Ranman (TV series) explained

Genre:	Drama
Creator:	Ikue Osada
Starring:	Ryūnosuke Kamiki Minami Hamabe Jun Shison Yui Sakuma Aoi Nakamura Riko Narumi Mamoru Miyano Hiroshi Miyama Emma Miyazawa Tetsuhiro Ikeda Shunsuke Daito Ko Maehara Mizuki Maehara Tetsushi Tanaka Yasufumi Terawaki Ryōko Hirosue Mayu Tsuruta Jun Kaname Seiichi Tanabe Seikō Itō Eiji Okuda Keiko Matsuzaka
Narrated:	Aoi Miyazaki
Open Theme:	"Ai no Hana" by Aimyon
Composer:	Umitaro Abe
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese
Runtime:	15 minutes
Network:	NHK

is a Japanese television drama series and the 108th Asadora series, following Maiagare!. It premiered on April 3, 2023. The drama is modeled after the Japanese botanist Tomitaro Makino, but it is produced as fiction and is an original drama work.

Cast

Makino's family

Ryūnosuke Kamiki^[1] ^[2] as Mantarō Makino
- Yurito Mori as young Mantarō
- Masahito Kobayashi as 9-to-12-year-old Mantarō
Minami Hamabe^[3] as Sueko Nishimura, Mantarō's wife
Sakura Endō (Nogizaka46) as Chitose Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's daughter and Kotetsu's wife
Kōdai Matsuoka as Momoki Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's son
Miyu Honda as Chizuru Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's youngest daughter
- Keiko Matsuzaka as old Chizuru

Mineya people

Yui Sakuma as Aya Makino, Mantarō's sister
Jun Shison^[4] ^[5] as Takeo, son of the clerk of the sake brewery "Mineya"
Shō Kasamatsu as Kōkichi, a brewer at "Mineya"
Riho Nakamura as Tama, a maid at "Mineya"
Ryōko Hirosue as Hisa Makino, Mantarō's mother
Keiko Matsuzaka as Taki Makino, Mantarō's grandmother

Kochi version

Wakako Shimazaki as Kie Kusuno, a civil rights movement supporter
Yasufumi Terawaki as Rankō Ikeda, head of the academic institution "Meikyoukan"
Dean Fujioka^[6] as Tengu / Sakamoto Ryōma
Mamoru Miyano as Itsuma Hayakawa, a freedom and civil rights activist in Kochi
Ryudo Uzaki as Nakahama Manjirō
Hiroshi Miyama as Gihei Hamamura, owner of "Sengokuya", a kimono merchant in Kochi

Tokyo version

Riho Makise^[7] as Matsu Nishimura, Sueko's mother
Mansaku Ikeuchi as Bunta Abe, confectioner at Hakubaido
Aoi Nakamura as Yūichirō Hirose, Mantaro's schoolmate who working in the Ministry of Engineering.
Seiichi Tanabe as Motoyoshi Noda, a botanist
Seikō Itō as Yoshio Satonaka, a botanist

related persons the restaurant “Misato”

Emma Miyazawa as Mie Kasazaki, Sueko's aunt and Matsu's sister
Sarutoki Minagawa as Yanosuke Iwasaki, an industrialist
Koen Kondo as Tadanori Onda, an army colonel
Ryū Morioka as Keiichi Aijima, Ministry of Communications Railway Agency bureaucrat
Sōma Suzuki as Michinari Kakegawa, a politician

The University of Tokyo Persons

Jun Kaname as Akihisa Tanabe, a founding professor of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
Tetsushi Tanaka as Seiichi Tokunaga, an associate professor at the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
Hiroki Konno^[8] as Shozaburo Ōkubo, an Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
Ko Maehara as Yasuhisa Hatano, an student in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
Mizuki Maehara as Jiro Hujimaru, an student in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Yamamoto as Hideyoshi Mimasaka, a professor at the University of Tokyo

Jiitoku row house

Shunsuke Daito as Hayato Kuraki, former elite samurai
Riko Narumi as Ei Kuraki, Hayato's wife
Tetsuhiro Ikeda as Fukuji Oikawa
Tamae Ando as Rin Eguchi, manager of Jutoku Nagaya
Kasumi Yamaya as Yū Usami, maid at small restaurant
Tatsuya Yamawaki as Jōnosuke Horii, a failed student who attends the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo.
Takashi Sumida as Ushikutei Kyubei, a storyteller who lives in Jutoku Nagaya.

