Mop Girl

Mop Girl

Details

• Name: モップガール
• Title (English): Mop Girl
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Mystery, fantasy, comedy
• Episodes: 10
• Viewership ratings: 10.2 (Kanto)
• Broadcast network: TV Asahi
• Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-12 to 2007-Dec-14
• Air time: Friday 23:15
• Theme song: Destination Nowhere by ERIKA

Synopsis

Kitagawa plays the part of the slow but hardworking Momoko, a low-ranking employee at a funeral services company who carries a mop as part of her job. However, Momoko happens to possess a strange ability. Whenever she comes across the corpse of someone who has left strong feelings behind, she travels back in time to save that person from his or her fate. --Tokyograph

User/Viewer Ratings

4.33

(3 votes)

Cast

Correlation chart

• Kitagawa Keiko as Hasegawa Momoko
  • Miyama Karen as young Hasegawa Momoko
• Tanihara Shosuke as Otomo Shotaro
• Asami Reina as Okouchi Hina
• Takaoka Sousuke as Wakayama Akira
• Sato Jiro as Higashi Shigeo
• Magy as Yokouchi Atsushi
• Natsuna as Nakamura Tamaki
• Ikezu Shoko as Kataoka Miki
• Hanagata Ayasa as Satomi Reiko
• Hori Mayumi as Ryoko (Shotaro's ex-lover)
• Honda Hirotaro as Hasegawa Ryuji
• Hayashi Yasufumi as Hasegawa Keigo

Guests

• Morishita Yoshiyuki as Policeman (ep1)
• Ogura Hisahiro as Hiramatsu Takumi (ep1)
• Sakai Ayana Jonouchi Ayano (ep2)
• Nishimura Kiyotaka (西村清孝) as Motomiya Kazuhiko (ep2)
• Hamada Manabu as Kiyoshima Toru (ep2)
• Matsuda Kenji as Kanbayashi Yukihiro (ep2)
• Hosho Mai as Negishi Sayuti (ep3)
• Konishi Miho as Hirashima Kayo (ep3)
• Katagiri Hairi as Saionji Ranko (ep3)
• Uesugi Shozo (上杉祥三) as Fujii Ryuhei (ep3)
• Sakamoto Makoto as Tsukada Kohei (ep4)
• Koide Saori as Shinagawa Mari (ep4)
• Izumi Masayuki as Emoto Hiroki (ep4)
• Yamaguchi Miyako as Tsukada Hatsuko (ep4)
• Hashimoto Satoshi as Otsu Kazuaki (ep5)
• Mikuni Yuna (三国由奈) as Mizushima Kaede (ep5)
• Kitamura Eiki as Shinoda (ep5)
• Tanahashi Hiroshi (棚橋弘至) as himself (ep5)
• Sato Hitomi as Azumi Asuka (ep6)
• Matsuzawa Kazuyuki as Yuuki (ep6)
• Yamamoto Takeshi (山本剛史) as Shimaoka Makoto (ep6)
• Denden as the building manager (ep6)
• Mie Haru (見栄晴) as an apartment resident (ep6)
• Odaka Anna as Saeki Ai (ep7)

• Murasugi Seminosuke as Koizumi Otohiko (ep7)
• Yamaguchi Shogo as Ozeki Hikaru (ep7)
• Nekoze Tsubaki as Oki Sumiko (ep7)
• Kubota Masataka as Jun (ep7)
• Nakae Daiki as Ren (ep7)
• Kase Taishu as Saotome Aijiro (ep8)
• Hara Fumina as Yuzuhara Yoko (ep8)
• Ebisu Yoshikazu as Nawashibari Kisuke (ep8)
• Rokkaku Shinji as Takajo Ayahiko (ep8)
• Takaku Chigusa as Todoroki Karenko (ep8)
• Yashiba Toshihiro as Saotome's manager (ep8)
• Shoji Yusuke as Tanaka Kensaku (ep8)
• Katsurayama Shingo as Kitahama Ito (ep9)
• Ishida Hikari as Sakurako (ep9)
• Nashimoto Kenjiro as Aida Natsuo (ep9)
• Hotaru Yukijiro as Luke Hongo (ep9)
• Abe Tsuyoshi as Shindo Yukiya (ep10)
• Okuyama Shiki (奥山志紀) as Shindo Tsurara (ep10)
• Enjoji Aya as Horigome Madoka (ep10)
• Watanabe Naoko (渡辺奈緒子) as Nakane Juri (ep10)
• Matsunaga Hiroshi as Rukawa Reito (ep10)
• Ishii Tomoya as Mitsuru (ep10)
• Minagawa Sarutoki as Mochizuki Taro (ep10)

Production Credits

• Original writing: Novel Mop Girl by Kato Miaki
• Screenwriter: Mashiba Azuki (ep1&4), Arai Shuuko (荒井修子) (ep2-3,5-10)
• Producer: Nakagawa Noriko (中川慎子), Kobe Akira (神戸明), Sato Yoshihiro (佐藤善宏)
• Director: Katayama Osamu (ep1-2,5,7), Tsunehiro Jota (常廣丈太) (ep3-4,6,9-10), Ikebe Yasutoshi (池辺安智) (ep8)
• Music: Yoshikawa Kei (吉川慶)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Kanto	Kansai	Nationwide
01	10.2	??.?	??.?
02	10.7	??.?	??.?
03	11.8	??.?	??.?
04	09.7	??.?	??.?
05	09.8	??.?	??.?
06	10.6	??.?	??.?
07	09.8	??.?	??.?
08	10.4	??.?	??.?
09	09.2	??.?	??.?
10	09.4	??.?	??.?
Average	10.2	??.?	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Awards

• 55th Television Drama Academy Awards: Special Award - Kitagawa Keiko

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia

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