Gochisōsan


Gochisōsan, released in some countries as Bon Appetit!, is a Japanese television drama series. It first aired from 30 September 2013 to 29 March 2014. It is scripted by Yoshiko Morishita, who wrote such dramas as Jin, and stars Anne Watanabe as Meiko Uno, a woman who lives through the Taisho and Shōwa eras and tries to excel at Japanese cuisine. Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries, moves to Osaka with her husband, and experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka. It is the 89th NHK Asadora.
The word gochisōsan is an informal version of gochisōsama, a term used to thank a host or a cook for a meal.

Cast

Main characters

  • Anne Watanabe as Meiko Nishikado
  • *Hana Toyoshima as young Meiko Uno
  • Masahiro Higashide as Yūtarō Nishikado, Meiko's husband
  • *Ryūnosuke Hosoda as young Yūtarō Nishikado
  • Miyabi Matsuura as Fuku Nishikado, Meiko's daughter
  • *Tomoka Harami as young Fuku Nishikado
  • Masaki Suda as Taisuke Nishikado, Meiko's son
  • * Ryūto Misawa as young Taisuke Nishikado
  • Daigo Nishihata as Katsuo Nishikado, Meiko's son
  • * Teruo Ninomiya as young Katsuo Nishikado

Uno family

Nishikado family

Others

  • Yasuhi Nakamura as Umasuke Takagi
  • Takashi Yamanaka as Kosai Muroi, Sakurako's husband and Meiko's friend
  • Aki Maeda as Sakurako Muroi, Kosai's wife
  • Abe Yohana as Ayame Muroi, Kosai and Sakurako's eldest daughter
  • *Akira Sugimoto as young Ayame Muroi
  • Akiko Kimata as Tatsuko Takagi, Umasuke's sister
  • Mai Miyajima as Tamiko Nogawa, Meiko's friend
  • Kaoru Okumeki as Mrs. Miyamoto
  • Masato Wada as Genta Izumi, Meiko's childhood friend
  • Ai Kato as Akiko Matsuda
  • *Kotoko Noda as young Akiko Matsuda
  • Ippei Shigeyama as Keiji Kawakubo, Noriko's husband
  • Henry Fowler as Kansai dialect-speaking GHQ interpreter

International broadcast