi (ep1), Moriya Kentaro (守屋健太郎) (ep2-3), Tanaka Makoto (田中誠) (ep4-5), Sano Tatsuya (佐野達也) (ep6), Honda Ryuichi (本田隆一) (ep7-8), Kobayashi Masaki (小林正樹) (ep9), Kumakiri Kazuyoshi (熊切和嘉) (ep10), Niki Keisuke (仁木啓介) (ep11)
• Music: Sakaguchi Osamu (坂口修)

Episode Titles

• Ep 01: Day 1: Suffering
• Ep 02: Day 2: Revelation
• Ep 03: Day 3: Baptism
• Ep 04: Day 4: Advent
• Ep 05: Day 5: Pilgrimage
• Ep 06: Day 6: Atonement
• Ep 07: Day 7: Demonic Possession
• Ep 08: Day 8: Salvation
• Special (Behind the Scenes)
• Ep 09: Day 9: Gospel
• Ep 10: Day 10: Martyr
• Ep 11: Day 11: Exile
• Ep 12: Day 12: Miracle

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia

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