Manpuku
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Original title | まんぷく |
Genre | Drama |
Written by | Yasushi Fukuda |
Directed by | Yoshio Watanabe Mojiri Adachi Keita Hosaka Kazufumi Matsuoka Kei Nakaizumi |
Starring | |
Narrated by | Mana Ashida |
Opening theme | "Anata to Toulattattta" by Dreams Come True |
Composer | Kenji Kawai |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 151 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Hitoshi Manabe |
Producer | Reijirō Horinouchi |
Running time | 15 minutes |
Production company | NHK Osaka |
Original release | |
Network | NHK |
Release | October 1, 2018 March 30, 2019 | –
Manpuku (まんぷく), sometimes romanized as Mampuku, is a
Plot
Fukuko Imai graduates from high school in 1938 and is about to begin work at a high-class hotel in
During the war the whole family moved to the countryside and lived with Manpei's relatives to avoid allied bombings. After the war the family made
Deneehon proves to be popular. Manpei and Mr. Sera arranged for a group of young workers to move to Tokyo to establish a sales company. Manpei also provided scholarships for the young workers to attend university part time and complete their education in Tokyo. But the Allied Army considered the scholarships as tax evasion and arrested Manpei. Fukuko enlisted the help of lawyer Azuma Taiichi, who helped Manpei to sell the rights of Daneehon to pay the fines. Azuma also helped Manpei to dissolve his Tachibara nutrition food company, in order to evade the tax authorities. But the tax authorities went to Fukuko's home to confiscate her private assets. Fukuko also gave birth to the couple's daughter Sachi while Manpei was imprisoned. Azuma then asked Manpei to sue the tax authorities for treating scholarships as a form of tax evasion, which was not true. Azuma also turned to the media to put pressure on the tax authorities. In the end the tax authorities decided to release Manpei as a condition for Azuma to withhold the case.
Cast
Imai's family
- Sakura Andō as Fukuko Imai
- Keiko Matsuzaka as Suzu Imai, Fukuko's mother
- Yuki Uchida as Saki Imai, Fukuko's sister
Kōda's family
- Nao Matsushita as Katsuko Kōda, Fukuko's sister
- Jun Kaname as Tadahiko Kōda, Katsuko's husband
- Yukino Kishii as Taka Kōda, Katsuko's daughter
- Konomi Okuno as Yoshino Kōda, Katsuko's daughter
- Ryuto Ueda as Shigeyuki Kōda, Katsuko's son
- Yuki Takada as Manabu Kōda, Katsuko's son
Osaka Toyo Hotel employee
- Manami Hashimoto as Megumi Hoshina, a hotel senior
- Kenjirō Fujiyama as Kōkichi Noro, Fukuko's colleague
- Narumi as Utae Kashida, a senior at the telephone exchange agency
- Kotarō Soganoya as Saburō Omaeda, a hotel manager
Others in Osaka
- Hiroki Hasegawa as Manpei Tachibana, Fukuko's husband
- Ryohei Otani as Shinichi Onozuka, Saki's husband
- Isao Hashizume as Ryōzō Mitamura
- Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Keisuke Kajitani, Manpei's partner
- Kenta Kiritani as Katsuo Sera, a trading company's manager
- Rena Matsui as Toshiko Kano
- Kumi Kureshiro as Hana Ikegami
- Kenta Hamano as Zen'nosuke Maki, a dentist
Others
- Kōji Seto as Shigeru Kanbe
- Akiyoshi Nakao as Kōsuke Oka
- Masaki Suda as Taichi Azuma, a young lawyer
- Maynard Plant (Monkey Majik) as Harry Bingham, a soldier
- Blaise Plant (Monkey Majik) as Jonathan May, a soldier
- Taiiku Okazaki as Charlie Tanaka, a Japanese soldier
- Masaya Kato as Akira Kawakami
- Riho Makise as Shinobu Kawakami
- Mai Fukagawa as Yoshino Kōda
- Eiji Okuda
- Tetsushi Tanaka
References
- ^ "朝ドラ『まんぷく』のモデル「安藤百福」の本当の素顔とは". 週刊現代 (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ "朝ドラ:「まんぷく」ヒロインに安藤サクラさん - 毎日新聞". 毎日新聞 (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 October 2018.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Manpuku at IMDb