Yume wo Kanaeru Zo

Details

• Title: 夢をかなえるゾウ
• Title (romaji): Yume wo Kanaeru Zo
• Genre: Comedy
• Broadcast network: YTV, NTV
• Theme song: Continue by SEAMO

Tanpatsu

Yume wo Kanaeru Zo

• Viewership ratings: 8.1
• Broadcast date: 2008-Oct-02
• Air time: Thursday 20:54-22:48

Synopsis

Kohei is an unreliable salaryman who one day meets "Ganesha", a Hindu god depicted with an elephant head, with a Kansai dialect. From that encounter, Kohei finds a way to turn around his life.

Cast

• Oguri Shun as Nogami Kohei
• Furuta Arata as Ganesha
• Nagate Ayaka (長手絢香) as Tamura Mika
• Tanaka Sougen as morikawa shouta
• Abe Tsuyoshi as Kawashima Yuji
• Ikezu Shoko as Nonomura Rie
• Hashimoto Nozomi (橋本望) as Sato Daisuke
• Kaneda Akio as Esaka Naoki
• Hasegawa Hatsunori as Honjo Toshihiko
• Seto Asaka as Himuro Ayako
• Watanabe Tetsu as Chief Suzuki
• Tanaka Yoji as Newton, Ichiro, Madame Curie & Edison
• Ukaji Takashi as a detective
• Aikawa Yuzuki as the beautiful woman
• Randy (ランディ) as the real elephant
• Mizukawa Asami (special participation)
• Morina Miharu (森奈みはる)
• Fujimoto Eriko (藤本恵理子)
• Minemura Junji (峯村淳二)

Renzoku

Yume wo Kanaeru Zo

• Episodes: 13
• Viewership ratings: 4.7
• Broadcast period: 2008-Oct-02 to 2008-Dec-25
• Air time: Thursday 23:58-24:28

Synopsis

Hoshino Asuka is dumped by her boyfriend, who is a colleague at the same workplace, on her 25th birthday. To make matters worse, her apartment catches fire and she can't return to live in it. Asuka finds herself wishing for happiness and the elephant god Ganesha suddenly appears. He had lived with Nogami Kohei in that apartment several years ago. With the appearance of Ganesha, Asuka learns what true happiness is.

Cast

• Mizukawa Asami as Hoshino Asuka
• Furuta Arata as Ganesha
• Oguri Shun as Nogami Kohei (special participation, ep1)
• Hasegawa Hatsunori as Bando Tsuyoshi
• Okubo Mariko (大久保麻理子) as Ikegami Luna
• Kato Rie (加藤理恵) as Honda Kanako
• Satoi Kenta as Chief Tajima
• Sakurada Seiko as Odawara Hanako
• Kashiwabara Shuji as Kondo Itaru
• Yabuki Haruna as Fujinami Maya
• Yuge Tomohisa as Jojima Kazuyuki
• Minami Shuhei (南周平) as Sakai Hiroshi
• 小笹将継 as Kiba Shin
• Takahara Komaki (高原コマキ) as Tani Yayoi
• Maruyama Tomomi as Amita Kazuya (Ace)
• Nishida Natsumi (西田奈津美) as the bartender
• Sasaki Masashi (佐々木征史) as Ogi
• Uchikura Kenji (内倉憲二) as Nakao
• Sasaki Rie (佐々木梨絵) as Nakata Hisako

Guests

• Anan Kenji
  • as Klimt (ep1)
  • as Fersen (ep3)
  • as Ikkyu Sojun (ep4)
  • as Napoleon Bonaparte (ep5)
  • as Nomura Katsuya (ep6)
  • as Herb Kelleher (ep7)
  • as Ayrton Senna (ep10)
  • as Pablo Picasso (ep12)
• Hatanaka Hiroshi as Takeda Shingen (ep2-3)
• Hashimoto Satoshi as Julius Caesar (ep2-3)
• Horiuchi Keiko as Marie Antoinette (ep2-3)
• Namase Katsuhisa as Oda Nobunaga (ep8-9)

Others

• Karauchi Hideki (蔵内秀樹)
• Kamimura Yoriko (上村依子)
• Mashita Yuki (真下有紀)
• Matsuda Machiko (松田真知子)
• Fukuyama Aya (福山亜弥)
• Uehara Kaera (上原カエラ)
• Hamaoka Maya (浜丘麻矢)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Kanto	Kansai	Nationwide
01	07.1	??.?	??.?
02	04.1	??.?	??.?
03	04.7	??.?	??.?
04	05.3	??.?	??.?
05	04.9	??.?	??.?
06	05.2	??.?	??.?
07	03.6	??.?	??.?
08	05.9	??.?	??.?
09	04.5	??.?	??.?
10	05.1	??.?	??.?
11	03.3	??.?	??.?
12	03.6	??.?	??.?
13	03.4	??.?	??.?
Average	04.7	??.?	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Production Credits

• Original writing: Mizuno Keiya (水野敬也)
• Screenwriters:
  • Tanpatsu: Nemoto Nonji
  • Renzoku: Miura Uiko (三浦有為子)
• Chief producer: Tanaka Toshikazu (田中壽一)
• Producer: Taketsuna Yasuhiro (竹綱裕博), Chiba Yukitoshi, Miyakawa Akira (宮川晶)
• Director: Okamoto Koichi (岡本浩一), Kunimoto Masahiro

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia