Densha Otoko

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Details

Title: 電車男（でんしゃおとこ）
Title (romaji): Densha Otoko
Also known as: The Train Man
Episodes: 11, 2 Specials (2005-10-06 & 2006-09-23)
Genre: Romance, comedy
Viewership: 21.04%, SP=15.6%
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2005-Jul-07 to 2005-Sep-22
Air time: Thursday 22:00-22:54

Synopsis

A true love story turned to bestselling novel, created from the Internet BBS, 2channel to blockbuster hit movie. Ito Misaki plays Aoyama Saori, working as an office lady at a MNC, gets into trouble with a drunkard on a train. She's saved by Yamada Tsuyoshi, played by Ito Atsushi. As a form of appreciation, she sends him Hermes teacups. Having no experience with the opposite sex, Tsuyoshi decides to ask for help on the Aladdin Channel BBS on how to interact with Saori.

Cast

Ito Misaki as 青山沙織 (25)
Ito Atsushi as 山田剛司 (23)
Shiraishi Miho as 陣釜美鈴 (26)
Sato Eriko as 沢崎果歩 (25)
Sudo Risa as 観月裕子 (30)
Hayami Mokomichi as 青山啓介(23)
Sato Jiro as 黑木文人(40)
Maekawa Yasuyuki as 及川尚人(28)
Horikita Maki as 山田葵 (17)
Koide Saori as 武田花梨 (17)
Gekidan Hitori as 松永勇作(30)
Oguri Shun as 皆本宗孝 (25)
Rokkaku Seiji as 牛島貞雄(38)
Nukumizu Youichi as 一坂進(40)
Gashuin Tatsuya as 富永(40)
Yamazaki Shigenori as 淺野真平(29)
Toyohara Kosuke as 桜井和哉 (38)
Akiyoshi Kumiko as 青山由紀 (48)
Sakurai Chizu as 橋爪涼子 (25)
Kishibe Shiroo as 山田恒生(48)
Sugawara Eiji as 川本信二(27)
Nasubi
Nomizu Iori
Tamura Tagame

Guests

Yamada Takayuki (ep1, SP)
Izumiya Shigeru (ep1, 11)
Hanabara Teruko (ep1)
Katsurayama Shingo (ep3, 4)
Kaito Aiko (ep4, 5)
Kikuma Yukino (ep1)
Horiuchi Ken (ep7, 10, 11)
Yamashita Shinji (ep8, 9)
Ohkura Koji (ep5)
Toda Keiko (ep11)
Tsukaji Muga (ep1, 2, 10, 11)
Shirosaki Jin (ep2)
Sonim as Tiffany (SP)
Iwasa Mayuko as girl who tricked Guitar Otoko (SP)

Production Credits

Producer: Wakamatsu Jisashiki, Kawanishi Migaku
Director: Takeuchi Hideki, Nishiura Masaki, Kobayashi Kazuhiro
Original Story: Nakano Hitori
Screenwriter : Mutou Susumuware, Tokunaga Tomokazu
Music by: Face 2 fAKE

Theme Songs

Twilight by Electric Light Orchestra
Sekai wa Sore wo Ai to Yobun da ze by Sambomaster

Episode Information

Episode	Subtitle (kana)	Subtitle (English)	Rating
1	「100万人が見守った恋の行方」	A Love Being Watched Over by a Million People	18.3
2	「初デートへ向け大変身」	I'm Off to my First Date; Big Transformation	21.3
3	「初デートに大ピンチ！！」	Huge First Date Crisis!!	20.0
4	「夏！サーフィン大特訓」	Summer! Big Surfing Crash Course	21.0
5	「ストーカー撃退大作戦」	Big Anti-stalker Strategy	18.3
6	「告白は波乱の幕開け！」	A (Love) Confession is the Beginning of All Your Troubles!	19.5
7	「脱オタク!!涙の誕生日」	Getting Rid of my Nerdiness!! Birthday of Tears	21.0
8	「復活！！涙のオタク激白」	Revived!! Breaking Otaku's Tears	19.9
9	「最終決戦は悲劇の予感」		22.5
10	「最終章！奇跡の大逆転」		24.1
11	「史上最大の告白！！涙の卒業式」	Greatest Confession in History!! Graduation Exercises of Tears	25.5
SP	「電車男vsギター男！！」	Train Man vs Guitar Man	15.6

Insert Songs

Ep 1: Mr. Roboto by Styx
Ep 1,4,7,9,10-11: Start Me @ Starting Love by Missing Link
Ep 1-7,11,SP: Romantic ga Tomaranai by C-C-B
Ep 2: Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers
Ep 2,9: Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison
Ep 2-5,8-10,SP: Imperial March composed by John Williams
Ep 4: Surfin' USA by The Beach Boys
Ep 7: Kaze ni hitori de by Inoue Daisuke
Ep 8: Hero by Asakura Miki
Ep 8,10: Koi no MA-I-A-HI ~ DRAGOSTEA DIN TEI by O-zone
Ep 8,10-11,SP: Fantasy by Earth, Wind and Fire
Ep 9,SP: Sea of Love by Tsubaki
Ep 10: Volare
Ep 11: Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
SP: Sailor fuku to kikanjuu by Yakushimaru Hiroko

Awards

46th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Drama
46th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Supporting Actor (Ito Atsushi)
46th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Supporting Actress (Shiraishi Miho)
46th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Director (Takeuchi Hideki)

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Trivia

Toda Keiko performs as Densha's mother. She was the original seiyuu (voice actress) of Matilda-san in the legendary 1st Gundam series. It's a production team's joke.
Nukumizu Youichi's character Ichisaka Susumu is the same one as in Slow Dance, which was broadcast in the same season.
Episode 3: It is a parody of Gundam that Matsunaga-shi shouts,"Zion koukoku ni eikou are!(The glory must be in the Zion dukedom!)"in Karin-chan's scene.
Episode 4: When Densha was surfing, it took over 5 hours to film and only received a few seconds of screen time.
Episode 7: The scene in the rain took 6 hours to shoot.
The two stars have spent over 1000 hours together filming.
The figurine "Minna" costs 400,000 yen and Ito Atsushi accidentily broke one of its ears during a take.
Apart from being made into a book and movie, this drama has also been made into an AV.
The opening anime theme was tailor-made for this drama by over 200 staff/cartoonists.
The ending 1 minute theme by Sambomaster filmed in Akihabara took a whole night to film with over 200 extras.
Over 35 actors/actresses were used for the forumers. Each internet scene takes approximately over 48 hours for a 7 minuted scene.
Over 3000 props and figures were used. Densha's room alone used over 132.
In the real BBS drama, apparantely Densha Otoko never noticed Hermes until the police station.
In episode 11, when Densha is having dinner with his family, a bottle of Asahi Beer is sitting on the table. Misaki Ito (Saori Aoyama) was a Beer Girl for Asahi in 1999.
A PRIDE poster is seen hanging on the wall behind the bodybuilding otaku. In the special episode, PRIDE star Naoya Ogawa plays a bodyguard beating up Hanshin Tigers fan, Ushijima, in an alleyway.

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