Ohata Printing Office

Eiji Okuda as Gihei Ōhata, factory owner of Ohata Printing Office
Mayu Tsuruta as Ichi Ōhata, Gihei's wife
Meimi Tamura^[9] as Kayo Ōhata, Gihei and Ichi's daughter

People around Sueko

Kanata Irei^[10] as Masanori Takatō, former Satsuma samurai businessman
Ariei Umefune as Yae Takatō, Masanori's wife
Takeshi Kongochi as Kashima, Masanori's secretary
Ananda Jacobs as Clara Lawrence, Sueko's music and dance teacher
Seina Nakata as Satoko Tanabe, Akihisa's wife, Sueko's friend
Atsuko Fukuda as a maid of the Tanabe family

People of Shibuya

Tateto Serizawa as Satarō Aratani, The owner of the pub "Aratani".^[11]
Masayo Umezawa as Kane Aratani, Satarō's mother
Jun Inoue as Hiroshi Sato,"Kōbō-yu" owner
Noriko Iriyama as Toyoka, former Yanagibashi geisha^[12]
Rion Misaki as Hazuki, former Yanagibashi geisha
Naoto Kaihō as Ichizo Kobayashi, an industrialist
Zen Ishikawa as Ryōtarō Saeki, a senior government official
Ichirō Mikami as Eiken Shirakawa, former councillor
Mizuki Machida as Masamune Nasukawa, director of the Japan Orchestra Association

Others

Daisuke Ono^[13] as Sengokuya
Hisahiro Ogura as Nakao, a pawn shop owner
Kazu Murakami as Matsuya
Masahiro Sato as Ikedaya
Satoshi Hashimoto^[14] as Mori Arinori, first Minister of Education, a benefactor of Akihisa Tanabe
Yasuyuki Sakai as a doctor
Nasubi as a package delivery man
Naomasa Musaka as Isobe, a debt collector
Tatsuomi Hamada as Kotetsu Yamamoto
- Kokoro Terada as young Kotetsu
Taishi Nakagawa^[15] as Tōru Nagamori

TV schedule

Week	Episodes	Directed by	Original airdate	Rating
1	1–5	Yoshio Watanabe	April 3–7, 2023	15.4%
2	6–10		April 10–14, 2023	15.1%
3	11–15		April 17–21, 2023	15.8%
4	16–20	Atsuko Tsuda	April 24–28, 2023	15.8%
5	21–25	Atsuko Tsuda	May 1–5, 2023	14.4%
6	26–30	Yoshio Watanabe	May 8–12, 2023	16.5%
7	31–35	Yoshio Watanabe	May 15–19, 2023	16.3%
8	36–40	Atsuko Tsuda	May 22–26, 2023	16.3%
9	41–45	Takashi Fukagawa	May 29–June 2, 2023	16.1%
10	46–50	Takashi Fukagawa	June 5–9, 2023	16.5%
11	51–55	Tetsuya Watanabe	June 12–16, 2023	17.1%
12	56–60	Yoshio Watanabe	June 19–23, 2023	17.3%
13	61–65	Yoshio Watanabe	June 26–30, 2023	17.0%
14	66–70	Takashi Fukagawa	July 3–7, 2023	17.0%
15	71–75	Shin'ichirō Ishikawa	July 10–14, 2023	17.1%
16	76–80	Atsuko Tsuda	July 17–21, 2023	16.3%
17	81–85	Tetsuya Watanabe	July 24–28, 2023	16.8%
18	86–90	Yoshio Watanabe	July 31–August 4, 2023	16.8%
19	91–95	Yoshio Watanabe	August 7–11, 2023	16.8%
20	96–100	Takashi Fukagawa	August 14–18, 2023	17.1%
21	101–105	Atsuko Tsuda	August 21–25, 2023	17.4%
22	106–110	Naoki Kobayashi	August 28–September 1, 2023	17.5%
23	111–115	Shin'ichirō Ishikawa	September 4–8, 2023	17.8%
24	116–120	Hiroshi Kaida and Takashi Fukagawa	September 11–15, 2023	17.1%
25	121–125	Yoshio Watanabe	September 18–22, 2023	17.3%
26	126–130	Yoshio Watanabe	September 25–29, 2023	17.6%
Average rating 16.6% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).^[16]

External links

Official website

Notes and References

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