Anpan (TV series)
Anpan is a Japanese television drama series and the 112th Asadora series, following Omusubi. This drama is inspired by Nobu Komatsu, the wife of Takashi Yanase, the creator of Anpanman, but it is a fictional and original work.
Mio Imada was chosen for the lead role of Nobu Asada from among 3365 auditionees.
Plot
Nobu Asada, who was deeply influenced by militaristic ideology, experienced the horrors of war, which completely changed her values. After the war, she and her husband, Takashi, pursued "a justice that never overturns." Takashi eventually created a masterpiece picture book.Cast
Asada family
- Mio Imada as Nobu Asada
- *Yuzuna Nagase as young Nobu
- Ryo Kase as Yutaro Asada, Nobu's father
- Noriko Eguchi as Hatako Asada, Nobu's mother
- Yuumi Kawai as Ranko Asada, Nobu's sister
- *Sakura Yoshikawa as young Ranko
- Nanoka Hara as Meiko Asada, Nobu's sister
- *Sae Nagatani as young Meiko
- Kōtarō Yoshida as Kamaji Asada, Nobu's grandfather
- Miyoko Asada as Kura Asada, Nobu's grandmother
- Kanata Hosoda as Go Hara
Yanai family
- Takumi Kitamura as Takashi Yanai, Nobu's second husband
- *Yura Kimura as young Takashi
- Nanako Matsushima as Tomiko Yanai, Takashi's mother
- Kazunari Ninomiya as Kiyoshi Yanai, Takashi's father
- Motoki Nakazawa as Chihiro Yanai, Takashi's brother
- *Seigou Hirayama as young Chihiro
- Yutaka Takenouchi as Hiroshi Yanai, Takashi's uncle
- Naho Toda as Chiyoko Yanai, Takashi's aunt
- Himari Hitomi as Shin Uto
Kokura regiment
- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Shinnosuke Yagi
- Eita Okuno as Manzo Kamino
- Shun'ya Itabashi as Riki Baba
- Ryosuke Hagiwara as Tetsu Koda
- Kento Sakurai as Kota Konno
- Yukito Hidaka as Arata Meguro
- Hiroki Usudaira as Yasuo Kabata
- Shunsuke Tanaka as Masaki Kasuya
- Eiji Yokota as Senkichi Shima
Kōchi Shimpō
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Akira Shoji
- Yui Narumi as Kotoko Oda
- Yuki Kura as Shinji Iwashimizu
- Nomura Manzo IX as Ryo Kirishima
- Koji Furukawa as Izuru Torii
- Riku Kashima as Tatsuya Midorikawa
- Takuya Wakabayashi as Seizo Aoki
Others
- Sadao Abe as Sōkichi "Uncle Yam" Yamura, a baker
- Fumiya Takahashi as Kentaro Karashima, Meiko's husband
- Sara Shida as Usako Ogawa
- Sonim as Mimi Yamashita
- Kumi Takiuchi as Yukiko Kuroi
- Koichi Yamadera as Haruto Zama
- Motoki Ohmori as Takuya Ise. He is modeled after Taku Izumi
- Soua Ogura as Manpei Katsura
- Sumi Shimamoto as Kako Ode
- Satoru Saito as Tenpo, a monk
- Tomohiro Ichikawa as Katsuo Kijima
- Noritaka Hamao as Iwao Tagawa
- Ayumu Nakajima as Jiro Wakamatsu, Nobu's first husband
- Misuzu Kanno as Setsuko Wakamatsu
- Ryūsei Nakao as Tokizo Furuyama
- Keiko Toda as Tetsuko Maki
- Masatoshi Kihara as Norio Sera
- Gordon Maeda as Osamu Tejima, a manga artist. He is modeled after Osamu Tezuka
- Shiori Kubo as Tamae Shiratori, a singer. She is modeled after Mariko Miyagi
- Ryohei Odai as Degawa
- Sho Aoyagi as Ōne
- Hinata Todo as Eisuke Rokuhara. He is modeled after Rokusuke Ei
- Ko Nanase as Ko Oshima, a manga artist
- Tsutomu Ikeda as Mitsuo Miura, a manga artist
- Pajama Ehara as Hiroshi Kurita, a manga artist
- Yuzuna Nagase as Kaho Nakazato. She is modeled after Miho Nakazono, the screenwriter of this series.
- Michiyo Yanagisawa as Buruburu
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Mukumuku
- Kotone Furukawa as Seiko Nakao
- Kenta Hamano as Hirame Hamabe
- Kanata Irei as Goro Mano
- Momoka Satake as Mika Komiya
- Jun Nishiyama as Mamoru Furukawa
- Kou Maehara as Keizo Takeyama
- Renji Ishibashi as Mitsuru Horii
- Keiko Toda as Yoshiko Tobe's voice. She is modeled after Keiko Toda, the voice of Anpanman.