Attention Please


Attention Please is a manga by Chieko Hosokawa about the training of flight attendants for Japan Airlines originally serialized in Shōjo Friend from Kodansha beginning in 1970. Tokyo Broadcasting System adapted a TV drama from the manga in 1970. Thirty-six years later, Fuji TV produced a new drama series in 2006. The name of the character, Yōko Misaki was used in both versions.

1970 version

Cast

2006 version

Episodes

The 2006 program follows the life of Misaki as she slowly conquers various obstacles to become a flight attendant. Each episode ends with a showcase of the various uniforms that have been used in JAL to a cover of "Oh Pretty Woman" by Kaela Kimura.

Cast

  • Aya Ueto as Misaki Youko
  • Ryo Nishikido as Nakahara Shota
  • Miki Maya as Mikami Tamaki
  • Saki Aibu as Wakamura Yayoi
  • Chihiro Otsuka as Sekiyama Yuki
  • Misa Uehara as Hirota Saori
  • Kotaro Koizumi as Tsutsumi Shuusuke
  • Fumiyo Kohinata as Sakurada Shinya
  • Yuko Fueki as Asou Kaoru
  • Natsumi Nanase as Kinoshita Asami
  • Minami Otomo as Higashino Haruka
  • Mariko Takahashi as Kagawa Reiko
  • Mantaro Koichi as Watanabe Makoto
  • Kazuyuki Asano as Wakamura Shozo
  • Inoue Jun as Dazai Shinichiro
  • Mano Yuuko as Murayama Mizuho
  • Hoshino Natsuko as Takemoto Rie
  • Tanaka Sogen as Ooki Mitsuya
  • Ishikawa Maki as Chief Nagano
;Yōko Misaki
;Shōta Nakahara

Soundtrack

  1. Oh Pretty Woman - Kaela Kimura
  2. Attention Please ~ Main Theme
  3. What Am I Gonna Do
  4. Head Wind
  5. Circle of my Life
  6. A Goody Goody
  7. Attention Please ~
  8. Turbulence
  9. Mock up
  10. Fight Irregularity
  11. Go Around
  12. Stage of The Sky
  13. Normally Hidden Function
  14. Do Really
  15. Break Down
  16. Painful And Embarrassed
  17. Link to The Future
  18. Attention Please ~
  19. Oh Pretty Woman ~

    January 2007 special

A special was aired in January 2007. Misaki was given her first international assignment to Hawaii. In this special Misaki has to play matchmaker to bring two people together. At the end, Misaki gains the courage and is about to tell Shota that she likes him but is interrupted with a rare green sunset, 'Green Flash' in Hawaii. That sunset foretells that a couple who sees the Green Flash will live happily together forever.

Cast

  • Aya Ueto as Misaki Youko
  • Ryo Nishikido as Nakahara Shota
  • Miki Maya as Mikami Tamaki
  • Saki Aibu as Wakamura Yayoi
  • Chihiro Otsuka as Sekiyama Yuki
  • Misa Uehara as Hirota Saori
  • Kotaro Koizumi as Tsutsumi Shuusuke
  • Yuko Fueki as Asou Kaoru
  • Natsuki Harada as Risa Nakata
  • Bokuzo Masana as Todoroki Hiroto
  • Hori Mayumi as Ito Nanako
  • Ito Masayuki as a passenger
  • David Hirokane as Mr. Nakata
  • Yatsu Isao as the taxi driver
  • Ideguchi Tetsuya & Kawamoto Chiaki as the newlyweds
  • Katsukura Keiko as a passenger
  • Taira Chiharu as the young mother
  • Yamase Shota as the high-spirited child

    April 2008 special

There was a second special aired in April 2008. Misaki imagines and dreams of becoming the top cabin attendant in the world. She has ongoing conflicts with a new trainee CA, who is serious. She then heads to Sydney with Wakamura and Sekiyama and gets into an argument with them as Misaki is trying to steal the spotlight for a blog on their airlines CA website. Meanwhile, Sekiyama has feelings for Tsutsumi, but gets upset when he flirts with another woman while Wakamura worries about her father's health. On the other hand, it is revealed that Shōta is in India.

Cast

  • Aya Ueto - Youko Misaki
  • Ryo Nishikido - Shota Nakahara
  • Maya Miki - Tamaki Mikami
  • Saki Aibu - Yayoi Wakamura
  • Misa Uehara - Saori Hirota
  • Chihiro Otsuka - Yuki Sekiyama
  • Fumiyo Kohinata - Shinya Sakurada
  • Koutaro Koizumi - Shusuke Tsutsumi
  • Yuko Fueki - Kaoru Asou
  • Minami Ootomo - Haruka Higashino
  • Natsumi Nanase - Asami Kinoshita
  • Mariko Takahashi - Reiko Kagawa
  • Mantaro Koichi - Makoto Watanabe
  • Kazuyuki Asano - Shozo Wakamura
  • Jun Inoue - Shinichirō Dazai
  • Yuuko Mano - Mizuho Murayama
  • Natsuko Hoshino - Rie Takemoto